Interpersonal Media & Communication Books

New and Published Books

1. Communication Among Grandmothers, Mothers, and Adult Daughters

   A Qualitative Study of Maternal Relationships

   By Michelle A. Miller-Day

   Series: LEA's Series on Personal Relationships

   This volume examines communication processes within the grandmother-mother-daughter relationship, emphasizing an intergenerational perspective. Using observations of and extensive interviews with six sets of middle-income, Caucasian female family members, this book offers a heuristic account of...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Handbook of Measurement Issues in Family Research

   Edited by Sandra L. Hofferth, Lynne M. Casper

   Dramatic societal changes have reshaped America’s families. Young adults have delayed marriage, and cohabitation before marriage has become commonplace. One in three women giving birth is unmarried, and the proportion of children under 18 living in single-parent families rose from 23 to...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Routledge Handbook of Family Communication

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Anita L. Vangelisti

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   With a synthesis of research on issues key to understanding family interaction, as well as an analysis of many theoretical and methodological choices made by researchers studying family communication, the Handbook serves to advance the field by reframing old questions and stimulating new ones. The...

   Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
4. Self-Mediation

   New Media, Citizenship and Civil Selves

   Edited by Lilie Chouliaraki

   Blogs, You Tube, citizen journalism, social networking sites and museum interactivity are but a few of the new media options available for ordinary people to express themselves in public. This intensely technological presentation of everyday lives in our public culture is today hailed as a new,...

   Published February 13th 2012 by Routledge
5. Studying Mobile Media

   Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone

   Edited by Larissa Hjorth, Jean Burgess, Ingrid Richardson

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   The iPhone represents an important moment in both the short history of mobile media and the long history of cultural technologies. Like the Walkman of the 1980s, it marks a juncture in which notions about identity, individualism, lifestyle and sociality require rearticulation. this book ...

   Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge
6. Youth in the Former Soviet South

   Everyday Lives between Experimentation and Regulation

   Edited by Stefan Kirmse

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of youth, in all its diversity, in Muslim Central Asia and the Caucasus. It brings together a range of academic perspectives, including media studies, Islamic studies, the sociology of youth, and social anthropology. While most discussions of youth...

   Published July 5th 2011 by Routledge
7. Family Communication

   2nd Edition

   By Chris Segrin, Jeanne Flora

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   Family Communication carefully examines state-of-the-art research and theories of family communication and family relationships. In addition to presenting cutting-edge research, it focuses on classic theories and research findings that have influenced and revolutionized the way scholars...

   Published May 3rd 2011 by Routledge
8. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Religion, Communication, and Media

   Edited by Daniel A. Stout

   Series: Religion and Society

   Communication is at the heart of all religions. As an essential aspect of religion, communication occurs between believers, between religious leaders and followers, between proponents of different faiths, and even between practitioners and the deities. The desire to communicate with as well as...

   Published June 1st 2010 by Routledge
9. Letters, Postcards, Email

   Technologies of Presence

   By Esther Milne

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   In this original study, Milne moves between close readings of letters, postcards and emails, and investigations of the material, technological infrastructures of these forms, to answer the question: How does presence function as an aesthetic and rhetorical strategy within networked communication...

   Published February 2nd 2010 by Routledge
10. Mobile Phone Cultures

    Edited by Gerard Goggin

    What do we really know about mobile phone culture? This provocative and comprehensive collection explores the cultural and media dimensions of mobile phones around the world. An international team of contributors look at how mobiles have been imagined through advertising and social...

    Published February 22nd 2009 by Routledge