Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse Research Guide: Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

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.

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.

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 how the rise of social media is altering politics both in the United States and in key moments, movements, and places around the world.

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