Communication Studies: New Books 2018-19

Suggests that today's controversies--the latest iteration of debates that began a half-century ago--will likely take the press in unforeseen directions and challenge its survival.

Explains why, and how today's new crop of media moguls might help the newspaper business to survive.

Examines the fate of cinema in the wake of the digital revolution andexplores new possibilities for writing about and theorizing film.

Focusing on TV news, airport checkpoints, satellite imagery, and drone media, Parks demonstrates how "coverage" makes vertical space intelligible to global publics in new ways and powerfully reveals what is at stake in controlling it.

Describes the media's transformation from close range while also offering a vital assessment of the risks and rewards of practicing journalism in a high-impact, high-stress time.

Investigates the communicative functions of hashtags in relation to both language and images.

Analyzes social media data and conducted interviews with regional and security experts to understand the critical ingredients to countering the Russian media campaign.

Tells the story of espionage conducted by both US and foreign intelligence operatives in Washington's National Press Building, just blocks from the White House.

Explores the ideological dimensions of media representation and its function in discursively constructing public understandings of, and attitudes toward, civil disorder.

Reporting War and Conflict brings together history, theory and practice to explore the issues and obstacles involved in the reporting of contemporary war and conflict. .

Explores the role of the news media in telling the story of the current refugee crisis at a time of deepening crisis for journalism, as fake news runs rampant amid an increasingly distrustful public.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the architecture of contemporary American political communications.

Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.

Through in-depth study of the practices of prominent news nonprofits: newsroom, Konieczna isolates one common behavior that will contribute to their success: the way these organizations collaborate and share stories.

Proposes a holistic mindset for doing journalism ethics, a theory of journalism as advocacy for egalitarian democracy, and a global redefinition of basic journalistic norms.

Parker sets forth a human-centered approach to gathering that will help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and for play.

Explores geek subculture and the ethical possibilities of a life lived with media.

Examines news and news institutions in relation to democratic theory and practice, in relation to the economic crisis that affects so many news organizations today.

Explores how social media is quickly undermining not only centuries of democratic progress, but civil society itself.

Examines the ethical dilemmas faced by Western journalists when reporting on Islam and offers a range of alternative journalistic techniques that will help news media practitioners move away from dominant news values and conventions.

Iincludes a complete overview of recording as it's done by most musicians and producers today in their home studios.

Argues that social factors, rather than individual psychology, are what's essential to understanding the spread and persistence of false beliefs. I

Explores the causes and wide-ranging consequences of the blurring of facts and opinion and proposes strategies for further action.

Shows how changes in journalistic understandings of evidence can help us think through the current "digital data moment" in ways that go beyond simply journalism.

Rooted in both psychology and sociology, framing effects theory describes the ability of news media to influence people's attitudes and behaviors by subtle changes to how they report on an issue

Captures the boundary-crossing processes that have begun to emerge across the disciplines in the form of innovative, interdisciplinary interventions in the audience research agenda.

Covers the principles of both qualitative and quantitative research, and how to interpret statistics without computations using real, contemporary examples.

Examining a wide range of forms and media, including sound recording, narrative journalism, drawing, photography, film, and video, this book is a daring interdisciplinary study of documentary culture and practice from 1945 to the present.

Explore the philosophiy, history, and key elements of five qualitative inquiry approaches: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study.

Explores how anime at once engages profound social and political realities while also drawing attention to the very challenges of representing reality in animation's imaginative and compelling visual forms.

Provides a comprehensive and empirically-grounded study of the various stages of anime marketing and commercial expansion into the United States.

Covers all of the important aspects of scientific presentations, including knowing your audience, producing visual material, controlling nerves and handling questions.

A definitive look at the rise of the female showrunner--and a new golden era of television.

A bold journey through history and memory, Pink-Slipped pursues the still-elusive fate of the influential women in the early years of film.

\Tells the story of the women who called the shots in studio-era Hollywood has never fully been told - until now.

Examines rates how gender inequality is both constructed and contested in professional sport.

D'Weston Haywood argues that black people's ideas, rhetoric, and protest strategies for racial advancement grew out of the quest for manhood led by twentieth-century black newspapers.

Race News reports the dramatic history of how black press culture evolved in the twentieth century.

Drawing from groundbreaking research on counter and oppositional gaming and from popular games, the book examines resistance to problematic spaces of violence, discrimination, and microaggressions in gaming culture.

Argues that the best way to resist hate and promote equality is not censorship, but rather, vigorous "counterspeech" and activism.

Offers a comprehensive framework for understanding intercultural interactions and developing skills for successful intercultural situations.

Traces how photographic comedy was used in America and transnationally to express evolving ideas about race, black emancipation, and civil rights from mid-1800s to the twentieth century.

Maps the tensions and strategies that all Black women must engage to challenge the racialized sexism of everyday life, on- and off-screen.

Traces the arc of strategic language use by African Americans from rhetorical forms such as slave narratives and the spirituals to Black digital expression and contemporary activism.

Through extensive use of oral histories, personal correspondence, and studio archives, Regev shows that Hollywood studios cultivated a new form of labor, one that made work seem like fantasy.

With case studies ranging from The Thin Red Line and Life is Beautiful, Thanouli bridges the gap between history and film studies and lays the foundations for a new visual historiography.

Reveals Babe Ruth as an ambitious, independent operator, one not afraid to challenge baseball's draconian labor system.