Encyclopedias, Dictionaries...: Communications

Entries describe the relationships between mass media and children's development. Includes issues involving technology, business, and video games.

Examines the role of the media in enabling, facilitating, or challenging the social construction of gender in our society.

Covers a wide range of HCI related topics, such as concepts, design, usability, evaluation, innovations, and applications of HCI in organizations around the globe. Includes contributions from over 120 experts and advisors from around the world, as well as over 830 key terms and definitions, and more than 2,600 references.

Explores how war has been reported and interpreted by the media in the United States and what effects those reports and interpretations have had on the people at home and on the battlefield.

Explores the evolution of the field with examples describing the events, changing practices, and key figures who developed and expanded the profession

The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Film will appeal to scholars of cinema, race and ethnicity studies, and cultural history.

Provides useful information about health, environment, and technology, as well as science itself, to improve our understanding of how people think, form opinions, and process information.

Provides a thorough introduction to the wide-ranging, fast-developing field of social networking.

Spans the breadth of communication studies, including coverage of theories, media and communication phenomena, research methods, problems, concepts, and geographical areas.

The Encyclopedia encompasses the full range of topics in linguistics, including such areas as historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, philosophical, and sociolinguistics.

Focus is on the relationship between American society and movies and filmmaking in the United States from the late 19th century through the present.

An authoritative and rigorous two-volume, issues-based reference set that surveys varied views on many of the most contentious issues involving mass media ethics and the law.

This timely, authoritative Handbook explores the issues of rapid technological development, social change, and the ubiquity of computing technologies which have become an integrated part of people's everyday lives.

The Sage Handbook of Family Communication provides a comprehensive examination of family communication theory and research.

In this comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of risk communication, the field's leading experts summarize theory, current research, and practice in a range of disciplines and describe effective communication approaches for risk situations in diverse contexts, such as health, environment, science, technology, and crisis.

A comprehensive encyclopedia of film and film studies. Includes career profiles.

Bringing together a truly international spread of contributors from across the UK, US, South America, Mexico and Australia, this Handbook charts the field of television studies from issues of ownership and regulation through to reception and consumption.