Communication Studies: New Books 2024-25

Examines how rhetoric--the art of persuasion--can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimony, allowing us to understand our own and others' ideological commitments in a completely new way. 

Combining empirical research and personal experience, Colin Campbell argues that while AI newswriting can streamline news production, it can also exacerbate racist discrimination and perpetuate harmful stereotypes.

Based on years of fieldwork in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, Blacksin shows why news coverage of contemporary conflict, widely presumed to function as a critique of excessive violence, instead serves to sanction official rationales for war.

Explores the history and the morally charged, fun, and sometimes tragic consequences of reality TV.

Presents and applies the most important theories of discourse in which the link between discourse and power or language and power is central.

Emoji are now ubiquitous in our interactions on social media. This book provides a comprehensive framework for analyzing how emoji contribute to meaning-making in social media discourse as well as how they function in social bonding.

A landmark rhetorical theory of the formation and functioning of opinions in social media contexts.

Teaches readers the concepts, contexts, and practical tools to become effective environmental communicators across nonprofit, corporate, and government sectors, including how to carefully craft messages for a verse range of stakeholders

A step-by-step guide to what data is and how to find it; how to harness it most effectively for news; how to think critically about analysis results, potential shortcomings in the data, and the inclusion of appropriate context; and how to present compelling, data-driven stories online.

Building from a skills-based approach focused on professional practice, the book offers a practical, stage-by-stage guide to learning, combining and using the creative and technical aspects of cinematography

Renée DiResta's powerful, original investigation into the way power and influence have been profoundly transformed reveals how a virtual rumor mill of niche propagandists increasingly shapes public opinion. DiResta also offers ways for leaders to rapidly adapt and fight back.

We all sometimes 'lurk' in online spaces without posting, just reading the posts and comments This book examines lurking as a communication and literacy practice that resists dominant power structures and calls for researchers to broaden their methods to include lurkers' participation and presence.

With examples drawn from across geography and time, this guide explores themes and concepts essential to understanding photography, including: photography reflecting reality; manipulation and defamiliarization; focus, perspective and space; time; identity, portraits and selfies; and the power of images.

Mal Goode became network news's first African American correspondent in 1962. He worked in the mills before graduating from college and working in newspaper and radio journalism. Goode challenged the police, politicians, and segregation, while providing Black listeners a voice that captured their experience

Providing context, reflection points, and ready-to-use lesson plans, this powerful book illuminates the intersections of social justice and media literacy to help young people master the skills necessary to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media.

Unveils the history of anonymous letter-writing, including letters that were accusatory, libelous, or bizarre. Explores how the letters spread scandal, deception, class enmity, and anxiety, as well as how police used technology and forensic techniques to discover who may have written them and why.

Podcasting's stratospheric rise has inspired a new breed of audio reporting. This book examines podcast reporting's most influential achievements, its transformative effects on journalism’s core functions and identity, and its most consequential ethical and journalistic shortcomings.

Examines how In the early 1990s, coinciding with a resurgence of Indigenous activism, Indigenous media experienced a boom across Canada, highlighting issues around sovereignty and Indigenous rights to broader audiences in Canada

Develops a fresh theory, history, typology, and analysis of suspense in film that casts new light on the workings of films in the area of streaming video and across genres and borders. Explores how suspense is being generated in "slow cinema."

Accessible and comprehensive, this book shows how to make movies and video projects with limited resources, time, or experience. Covers such wide-ranging topics as composition, lens choice, smartphone filmmaking, audio equipment, and lighting to help readers maximize their budget while producing top-quality work.

an essential step-by-step blueprint for innovating change, supporting traditional marketing, advertising, and PR efforts, and leveraging consumer influence in the digital world of social media.

Based on 80+ interviews with producers, reporters, editors, hosts, and other NPR staffers, Sound Reporting reveals how stories get pitched, are reported, produced, written, edited, voiced, and tailored to multiple media formats; and how shows and podcasts are put together.

This timely, comprehensive study examines how racism manifests online and its effects on communities of color and society as a whole. It also explores how innovative, digital technologies can be used as tools of antiracist resistance.

The only book you need to become an expert on film history, technique, and appreciation.

Examines how the mass media and social media discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as well as how war propaganda and counterpropaganda structure discourse about the invasion.

day. Draws heavily on archival research and interviews with horror authors, film writers, and paranormal investigators to outline a cycle in which religious beliefs and practices become the basis of horror films that in turn inspire religious beliefs, practices, and experiences

A former marketing and advertising manager at ESPN provides the first overview of the evolution of the sports media industry. Bockino shows that the industry's privileging of personal over collective interests reflects how people today form and maintain their social identities--and sports' key role in shaping them.

Applegarth investigates youth-organized activism from the 1990s to the present, asking how young people have leveraged age as a rhetorical resource and how youth activism has mattered over time within their lives and communities.

Looks inside the world of disinformation campaigns to show concerned citizens how to recognize disinformation, understand it, and protect themselves and others. Explores how digital literacy programs, regulation, legislation and negotiation can reduce disinformation risks

Lays out the history of American animation as it transitioned across nearly 120 years in the U.S., from vaudeville sub-feature to craftsman-like artistry to industrial diversion and, ultimately, to theatrical regulars on par with blockbusters.

Persuasive introduces the Persuasion Matrix, a model for planning communication campaigns based in persuasion research. It provides 40 lessons in communication that reveals the true value of engaged scholarship and communication activism.

Claims that students are too sensitive are familiar on college campuses. Sensitive Rhetorics argues that critiques of sensitivity reveal a deep societal discomfort with the idea that language is a form of action and explores the needs of an increasingly diverse students.

This book is a practical, nontechnical guide to incorporating sports data into decision making, giving leaders the knowledge they need to maximize their organization's investment in analytics.

Everything you need to know about election polls can be found in this compact, conversational, and current volume. Ir covers the latest technologies used for data collection and data analysis, as well as how polls are used in campaigns and media organizations and why it matters to American Democracy.