Forthcoming Communication Theory Books

Forthcoming Books

1. 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
2. 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 9th 2013 by Routledge
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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 May 26th 2013 by Routledge
6. 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
7. 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 7th 2013 by Routledge
8. Audience Transformations

   Shifting Audience Positions in Late Modernity

   Edited by Nico Carpentier, Kim Christian Schrøder, Lawrie Hallett

   Series: Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education

   The concept of the audience is changing. In the twenty-first century there are novel configurations of user practices and technological capabilities that are altering the way we understand and trust media organizations and representations, how we participate in society, and how we construct our...

   To Be Published July 29th 2013 by Routledge
9. The Spiral of Silence

   New Perspectives on Communication and Public Opinion

   Edited by Wolfgang Donsbach, Charles T. Salmon, Yariv Tsfati

   Since its original articulation in the early 1970s, the 'spiral of silence' theory has become one of the most studied theories of communication and public opinion. It has been tested in varied sociopolitical contexts, with different issues and across communication systems around the world....

   To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. Multimodal Epistemologies

    Towards an Integrated Framework

    Edited by Christine Christie, Arianna Maiorani

    Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

    This volume develops a new multimodal semiotic approach to the study of communication, examining how multimodal discourse is construed transmedially and interculturally and how new technologies and cultural stances inform communicative contexts across the world. It contributes to current...

    To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge