Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media
platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their …

This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of
contemporary digital activism. The author deconstructs the reductionism of the literature on …

Communication studies is a fragmented field. As a result of its roots in various disciplinary
traditions, it is built on fluid intellectual boundaries with no theoretical or analytical center …

We have promoted a hierarchy of influences model for understanding the complex factors
shaping media—particularly news—content: from the individual to social-system level …

This study examined whether killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor
by current or former law enforcement officers in 2020 were followed by shifts in public …

What Journalism Could Be asks readers to reimagine the news by embracing a conceptual
prism long championed by one of journalisms leading contemporary scholars. A former …

The International History of Communication Study maps the growth of media and
communication studies around the world. Drawing out transnational flows of ideas …

The model which dominated twentieth-century analysis of political communication systems
is now out of date in many respects. Essential in the authors' view is a reconsideration of …

Aldoory and Toth present a socio-ecological model for understanding and building a
feminist future public relations. This approach acknowledges previous gaps in scholarship …

This entry traces the history of journalism studies and asks whether journalism studies are a
discipline or field or research method. Different interests involved in journalism studies …