Journalism & Professional Media 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. Stories and Social Media

   Identities and Interaction

   By Ruth E. Page

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites, microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Role of the Press and Communication Technology in Democratization

   The Nigerian Story

   By Aje-Ori Anna Agbese

   Series: African Studies

   In the 1990s, Nigeria, like several countries in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America, underwent transition programs to return the country to democracy. Nigeria’s democratization in the 1990s was a civil and international movement to free Nigeria from over 20 years of authoritarian...

   Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
5. Advertising

   Edited by Iain MacRury

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE!(Valid until 3 months after publication) Academic analysts and practitioner-theorists of advertising draw on rich and innovative multidisciplinary resources where cultural and media analysis meet economics, anthropology, semiotics, gender studies, social psychology,...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
6. Routledge Handbook of Media Law

   Edited by Monroe Price, Stefaan Verhulst, Libby Morgan

   Featuring specially commissioned chapters from experts in the field of media and communications law, this book provides an authoritative survey of media law from a comparative perspective. The handbook does not simply offer a synopsis of the state of affairs in media law jurisprudence, rather it&...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption

   Edited by Russell W. Belk, Rosa Llamas

   Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

   The first generation that has grown up in a digital world is now in our university classrooms. They, their teachers and their parents have been fundamentally affected by the digitization of text, images, sound, objects and signals. They interact socially, play games, shop, read, write, work,...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
8. 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
9. The Routledge Companion to Identity and Consumption

   Edited by Ayalla A. Ruvio, Russell W. Belk

   Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

   "Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are," said Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Today, "You are what you consume" is more apt. Barbara Krueger’s ironic twist of Descartes - "I shop therefore I am" - has lost its irony. Such phrases have become commonplace descriptions of our identity in the...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
10. Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production

    By Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman

    Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

    This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural production: digital online culture. It focuses on the transformations or continuations that cultural products and practices such as hypermedia fictions, net.art and...

    Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge