Communication - B - Oxford Bibliographies
Bakhtin, Mikhail
Donald L. Anderson
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Mikhail Bakhtin Introduction Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (b. 1895–d. 1975) has received much more scholarly attention since his death than he...
Bandwagon Effect
Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Bandwagon EffectIntroductionThe term “bandwagon effect” denotes a phenomenon of public opinion impinging upon itself. Conceptually, it is somewhat amb...
Baudrillard, Jean
William Pawlett
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
Jean BaudrillardIntroductionJean Baudrillard (1929–2007) was a prolific writer, the author of over thirty major works, and he influenced many academic...
Blockchain and Communication
Peter A. Chow-White, Jennifer Mentanko, Philippa Adams, Julie Frizzo-Barker
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2020-03-25
Blockchain and CommunicationIntroductionBlockchain is an emerging technology that communication scholars have recently started investigating. It is a ...
Bourdieu, Pierre
David W. Park
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Pierre BourdieuIntroductionPierre Bourdieu (b. 1930–d. 2002) was a towering figure in sociology and anthropology, both within and beyond his native Fr...
Brand Equity
Sandra Moriarty, Giep Franzen
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Brand Equity Introduction Brands, particularly superbrands like Ivory, Nike, and Mercedes-Benz, are important to companies because they add val...
British and Irish Magazine, History of the
Andrew King
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
History of the British and Irish MagazineIntroductionWhile the study of newspaper history dates from the 19th century, it was only in the 20th century...
Broadcasting, Public Service
Michael Tracey
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Public Service Broadcasting Introduction There is a very plausible argument that public service broadcasting (PSB), as an idea and a set of in...
Capture, Media
Anya Schiffrin
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Media CaptureIntroductionInterest in the problem of “media capture,” as well as academic research on this subject, has grown tremendously since 2015. ...
Castells, Manuel
Philip Howard
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Manuel Castells Introduction One of the most prolific and respected scholars today, Manuel Castells (b. 1942–) has given us a new language for...
Celebrity and Public Persona
P. David Marshall
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Celebrity and Public Persona Introduction Research on celebrity and public persona derives from fundamentally interdisciplinary sources. Altho...
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...
Civic Duty
Lee Shaker
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
Civic DutyIntroductionCivic duty is an internalized feeling of obligation to perform civic and political acts, especially voting, possessed by many ci...
Civil Rights Movement and the Media, The
Sage Goodwin
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2019-06-26
The Civil Rights Movement and the MediaIntroductionThe media has played a fundamental role in American race relations since the days of slavery. The b...
CNN
Amelia Arsenault
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2016-03-31
CNNIntroductionTed Turner launched Cable News Network (CNN), the world’s first twenty-four-hour news channel, in 1980. Broadcast network journalists a...
Co-Cultural Theory and Communication
Mark P. Orbe, Ashlee A. Lambert
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
Co-Cultural Theory and CommunicationIntroductionCo-cultural communication theory, or co-cultural theory for short, emerged from the scholarly research...
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 an...
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 ...
Collective Memory, Communication and
Jill Edy
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Communication and Collective MemoryIntroductionThe term “collective memory” refers to the shared meaning a group of people gives the past. Research on...
Comedic News
Julia Fox, Edo Steinberg
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Comedic NewsIntroductionWith the new millennium came a new source of political information–comedic news. Though it existed prior to the 21st century–i...
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