Communication Law
in Communication
Published online February 2011.
Article. Subjects: communication studies. 12858 words.
Communication Law encompasses the collection of legal and regulatory decisions related to individual and media expression. In the United States, communication law most directly deals...
Communication Networks
in Communication
Published online January 2012.
Article. Subjects: communication studies. 13360 words.
Network scholarship has grown substantially in the first decade of the 21st century across a wide spectrum of the academy. Network theory, concepts, tools, and techniques have become...
Crisis Communication
in Communication
Published online February 2011.
Article. Subjects: communication studies. 6563 words.
In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, scholars from the fields of journalism, communication, management, and psychology paid increased attention to communication efforts that take...
Critical and Cultural Studies
in Communication
Published online February 2011.
Article. Subjects: communication studies. 6448 words.
Critical and cultural studies of communication are focused on the analysis of cultural artifacts and practices in relation to the social formations in which they exist. The...
Cultivation
in Communication
Published online February 2011.
Article. Subjects: communication studies. 4736 words.
Seminal scholar George Gerbner introduced cultivation theory in the 1960s as a means of examining the long-term, cumulative implications of growing up with and being immersed in the...
Cyberpolitics
in Communication
Published online February 2011.
Article. Subjects: communication studies. 6604 words.
Cyberpolitics is a domain of inquiry into the role of new information technologies in contemporary political life. It is an exciting domain of inquiry because not all of the things that...
Deliberation
in Communication
Published online February 2011.
Article. Subjects: communication studies. 8563 words.
“Deliberative democracy” refers to democratic processes based on thorough consideration and discussion of issues from a variety of perspectives. Although voting and other ways of...
Diffusion of Innovations
in Communication
Published online July 2011.
Article. Subjects: communication studies. 9054 words.
Diffusion is the process through which an innovation (an idea, product, technology, process, or service) spreads (more or less rapidly, in more or less the same form) through mass and...
Elaboration Likelihood Model
in Communication
Published online February 2011.
Article. Subjects: communication studies. 4511 words.
The Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM), developed by Richard E. Petty and John T. Cacioppo in the early 1980s, is a twofold, or dual-process, model that describes how people choose to...
Embedded Coverage
in Communication
Published online April 2012.
Article. Subjects: communication studies. 5201 words.
When examining the stories told about the war in Iraq, one notices reporters reporting from the battlefield, “embedded” with the troops. The war in Iraq marked the first time reporters...