Communication History Books

New and Published Books

1. De-Convergence of Global Media Industries

   By Dal Yong Jin

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   Convergence has become a buzzword, referring on the one hand to the integration between computers, television, and mobile devices or between print, broadcast, and online media and on the other hand, the ownership of multiple content or distribution channels in media and communications. Yet while...

   Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
2. Popular Television in Eastern Europe During and Since Socialism

   Edited by Timothy Havens, Anikó Imre, Katalin Lustyik

   Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

   This collection of essays responds to the recent surge of interest in popular television in Eastern Europe. This is a region where television's transformation has been especially spectacular, shifting from a state-controlled broadcast system delivering national, regional, and heavily filtered...

   Published August 23rd 2012 by Routledge
3. The Radical Pedagogies of Socrates and Freire

   Ancient Rhetoric/Radical Praxis

   By Stephen Brown

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   Situating contemporary critical praxis at the intersection of the social, the political, and the rhetorical, this book is a provocative inquiry into the teaching philosophies of Plato’s Socrates and Paulo Freire that has profound implications for contemporary education. Brown not only sheds new...

   Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
4. Pathways to Polling

   Crisis, Cooperation and the Making of Public Opinion Professions

   By Amy Fried

   In midcentury America, the public opinion polling enterprise faced a crisis of legitimacy. Every major polling firm predicted a win for Thomas Dewey over Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential election—and of course they all got it wrong. This failure generated considerable criticisms of polling and...

   Published August 25th 2011 by Routledge