Examines phenomena ranging from traditional work on topics such as leader-follower communication, negotiation, and organizational culture, to more contemporary research examining the appropriation of communication technologies, inter-organizational networks, and hidden forms of work and organization.

Provides overview article regarding ethics in a number of contexts: advertising, politics, business, leadership, etc.

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

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Covers communication and technology, election campaigns, media and journalism, media effects, political actors, institutions, organizations, political attitudes, opinions, emotions, behaviors, political communication theory and philosophy, political discourse, political issues, research methods, and strategic communication

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Explains core concepts, describes the techniques involved in the implementation of qualitative methods, and presents an overview of qualitative approaches to research. Covers every major facet of qualitative methods, including access to research participants, data coding, research ethics, and the role of theory in qualitative research

Explains how to make decisions about research design, undertake research projects in an ethical manner, interpret and draw valid inferences from data, and evaluate experiment design strategies and results

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A definitively comprehensive reference work in this interdisciplinary and dynamic field.

Overview of universal modes of communication, the media used to communicate, theories of communication and their implications,

Survey research methodology, from selecting the sample design and the sampling frame, designing and pretesting the questionnaire, data collection, and data coding, to the issues surrounding diminishing response rates, confidentiality, privacy, informed consent and other ethical issues, data weighting, and data analyses.

Covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition in 1979. Features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences,

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Provides background on the broadcasting of news via the televised media.

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9th ed. Provides definitions and historical perspectives on thousands of terms in all areas of communication.