This series features cutting-edge scholarship--both authored books and edited collections--addressing the major issues in communication studies today.
Edited
By Romy Fröhlich
November 05, 2018
This book focuses on the social process of conflict news production and the emergence of public discourse on war and armed conflict. Its contributions combine qualitative and quantitative approaches through interview studies and computer-assisted content analysis and apply a unique comparative and ...
Edited
By Dawn Marie D. McIntosh, Dreama G. Moon, Thomas K. Nakayama
October 10, 2018
The field of communication offers the study of whiteness a focus on discourse which directs its attention to the everyday experiences of whiteness through regimes of truth, embodied acts, and the deconstruction of mediated texts. This book takes an intersectional approach to whiteness studies, ...
Edited
By Ahmet Atay, Diana Trebing
October 03, 2017
The term "special population" occupies a particular purpose and has a particular role in the discourse of higher education. This book uses the term as an umbrella term for any student who tends to be underrepresented on college campuses and has a very specific set of unique needs: among others, ...
By Viorela Dan
September 21, 2017
Much of framing scholarship focuses either exclusively on the analysis of words or of visuals. This book aims to address this gap by proposing a six-step approach to the analysis of verbal frames, visual frames and the interplay between them—an integrative framing analysis. This approach is then ...
By Jenny Dixon
June 27, 2017
This book presents an understanding of work-family balance for working adults belonging to a number of different family structures (e.g. single and/or childfree adults, LGBT couples, families with female breadwinners). It contends that family structure should serve as a way of thinking about ...
By Philemon Bantimaroudis
May 03, 2017
This book draws on agenda setting theory to examine how cultural organizations relate to media in order to increase their visibility, valence, and eventually build their public image. Most organizations have a keen interest in their symbolic presence, as their media visibility influences public ...
Edited
By Toril Aalberg, Frank Esser, Carsten Reinemann, Jesper Stromback, Claes De Vreese
July 26, 2016
In an increasing number of countries around the world, populist leaders, political parties and movements have gained prominence and influence, either by electoral successes on their own or by influencing other political parties and the national political discourse. While it is widely acknowledged ...