Communication and Media 2012

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Welcome to Communication, Media and Cultural Studies titles from Routledge.

For 2012, we are excited to offer you a diverse list of books, ranging from undergraduate and graduate textbooks, to edited collections, to handbooks and scholarly monographs. This range reflects Routledge’s commitment to publishing for all levels of the academic community.

Our online catalogue provides a comprehensive listing of our backlist titles in communication, media and related areas, cultural studies, and journalism, including descriptions, full tables of contents, and additional information.

Just a few of our new and forthcoming titles are below – click on the contents links to the left to access the full catalogue.

  1. MediaWriting

    Print, Broadcast, and Public Relations, 4th Edition

    By W. Richard Whitaker, Janet E. Ramsey, Ronald D. Smith

    MediaWriting is an introductory, hands-on textbook for students preparing to write in the current multimedia environment. Rather than just talk about the differences among the styles of print, broadcast, and public relations, MediaWriting sythensizes and integrates them, while weaving in basic...

    Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge

  2. A Handbook of Media and Communication Research

    Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies, 2nd Edition

    Edited by Klaus Bruhn Jensen

    A Handbook of Media and Communication Research presents qualitative as well as quantitative approaches to the study of media and communication, integrating perspectives from both the social sciences and the humanities. Taking methodology as a strategic level of analysis that joins practical...

    Published November 1st 2011 by Routledge

  3. Introduction to Film Studies

    5th Edition

    Edited by Jill Nelmes

    Introduction to Film Studies is a comprehensive textbook for students of cinema. This completely revised and updated fifth edition guides students through the key issues and concepts in film studies, traces the historical development of film and introduces some of the worlds key national cinemas....

    Published October 31st 2011 by Routledge

  4. Magazine Editing

    In Print and Online, 3rd Edition

    By John Morrish, Paul Bradshaw

    Including comprehensive coverage on both print and online, consumer and free magazines, Magazine Editing looks at how magazines work and explains the dual role of the magazine editor. John Morrish and Paul Bradshaw consider the editor both as a journalist, having to provide information and...

    Published October 30th 2011 by Routledge

  5. The Graphic Communication Handbook

    By Simon Downs

    Series: Media Practice

    The Graphic Communication Handbook is a comprehensive and detailed introduction to the theories and practices of the graphics industry. It traces the history and development of graphic design, explores issues that affect the industry, examines its analysis through communications theory, explains...

    Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge

  6. The New Media and Technocultures Reader

    Edited by Seth Giddings, Martin Lister

    The study of new media has developed within a wide range of academic disciplines and theoretical paradigms and has generated a great deal of excitement, hype, and confusion. The New Media & Technocultures Reader gathers texts which map the cultural implications of new media, encapsulating and...

    Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge

  7. Journalism Studies

    A Critical Introduction

    By Andrew Calcutt, Philip Hammond

    As the world of politics and public affairs has gradually changed beyond recognition over the past two decades, journalism too has been transformed... yet the study of news and journalism often seems stuck with ideas and debates which have lost much of their critical purchase. Journalism is at a...

    Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge

  8. The Handbook of Communication Ethics

    Edited by George Cheney, Steve May, Debashish Munshi

    Series: ICA Handbook Series

    The Handbook of Communication Ethics serves as a comprehensive guide to the study of communication and ethics. It brings together analyses and applications based on recognized ethical theories as well as those outside the traditional domain of ethics but which engage important questions of power,...

    Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge