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Subject Guide: Communications Studies
Books
Selected Reference Books in McQuade Library (First Floor):
- Dictionary of Mass Communication & Media Research (REF P87.5 .D449 2005)
- International Encyclopedia of Communications (REF P87.5 .I5)
- Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication
from Ancient Times
to the Information Age (REF PN172 .E53) - Encyclopedia of Communication and Information (REF P87.5 .E53)
- Encyclopedia of Propaganda (REF HM263 .E53)
- Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communications (REF P87.5 .D36)
- History of Mass Media in the United States (REFP92.U5H55)
- Language and Communication : A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia (REF P29 .F47)
- NTC's Mass Media Dictionary (REF P87.5 .E45)
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Articles
Selected journals, magazines, and newspapers in print (2nd floor Periodicals Room) and on the Web:
- Communication Monographs (2000 - ) publishes original research/new theories on communication processes in interpersonal, public, group, and organizational communication.
- Critical Studies in Mass Communications (2000 -) publishes articles that offer integrative approaches to mass communication theory and research. Topics include mass-media criticism, mass communication systems, and the relationship between culture and mass communication.
- Journal of Applied Communication Research (2000 -) is a publication of the Speech Communication Association that publishes articles that address the relationship between practice and theories of communication, rhetoric, criticism and/or performance.
- Philosophy and Rhetoric (2000 -) is a source for studies of theoretical issues concerning the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric, aspects of argumentation, rhetoric of historical figures and rhetoric and human culture and thought, and psychological and sociological aspects of rhetoric.
- Quarterly Journal of Speech (2000 -) publishes articles that focus primarily on rhetorical theory and criticism in a wide variety of settings.
- Southern Communication Journal (2000 -) publishes scholarly research on human communication.
- Communication Yearbook (P87 .C5974 in circulating collection) contains literature reviews and articles published annually by the International Communication Association.
- Media, Culture & Society (2000-) provides a major international forum for the presentation of research and discussion concerning the media, including the newer information and communication technologies, within their political, economic, cultural and historical contexts.
Selected print periodical indexes:
- Reader's Guide To Periodical Literature [1890 -] (REF AI3 .R48) is a subject and author index of approximately 200 popular and general interest periodicals.
Search these databases to find articles:
- Academic
Search PremierThe world’s largest
academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier
provides full text for more than 4,500 publications, including
full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF
backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one
hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided
for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a
daily basis. via EBSCOHost
- Communication
& Mass Media CompleteEBSCOhost provides
the most robust, quality research solution in areas related
to communication and mass media. via EBSCOHost
- INFOTRAC
databases cover general reference, literature, health,
business, and more. Includes full-text.
- Project
MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries
and publishers providing 100% full-text, user-friendly online
access to over 300 humanities, arts and social sciences journals
from 60 scholarly publishers. Every journal is heavily indexed
and peer-reviewed, with critically acclaimed articles by the
most respected scholars in their fields. MUSE is the sole
source of complete, full-text version of titles from many
of the world’s leading university presses and scholarly
societies.
- Media
Review Digest Reviews of educational media
and entertainment resources via FirstSearch.
- JSTOR
A searchable digital archive containing back-issues of core
scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and
sciences. It contains complete runs of these scholarly journals,
many of which date from the 1800s. Note: the most recent 3
to 5 years of archive.
- AltPressIndex
| AltPressIndexArchive
Index of journals (archive covers 1969-1990) covering cultural, economic, political & social change via FirstSearch
Web Sites
General Guides
Topics in Communication Studies
- Newslink
- American RadioWorks
- BUBL LINK / 5:15 Catalogue of Internet Resources Communication Studies
- Center for Nonverbal Studies
- Douglass: Archives of American Public Address
- FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
- Media and Communication Studies Site
- NewsWatch: A Consumer's Guide to the News
- Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
- Rhetoric and Composition
- Television News Archive: Vanderbilt University
- Theory.org.uk Communication Theory
- University of Iowa Department of Communication Studies LINKS to Communication
- VOANews
- Voice of
the Shuttle Media Studies
Local Resources
Professional Organizations
- Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS)
- American Communication Association
- Association for Women in Communications
- International Communication Association
- National Communication Association
