Communication Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Identity and Communication

   New Agendas in Communication

   Edited by Dominic L Lasorsa, America Rodriguez

   Series: New Agendas in Communication Series

   Identity and Communication offers an innovative take on traditional topics of intercultural communication while promoting new ideas and progressive theories.With essays by emerging voices in identity communication, volume contributors discuss the ways that racial, cultural, and gender identities...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
3. The Arab Spring

   Critical Analyses

   Edited by Khair Haseeb

   This volume provides a wealth of in-depth, country-specific analyses of the Arab Spring, in addition to works that examine the larger theoretical framework and socio-political implications of events. Unlike other analyses, often from the perspective of Western scholarship from the outside looking...

   Published March 28th 2013 by Routledge
4. Communication and Social Cognition

   Theories and Methods

   Edited by David R. Roskos-Ewoldsen, Jennifer L. Monahan

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   Communication and Social Cognition represents the explosion of work in the field of social cognition over the past 25 years. Expanding the contribution made by Social Cognition and Communication, published in 1982, this scholarly collection updates the study of communication from a social cognitive...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. The Power of Words

   Unveiling the Speaker and Writer's Hidden Craft

   By David S. Kaufer, Suguru Ishizaki, Brian S. Butler, Jeff Collins

   In 1888, Mark Twain reflected on the writer's special feel for words to his correspondent, George Bainton, noting that "the difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter." We recognize differences between a politician who is "willful" and one who is "willing"...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Online@AsiaPacific

   Mobile, Social and Locative Media in the Asia–Pacific

   By Larissa Hjorth, Michael Arnold

   Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia.com

   Media across the Asia-Pacific region are at once social, locative and mobile. Social in that these media facilitate public and interpersonal interaction, locative in that this social communication is geographically placed, and mobile in so much as the media is ever-present. The Asia–Pacific region...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
7. 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
8. Global Entertainment Media

   Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization

   By Tanner Mirrlees

   A critical cultural materialist introduction to the study of global entertainment media. In Global Entertainment Media, Tanner Mirrlees undertakes an analysis of the ownership, production, distribution, marketing, exhibition and consumption of global films and television shows, with an eye to...

   Published March 12th 2013 by Routledge
9. Organization and Organizing

   Materiality, Agency and Discourse

   Edited by Daniel Robichaud, Francois Cooren

   This timely collection addresses central issues in organizational communication theory on the nature of organizing and organization. The unique strength of this volume is its contribution to the conception of materiality, agency, and discourse in current theorizing and research on the constitution...

   Published March 7th 2013 by Routledge
10. International Life Writing

    Memory and Identity in Global Context

    Edited by Paul Longley Arthur

    Representing the best of international life writing scholarship, this collection reveals extraordinary stories of remarkable lives. These wide-ranging accounts span the Americas, Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Pacific over a period of more than two centuries. Showing fascinating...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge