Communication: Communication Research Methods

Edited by Bishnupriya Ghosh, Bhaskar Sarkar

Who are the targets of the risk media? Who are most in danger? Who produces the conditions for risk emergence? Who manages risk? Who lives with it? These vectors—the when, where, how, and who—of risk media define the concerns of this volume, which aims to define, historicize, and critically…

Hardback – 2018-12-01 
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Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions

By Tasha R. Dunn

Talking White Trash documents the complex and interwoven relationship between mediated representations and lived experiences of white working-class people—a task inspired by the author’s experiences growing up in a white working-class family and neighborhood and how she came to understand herself…

Paperback – 2018-10-11 
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Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives

Edited by François Cooren, Fabienne Malbois

In our daily experiences, we feel, perceive, designate, invoke or comment on other beings that are part of our world, whether these beings are people, artifacts, technologies, institutions, projects, animals, divinities, emotions, cultures, ideologies or opinions. Echoing recent developments in…

Hardback – 2018-10-01 
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Routledge Studies in Communication, Organization, and Organizing

By Norman K. Denzin

Now issued as part of the Routledge Education Classic Edition series, A Qualitative Manifesto provides a "call to arms" for researchers from the leading figure in the qualitative research community, Norman Denzin. Denzin asks for a research tradition engaged in social justice, sensitive to identity…

Paperback – 2018-09-28 
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Routledge Education Classic Edition

By Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower

Qualitative research has exploded in popularity in nearly every discipline from the social sciences to health fields to business. While many qualitative textbooks explain how to conduct an interview or analyze fieldnotes, rarely do they give more than a few scant pages to the skill many find most…

Paperback – 2018-09-20 
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By Christopher N. Poulos

Each family has its secrets, ones that shape family communication and relationships in a way generally unknown to the outsider and often the family itself. Autoethnographers, students of these relationships, confront many silences in their attempts to understand these social worlds. Now issued as…

Paperback – 2018-09-19 
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Routledge Education Classic Edition

Edited by Samantha Senda-Cook, Aaron Hess, Michael Middleton, Danielle Endres

Readings in Rhetorical Fieldwork compiles foundational articles highlighting the development of fieldwork in rhetorical criticism. Presenting a wide variety of approaches, the volume begins with a section establishing the starting points for the development of fieldwork in rhetorical criticism and…

Paperback – 2018-09-17 
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Edited by Lei Zhang, Carlton Clark

This volume examines the interplay between affect theory and rhetorical persuasion in mass communication. The essays collected here draw connections between affect theory, rhetorical studies, mass communication theory, cultural studies, political science, sociology, and a host of other disciplines.…

Paperback – 2018-09-06 
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Edited by Natalie Jomini Stroud, Shannon McGregor

Big data raise major research possibilities for political communication scholars interested in how citizens, elites, and journalists interact. With the availability of social media data, academics can observe, on a large scale, how people talk about politics. The opportunity to study political…

Paperback – 2018-09-04 
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New Agendas in Communication Series

By Stephen M. Croucher, Daniel Cronn-Mills

Using an engaging how-to approach that draws from scholarship, real-life, and popular culture, this textbook offers students practical reasons why they should care about research methods and a guide to actually conducting research themselves. Examining quantitative, qualitative, and critical…

Paperback – 2018-09-03 
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By Jim Eggensperger, Natalie Redcross

The public relations industry is undergoing a revolution in using data to define promotional programs, to measure influence and to address the needs of clients with more precision than ever. Applying tools that range from online surveys to social-media listening to applying big data with…

Paperback – 2018-08-24 
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By Keith Hjortshoj

From Student to Scholar guides graduate students through the "hidden" developmental transition required in writing a dissertation and moving beyond, to become a successful scholar. Identifying common rhetorical challenges across disciplines, author Hjortshoj explains how to accommodate evolving…

Paperback – 2018-08-06 
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