Communication News & Updates

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   Media, Telecommunications, and Business Strategy

   With today’s dynamic and rapidly evolving environment, media managers must have a clear understanding of different delivery platforms, as well as a grasp of critical management, planning, and economic factors in order to stay current and move their organizations forward.

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   Communication Yearbook 37

   Next month we will be attending the ICA conference in London. In advance of this event we are pleased to announce the publication of Communication Yearbook 37 in association with the International Communication Association. This yearbook continues the tradition of publishing state-of-the-discipline literature reviews and essays. Editor Elisia Cohen presents a volume that is highly international and interdisciplinary in scope, with authors and chapters representing the broad global interests of the International Communication Association.

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   The Global Journalist in the 21st Century

   The Global Journalist in the 21st Century systematically assesses the demographics, education, socialization, professional attitudes and working conditions of journalists in various countries around the world. This book updates the original Global Journalist (1998) volume with new data, adding more than a dozen countries, and provides material on comparative research about journalists that will be useful to those interested in doing their own studies...

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   The Life of Voices

   The Life of Voices illustrates how human voices have special significance as the place where mind and body collaborate to produce everyday speech. Hannah Rockwell links Russian semiotician Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of dialog with French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s views of the relation between bodies and speech expression to develop a unique theory of communication and bodies.

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   Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication

   This book engages the notion of cosmopolitanism as it applies to intercultural communication, which itself is undergoing a turn in its focus from post-positivistic research towards critical/interpretive and postcolonial perspectives, particularly as globalization informs more of the current and future research in the area. It emphasizes the postcolonial perspective in order to raise critical consciousness about the complexities of intercultural communication in a globalizing world, situating cosmopolitanism—the notion of global citizenship—as a multilayered lens for research.

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   Health and Medical Public Relations

   Health and Medical Public Relations takes a fresh look at media relations and news values. It examines how information about medical research from the academic, pharmaceutical and charitable sectors is disseminated to target audiences through a variety of PR techniques. Scrutinising a wide range of health-related public relations activities, the book combines a critical, analytical and cultural overview of these methods with helpful guidance on their practical application.

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   Book of the Month - Strategic Planning for Public Relations

   4th Edition
   
   By Ronald D. Smith

   Named as one of Routledge's Books of the Month, as an example of an innovative revision of a popular text.

   Read more...

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   Confronting The Digital Elephant in the Room

   Consumer research is only just beginning to emerge on how digital consumption affects basic human and consumer behaviours.
   
   "In a few short decades digital consumption has colonized more and more of our lives from entertainment to communication to shopping to learning about the world," say Russell Belk and Rosa Llamas, editors of The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption,  "issues of what digital consumption do to our notions of self, trust, friendship, and consumer activism have been less appreciated until recently, even though they likely have a more profound on our well being."

   Read more about the topics explored in The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption in this fascinating interview with the editors.
    

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   Interpersonal Communication

   Putting Theory into Practice
   By Denise Solomon and Jennifer Theiss
   
   'Solomon and Theiss do a masterful job of translating cutting-edge scholarship into an accessible format. Their work offers a delicate blend of scholarship coupled with practical skill-building activities, creative exercises, and thought-provoking reflection questions. Their enthusiasm for the subject matter leaps off every page. Instructors and students alike will no doubt find this book to be an indispensable part of their interpersonal communication course.'
   - Leanne Knobloch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

10. International Conference on Communication, Media, Technology and Design

    This year the International Conference on Communication, Media, Technology and Design will be held from 1-3 May in Famagusta, Cyprus. The scope of the conference includes Communication Technologies, Social Media, Visual Communication and Design, Integrated Marketing Communication, Communication Education, Communication Barriers, Media Management and Economics, Political Communication.

    Routledge are offering all delegates a 20% discount on our communication and media books.