This title brings together research, theory and application on traditional as well as innovative intergroup situations, exploring the communication aspect of these groups.

This handbook provides comprehensive understanding of comparative communication research. It fills an obvious gap in the literature and offers an extensive discussion of the general approach of comparative research, its prospect and problems as well as its applications in crucial sub-fields of communications.

The Handbook of Communication History addresses central ideas, social practices, and media of communication as they have developed across time, cultures, and world geographical regions. It attends to both the varieties of communication in world history and the historical investigation of those forms in communication and media studies. The Handbook editors view communication as encompassing patterns, processes, and performances of social interaction, symbolic production, material exchange, institutional formation, social praxis, and discourse. As such, the history of communication cuts across...