Forthcoming Communication Theory Books

Forthcoming Books

1. 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, behavourial, practical and...

   To Be Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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...

   To Be Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Public Relations and Communication Management

   Current Trends and Emerging Topics

   Edited by Krishnamurthy Sriramesh, Ansgar Zerfass, Jeong-Nam Kim

   Public Relations and Communication Management serves as a festschrift honoring the work of public relations scholars James E. Gruning and Larissa A. Grunig. Between them, the Grunigs have published 12 books and more than 330 articles, book chapters, and various academic and professional...

   To Be Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge
4. 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 May 2nd 2013 by Routledge
5. The Routledge Companion to Accounting Communication

   Edited by Lisa Jack, Jane Davison, Russell Craig

   Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

   One of the prime purposes of accounting is to communicate and yet, to date, this fundamental aspect of the discipline has received relatively little attention. The Routledge Companion to Accounting Communication represents the first collection of contributions to focus on the power of communication...

   To Be Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
6. Communication Yearbook 37

   Edited by Elisia Cohen

   Communication Yearbook 37 continues the tradition of publishing state-of-the-discipline literature reviews and essays. Editor Elisia Cohen presents a volume that is highly international and interdisciplinary in scope, with authors and chapters representing the broad global interests of the...

   To Be Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Digital Divide

   The internet and social inequality in international perspective

   Edited by Massimo Ragnedda, Glenn W. Muschert

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book provides an in-depth comparative analysis of inequality and the stratification of the digital sphere. Grounded in classical sociological theories of inequality, as well as empirical evidence, this book defines ‘the digital divide’ as the unequal access and utility of internet...

   To Be Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
8. Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication

   Communicating as a Global Citizen

   By Miriam Sobré-Denton, Nilanjana Bardhan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   This book engages the notion of cosmopolitanism as it applies to intercultural communication, which itself is undergoing a turn in its focus from post-positivistic research towards critical/interpretive and postcolonial perspectives, particularly as globalization informs more of the current and...

   To Be Published June 6th 2013 by Routledge
9. Communication Science Theory and Research

   An Introduction to Advanced Study

   By Marina Krcmar, David Ewoldsen, Michael E Roloff, Ascan Koerner

   This volume provides a graduate-level introduction to communication science, including theory and scholarship for masters and PhD students as well as practicing scholars. The work defines communication, reviews its history, and provides a broad look at how communication research is conducted. It...

   To Be Published July 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. Researching Virtual Worlds

    Methodologies for Studying Emergent Practices

    Edited by Louise Phillips, Ursula Plesner

    Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

    This volume presents a wide range of qualitative methodological strategies which are designed to tackle and take into account the complex, emergent, and continually shifting character of Virtual Worlds. The book concentrates on the theme of emergence and phenomena in flux – on how objects are...

    To Be Published July 31st 2013 by Routledge