Mass Media & Communication Books

New and Published Books

1. War Beyond the Battlefield

   Edited by David Grondin

   In an effort to make sense of war beyond the battlefield in studying the wars that were captured under the rubric of the "War on Terror", this special issue book seeks to explore the complex spatial relationships between war and the spaces that one is not used to thinking of as the battlefield...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Language and Journalism

   Edited by John Richardson

   Series: Journalism Studies

   This book is an indispensable "cutting edge" book for students and researchers of journalism studies seeking a text that illustrates and applies a range of linguistic and discourse-analytic approaches to the analysis of journalism. While the form, function and politics of the language of journalism...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. TV Cops

   The Contemporary American Television Police Drama

   By Jonathan Nichols-Pethick

   The police drama has been one of the longest running and most popular genres in American television. In TV Cops, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick argues that, perhaps more than any other genre, the police series in all its manifestations—from Hill Street Blues to Miami Vice to The Wire—embodies the full...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Media, Cultural Control and Government in Singapore

   By Terence Lee

   Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

   This book explores this inherent contradiction present in most facets of Singaporean media, cultural and political discourses, and identifies the key regulatory strategies and technologies that the ruling People Action Party (PAP) employs to regulate Singapore media and culture, and thus govern the...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Psychology of Entertainment Media

   Blurring the Lines Between Entertainment and Persuasion, 2nd Edition

   Edited by L. J. Shrum

   In this volume, psychologists and communication experts present theory on understanding and predicting how learning occurs through media consumption. As the impact of traditional advertising has declined over the last couple of decades, marketers have scrambled to find other ways to effectively...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge Academic
6. Organizations and Popular Culture

   Information, Representation and Transformation

   Edited by Carl Rhodes, Simon Lilley

   Throughout its history, popular mass-mediated culture has turned its attention to representing and interrogating organizational life. As early as Charlie Chaplin’s cinematic classic Modern Times and as recently as the primetime television hit The Simpsons, we see cultural products that engage...

   Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
7. MediaWriting

   Print, Broadcast, and Public Relations, 4th Edition

   By W. Richard Whitaker, Janet E. Ramsey, Ronald D. Smith

   MediaWriting is an introductory, hands-on textbook for students preparing to write in the current multimedia environment. Rather than just talk about the differences among the styles of print, broadcast, and public relations, MediaWriting sythensizes and integrates them, while weaving in basic...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
8. Globalisation, Freedom and the Media after Communism

   The Past as Future

   Edited by Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova

   Series: Routledge Europe-Asia Studies

   This book examines the fate of post-Soviet press freedom and media culture in the context of the growing impact of globalisation. To understand the complicated situation that has arisen with respect to these issues in post-Soviet space is impossible without collaboration between political...

   Published December 31st 2011 by Routledge
9. Audiovisual Regulation under Pressure

   Comparative Cases from North America and Europe

   By Thomas Gibbons, Peter Humphreys

   In the face of globalization and new media technologies, can policy makers and regulators withstand deregulatory pressures on the ‘cultural policy toolkit’ for television? This comparative study provides an interdisciplinary investigation of trends in audiovisual regulation, with the focus on...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
10. Media Law and Ethics

    4th Edition

    By Roy L. Moore, Michael D. Murray

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    This is the first textbook to explicitly integrate both media law and ethics within one volume. A truly comprehensive overview, it is a thoughtful introduction to media law principles and cases and the related ethical concerns relevant to the practice of professional communication. With special...

    Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge