Routledge Research is our home for cutting-edge scholarly monographs and edited collections. Ranging in scholarship across the humanities and social sciences, Routledge Research titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics. Our publishing program in Media and Communication research has grown rapidly in recent years, and we are pleased to offer books covering topics such as Media, Film, Television, New Media and Cyberculture, Video Games, Journalism, Cultural Studies, Ancient and Modern Rhetoric, Public Relations, Popular Culture, Ecology, Food Studies, Internet Studies and Art and Visual Studies.
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Felisa Salvago-Keyes
Commissioning Editor – Media and Cultural Studies
Emily Ross
Commissioning Editor – Communication
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Public Relations, Activism, and Social Change
Speaking Up
Series: Routledge Research in Public Relations
Why are some voices louder in public debates than others? And why can’t all voices be equally heard? This book draws significant new meaning to the inter-relationships of public relations and social change through a number of activist case studies, and rebuilds knowledge around alternative...
Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
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Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication
Communicating as a Global Citizen
Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
This book engages the notion of cosmopolitanism as it applies to intercultural communication, which itself is undergoing a turn in its focus from post-positivistic research towards critical/interpretive and postcolonial perspectives, particularly as globalization informs more of the current and...
To Be Published June 6th 2013 by Routledge
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Classical Rhetoric and Modern Public Relations
An Isocratean Model
Series: Routledge Research in Public Relations
This book expands the theoretical foundations of modern public relations, a growing young profession that lacked even a name until the twentieth century. As the discipline seeks guiding theories and paradigms, rhetorics both ancient and modern have proven to be fruitful fields of exploration....
Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Television and Postfeminist Housekeeping
No Time for Mother
Series: Routledge Advances in Television Studies
In this book, Nathanson examines how contemporary American television and associated digital media depict women’s everyday lives as homemakers, career women, and mothers. Her focus on American popular culture from the 1990s through the present reveals two extremes: narratives about women who cannot...
Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
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Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production
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
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Communicating Climate Change and Energy Security
New Methods in Understanding Audiences
Series: Routledge New Developments in Communication and Society Research
This book, drawing on new research conducted for the UK Energy Resource Centre (UKERC), examines the contemporary public debate on climate change and the linked issue of energy security. It analyses the key processes which affect the formation of public attitudes and understanding in these areas,...
To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Landscape and Memory in Post-Fascist Italian Film
Cinema Year Zero
Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
This study argues that neorealism’s visual genius is inseparable from its almost invisible relation to the Fascist past: a connection inscribed in cinematic landscapes. While largely a silent narrative, neorealism’s complex visual processing of two decades of Fascism remains the greatest cultural...
Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
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The Future of Quality News Journalism
A Cross-Continental Analysis
Series: Routledge Research in Journalism
In the face of the continuously changing challenges of the digital age, it is difficult for quality news journalism to survive on any significant scale if a means for adequately funding it is not available. This new study, a follow-up to 2007’s The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies,...
To Be Published August 19th 2013 by Routledge