Books

Entertainment and Society
Influences, Impacts, and Innovations
Edited by Shay Sayre and Cynthia King

The second edition of this innovative textbook introduces students to the ways that society shapes our many forms of entertainment and in turn, how entertainment shapes society. Entertainment & Society examines a broad range of types of entertainment that we enjoy in our daily lives - covering new areas like sports, video games, gambling, theme parks, travel, and shopping, as well as traditional entertainment media such as film, television, and print. The new edition features updated examples and pedagogical features throughout including text boxes, case studies, student activities, questions for discussion, and suggestions for further reading.

PB ISBN: 978-0-415-99807-9
HB ISBN: 978-0-415-99806-2
www.routledge.com/9780415998079

New: Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric: Current Conversations and Contemporary Challenges
Edited by Mark Porrovecchio

Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric reanimates the debate over the function and scope of rhetoric. Providing a contemporary response to the volume The Prospect of Rhetoric (1971), this volume reconceptualizes that classic work to address the challenges facing the study of rhetoric today. This text features contributions from today's leading rhetorical scholars, and would be valuable for undergraduate and graduate students studying rhetorical theory.

February 2010: 6x9: 224pp
PB: 978-0-415-87309-3: £24.99
www.routledge.com/9780415873093

Coming Soon: Arguments, Aggression and Conflict: New Directions in Theory and Research
Edited by Theodore Avtgis and Andrew S. Rancer

This book is a valuable resource for instructors, researchers, scholars, theorists, and graduate students in communication studies and social psychology. Covering a variety of topics, from the broad-based (e.g., new directions in aggressive communication in the organizational context) to the more specific (e.g., verbal aggression in sports), this text presents a comprehensive compilation of essays on aggressive communication and conflict. The chapters include cutting-edge issues in the field and present new ideas for future research.

March 2010: 6x9: 448pp
PB: 978-0-415-99641-9: £19.99
www.routledge.com/9780415996419

New: Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics
Edited by Andrew Chadwick and Philip N. Howard

A comprehensive set of resources, this Handbook provides linkages to established theories of media and politics, political communication, governance, deliberative democracy and social movements, all within an interdisciplinary context. Containing the latest survey data, the contributors form a strong international cast of established and junior scholars. This is the first publication of its kind in this field; a helpful companion to students and scholars of politics, international relations, communication studies and sociology.

December 2009: 246x174: 518pp
PB: 978-0-415-78058-2: £27.99
www.routledge.com/9780415780582

Doing News Framing Analysis
Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives
Edited by Paul D'Angelo and Jim A. Kuypers

Doing News Framing Analysis provides an interpretive guide to news frames - what they are, how they can be observed in news texts, and how framing effects are uncovered and substantiated in cultural, group, and individual sites. Chapters feature framing analysts reflecting on their own empirical work in research, classroom, and public settings to address specific aspects of framing analysis. Taken together, the collection covers the full range of ways in which framing has been theorized and applied - across topics, sources, mechanisms, and effects.

PB ISBN 978-0-415-99236-7
HB ISBN 978-0-415-99235-0
www.routledge.com/9780415992367

Immersed in Media
Telepresence in Everyday Life
Edited by Cheryl Campanella Bracken and Paul Skalski

This volume highlights the growth and importance of the concept of telepresence within the field of mass communication. It examines the importance of this concept in considerations of popular media types and their effects on users, establishing the necessity of telepresence to gaining a complete understanding of the uses and effects of popular media technologies.

PB ISBN 978-0-415-99340-1
HB ISBN 978-0-415-99339-5
www.routledge.com/9780415993401

Media Ethics Beyond Borders
A Global Perspective
Edited by Stephen J.A. Ward and Herman Wasserman

This volume explores the construction of an ethics for news media that is global in reach and impact. Essays by international media ethicists provide leading theoretical perspectives on major issues and applies the ideas to specific countries, contexts and problems, and the result is a rich source of ethical thought and analysis on questions raised by contemporary global media.

PB ISBN 978-0-415-87888-3
HB ISBN 978-0-415-87887-6
www.routledge.com/9780415878883

Media Literacy
New Agendas in Communication
Edited by Kathleen Tyner

Offering contributions from scholars on the forefront of media literacy scholarship, this volume provides valuable insights into the issues of literacy and the new forms of digital communication now being utilized in schools.

PB ISBN 978-0-415-87221-8
HB ISBN 978-0-415-87220-1
www.routledge.com/9780415872218

Traditions of Writing Research
Edited by Charles Bazerman, Robert Krut, Karen Lunsford, Susan McLeod, Suzie Null, Paul Rogers, and Amanda Stansell

Traditions of Writing Research reflects the various styles of work offered at the Writing Research Across Borders conference. This volume, like the conference that it grew out of, will bring new perspectives to the rich dialogue of contemporary research on writing and advance understanding of this complex and important human activity.

PB ISBN 978-0-415-99338-8
HB ISBN 978-0-415-99337-1
www.routledge.com/9780415993388

Digital Literacy for Technical Communication
21st Century Theory and Practice
Edited by Rachel Spilka

Digital Literacy for Technical Communication helps technical communicators make better sense of technology's impact on their work, so they can identify new ways to adapt, adjust, and evolve, fulfilling their own professional potential.

PB ISBN 978-0-8058-5274-5
HB ISBN 978-0-8058-5273-8
www.routledge.com/9780805852745

Handbook of Risk and Crisis Communication
Edited by Robert L. Heath and H. Dan O'Hair

The Handbook of Risk and Crisis Communication explores the scope and purpose of risk, and its counterpart, crisis, to facilitate the understanding of these issues from conceptual and strategic perspectives. With perspectives from psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, and communication, this volume enlarges the approach to defining and recognizing risk and how should it best be managed.

