Recent Research & Reference Articles

1. Recommend to your Librarian: The Rhetoric of Food

   The Rhetoric of Food: Discourse, Materiality, and Power focuses on the rhetoric of food and the power dimensions that intersect this most fundamental but increasingly popular area of ideology and practice, including politics, culture, lifestyle, identity, advertising, environment, and economy.
    

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   Recommend to your Librarian: Media and the Moral Mind

   This volume brings together leading scholars in an effort to examine reciprocal processes that connect media with morality, and to set a course for understanding this association. Together these scholars provide an understanding of the relationship between media and morality that should serve as an invaluable resource for current and future generations of researchers.
    

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   Recommend to your Librarian: The Handbook of Comparative Communication Research

   As part of the ICA Handbook Series, The Handbook of Comparative Communication Research aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of comparative communication research.

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   Culture and Public Relations

   Culture and Public Relations explores the impact of culture – societal and organizational – through the global lens of public relations. With contributors from Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, this collection offers international perspectives on a topic that is growing increasingly important in public relations study and practice.

5. Recommend to your Librarian: Mobile Technology and Place

   Part of the Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture Series, Mobile Technology and Place is an international roster of contributors come together in this comprehensive volume to examine the complex interactions between mobile media technologies and issues of place.

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   Just published! Communicating and Organizing in Context

   This book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars as an orientation to the field of organizational communication and as an integration of organizing and communicating. It will also be useful for practitioners as a tool for understanding how conceptual frames limit possibilities and constitute the nature of organizing and members' participation in organizations. 

7. Handbook of Communication Ethics

   This Handbook bridges explicit treatments of ethical issues in communication and implicit considerations of ethics, presenting in one volume analyses and applications that draw upon recognized ethical theories and those which engage important questions of power, equality, and justice. It is intended for scholars in communication, and will serve as a reference text in advanced courses addressing communication and ethics.