Research Guides: Communication Studies: Find Books

New Books (and Ebooks) in Communication

Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America by Barbara McQuade
Call Number: JA85 .M37 2024

ISBN: 9781644213636

Publication Date: 2024-02-27

A major focus in the field of communication is how various entities use our emotions in order to elicit a type of response from us, including through misinformation campaigns both online and in person. In Attack from Within, scholar and MSNBC legal expert Barbara McQuade shows us how to identify the ways disinformation is seeping into all facets of our society and how we can fight against it with practical solutions to strengthen the public, media, and truth-based politics. Disinformation is designed to evoke a strong emotional response to push us toward more extreme views, unable to find common ground with others. He argues that misinformation represents a real threat to democracy as we know it.
Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting by Josh Shepperd
Call Number: EBOOK

ISBN: 9780252054488

Publication Date: 2023-05-23

A major focus on the field of Communication Studies is the role of mass media in communicating messages to a large audience. Josh Shepperd looks at the people, institutions, and influences behind the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) and its drive to create what became the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio. Founded in 1934, the NAEB began as a disorganized coalition of undersupported university broadcasters. Shepperd traces the setbacks, small victories, and trial and error experiments that took place as thousands of advocates built a media campaign premised on the belief that technology could ease social inequality through equal access to education and information. The bottom-up, decentralized network they created implemented a different economy of scale and a vision of a mass media divorced from commercial concerns.
Persuading the Public: The Evolution of Popular Presidential Communication from Washington to Trump by Anne C. Pluta
Call Number: EBOOK

ISBN: 9780700634354

Publication Date: 2023-05-15

An important sub-branch of communication is political communication, which describes how political figures are able to articulate their political agenda to the masses in the population. In her work, Anne Pluta examines anew the development of the popular communication practices of American presidents between 1789 and 2021, with a particular focus on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This period is often overlooked by political scientists and is essential to understanding later developments in presidential rhetoric. Using a multimethod approach, Pluta argues that presidents from the start were political opportunists seeking a connection with the public. Their opportunities and incentives change through time as a function of technological innovation, the changing party system, the expansion of American democracy, and the evolving media landscape
The Many Voices of Modern Physics: Written Communication Practices of Key Discoveries by Joseph E. Harmon; Alan G. Gross
Call Number: EBOOK

ISBN: 9780822989646

Publication Date: 2023-03-07

A major sub-field of communication is the field of science communication and how scientists communicate complicated concepts, oftentimes divorced from what we consider to be understandable. In their work, Joseph Harmon and the late Alan Gross have explored how scientists communicate with each other and with the general public. Here, they focus not on the history of modern physics but on its communication. In their survey of physics communications and related persuasive practices, they move from peak to peak of scientific achievement, recalling how physicists use the communicative tools available--in particular, thought experiments, analogies, visuals, and equations--to convince others that what they say is not only true but significant, that it must be incorporated into the body of scientific and general knowledge.
Who Wrote This?: How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing by Naomi S Baron
Call Number: EBOOK

ISBN: 9781503637900

Publication Date: 2023

Artificial Intelligence has been an incredible development in communication as it makes it much easier for us to create messages. However, many do not think of the consequences of this convenience. To understand how AI is redefining what it means to write and think, linguist and educator Naomi Baron leads us on a journey connecting the dots between human literacy and today's technology. As the technology becomes increasingly sophisticated and fluent, it's tempting to take the easy way out and let AI do the work for us. Baron cautions that such efficiency isn't always in our interest. As AI plies us with suggestions or full-blown text, we risk losing not just our technical skills but the power of writing as a springboard for personal reflection and unique expression.
Multimedia Storytelling for Digital Communicators in a Multiplatform World by Seth Gitner
Call Number: P96.A86 G58 2023

ISBN: 9781138332553

Publication Date: 2022-07-12

While new forms of communications like social media and the internet have changed the way that people communicate the basic elements of communication have not changed. Seth Gitner's work focuses on provides readers with the tools for successfully merging new multimedia technology with very old and deep-rooted storytelling concepts. This includes both writing techniques, video editing, and other, similar, concepts.
The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication by Teresa L. Thompson; Nancy Grant Harrington
Call Number: R118 .H26 2022

