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This volume focuses on one important aspect of human sense-making - theory building - and strives to clarify the thesis that theories do not develop in some sort of social, intellectual or cultural vacuum, but are necessarily the products of specific times, insights and mindsets.

This text presents an evaluation framework for assessing the impact of the new media on the health care system by juxtaposing characteristics of emerging information and communication technologies and health care objectives.

This volume examines parent-child interaction and creates a framework for future research in the area. The chapter authors bring a communication perspective to enduring problems of discipline, adolescent conflict and physical child abuse.

This volume seeks to understand the "real world", including the historical backgrounds and the theoretical assumptions brought to studies of intercultural conflicts, using the complexity of changes in Eastern Europe during the 1990s.

This is a comparative analysis of public relations as practiced in various countries and regions around the world. The text views public relations in each country or region covered from the perspective of the practioners in that country. It also discusses issues and practices relating to education.

Based on a seminar series at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University, USA, this text examines the origins, meaning and impact of media and communication research in America, with links to European antecedents. The book collects essays, commentaries and reports.

Influenced by the O.J. Simpson trial, this text examines how the US Supreme Court has dealt with the restrictions on media coverage of the criminal justice system. It explores how the Court has created a coherent body of law that protects free expression whilst permitting government regulation.

This text focuses on developments in theoretical approaches to verbal and non-verbal message production. The processes underlying the production of these behaviours are so complex as to defy a single unifying explanation. As such, the book amalgamates disparate treatments to provide an overview.

This text presents an overview of individual characteristics in interpersonal communication, considers the literature emphasizing the dyadic approach, explores the interactional approach and sets the stage for independent meta-analyses.

This text addresses the relationship between communication and community by bringing together a variety of renowned and relatively unknown voices from across the areas of communication studies. It offers analyses of communication and community in diverse contexts.

This volume provides real-life studies of groups in the setting where they form. The book is designed for use as a text in courses on group communication and as a reference for group communication scholars.

A review of theory and research on communication skills and skill enhancement. It features five units on: general theoretical and methodological issues; fundamental interaction skills; function-focused skills; skills used in personal relationships; and skills used in public and professional life.

"Language and Social Interaction" (LSI) refers to both a subject matter and to a multidisciplinary confederation of research communities assembled and housed within the field of communication. This Handbook is intended to provide a scholarly resource about LSI's subject matter and research.

Explores sex differences in how men and women communicate, set within the context of sex similarities. This book examines how sex differences and similarities can be seen in various verbal and nonverbal communicative behaviours across contexts. It is of interest to readers in communication, social psychology, relationships, and related fields.

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Suitable for researchers who need to find specific information about American mass communication as expeditiously as possible, this title defines mass communication. It offers an inventory of more than 1,400 resources on most aspects of American mass communication history, technology, economics, content, audience research, policy, and regulation.

This volume includes discussions dealing with the evolution and the role of ethics from the standpoint of communication scholars employing a process orientation, and the resulting conclusions concerning the significant roles of ethics in dialogic, mutually enhancing, constructive interactions.

This text draws on communication, public health, psychology and theories from related disciplines to illuminate issues involved with communication, politics and HIV/AIDS around the globe. It also examines past efforts to prevent infection and to provide treatment, and the barriers to such actions.

This volume in the Applied Communication Series explores communication in black, white and biracial families. Topics covered include African-American child rearing, parent-child communication about racial derogation, and the influences of parents and peers on adolescents' self esteem.

The goal of this text is to represent the primary areas of entertainment - from sports to computer games to fine arts - at a non-technical, accessible level. It aims to reach a broad audience and introduces the reader to the empirical exploration of the how's and why's of media entertainment.

This collection of research essays focuses on children and "Sesame Street". It covers a variety of issues and topics including: creation and evolution of the "Sesame Street" curriculum; "Sesame Street" viewers as adolescents; and the role of "Sesame Street"-based materials in child care settings.

This collection brings together research from independent scholars and studies supported by the Kaiser Foundation to illustrate innovative research on the media's sexual content and adolescents. Contributors address the topic of sexuality and the role of media.

This title examines the representation, impact and issues relating to the control and regulation of sex in the media. It covers work that has been conducted around the world on the depiction of sex in the mainstream mass media, especially the audio-visual media of film, television and video.

"Explaining Communication" presents in-depth discussions of communication theories by some of the foremost scholars working in communication today. With contributions from the original theorists and scholars known for their work in specific theoreti

This study assembles and presents the cross-disciplinary research being conducted on access to new technology. It departs from popular understandings by recognizing the distinction between having access to the Internet as a technology and being able to access the content that resides on it.

This edited collection examines time and its relationship to and impact upon media industries, studying how the media industry views time and makes business and economic decisions based on considerations of time. Contributions from an international set of authors analyze different media.

This work tackles the task of conceptualizing, detecting, and labelling the influence of imported television. It challenges the "de facto" dominant paradigm of cultural imperialism that is used as a basis for most writings on the subject and demonstrates the applicability of quantitative methods.