Encyclopedias: Media & Communication   Tags: encyclopedias, reference  

Provides an introduction to the discipline and a number of different approaches to studying communication. Focuses on the processes, characteristics, relationships, and forms of communication.

Provides an overview of traditional and electronic media's interaction with, and impact on, children and adolescents.

Provides descriptions of the theories that explain numerous aspects of communication and present the background issues and concepts that comprise these theories.

Explores the ways that editorial content--from journalism and scholarship to films and infomercials--is developed, presented, stored, analyzed, and regulated around the world.

Surveys the state of journalism at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century. The focus of the entries is on the gathering, editing, reporting, and distribution of news.

Reference work in the field of new media, covering topics such as broadband, content filtering, cyberculture, cyberethics, digital divide, freenet, MP3, privacy, telemedicine, viruses, and wireless networks.

Covers major theoretical approaches to the field of political communication, including direct and limited effects theories, agenda-setting theories, sociological theories, framing and priming theories, and other past and present conceptualizations.

Explores the evolution of the public relation field, with examples from history describing events, changing practices, and the key figures who developed and expanded the profession.

Covers the theory, history, and practice of rhetoric, with a special emphasis on public speaking, performance, and communication.

Provides information on the range of interrelated issues in the interdisciplinary field of science communication.

Examines the variety of formats and experiences that comprise social movement media. Thematic essays address selected issues such as human rights media, indigenous peoples' media, and environmentalist media, and on key concepts widely used in the field such as alternative media, citizens' media, and community media.

Provides coverage of films and filmmakers, including actors and actresses, directors, writers and other production artists. Entries include a detailed essay written by an expert; biographies; filmographies; comprehensive credits; major awards; and updated bibliographies, as well as photographs.

Provides an introduction to film and film studies, covering such aspects as production, national traditions, studios, genres, critical theory and film history.