Communication Studies— Current Literature & Reviews

• Communication Booknotes Quarterly: CBQ Book reviews, with titles listed under subjects such as advertising, journalism, electronic media, telecommunication history, etc. The most recent issues are in paper only (some old issues are online).
• Communication Research Trends Online access to reviews of books and research in the media, communication, and journalism fields.
• New Books in Communication These lists are generated by UC San Diego's Social Sciences and Humanities Library.
• New Books List- Journalism Library An unannotated listing of new titles at the University of Missouri-Columbia Journalism Library.
• New Books List- Ohio State University Journalism Library See the lists posted under " What's Happening in the Journalism Library (News and Acquisitions)."
• Reviews of Books within Communication / Journalism / Media Publications:
  
  • American Journalism "is a publication of the American Journalism Historians Association. Publishes articles on the history of journalism that focus on social, legal, economic, intellectual, political, or legal issues."
  • Business Communication Quarterly "is a publication of the Association for Business Communication. The journal’s scope is interdisciplinary, drawing theoretical foundations, research methods, and knowledge from disciplines as diverse as management, rhetoric, organizational behavior, composition, speech, mass communication, psychology, linguistics, listening, information technology, education, and history to name a few."
  • Columbia Journalism Review "helps foster a heightened public awareness of the challenges facing American journalism and also to its centrality to American democracy and life."
  • Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research "publishes material concerned with investigation of the structure and function of mass communication processes and their impact on society and social. The Journal is also interested in material covering intrapersonal, interpersonal, organization communication. Special attention is addressed to topics concerning communication theory and methodology; mass media and production of mediated messages; media use, reception processes, and media impact; mass media content, message systems and cultivation; political and marketing communication, advertising, public relations and propaganda; new media technologies and electronic networks; media history and media development."
  • Discourse & Society "explores the relevance of discourse analysis to the social sciences. It stimulates a problem-oriented and critical approach and pays particular attention to the political implications of discourse and communication."
  • European Journal of Communication "publishes on communication theory and research issues across disciplinary and national boundaries. Key areas of interest include: comparative research in and across Europe and globally, major debates on policy developments, theoretical and empirical work, and the social, political and economic implications of new communication technologies. The book review section includes books published in various European languages, regular review essays on publications in specialized areas, and an extensive notes section."
  • Feminist Media Studies "provides a transdisciplinary, transnational forum for researchers pursuing feminist approaches to the field of media and communication studies, with attention to the historical, philosophical, cultural, social, political, and economic dimensions and analysis of sites including print and electronic media, film and the arts, and new media technologies. Also includes video reviews."
  • Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics "is dedicated to analyzing the interaction of the press, politics, and public policymaking. The journal covers a broad spectrum of intellectual disciplines including political communications, journalism and public policy, international news, race, gender and the press, and campaigns and elections."
  • Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media "an international quarterly devoted to advancing knowledge and understanding of communication and the electronic media. The Journal contains original research that examines a broad range of issues concerning the electronic media, including their historical, technological, economic, policy, cultural, and social dimensions."
  • Journal of Communication "is the official publication of the International Communication Association. It publishes on all aspects of communication, especially research whose significance crosses subdisciplinary boundaries."
  • Journal of Communication Inquiry "emphasizes interdisciplinary inquiry into communication phenomena and particularly alternative perspectives in theory and method."
  • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly "published by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, focuses on research in journalism and mass communication. Each issue features reports of original investigation, presenting the latest developments in theory and methodology of communication, international communication, journalism history, and social and legal problems. The book review section also includes a list of newly released titles."
  • Journal of Mass Media Ethics "is devoted to explorations of ethics problems and issues in the various fields of mass communication. Emphasis is placed on exploring the philosophical bases of decisions, reports from empirical studies, and literature searches and reviews dealing with mass media content and the behavior of practitioners in journalism, broadcasting, public relations, advertising, and other mass communication disciplines."
  • Journalism & Mass Communication Educator "supports faculty and student discovery, the acquisition of knowledge and skills, and their creative application to issues of import, both within and beyond classroom and Web site. The journal focuses on learning and teaching, curriculum, educational leadership, and related exploration of higher education within a context of journalism and mass communication."
  • Journalism History "publishes articles on topics related to the full scope of mass communication history. They may discuss individuals, institutions, or events.
  • Journalism Studies "explores the widest range of media within which journalism is conducted; radio, newspaper, magazines, television, multimedia and new technologies. Topics cover a range of journalistic specialties such as sport, entertainment and fashion, as well as central concerns of news, current affairs, and politics."
  • Media Culture & Society "provides research and discussion concerning the media, including the newer information and communication technologies, within their political, economic, cultural and historical contexts."
  • New Media & Society "is an international journal designed to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the examination of the social dynamics of media and information change. Topics include: digitalization and convergence, interactivity and virtuality, consumption and citizenship, innovation, regulation and control, cultures of the Internet, patterns and inequalities of use, community and identity in electronic space, time and space in global culture and everyday life, and politics of cyberspace."
  • Newspaper Research Journal "provides information to bridge journalism educators and newspaper professionals."
  • Political Communication "includes research on the practices, processes, and policy implications of political communication in all its forms."
  • Public Relations Review "devoted to articles that examine public relations in depth."
  • Southern Communication Journal "publishes original scholarship that makes significant contributions to understanding human communication."
  • Southern Review "is an interdisciplinary journal focusing on the connections between communication and politics. The journal is interested in communication and cultural technologies, their histories, producers and audiences, policies and texts."
  • Telecommunication Policy "is concerned with the changing roles of telecommunications in the economy and society. Its scope includes issues of telecom reform at national, regional and international levels, including issues confronting both developed and developing countries. It pays particular attention to the implications of convergence for knowledge infrastructure development, management and regulation."
  • Television Quarterly "deals critically with television's role in society, covers cutting-edge developments and historical trends in the field in a lively, non-academy manner."
  • Women’s Studies in Communication "provides a feminist forum for research, reviews, and commentary that advance the understanding of the relationships between communication and women, gender, and feminisms."
    

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