Communication Studies Handbooks

New and Published Handbooks

1. The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture

   Edited by Matthew P. McAllister, Emily West

   The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture provides an essential guide to the key issues, methodologies, concepts, debates, and policies that shape our everyday relationship with advertising. The book contains eight sections: Historical Perspectives considers the historical...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication

   Edited by Paul M. Pedersen

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication is the only book to offer a fully comprehensive and in-depth survey of the contemporary discipline of sport communication. It explores communication within, through, and for sport in all its theoretical, conceptual, cultural, behavioral, practical and...

   Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge
3. Routledge Handbook of Media Law

   Edited by Monroe Price, Stefaan Verhulst, Libby Morgan

   Featuring specially commissioned chapters from experts in the field of media and communications law, this book provides an authoritative survey of media law from a comparative perspective. The handbook does not simply offer a synopsis of the state of affairs in media law jurisprudence, rather it&...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Handbook of Communication History

   Edited by Peter Simonson, Janice Peck, Robert T Craig, John Jackson

   Series: ICA Handbook Series

   The Handbook of Communication History addresses central ideas, social practices, and media of communication as they have developed across time, cultures, and world geographical regions. It attends to both the varieties of communication in world history and the historical investigation of those...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Routledge Handbook of Family Communication

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Anita L. Vangelisti

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   With a synthesis of research on issues key to understanding family interaction, as well as an analysis of many theoretical and methodological choices made by researchers studying family communication, the Handbook serves to advance the field by reframing old questions and stimulating new ones. The...

   Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
6. The Handbook of Intergroup Communication

   Edited by Howard Giles

   Series: ICA Handbook Series

   The Handbook of Intergroup Communication brings together research, theory and application on traditional as well as innovative intergroup situations, exploring the communication aspect of these groups. The volume is organized into four domains – cross-disciplinary approaches to intergroup study;...

   Published May 3rd 2012 by Routledge
7. The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism

   Edited by Stuart Allan

   The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism presents an authoritative, comprehensive assessment of diverse forms of news media reporting – past, present and future. Including 60 chapters, written by an outstanding team of internationally respected authors, the Companion provides scholars and...

   Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
8. The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Teresa L. Thompson, Roxanne Parrott, Jon F. Nussbaum

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication brings together the current body of scholarly work in health communication. With its expansive scope, it offers an introduction for those new to this area, summarizes work for those already learned in the area, and suggests avenues for future research...

   Published April 26th 2011 by Routledge
9. The Handbook of Communication Ethics

   Edited by George Cheney, Steve May, Debashish Munshi

   Series: ICA Handbook Series

   The Handbook of Communication Ethics serves as a comprehensive guide to the study of communication and ethics. It brings together analyses and applications based on recognized ethical theories as well as those outside the traditional domain of ethics but which engage important questions of power,...

   Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge
10. Handbook of Risk and Crisis Communication

    Edited by Robert L. Heath, H. Dan O'Hair

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    The Handbook of Risk and Crisis Communication explores the scope and purpose of risk, and its counterpart, crisis, to facilitate the understanding of these issues from conceptual and strategic perspectives. Recognizing that risk is a central feature of our daily lives, found in relationships,...

    Published May 5th 2010 by Routledge