Recently added articles from Communication Research Trends:
Carlsson, Ulla. (Ed.). Regulation, Awareness, Empowerment: Young People and Harmful Media Content in the Digital Age.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Carlsson, Ulla. (Ed.). Regulation, Awareness, Empowerment: Young People and Harmful Media Content in the Digital Age. Goteborg, Sweden: Nordicom, The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth, and Media, 2006. ISBN 91-89471-39-3 (pb.) Available as free PDF download in the publications ...
Eilers, Franz-Josef, SVD. (Ed.). Interreligious Dialogue as Communication.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Eilers, Franz-Josef, SVD. (Ed.). Interreligious Dialogue as Communication. (Volume 6 in the FABCOSC Book Series). Manila: Logos (Divine Word) Publications, Inc., 2005. ISBN: 971-510-187-9 [For ordering information, see http://www.logospublications. com/] This book is the result ...
Ekstrom Karin M. and Bridget Tufte. Children, Media, and Consumption.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Ekstrom Karin M. and Bridget Tufte. Children, Media, and Consumption. (Nordicom Yearbook 2007). Goteborg, Sweden: Nordicom, the International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media, 2007. ISBN 978-91-8947-51-1 (pb.). $35.00, 27.00 [euro], SEK250. (www.nordicom.gu.se) The ...
Ferrell Lowe, Gregory and Jo Bardoel. (Eds.). From Public Service Broadcasting to Public Service Media.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Ferrell Lowe, Gregory and Jo Bardoel. (Eds.). From Public Service Broadcasting to Public Service Media. Goteborg: Nordicom, 2007. Pp.259. ISBN 978-9189471-54-2 (pb.), SEK280, 30.00 [euro]. This edited collection is the outcome of the RIPE@2006 conference held in Amsterdam and ...
Fortunati, Leopoldina, James E. Katz, and Raimonda Riccini. (Eds.). Mediating the human body: Technology, communication, and fashion.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Fortunati, Leopoldina, James E. Katz, and Raimonda Riccini. (Eds.). Mediating the human body: Technology, communication, and fashion. Manwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003. Pp. xix; 230. ISBN 0-8058-4481-3 (pb.) $39.95. In January 2001, the city of Milan hosted a ...
Hanks, Joyce M. The Reception of Jacques Ellul's Critique of Technology: An Annotated bibliography of writings on his life and thought (books, articles, reviews, symposia).(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Hanks, Joyce M. The Reception of Jacques Ellul's Critique of Technology: An Annotated bibliography of writings on his life and thought (books, articles, reviews, symposia). New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007. Pp. iii; 546. ISBN 0-7734-5373-3 (hbk.) $139.95, 84.95 [pounds sterling]. ...
Knobel, Michele and Lankshear, Colin. (Eds.). A New Literacies Sampler.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Knobel, Michele and Lankshear, Colin. (Eds.). A New Literacies Sampler. New York: Peter Lang, 2007. Pp. 251. ISBN: 978-0-8204-9523-1. $29.95. <Pre>Writing online provides us with the opportunityto "author the self," to sustain a narrative ofidentity (Giddens 1991) ...
Land, Mitchell and Bill Hornaday. Contemporary Ethics: A practical guide for students, scholars, and professionals.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Land, Mitchell and Bill Hornaday. Contemporary Ethics: A practical guide for students, scholars, and professionals. Spokane, WA: Marquette Books, 2006. Pp. 448. ISBN 0-922993-42-4 (pb.) $59.95. This is a useful manual for students and professionals (as it is subtitled). The text ...
Pecora, Norma, Enyonam Osei-Hwere and Ulla Carlsson (Eds.). African Media, African Children.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Pecora, Norma, Enyonam Osei-Hwere and Ulla Carlsson (Eds.). African Media, African Children. (Nordicom Yearbook 2008). Goteborg, Sweden: Nordicom, The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media, 2008. Pp. 243. ISBN: 97891-8947168-9 (pb.). SEK 240, 25.00 [euro]. ...
