Mass Media & Communication Books

New and Published Books

1. The Environmental Communication Yearbook

   Volume 1

   Edited by Susan L. Senecah

   Editorial ScopeThe Environmental Communication Yearbook is a multidisciplinary forum through which a broad audience of academics, professionals, and practitioners can share and build theoretical, critical, and applied scholarship addressing environmental communication in a variety of contexts. This...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. Journalists, Sources, and Credibility

   New Perspectives

   Edited by Bob Franklin, Matt Carlson

   Series: Routledge Research in Journalism

   This volume revisits what we know about the relationship between journalists and their sources. By asking new questions, employing novel methodologies, and confronting sweeping changes to journalism and media, the contributors reinvigorate the conversation about who gets to speak through the news....

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
3. Media and Social Inequality

   Innovations in Community Structure Research

   Edited by John Pollock

   This book is among the first to systematically explore the impact of community inequality on reporting political and social change. Although most journalism scholars are still fascinated by the impact of media on society, Media and Social Inequality explores the reverse perspective: the impact of...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
4. Deciding Communication Law

   Key Cases in Context

   By Susan Dente Ross

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   This clearly written and well-focused volume combines concise decisions of the primary areas of communication law with the foundational case decisions in those domains. Thus, in one volume, students of communication law, constitutional law, political science, and related fields find both the key...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Defending the First

   Commentary on First Amendment Issues and Cases

   Edited by Joseph Russomanno

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   Defending the First provides a collection of new perspectives on the First Amendment in legal and communication contexts. Editor Joseph Russomanno brings together a roster of major figures who have participated in the shaping of First Amendment law over the past 30 years. Readers are taken into a...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Media Product Portfolios

   Issues in Management of Multiple Products and Services

   Edited by Robert G. Picard

   Media product portfolios are rapidly becoming the predominant shared characteristic of media companies worldwide. The phenomenon involves firms from all kinds of media--newspapers, magazines, television, radio, cinema--and is found in enterprises ranging from small, local firms to large, globalized...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Making Media Content

   The Influence of Constituency Groups on Mass Media

   By John A. Fortunato

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   Making Media Content addresses the development of media content and the various factors and constituencies that influence content, such as advertisers, corporate interests, owners, and advocacy groups. It examines the strategic decision-making of mass media organizations as they determine what...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
8. Political Marketing in Retrospective and Prospective

   Edited by Christine B. Williams, Bruce I. Newman

   Political marketing coalesced as a subfield in the mid-1990s, and in 2002 the Journal of Political Marketing began publication. This anniversary collection reviews the existing theory, empirical evidence and practice of political marketing and explores emerging topics and lines of inquiry within...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
9. Language in Public Spaces in Japan

   Edited by Nanette Gottlieb

   This book throws light on ideologies, practices and sociocultural developments currently shaping language use in Japan by departing from the more common investigation of language in private contexts and examining aspects of the language found in a range of significant public spaces, from the...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Panic

    By Keith Tester

    Series: Shortcuts

    Impending environmental catastrophe, threat of terrorism, viruses both biological and virtual, disease: there seem to be so many reasons to panic today. But what is panic and why does it happen? This book uses a range of literature from sociology, cultural studies and popular psychology to develop...

    Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge