Forthcoming Mass Communication Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Media Management and Economics Research in a Transmedia Environment

   Edited by Alan B. Albarran

   Series: Electronic Media Research Series

   This landmark work centers on media management and economics within a diverse, international, historical and constantly changing environment. The chapters herein reflect the current state of research and present directions for future study. Developed at the 2012 Research Symposium in conjunction...

   To Be Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
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 May 26th 2013 by Routledge
4. African American Women in the News

   Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism

   By Marian Meyers

   African American Women in the News offers the first in-depth examination of the varied representations of black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and "crack mothers" to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle Obama on Youtube. Marian Meyers interrogates...

   To Be Published May 28th 2013 by Routledge
5. Transparency, Public Relations and the Mass Media

   Combating Media Bribery Worldwide

   By Katerina Tsetsura, Dean Kruckeberg

   Series: Routledge Research in Public Relations

   This book is about media transparency and good-faith attempts of honesty by both the sources and the gate-keepers of news and other information that the mass media present as being unbiased. Specifically, this book provides a theoretical framework for understanding media transparency and its...

   To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge
6. Meanings of Audiences

   Comparative Discourses

   Edited by Richard Butsch, Sonia Livingstone

   In today’s thoroughly mediated societies people spend many hours in the role of audiences, and powerful organizations, including governments, corporations and schools, reach people via the media. Consequently, how people think about, and organizations treat, audiences has considerable significance....

   To Be Published August 26th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Social Media Handbook

   Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger, Theresa Senft

   The Routledge Handbook of Social Media explores how social media is changing disciplinary understandings of the nature of the Internet, and reshaping our everyday lives. In addition to person-to-person social networking services like Facebook and Twitter, this volume considers a broad range of...

   To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. Locating Emerging Media

   Edited by Ben Aslinger, Germaine Halegoua

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   Locating Emerging Media focuses on the tensions between the local and global in the design, distribution, and use of emerging media forms, building on scholarship on the cultural geography of new media networks and products and the relationships between the "global" and the "local." Authors...

   To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
9. Ratings Analysis

   Audience Measurement and Analytics, 4th Edition

   By James Webster, Patricia F. Phalen, Lawrence W Lichty

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   This 4th edition of Ratings Analysis describes and explains the current audience information system that supports economic exchange in both traditional and evolving electronic media markets. Responding to the major changes in electronic media distribution and audience research in recent years,...

   To Be Published September 5th 2013 by Routledge
10. Mediating the Message in the 21st Century

    A Media Sociology Perspective

    By Pamela J. Shoemaker, Stephen D. Reese

    Hailed as one of the "most significant books of the twentieth century" by Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Mediating the Message has long been an essential text for media effects scholars and students of media sociology. This new edition of the classic media sociology textbook now...

    To Be Published September 19th 2013 by Routledge