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Ongoing Crisis Communication: Planning, Mananging, and Responding
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W. Timothy Coombs

Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 6th ed. (2023), xiv, 287 pp.

"Author W. Timothy Coombs explains how crisis management can prevent or reduce the threats of a crisis, providing guidelines for how best to act and react in an emergency situation. Ongoing Crisis Communication: Planning, Managing, and Responding, Sixth Edition provides an integrated approach to cri ... more

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Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials

Gillian Rose

Los Angeles: Sage, 5th ed. (2023), xv, 454 pp.

"Whatever level of experience you have, this classic text will provide you with the key skills you need to complete a visual methods research project, understand the rationale behind each step, and engage with the contexts and power relations that shape our interpretation of visual images. With a cl ... more

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Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere
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Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Robert Cox

Thousand Okas et al.: Sage, 6th ed. (2022), xxix, 358 pp.

"The best-selling Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere provides a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of environmental communication. This groundbreaking book focuses on the role that human communication plays in influencing the ways we perceive the environment. Authors Phae ... more

Utilization-Focused Evaluation
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Michael Quinn Patton, Charmagne E. Campbell-Patton

Thousand Oaks et al.: Sage, 5th ed. (2022), xxiv, 406 pp.

"The Fifth Edition of the bestselling 'Utilization-Focused Evaluation' provides expert, detailed advice on conducting evaluations that promote effective use of the findings. Chock full of useful pedagogy, this book presents Michael Quinn Patton's distinctive opinions based on more than forty years o ... more

Evaluation in Today's World: Respecting Diversity, Improving Quality, and Promoting Usability

Veronica G. Thomas, Patricia B. Campbell

Los Angeles; London; New Delhi: Sage (2021), xxvi, 553 pp.

"This timely and comprehensive textbook covers theoretical and practical issues related to evaluation of programs, particularly social programs and projects, with an emphasis on viewing evaluation topics through a social justice, diversity, and inclusive perspective. It provides students with an equ ... more

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Media Literacy
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W. James Potter

Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 10th ed. (2021), xxiv, 477 pp.

"[This book] teaches students how to navigate through the overwhelming flood of information found in today’s media-saturated world. Drawing from thousands of media research studies, author W. James Potter explores key components to understanding the fascinating world of mass media. Potter presents ... more

Many Voices, Many Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Community Media in India

Faiz Ullah, Anjali Monteiro, K.P. Jayasankar (eds.)

New Delhi: Sage (2021), 365 pp.

"Many Voices, Many Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Community Media in India is a critical reflection on governance and policymaking, development, disability, knowledge and other social markers in the context of community media. Bringing together different modes of community media—such as video, r ... more

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The Digital Disconnect: The Social Causes and Consequences of Digital Inequalities

Ellen Helsper

Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2021), viii, 231 pp.

"Ellen Helsper goes beyond questions of digital divides and who's connected or not. She asks why and how social and digital inequalities are linked, as she reveals the tangible outcomes of socio-digital inequalities to everyday lives in an expert exploration of contemporary theory, research and prac ... more

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McQuail's Media & Mass Communication Theory
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Denis McQuail, Mark Deuze

Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 7th ed. (2020), ix, 672 pp.

"Now in its seventh edition, this landmark text continues to define the field of media and mass communication theory and research. It is a uniquely comprehensive and balanced guide to the world of pervasive, ubiquitous, mobile, social and always-online media that we live in today. New to this editio ... more

Indigenous Research Methodologies

Bagele Chilisa

Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 2nd ed. (2020), xxiv, 368 pp.

"Author Bagele Chilisa updates her groundbreaking textbook to give a new generation of scholars a crucial foundation in indigenous methods, methodologies, and epistemologies. Addressing the increasing emphasis in the classroom and in the field to sensitize researchers and students to diverse perspec ... more

Netnography: The Essential Guide to Qualitative Social Media Research
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Robert V. Kozinets

Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 3rd ed. (2020), viii, 460 pp.

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The Sage Handbook of Propaganda

Paul Baines, Nicholas J. O'Shaughnessy, Nancy Snow (eds.)

London et al.: Sage (2020), 612 pp.

"The Sage Handbook of Propaganda unpacks the ever-present and exciting topic of propaganda to explain how it invades the human psyche, in what ways it does so, and in what contexts. As a beguiling tool of political persuasion in times of war, peace, and uncertainty, propaganda incites people to take ... more

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RealWorld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints
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Michael Bamberger, Linda Mabry

Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 3rd ed. (2020), xliv, 524 pp.

"Addresses the challenges of conducting program evaluations in real-world contexts where evaluators and their clients face budget and time constraints. The book is organized around the authors’ seven-step model that has been tested in workshops and practice environments to help the evaluation impl ... more

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The Sage Handbook of Media and Migration
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Kevin Smets, Koen Leurs, Myria Georgiou, Saskia Witteborn, Radhika Gajjala (eds.)

Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2020), lxii, 638 pp.

"The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration offers a comprehensive overview of media and migration through new research, as well as a review of present scholarship in this expanding and promising field. It explores key interdisciplinary concepts and methodologies, and how these are challenged by new r ... more

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Propaganda & Persuasion
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Garth Jowett, Victoria O'Donnell

Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 7th ed. (2019), xv, 400 pp.

Doing Digital Methods

Richard Rogers

Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2019), xviii, 308 pp.

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Media Solidarities: Emotions, Power and Justice in the Digital Age

Kaarina Nikunen

Los Angeles: Sage (2019), viii, 199 pp.

"Drawing on social theory, political economy and cultural studies, 'Media Solidarities' explores the way in which media can both enable and obstruct meaningful bonds of solidarity and positive social change. Written in a highly approachable style, it ties theory to contemporary world events and medi ... more

Evaluation: A Systematic Approach
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Peter H. Rossi, Mark W. Lipsey, Gary T. Henry (eds.)

Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 8th ed. (2019), xviii, 342 pp.

"Evaluation: A Systematic Approach is the best-selling comprehensive introduction to the field of program evaluation, covering the range of evaluation research activities used in appraising the design, implementation, effectiveness, and efficiency of social programs. Evaluation domains are presented ... more

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Communication for Social Change: Context, Social Movements and the Digital

Pradip Thomas

Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2019), viii, 216 pp.

"Communication for Social Change: Context, Social Movements and the Digital is a critical introduction to communication for social change (CSC) theory. The book presents refreshingly new perspectives and specifically makes the case for CSC theory to factor in context, leanings from social movements ... more

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