Forthcoming Communication Studies Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Promoting Nonprofit Organizations

   A Reputation Management Approach

   By Ruth Ellen Kinzey

   Promoting Nonprofit Organizations is a practical guide to developing and implementing a strategic public relations program to enhance a nonprofit’s reputation. The ways in which businesses – both for-profit and not-for-profit – communicate with customers has changed dramatically in recent years....

   To Be Published April 8th 2013 by Routledge
2. Sourcebook for Political Communication Research

   Methods, Measures, and Analytical Techniques

   Edited by Erik P. Bucy, R. Lance Holbert

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   The Sourcebook for Political Communication Research will offer scholars, students, researchers, and other interested readers a comprehensive source for state-of-the-art/field research methods, measures, and analytical techniques in the field of political communication. The need for this Sourcebook...

   To Be Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. A Social History of Contemporary Democratic Media

   By Jesse Drew

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   The last few decades have helped dispel the myth that media should remain driven by high-end professionals and market share. This book puts forward the concept of "communications from below" in contrast to the "globalization from above" that characterizes many new developments in international...

   To Be Published April 18th 2013 by Routledge
4. Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education

   American Women Learn to Speak

   Edited by David Gold, Catherine L. Hobbs

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaking practices, from the parlor to the platform to the varied types of institutions where women learned elocutionary and oratorical skills in preparation...

   To Be Published April 18th 2013 by Routledge
5. Environmental Journalism

   Edited by Henrik Bodker, Irene Neverla

   Series: Journalism Studies

   Environmental journalism is an increasingly significant area for study within the broader field of journalism studies. It connects the concerns of politics, science, business, culture and the natural world whilst also exploring the boundaries between the local, regional and global. A central...

   To Be Published April 18th 2013 by Routledge
6. Cyberspace Law

   Censorship and Regulation of the Internet

   Edited by Hannibal Travis

   This book explores what the American Civil Liberties Union calls the "third era" in cyberspace, in which filters "fundamentally alter the architectural structure of the Internet, with significant implications for free speech." Although courts and nongovernmental organizations increasingly insist...

   To Be Published April 23rd 2013 by Routledge
7. Multimodality and Social Semiosis

   Communication, Meaning-Making, and Learning in the Work of Gunther Kress

   Edited by Margit Böck, Norbert Pachler

   Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

   Gunther Kress, one of the founders of social semiotics and multimodality, has made lasting contributions to these fields through his work in semiotics and meaning-making; power and identity; agency, design, production; and pedagogy and learning; in varied sites of transformation. This book brings...

   To Be Published April 25th 2013 by Routledge
8. The Routledge Pragmatics Encyclopedia

   Edited by Louise Cummings

   Pragmatics has grown considerably in its relatively short history, from its original disciplinary influences in philosophy and linguistics, into a multidisciplinary field that encompasses a range of theoretical and empirical concerns. The Routledge Pragmatics Encyclopedia captures the diversity of...

   To Be Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge
9. Digital Development in Korea

   Building an Information Society

   By Myung Oh, James Larson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Korean Studies

   This book explores the role of digital information and communications technology in South Korea’s development, starting with and building upon the crucial developments of the 1980s. Its perspective draws on the information society concept and on a conceptual model of strategic restructuring of...

   To Be Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Life of Voices

    Bodies, Subjects and Dialogue

    By B. Hannah Rockwell

    The Life of Voices illustrates how human voices have special significance as the place where mind and body collaborate to produce everyday speech. Hannah Rockwell links Russian semiotician Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of dialogue with French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s views of the...

    To Be Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge