Communication - I - Oxford Bibliographies
Indexing
Regina G. Lawrence
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Indexing Introduction “Indexing” is a theory of news content and press-state relations first formulated as the “indexing hypothesis.” At its co...
Information and Communication Technology for Development
Philip Howard
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Information and Communication Technology for Development Introduction Information and communication technologies have an immense impact on the oppo...
Information Processing
Paul Bolls
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Information Processing Introduction Information processing broadly refers to the mental activity emerging from processes the human mind engages...
Interactivity
Michael A. Xenos
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Interactivity Introduction Most everyday users understand interactivity as the extent to which a communication medium enables responses (typically imm...
Intercultural Communication
Ling Chen
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Intercultural Communication Introduction Scholars study intercultural communication as a process of interaction between culture and communication, ...
International Communications
Jonathan D. Aronson
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
International Communications Introduction International communications is an impossibly broad, interdisciplinary topic. To master communicatio...
Interpersonal Communication
Michael E. Roloff
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-09-30
Interpersonal Communication Introduction Communication scholars have a long history of studying public discourse. Researchers have investigated...
Journalism
Matthew Carlson
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Journalism Introduction The study of journalism is complicated by questions of just what journalism is. Journalism can be viewed as a profession em...
Journalism and Trauma
Meg Spratt, Sue Lockett John
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Journalism and Trauma Introduction The consideration of journalism and trauma as a distinct field of practice, education, and research is rela...
Knowledge Gap
Yoo Ri Hwang, Brian Southwell
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Knowledge Gap Introduction The essential notion of the knowledge gap is the proposition that a discrepancy exists in the knowledge that people of ...
Mass Communication
Hans-Bernd Brosius, Veronika Karnowski
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Mass Communication Introduction Mass communication can be best described by its counterparts. With regard to the number of people involved, mass com...
Media Convergence
Richard A. Gershon
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Media Convergence Introduction For communication scholars, convergence is a fairly elastic term that has come to mean different things dependi...
Media Credibility
Yariv Tsfati
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Media Credibility Introduction Audience perceptions regarding the credibility of news media have been studied using several concepts, including “medi...
Media Dependency
Joo-Young Jung
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Media Dependency Introduction Media system dependency theory was first developed by Sandra Ball-Rokeach and Melvin DeFleur in 1976. The theory addr...
Media Ecology
Kate Milberry
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Media Ecology Introduction Neil Postman famously used a biological metaphor to explain “media ecology,” a term he borrowed from McLuhan to spe...
Media Economics
Randal Beam
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Media Economics Introduction Scholarship on media economics applies economic principles and theories to the study of organizations and industries eng...
Media Economics, Theories of
Gracie Lawson-Borders
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Theories of Media Economics Introduction The business of media includes economics and research, and studies in the field examine numerous aspe...
Media Effects
Yariv Tsfati
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Media Effects Introduction Media effects are typically defined as social or psychological responses occurring in individuals, dyads, small groups,...
Media Ethics
Clifford Christians
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Media Ethics Introduction As with professional ethics as a whole, media ethics is divided into three parts: metaethics, normative ethics, and descr...
Media Literacy
W. James Potter
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Media Literacy Introduction Thousands of books, articles, and web pages have been published about media literacy by authors all over the wo...
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