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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...
E-Government
Hans Jochen Scholl
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
E-governmentIntroductionPairing two terms such as “electronic” and “government” to name a phenomenon and create the label of “electronic government” w...
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...
Electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM)
Shu-Chuan Chu
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM)IntroductionThe concept of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) was introduced in the mid-1990s, when the Internet was begin...
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...
Entertainment-Education
William J. Brown
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Entertainment-EducationIntroductionThe use of entertainment as a strategy for social change is a practice that dates back to the beginnings of organiz...
Environmental Communication
James Shanahan
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Environmental Communication Introduction The study of environmental communication, as a subfield of the study of communication, is a relativel...
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...
Experiments
Josh Pasek, Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Experiments Introduction Experimentation is one of the central scientific techniques for understanding the world. Although researchers often h...
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 ...
Federal Communications Commission
Christopher H. Sterling
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Federal Communications Commission Introduction For eight decades, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been the primary federal ...
Feminist and Queer Game Studies
Adrienne Shaw, Alexandrina Agloro, Josef Nguyen, Amanda Phillips, Bonnie Ruberg
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2019-09-25
Feminist and Queer Game StudiesIntroductionTo date, there are no general overviews of feminist and queer game studies, though there are several core t...
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...
Focus Groups
Kim Hoffman, Javier Ponce-Terashima
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Focus GroupsIntroductionFocus groups are a research method using multi-person interviews to generate qualitative data from participants’ interaction. ...
Food Studies and Communication
Fabio Parasecoli
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Food Studies and CommunicationIntroductionFood is much more than fuel for our bodies. It is an essential part of human cultures, and as such it carrie...
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...
Gatekeeping
Pamela Shoemaker, Jaime Riccio, Philip Johnson
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Gatekeeping Introduction Billions of events occur in the world each day, but only a few of them become news. The process through which this oc...
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...
Global Englishes
Christopher Jenks
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
Global EnglishesIntroductionThe global spread of English—a process set into motion and currently being influenced by colonialism, imperialism, capital...
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