Communication - C - Oxford Bibliographies
Censorship
Betty Houchin Winfield
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Censorship Introduction In a very large body of censorship scholarship spanning centuries, communication scholars point out that every civiliza...
Codes and Cultural Discourse Analysis
Donal Carbaugh
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Codes and Cultural Discourse Analysis Introduction The concept of code is used in this body of work to identify a system of beliefs and values that...
Cognitive Dissonance
Natalie Jomini Stroud, Soohee Kim, Joshua M. Scacco
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Cognitive Dissonance Introduction Humans strive for cognitive consistency, at least according to the theory of cognitive dissonance and a host ...
Communication Campaigns
Ronald Rice, Charles K. Atkin
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Communication Campaigns Introduction Public communication campaigns encompass strategies for producing effects on the knowledge, attitudes, and b...
Communication History
Richard B. Kielbowicz
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Communication History Introduction All aspects of communication have historical dimensions. Historians of communication thus have a wide purview, s...
Communication Law
Jennifer Henderson
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Communication Law Introduction Communication Law encompasses the collection of legal and regulatory decisions related to individual and media exp...
Communication Networks
Peter Monge, Drew Margolin
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Communication Networks Preparation of this article was supported in part by grants from the National Science Foundation (IIS-0838548) and by suppo...
Crisis Communication
Kenneth Lachlan
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Crisis Communication Introduction In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, scholars from the fields of journalism, communication, management, a...
Critical and Cultural Studies
Meenakshi Gigi Durham
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Critical and Cultural Studies Introduction Critical and cultural studies of communication are focused on the analysis of cultural artifacts and pra...
Cross-tools and Cross-media Effects
Hilde Voorveld
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Cross-Tools and Cross-Media Effects Introduction Effects of persuasive messages depend on the content of the message itself and on the media o...
Cultivation
Erica Scharrer
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Cultivation Introduction Seminal scholar George Gerbner introduced cultivation theory in the 1960s as a means of examining the long-term, cumulative ...
Cyberpolitics
Philip Howard
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Cyberpolitics Introduction Cyberpolitics is a domain of inquiry into the role of new information technologies in contemporary political life....
Deliberation
Michael A. Xenos
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Deliberation Introduction “Deliberative democracy” refers to democratic processes based on thorough consideration and discussion of issues from a vari...
Diffusion of Innovations
Ronald Rice
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Diffusion of Innovations Introduction Diffusion is the process through which an innovation (an idea, product, technology, process, or service) ...
E-democracy/E-participation
Giles Moss, Stéphanie Wojcik
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
E-democracy/E-participation Introduction The term “e-democracy” refers to the relationship between democracy and new media and information and...
Elaboration Likelihood Model
H. Allen White
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Elaboration Likelihood Model Introduction The Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM), developed by Richard E. Petty and John T. Cacioppo in the early 1980...
Embedded Coverage
Michel M. Haigh
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Embedded Coverage Introduction When examining the stories told about the war in Iraq, one notices reporters reporting from the battlefield, “em...
Entertainment
Helena Bilandzic
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Entertainment Introduction Entertainment formats, as trivial as they may seem to an educated audience, are used by millions of audience members duri...
Ethnography of Communication
Donal Carbaugh
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Ethnography of Communication Introduction The ethnography of communication was initially proposed as a program of research in 1962 by Dell Hymes. Si...
Family Communication
Dawn O. Braithwaite, Kathleen M. Galvin, Benjamin Chiles, Esther Liu
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Family Communication Introduction Communication scholars joined the interdisciplinary conversation on family in the 1980s, springing from the ...
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