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Erik P. Bucy & R. Lance Holbert (Editors)
New York: Routledge. 608 pages. Paperback, March 2013.
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415884976/
The Sourcebook for Political Communication Research offers a comprehensive resource for current research methods, measures, and analytical techniques in the study of media and politics. In 28 substantial chapters, the contributors to this edited volume cover the major analysis techniques used in political communication research, including surveys (both original data collections and secondary analyses), experiments, content analysis, discourse analysis (focus groups and textual analysis), network and deliberation analysis, comparative study designs, statistical analysis, and measurement issues. Chapters also cover innovations in the use of mediation analysis and panel study designs, recent applications in visual framing and cognitive neuroscience, and digital media as a means through which to disseminate as well as study political communication. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the Sourcebook is a comprehensive resource for scholars, students, applied researchers, and other readers interested in state-of-the-art research methods in the field of political communication.
Announcing the publication of The Communication of Jealousy, by Jennifer L. Bevan, Department of Communication Studies/Health and Strategic Communication at Chapman U and published by Peter Lang:
Informed by a wide variety of academic disciplines as well as offering a unique interpersonal communication approach to the study of jealousy, The Communication of Jealousy examines, integrates, and informs research on jealousy experience and expression. The book's integration and interpretation of academic jealousy research is through a jealousy expression lens, meaning that the focus will be particularly (but not exclusively) on jealousy research that includes a behavioral or interpersonal communicative component drawn from a number of academic disciplines as diverse as communication, social and clinical psychology, sociology, criminology, forensic anthropology, and the biological sciences.
To date, no academic book has considered jealousy primarily from an interpersonal communication perspective and in doing so will effectively connect jealousy research from related academic disciplines as well as develop a theory that advances the state of jealousy expression research.
Sherri Hope Culver, assistant professor of media studies and production and director of the Center for Media and Information Literacy at Temple University's School of Media and Communication, presented a session on international media literacy and delivered the president's address at the National Association for Media Literacy Education conference July 12-13 in Torrance, Calif.
New book by Lyombe Eko: "American Exceptionalism, the French Exception, and Digital Media Law," (Lexington Books, 2013). Information is available at:https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739181126
The book is a comparative, contextual analysis of sameness and difference in American and French regulation of digital media infrastructure and content.
Editorial Description:
This volume explores the sameness and difference between the United States and France in the matters of freedom of expression on the Internet. The United States and France are liberal democracies that are part of the Western family of nations. However, despite their many similarities, they have a number of cultural and ideological differences. The United States is generally France’s ally in time of war and its cultural nemesis in time of peace. One of the reasons for this unusual relationship is that the United States and France are self-described “exceptional” countries. The United States and France are therefore two Western countries separated by different exceptionalist logics. Lyombe Eko uses this concept of exceptionalism as a theoretical framework for the analysis of American and French resolution of problems of human rights and freedom of expression in the traditional media and on the Internet. This book therefore analyzes how each county applies rules and regulations designed to manage a number of issues of media communication in real space, to the realities and specificities of cyberspace, within the framework of their respective exceptionalist logics. The fundamental question addressed concerns what happens when rules and regulations designed to regulate the media in clearly defined, national and regional geographic spaces, are suddenly confronted with the new realities and multi-communication platforms of the interconnected virtual sphere of cyberspace.
Editorial reviews:
A highly sophisticated and important work that should not only move the field of communication law and policy into a new era, but do the same for the study of comparative law, legal globalization, Internet governance, law and society, and, indeed, international relations.
— Sandra Braman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
This book offers a superb investigation of French and American exceptionalism, a value in national philosophies and practices that has not received sufficient attention in communication scholarship. Eko’s work provides new ways of charting exceptionalism’s role in the development of legal regimes around intellectual property, freedom of speech and technological innovations, enriching our understanding of global media with its compelling depth and power.
— Sharon L. Strover, University of Texas, Austin."
Kathleen Kelley Reardon (U of Southern California):
After 9 nonfiction books, I've just published my first novel. It's an academic mystery-thriller that takes place on a campus in L.A., titled Shadow Campus. Learn more here:
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Campus-Kathleen-Kelley-Reardon/dp/193519917X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1374959423&sr=8-2&keywords=Shadow+Campus
Shawn Turner:
Shawn Turner was recently selected as one of DC's Top Decision Makers. The National Journal does a long piece (published as a book) every few years on the higher level decision makers in the executive branch. Read more about the news, here: http://www.nationaljournal.com/decision-makers