Communication Studies Books

A classic back-pocket primer on US government propaganda and media bias, since September 11th 2001.

This illustrated guide to the secret language of body gestures and postures reveals what we really think and mean.

With its succinct, focussed and easy-to-follow approach covering both AS and A2, Revision Express is the fast and effective route to exam success. This new edition has been fully revised and updated for the new A-levels.

A guide to getting ahead and knowing what other people are thinking, before they know what they are thinking.

Provides readers with a themed discussion of the range and variety of the media's engagement with history, and a close study of the relationship between media, history and national identity.

Introduces readers to a variety of critical approaches to audio and video discourse on radio, television and the Internet. This book applies key aesthetic, sociological, philosophical, psychological, structural and economic principles to arrive at a comprehensive evaluation of both programming and advertising content.

Introduces readers to a variety of critical approaches to audio and video discourse on radio, television and the Internet. This book applies key aesthetic, sociological, philosophical, psychological, structural and economic principles to arrive at a comprehensive evaluation of both programming and advertising content.

THE BASICS OF MEDIA RESEARCH provides an applied approach to research in mass communication with contemporary examples from media and market research and expanded coverage of focus groups and online methods of data collection.

This volume is concerned with the legal structure, the economic concentration and the political dynamics of the West German media in a period of rapid technological change. Adopting a policy-studies perspective, the author analyzes the shaping of communication policies .

Focuses on the voluntary efforts of activists in the Society for Education in Film and Television and on that Society's interchanging relationship with the British Film Institute's Education Department, set up in the 1930s. This book draws on interviews with individuals who contributed to the raising of the status of film, TV and media study.

Presents the research in media psychology, bridging selective exposure into a larger framework of choice in media usage. Considering the myriad media options available to use, this work seeks to answer such questions as: what mechanisms guide an individual's exposure to/choice of media and how can researchers model them.

Critical Junctures and the Future of Media.

Presents a comprehensive analysis of research on content-related media harm and offense. This book brings together findings on both established and newer interactive media.

This volume highlights some of the most important campaign communication from the 2000 US presidential election, looking at candidates' political messages, the media's campaign coverage, the impact of the internet and the political socialization of young voters.

Markets and Myths is an introductory text written by an international group of specialists, which offers a challenging yet highly accessible analysis of media development in five major European countries from 1945 to the end of the twentieth century.

Communicating Science will be an invaluable source-book for those eager to learn about or enter the professional world of science.

The Third Edition of this classic textbook provides the most up-to-date summary of current theory and research in human communication today. Written in an accessible style, the book examines the fundamentals of communication and the functions that communication serves in society. The text provides students with a working vocabulary of the discipline, a detailed outline of some of the crucial ...

A collection of essays on the moral rights of the subjects of documentary film and television. It examines the conflicts between the subject's right to privacy, the public's right to know, and the film-maker's right as an artist.

Communicating Science will be an invaluable source-book for those eager to learn about or enter the professional world of science.