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Radio Studies
Stephen Lax
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Radio Studies Introduction The field of radio studies has undergone something of a resurgence in recent years. More radio is taught at univers...
Reality Television
Laurie Ouellette
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Reality Television Introduction Reality television, which can be broadly defined as unscripted entertainment programming, has existed since the...
Reasoned Action Frameworks
Marco Yzer, Brian Southwell
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Reasoned Action Frameworks Introduction Reasoned action frameworks, which include the Theory of Reasoned Action and its extensions, the widely used Th...
Religion and the Media
Judith M. Buddenbaum
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Religion and the MediaIntroductionChurches and other religious organizations have always conducted or commissioned media research addressing their int...
Reporting, Investigative
James L. Aucoin
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Investigative ReportingIntroductionWith the establishment of the service organization Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) in the mid-1970s, a ge...
Rhetoric and Communication
Michael Pfau
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Rhetoric and CommunicationIntroductionThe term “rhetoric” (rhetorike) was coined by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, and systematically elaborated...
Rhetoric, Religious
Michael Souders
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2013-07-24
Religious Rhetoric ...
Rhetoric, Visual
Zazil Reyes García
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
Visual RhetoricIntroductionVisual rhetoric is a relatively new area of study that emerged in the late 1900s when rhetoric scholars recognized the incr...
Risk Communication
Georg Ruhrmann, Lars Guenther
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Risk Communication Introduction Many natural disasters and industrial accidents are not unforeseen; in many cases, scientists and other expert...
Rumor and Communication
Nicholas DiFonzo
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2020-03-25
Rumor and CommunicationIntroductionAn ocean of rumors, hearsay, half-truths, fake news, factoids, speculations, and conspiracy theories engulfs us. Ru...
Schramm, Wilbur
Emile McAnany
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Wilbur SchrammIntroductionThe name of Wilbur Schramm, an American researcher in the 20th century (b. 1907–d. 1987), is often connected with the creati...
Science Communication
Sharon Dunwoody
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Science Communication Introduction Science-communication scholarship focuses on the hows, whys, and impacts of science messages aimed at nons...
Scripps, E. W.
Gerald J. Baldasty, Robert C. Richards
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
E. W. Scripps Introduction Edward Willis Scripps (b. 1854–d. 1926) was one of the leading newspaper publishers of the late 19th and early 20th...
Selective Exposure
Hans-Bernd Brosius, Christina Peter
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Selective Exposure Introduction The basic assumption in the study of selective exposure is that people expose themselves to external stimuli in a se...
Semiotics
Marcel Danesi
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
SemioticsIntroductionSemiotics is the discipline studying the meanings, uses, and functions of signs and sign systems—a “sign” being defined as anythi...
Sense-Making/Sensemaking
Christine Urquhart, Louisa Mei Chun Lam, Bonnie Cheuk, Brenda L. Dervin
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Sense-Making/SensemakingIntroductionSense-making/sensemaking are terms commonly understood as the processes through which people interpret and give me...
Sesame Street
Silvia Lovato, Alexis Lauricella, Ellen Wartella
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Sesame StreetIntroductionWhen it premiered in November 1969 with its diverse cast of humans and furry monsters, Sesame Street was an experiment. Sesam...
Sex in the Media
Barrie Gunter
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Sex in the Media Introduction Mediated sex is a prevalent attribute of most forms of public entertainment. Sexual scenarios permeate fictio...
Small-Group Communication
Lawrence R. Frey
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Small-Group Communication Introduction The study of small-group communication investigates: (a) the nature and effects of members of small coll...
Social Capital
Hernando Rojas, Matthew Barnidge
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Social Capital Introduction Social groups must act collectively to address a range of communal problems. In societies, as in interpersonal rel...
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