ISBN: 9780367487447

Publication Date: 2021-10-01

The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication provides students and scholars with a comprehensive survey of the subject's key research foundations and trends, authored by the discipline's leading scholars. The third edition has been completely updated and reorganized to guide both new researchers and experienced scholars through the most critical and contemporary topics in health communication today. There are eight major sections covering a range of issues, including interpersonal and family health communication; patient-provider communication; healthcare provider and organizational health communication; mediated health communication; campaigns, interventions, and technology applications; and broad issues such as health literacy, health equity, and intercultural communication. Attention also is devoted to foundational issues in health communication, such as theory and method; multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary communication research; research translation, implementation, and dissemination; and narrative health communication. There is new attention to policy and NGOs, the environment, public health crises, global health, mental health and mental illness, and marginalized populations.
Understanding Intercultural Communication by Stella Ting-Toomey; Leeva Chung
Call Number: GN345.6 .T56 2022

ISBN: 9780190297442

Publication Date: 2021-07-15

As our world has become more and more diverse, more and more emphasis has been placed on multicultural communication the field of communication. In this work, authors Stella Ting-Toomey and Leeva Chung introduce students to the foundations of intercultural communication by taking a multicontextual, inclusive approach that balances international and intercultural communication issues against U.S. domestic diversity issues. By integrating current empirical research with lively intercultural examples, the authors ask thought-provoking questions and pose ethical dilemmas for students to ponder. The text offers a sprawling treatment of such topics as ethnic and cultural identity change, culture shock and intercultural adjustment, romantic relationships and raising bicultural children, global identity challenges, and decision-making choices in intercultural ethics.
Rethinking Culture in Health Communication: Social Interactions as Intercultural Encounters by Elaine Hsieh; Eric M. Kramer
Call Number: R118 .H75 2021

ISBN: 9781119496168

Publication Date: 2021-03-16

An important sub-field in the discipline of Communication and in the field of nursing is health communication. This work, written by Elaine Hsieh and Eric Mark Kramer during the COVID-19 Pandemic, describes the importance of cultural understandings and culturally sensitive communication within the field of health communication. The work ends with a description of how more effective health communication can be used to improve health equity.
Close Encounters: Communication in Relationships by Laura K. Guerrero; Peter A. Andersen; Walid Afifi
Call Number: BF637.C45 G84 2021

ISBN: 9781544349220

Publication Date: 2021

The field of human/interpersonal communication focuses on communication between two people and on the relationship that they have. This work by Laura K Guerrero, Peter A Andersen, and Walid A Afifi takes a relational approach to this field. While maintaining the spotlight on communication, the authors also emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of the study of personal relationships by including research from such disciplines as social psychology and family studies. The book covers issues relevant to developing, maintaining, repairing, and ending relationships.

Where to find Books in Communication?

Because communication touches so many fields, there is no one single place for communication works. Typically communication works will be with its secondary topic. For example, works on health communication will be with other health works. We have attempted to compile the rough locations of most communication works.

BF636-637 - Applied Psychology
HF5717-5734 - business communication
HF5801-6182 - advertising
HM - Sociology
- HM621-656 - Culture
- HM661-696 - Social Control
- HM706 - Social Structure
- HM711-806 - Groups and organizations
- HM1001-1281 - Social Psychology
  - HM1041-1101 - Social perception
  - HM1106-1171 - Interpersonal relations, Social behavior
  - HM1176-1281 - Social influence, Social pressure
JA1-92 - Political Science (General)/Political Communication
K94 - Legal composition and draftsmanship
P - Philology and Linguistics
- P87-96 - Communication. Mass media
  - P94.7 - Interpersonal communication
  - P95-95.6 - Oral communication. Speech
- P98-98.5 - Computational linguistics. Natural language processing
- P99-99.4 - Semiotics
- P99.5-99.6 - Nonverbal communication
- P301-301.5 - Rhetoric
- P302-302.87 - Discourse Analysis
PN - Literature (general)
- PN1994 - motion pictures
- PN4001-4355 - Oratory. Elocution, etc.
- PN4700-5639 - journalism
QA75.5-76.95 - Computer science (role of technology in communication), communications
R727-727.5 - Medical personnel and the public. Physician and the public
RA421-790.95 - Public Health
T10.5-11.9 - Communication of technical information
Z218-550 - publishing and book selling

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