PB ISBN 978-0-8058-5778-8
www.routledge.com/9780805857788

Understanding Science
New Agendas in Communication
Edited by LeeAnn Kahlor and Patricia Stout

Science communication has become increasingly popular in journalism and mass communication as the media offer more scientific and technological information to the public. This volume explores the evolution of science communication, addressing key issues and offering substance for future study.

PB ISBN 978-0-415-99959-5
HB ISBN 978-0-415-99958-8
www.routledge.com/9780415999595

International Media Communication in a Global Age
Edited by Guy Golan, Thomas Johnson, and Wayne Wanta

With contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field of international media communication research, this volume provides a comprehensive examination of key issues regarding global communication, focusing particularly on international news and strategic communication. It addresses those news factors that influence the newsworthiness of international events, providing a synthesis of both theoretical and practical studies that highlight the complicated nature of the international news selection process. It also deals with international news coverage, presenting research on the cross-national and cross-cultural nature of media coverage of global events, in the interdisciplinary context of research on political communication, war coverage, new technologies and online communication.

PB ISBN 978-0-415-99900-7
HB ISBN 978-0-415-99899-4
www.routledge.com/9780415999007

Fifth Edition
Professional Feature Writing
By Bruce Garrison

Professional Feature Writing provides the basics of news media feature writing and establishes a solid foundation for students and writers making feature writing their career. This fifth edition offers a thorough and up-to-date look at newspaper, magazine, newsletter, and online publications, with emphasis on daily newspapers and consumer magazines. It serves as a comprehensive introduction to feature writing, emphasizing writing skills, article types, and the collegiate and professional writing life.

PB ISBN 978-0-415-99897-0
HB ISBN 978-0-415-99898-7
www.routledge.com/9780415998970

Public Relations Writing Worktext
A Practical Guide for the Profession
By Joseph M. Zappala and Ann R. Carden

Public Relations Writing Worktext provides the fundamental knowledge and the basic preparation required for the professional practice of public relations writing. This textbook introduces readers to public relations and writing, providing an overview of the four-step public relations process in addition to defining and detailing the writing activities involved.

PB ISBN 978-0-415-99754-6
HB ISBN 978-0-415-99753-9
www.routledge.com/9780415997546

Serious Games
Mechanisms and Effects
Edited by Ute Ritterfeld, Michael Cody, Peter Vorderer

Serious Games provides a thorough exploration of the claim that playing games can provide learning that is deep, sustained and transferable to the real world. With this volume, the editors address the gap in existing scholarship on gaming, providing an academic overview on the mechanisms and effects of serious games. Contributors investigate the psychological mechanisms that take place not only during gaming, but also in game selection, persistent play, and gaming impact.

PB ISBN 978-0-415-99370-8
HB ISBN 978-0-415-99369-2
www.routledge.com/9780415993708

Distinctive Qualities in Communication Research
Edited by Donal Carbaugh and Patrice M. Buzzanell

This timely volume provides an in-depth look at why the field of communication is so central in initiatives for social impact around the world. Donal Carbaugh and Patrice M. Buzzanell bring together scholars with varied and productive approaches to communication to address the question of what distinguishes communication research from similar studies in other disciplines. The work provides an invaluable resource for defining the role of communication research in the academic community and the contributions it makes to the study of human interaction.

PB ISBN 978-0-415-99026-4
HB ISBN 978-0-415-99025-7
www.routledge.com/9780415990264

The Interplay of Truth and Deception
New Agendas in Theory and Research
Edited by Matthew S. McGlone, Mark L. Knapp

During the past 30 years, there have been a steadily increasing number of scientific and popular publications dealing with lying and deception. Questions about the extent to which public officials are deceptive are standard fare in current magazines and newspapers. This volume aims to present on a more precise conceptualization of this phenomenon, manifested in some well-known constructions like spin, hype, doublespeak, equivocation, and contextomy (quoting out of context).

PB ISBN 978-0-415-99567-2
HB ISBN 978-0-415-99566-5
www.routledge.com/9780415995672

Journalism and Citizenship
New Agendas in Communication
Edited by Zizi Papacharissi

With contributions from up-and-coming scholars, this collection identifies key issues and paves the way for further research on the role of journalism in today's world. It will appeal to scholars, researchers, and advanced students in journalism, communication, and media studies, and will also be of interest to those in public affairs, political science, and government.

PB ISBN 978-0-415-80498-1
HB ISBN 978-0-415-80499-8
www.routledge.com/9780415804981

Parents and Children Communicating with Society
Managing Relationships Outside of the Home
Thomas J. Socha, Glen H. Stamp

The volume opens a new frontier in parent-child communication research as it brings together veteran researchers and newcomers to explore the communication of parents and children as they create relationships outside the family.

PB ISBN 978-0-415-96488-3
HB ISBN 978-0-415-96487-6
www.routledge.com/9780415964883

Uncertainty, Information Management, and Disclosure Decisions
Theories and Applications
Edited by Tamara D. Afifi, Walid A. Afifi

This volume provides an in-depth exploration of two key processes in communication research: uncertainty and information regulation. These topics have been an integral part of communication research for many years, and have experienced an explosion of scholarly attention in the past decade.

PB ISBN 978-0-415-96516-3
HB ISBN 978-0-415-96515-6
www.routledge.com/9780415965163