Shepherd, David. (Ed.). Images of the Word: Hollywood's Bible and Beyond.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Shepherd, David. (Ed.). Images of the Word: Hollywood's Bible and Beyond. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2008. (Semeia Studies, No. 54). Pp. ix, 227. ISBN 978-90-04-15736-1 (hbk.) $139.00, 89.00 [euro]. To the lengthy catalogue of books on film and religion, this book from the Society ...
Wessels, Bridgette. Inside the Digital Revolution: Policing and Changing Communication with the Public.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Wessels, Bridgette. Inside the Digital Revolution: Policing and Changing Communication with the Public. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007. Pp. 210. ISBN 978-0-7546-7087-2 (hbk) 55.00 [pounds sterling] (49.50 [pounds sterling] online); ISBN 978-0-7546-8530-2 (eBook). ...
Integrated Marketing Communication anticipating the 'age of engage'.(Essay)
Dec 01, 2008; ... 1. Introduction Interactivity--wide interactivity--characterizes today's marketplace. From personal communication devices (PDAs) to social networks like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Flikr, people and businesses connect with each other at an unprecedented rate. In this ...
Casey, Michael W. (2007). The Rhetoric of Sir Garfield Todd: Christian Imagination and the Dream of African Democracy.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Casey, Michael W. (2007). The Rhetoric of Sir Garfield Todd: Christian Imagination and the Dream of African Democracy. (No. 2 in the Studies in Rhetoric and Religion). Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2007. Pp. 436. ISBN: 1-932792-86-4 / 978-1-932792-86-7 (hbk.) $54.95. Since ...
Domke, David and Coe, Kevin. The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Domke, David and Coe, Kevin. The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. 231. ISBN 978-0-19-532641-3 (hbk.) $30.00. Grounded in political communication studies, this work aims less to explain "how religion ...
Eilers, Franz-Josef, SVD. (Ed.). Communication in Religious Traditions of Asia.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Eilers, Franz-Josef, SVD. (Ed.). Communication in Religious Traditions of Asia. (Volume 7 in the FABC-OSC Book Series). Manila: Logos (Divine Word) Publications, Inc, 2006. ISBN: 978-971-510-194-3-9 [For ordering information, see http://www.logospublications.com/] This book ...
Hansen, Kathleen A. and Nora Paul. Behind the Message: Information Strategies for Communicators.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Hansen, Kathleen A. and Nora Paul. Behind the Message: Information Strategies for Communicators. Boston: Allyn & Bacon [Pearson], 2004. Pp. 322. ISBN: 0-205-38680-6 (pb.) $73.20. This is a book that follows from earlier books by the same team (here Jean Ward is replaced by Nora ...
Hill, John and Pamela Church Gibson (Eds.). American Cinema and Hollywood: Critical Approaches.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Hill, John and Pamela Church Gibson (Eds.). American Cinema and Hollywood: Critical Approaches Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp vii, 160. ISBN 0-19-874281-9 (pb.) $32.95. John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson have succeeded in compiling a series of critical essays by ...
Negus, Keith and Michael Pickering. Creativity, Communication, and Cultural Value.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Negus, Keith and Michael Pickering. Creativity, Communication, and Cultural Value. London and Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2004. Pp. x, 177. ISBN 9780761970750 (hbk.) $125.00; 978076197-0767 (pb.) $51.95. This book is a reaction to a sociology of art that has been more ...
Rockwell, Rick and Noreen Janus. Media Power in Central America.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Rockwell, Rick and Noreen Janus. Media Power in Central America. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. 276. ISBN 0-252-02802-3. (hbk.) $34.95. In the scheme of things during the past decade, Latin America has tended to be overlooked by the English, and ...
Scharer, Matthias and Bernd Jochen Hilberath. The Practice of Communicative Theology: An Introduction to a New Theological Culture.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Scharer, Matthias and Bernd Jochen Hilberath. The Practice of Communicative Theology: An Introduction to a New Theological Culture (Trans. C. Mocanu, A. K. Schaeffer-Durlinger, & T. Riplinger). New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2008. Pp. vii, 194. ISBN-13 978-0-8245-2560-6; ...