Guides: Communication Studies: New Books 2024-25

New Books

The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself by Robin Reames
Call Number: P 301 .R3447 2024

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. 
Automated Journalism at the Intersection of Politics and Black Culture by Colin H. Campbell
Call Number: PN 4784 .O62 C365 2024

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.
Conflicted by Isaac Blacksin
Call Number: PN 4784 .W37 B63 2024

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.
Cue the Sun! by Emily Nussbaum
Call Number: PN 1992.8 .R43 N87 2024

Explores the history and the morally charged, fun, and sometimes tragic consequences of reality TV.
Discourse and Power by Peter V. Zima
Call Number: P 302.7 .Z56 2023

Presents and applies the most important theories of discourse in which the link between discourse and power or language and power is central.
Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage by Michele Zappavigna; Lorenzo Logi
Call Number: P 99.63 .Z37 2024

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.
Entitled Opinions by Caddie Alford
Call Number: B 105 .F3 A546 2024

A landmark rhetorical theory of the formation and functioning of opinions in social media contexts.
Environmental Strategic Communication by Derek Moscato
Call Number: GE 195 .M676 2024

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
Foundations of Data and Digital Journalism by Alex Richards
Call Number: PN 4784 .E5 R53 2023

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.
Introduction to Cinematography by Tania Hoser
Call Number: TR 850 .H67 2025

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
Invisible Rulers by Renee DiResta
Call Number: HM 1231 .D57 2024

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.
Just Here for the Comments by Gina Sipley
Call Number: M 742 .S5754 2024

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.
Looking at Photographs (Art Essentials) by Laurent Jullier
Call Number: TR 650 .J85 2024

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 Reporting by Liann Tsoukas; Rob Ruck
Call Number: PN 4874 .G538 T695 2024

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
Media Literacy for Justice by Belinha S. De Abreu
Call Number: P 96 .M4 D4 2022

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.
Penning Poison by Emily Cockayne
Call Number: HV 6632 .C63 2023

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.
Podcast Journalism by David Dowling
Call Number: PN 4784 .P56 D69 2024

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.
Producing Sovereignty by Karrmen Crey
Call Number: P 94.65 .C2 C74 2023

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
The Rebirth of Suspense by Rick Warner
Call Number: PN 1995.9 .S87 W37 2024

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."
Shut up and Shoot Video Production Guide by Anthony Q. Artis
Call Number: TR 860 .A87 2024

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.
Social Media Strategy by Keith A. Quesenberry
Call Number: HF 5415.1265 .Q46 2025

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.
Sound Reporting by Jerome Socolovsky
Call Number: PN 4784 .R2 S67 2024

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.
When the Hood Comes Off by Rob Eschmann
Call Number: P 94.5 .M552 U629 2023

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.

New eBooks

The 12-Hour Film Expert by Noah Charney; James Charney
The only book you need to become an expert on film history, technique, and appreciation.
A Comparative Analysis of Political and Media Discourses about Russia's Invasion of Ukraine by Oleinik Anton
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.
The Exorcist Effect by Joseph P. Laycock; Eric Harrelson
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
Game On by David Bockino
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.
Just Kids by Risa Applegarth
Publication Date: 2024-01-18

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.
Lies That Kill : A Citizen's Guide to Disinformation by Kamarck, Elaine
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
Moving Pictures by Darl Larsen
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 by Marrianne McMullen
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.
Sensitive Rhetorics by Kendall Gerdes
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.
Sports Analytics by Benjamin Alamar
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.
The Voter's Guide to Election Polls by Michael W. Traugott; Paul J. Lavrakas
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.

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