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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 ...
Feminist Theory
Lana Rakow
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Feminist Theory Introduction Feminist theory in communication is developed and used by scholars to understand gender as a communicative proces...
Freedom of the Press
Dwight Teeter
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Freedom of the Press Introduction Freedom of the press refers to the freedom to criticize government without suffering official interference or punish...
Gender and the Media
Cynthia Carter
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Gender and the Media Introduction Gender and media research has been a central field of academic inquiry since the 1970s. It is notable that t...
Health Communication
Glenn Leshner, Elizabeth Gardner
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Health Communication Introduction The area of health communication research and theory focuses primarily on the application of communication theo...
Hegemony
Andrew Calabrese, Marco Briziarelli
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Hegemony Introduction The term “hegemony” refers to a socially determined category that describes mechanisms and dynamics associated with power, an...
Hostile Media Effect
Lauren Feldman
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Hostile Media Effect Introduction The hostile media effect occurs when supporters or opponents of an issue perceive identical, balanced news co...
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...
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