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The Global Journalist in the 21st Century systematically assesses the demographics, education, socialization, professional attitudes and working conditions of journalists in 33 countries around the world. As the most comprehensive and reliable source on journalists around the world, it will serve as the primary source for evaluating the state of journalism. It promises to become a standard textbook among journalism, media, and communication students and researchers around the world.

Understanding how the elderly adapt to significant changes in their environment provides insight into both the process of communication and the process of ageing. The purpose of this book is to help readers understand how important these communicative relationships are.

Rev. ed. of: The crisis manager: facing risk and responsibility. 1997.

This monograph addresses free speech, arguing that, while interdisciplary approaches can be useful, legal scholars must avoid distorting issues by using vocabularies and tools that do not reflect complexities of the First Amendment.

Tackles the question of media ownership. This title chronicles the myriad changes in the media industry and the factors contributing to these changes. It examines how the media industry is being reshaped by technological forces in the various segments, as well as by social and cultural reactions to these forces.

This volume examines the concept of framing in media issues, establishing a foundation for study of the topic and understanding its application. For scholars and advanced students in journalism & media studies, political science, and related areas.

The purpose of this work is to illustrate how the broadcasting industry has evolved to what it is today. This third edition includes: a chapter describing historical developments since 1998; updated and reorganized historical tables; and new tables on topics such as presidential elections.

Provides theoretical, empirical, and legal analyses for a broader understanding of the influences of communication technology on social change. Arranged into 15 chapters, this book presents a discussion of the role communication technology plays in shaping social, political, and economic influences in society within specific domains and settings.

This study provides a deconstruction of the actual "talk" of television talk shows, and seeks to demonstrate how this "talk" is a dramatic performance: discursive dynamics fed by the host of the show with certain formulaic progress designed to get the audience hyped up.

This volume brings together the major thrusts of contemporary research and theory in political communication. The approach stresses theoretical overviews and research synthesis with the goal of each chapter to provide an overview of the major lines of research, theory and findings for that topic.

Offers insights on the state of online news, exploring the issues surrounding this convergence of print and electronic platforms, and the public's response to it. The heart of the book is formed by empirical studies - mostly social surveys - coming out of the media effects and uses traditions.

This volume addresses some of the central issues of journalism today - such as the nature and needs of the individual vs. the needs of broader society; communitarianism vs. Enlightenment liberalism; compassion vs. professional distance. The essays present the various dilemmas the media face.

Illustrates the state of journalistic practice in the United States. This work looks at the demographic and educational backgrounds, working conditions, and professional and ethical values of print, broadcast, and Internet journalists at the beginning of the 21st century; providing results from telephone surveys of nearly 1,500 US journalists.

The reader is encouraged to explore fundamental beliefs with this book - understanding of what the radio enterprise should be about: entertainment and information. A consideration is to arrive at a set of fundamental beliefs about the radio business values in regard to entertainment programming.

This broad consideration of the lifespan component of communication study emphasizes how communicative processes develop, are maintained, and change throughout the life span. Topics covered include language skills, interpersonal conflict management, socialization, care-giving, and relationship development.

This volume provides a summary of current measures used in quantitative communication research. It is appropriate for researchers and graduate students in the communication field.

This collection examines research on the promotion of television and radio programmes. Each chapter in this volume includes an extensive review of the literature, an original study of some aspect of promotion, and an extended discussion of questions that should be explored in subsequent research.

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to political communication in America. Taking a broad-based theoretical and a multi-perspective approach to politics and the press, the author looks at phenomena from a variety of points of view.

With its beginnings as a festschrift in honour of language and social interaction scholar Robert Hopper, this work is a collection of empirical studies and theoretical essays about human communication in everyday life.

In light of the ever-increasing abundance of media channels and messages, selective exposure has become more important than ever for media impacts. This monograph provides a comprehensive review of the research on selective exposure to media messages, which is at the heart of communication science and media effects. It is required reading for media scholars and researchers, and promises to influence and inspire future research.

Organized into three general sections, this work introduces both the technologies of the Internet Age and their social implications, considers the issues of online identity, taking into account how people construct presentations of self within a social environment, and addresses issues of how the Internet has affected our culture.

This book provides academic reformers with a blueprint for tackling the upheaval facing media education. It calls for a new professionalism that rejects the status quo, reflects the mission and diversity of individual programs, and demands a redefinition of both traditional media studies and the liberal arts. The book directs philosophical assaults and uses real-life examples to challenge the paralyzing effects of the seven deadly sins of media education.

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, the Handbook of Ri

This resource outlines research strategies and technologies for journalists performing electronic searches for the development of their news stories. The text covers retrieving and analysing information from the Internet and the Web in the development of news stories.

Advertising Theory is a comprehensive text that draws on current research and practices in advertising theory by introducing key concepts, models, theories, conflicts, and issues for individuals interested in this area. Editors Shelly Rodgers and Esther Thorson have developed this volume as a forum in which to compare, contrast,

Managing Interpersonal Conflict is a systematic review of conflict research in legal, institutional and relational contexts. Each chapter represents a summary of the existing quantitative social science research using meta-analysis, with contexts ranging from jury selection to peer mediation to homophobia reduction. The contributors provide connections between cutting-edge scholarship about abstract theoretical arguments, the needs of instructional and training pedagogy, and practical applications of information. The meta-analysis approach produces a unique informational resource, offering answers to key research questions addressing conflict.This volume serves as an invaluable resource for studying conflict, mediation, negotiation and facilitation in coursework; implementing and planning training programs; designing interventions; creating workshops; and conducting studies of conflict.