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Public Communication Campaigns

Ronald E. Rice, William J. Paisley (eds.)

Thousand Oaks et al.: Sage, 4th ed. (2013), xiii, 376 pp.

"In this fully revised and expanded Fourth Edition, Ronald E. Rice and Charles K. Atkin provide readers with a comprehensive, up-to-date look into the field of public communication campaigns. Updated to reflect the latest theories and research, this text extends coverage to new areas, including sun ... more

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Handbook of Survey Methodology for the Social Sciences

Lior Gideon (ed.)

New York: Springer (2012), 520 pp.

"Surveys enjoy great ubiquity among data collection methods in social research: they are flexible in questioning techniques, in the amount of questions asked, in the topics covered, and in the various ways of interactions with respondents. Surveys are also the preferred method by many researchers in ... more

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Depletion Design: A Glossary of Network Ecologies

Carolin Wiedemann, Soenke Zehle (eds.)

Amsterdam: Insittute of Network Cultures (2012), 192 pp.

"Eager to assist, organize, and structure our lifestream logistics, new corporate actors offer communicative freedoms based on commercial user-as-product philosophies of expression. But we now design our own interfaces to face our others, our algorithmic others. Our collective reflection on nature a ... more

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Handbook of Participatory Video

Elizabeth-Jane Milne, Claudia Mitchell, Naydene De Lange (eds.)

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2012), xix, 480 pp.

"Participatory video is a growing area of research and an increasingly popular tool among practitioners, researchers, and NGOs working with communities around the world. The Handbook of Participatory Video advances the field, engaging critically with it as a research methodology and method and inter ... more

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The Handbook of Communication Ethics

George Cheney, Steve May, Debashish Munshi (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2011), xix, 530 pp.

"The Handbook of Communication Ethics serves as a comprehensive guide to the study of communication and ethics. It brings together analyses and applications based on recognized ethical theories as well as those outside the traditional domain of ethics but which engage important questions of power, e ... more

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The Sage Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination

John F. Dovidio, Miles Hewstone, Peter Glick, Victoria M. Esses (eds.)

London et al.: Sage (2010), xxv, 646 pp.

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Handbook of Research on Overcoming Digital Divides: Constructing an Equitable and Competitive Information Society

Enrico Ferro (ed.)

Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2010), xxxvi, 737 pp.

"The Handbook presents a comprehensive, integrative, and global view of what has been called the digital divide. Collecting an international collaboration of experts, this Handbook of Research offers policy makers, academicians, managers, and researchers a complete reference source to the interactio ... more

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Media Messages and Public Health: A Decisions Approach to Content Analysis

Amy B. Jordan (ed.)

New York; London: Routledge (2009), xvii, 270 pp.

"Media Messages and Public Health addresses the full range of methodological and conceptual issues involved in content analysis research, specifically focused on public health-related messages and behaviors. Uniquely tailored to the challenges faced by content researchers interested in the study of ... more

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Encyclopedia of Religion, Communication, and Media
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Daniel A. Stout (ed.)

New York: Routledge (2006), xx, 467 pp.

"This volume breaks down disciplinary walls in numerous ways. First, it combines information about the intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, and societal levels of communication into a single resource. At the intrapersonal level, new issues are raised about communication between individuals and deity ... : Why is religious experience difficult to explain in rational terms? Why is silence more sacred than spoken prayer in some religious communities? What is the nature of “thought communication” in religious meditation? Why is the use of profanity justified in some religious circles? How does idolatry reinforce religious customs and values? Why was chanting one of the first forms of religious communication? Religious information is also exchanged between individuals at the level of interpersonal communication. This volume identifies rituals that have not been adequately analyzed in terms of communication aspects: Why do some sects require public confession? Why is body decoration an acceptable form of worship in some religious groups, but not in others? How does dance communicate the sacred through metaphoric movement? What are the multiple forms of communication with the dead? Why are feasts a form of religious worship in all major religions? How does the study of organizational communication apply to religion? This volume also aids study of mediated communication to larger groups both inside and outside religious denominations. Throughout history, technology has simultaneously aided and impeded communication processes; this also applies to religious culture: How did religion change during the historical transition from orality to literacy? How did printing contribute to the diffusion of religious values in the world? Why have religious novels grown in popularity? Is television considered a religious medium? How has the Internet affected religious congregations and communities? What is religious media literacy? These are only a few of the questions addressed by this encyclopedia. Articles also deal with (1) concepts such as information, communication, and censorship, (2) denominations which exhibit different communication practices, and (3) the various media used in religious worship. Entries were contributed by scholars from various disciplines, including religious studies, communication, anthropology, sociology, ancient studies, religion and modern culture, theology, and many others." (Introduction, page xiii-xiv) more

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Radio: A Post Nine-Eleven Strategy for Reaching the World's Poor

Stephen Sposato, W. M. Smith

Lanham; Oxford: United Press of America (UPA) (2005), xxvii, 243 pp.

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Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Research on the Internet

Christine Hine (ed.)

Oxford: Berg (2005), xiii, 242 pp.

"Virtual Methods offers a detailed exploration of the problems and opportunities surrounding Internet-based research. Can offline and online observations be combined? Are online interviews able to produce high quality data? How does a researcher sort through the vast mass of material available? From ... more

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Communicating the Environment: Environmental Communication for Sustainable Development

Manfred Oepen, Winfried Hamacher (eds.)

Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (2000), 295 pp.

"This reader is envisioned as a resource for policy-makers and project planners, providing an overview of Environmental Communication as a management tool for initiatives geared towards environmental sustainability. The authors hope that their articles will convincingly show why and how Environmenta ... more

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