A comprehensive examination of communication and its role in the aging process, considering individuals, relationships, and health issues. For students and scholars in communication, aging studies, health areas.

As the visual component of contemporary media has overtaken the verbal, visual reportage has established a unique and extremely significant role in 21st-century culture. Julianne Newton has prepared this comprehensive analysis of the development of the role of visual reportage as a critical player in the evolution of our understanding of ourselves, others, and the world. The Burden of Visual Truth offers a first assessment of the role of visual journalism within the context of the complex, cross-disciplinary pool of literature and ideas required for synthesis.
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This volume addresses the "next generation" of public relations theory, reflecting the growth that has occurred in the discipline during the last several years. It is appropriate for scholars, students, and practitioners in the field of public relations.

Tailored health messages enhance communication effectiveness on health issues and concerns. This volume includes a practical approach for practitioners & students of health comm, health psych, behavioral medicine, public health & related areas.

This collection of research essays focuses on children and Sesame Street. It covers a variety of issues and topics including: creation and evolution of the Sesame Street curriculum; Sesame Street viewers as adolescents; and the role of Sesame Street-based materials in child care settings.

Providing a review and synthesis of work on communication skills and skill enhancement, this handbook serves as a comprehensive survey of theory and research on social interaction skills. The editors have brought together researchers and writers to contribute to the volume, seeking to establish a foundation on which future study and research can build.

This second edition of a trend-setting volume provides an updated examination of the interaction between families and the most pervasive mass medium: television. Charting the dynamic developments of the American family and television over the past decade, this volume provides a comprehensive representation of programmatic research into family and television and examines extensively the uses families make of television, how extensions of television affect usage, families' evolving attitudes toward television, the ways families have been and are portrayed on television, the effects television...

This collection brings together research from independent scholars and studies supported by the Kaiser Foundation to illustrate innovative research on the media's sexual content and adolescents. Contributors address the topic of sexuality broadly - including evidence not only about physical sex acts, but also about the role the media play in the development of gender roles, sexual orientations, standards of beauty, courtship and relationship norms.

Time, Change, and the American Newspaper focuses on newspapers as organizations, examining the role of change in the newspaper industry and providing a model from which to view and respond to change. Authors George Sylvie and Patricia D. Witherspoon discuss environmental and organizational influences on contemporary newspapers, and they analyze newspapers within the larger context of all organizations. This more general perspective provides insights into the nature of change, the change process, the rationale for organizational changes, resistance to such changes, and initiation and...

This volume offers an analysis of crime coverage on local television, exploring the nature of local television news and the ongoing appeal of crime stories. Drawing on the perspectives of media studies, psychology, sociology, and criminology, authors Jeremy H. Lipschultz and Michael L. Hilt focus on live local television coverage of crime and examine its irresistibility to viewers and its impact on society's perceptions of itself. They place local television news in its theoretical and historical contexts, and consider it through the lens of legal, ethical, racial, aging, and technological...