African Americans and Mass Media: A Case for Diversity in Media Ownership
. Richard T. Craig. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. 111 pp. $75.00. ISBN: 978-0-7391-9126-2.
Beyond New Media: Discourse and Critique in a Polymediated Age
. Art Herbig, Andrew F. Herrmann, and Adam W. Tyma, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. 201 pp. $90.00. ISBN: 978-0-7391-9102-6.
Boundaries of Journalism: Professionalism, Practices and Participation
. Matt Carlson and Seth C. Lewis, eds. London, England: Routledge, 2015. 233 pp. $43.95. ISBN: 978-1-138-02067-2.
A Century of Communication Studies: The Unfinished Conversation
. Pat J. Gahrke and William M. Keith, eds. New York: Routledge, 2015. 308 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-415-82036-3.
Chinese Animation: A History and Filmography, 1922-2012
. Rolf Giesen. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 208 pp. $55.00. ISBN: 978-0-7864-5977-3.
Covering Bin Laden: Global Media and the World’s Most Wanted Man
. Susan Jeffords and Fahed Al-Sumait. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 259 pp. $30.00. ISBN: 978-0-252-08040-1.
Creativity, Culture & Commerce: Producing Australian Children’s Television With Public Value
. Anna Potter. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2015. 200 pp. $43.00. ISBN: 978-1-78320-441-0.
Discourse Analysis: Beyond the Speech Event.
Stanton Wortham and Angela Reyes. New York: Routledge, 2015. 193 pp. $47.95. ISBN: 978-0-415-83950-1.
The Discourse of Public Participation Media: From Talk Show to Twitter.
Joanna Thornborrow. New York: Routledge, 2015. 200 pp. $43.95. ISBN: 978-1-138-02495-3.
The Dynamics of Broadband Markets in Europe: Realizing the 2020 Digital Agenda.
Wolter Lemstra and William H. Melody, eds. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 409 pp. $130.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-07358-6.
El Paso’s Muckraker: The Life of Owen Payne White.
Garna L. Christian. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015. 192 pp. $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8263-5545-4.
Engaged Journalism: Connecting With Digitally Empowered News Audiences.
Jake Batsell. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. 195 pp. $27.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-16835-9.
Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied, and Everyday.
Christine Hine. New Delhi, India: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. 221 pp. $112.00. ISBN: 978-0-85785-504-6.
The Experience of Human Communication: Body, Flesh, and Relationship.
Frank J. Macke. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 248 pp. $80.00. ISBN: 978-1-61147-548-7.
Global Media, Biopolitics and Affect: Politicizing Bodily Vulnerability
. Britta Timm Knudsen and Carsten Stage. New York: Routledge, 2015. 166 pp. $140.00. ISBN: 978-1-138-01906-5.
Hate on the Right: Right-Wing Political Groups and Hate Speech.
Michael Waltman. New York: Peter Lang, 2015. 264 pp. $159.95. ISBN: 978-1-4331-1948-4.
Icebreaker: A Manual for Public Speaking, 7th Edition
. Tracey L. Smith and Mary Tague-Busler. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2015. 203 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 978-1-4786-1556-9.
Imagining the Global: Transnational Media and Popular Culture Beyond East and West.
Fabienne Darling-Wolf. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. 192 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-472-05243-1.
In-Your-Face Politics: The Consequences of Uncivil Media
. Diana C. Mutz. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. 263 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-6911-6511-0.
Journalism and PR: News Media and Public Relations in the Digital Age.
John Lloyd and Laura Toogood. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2015. 138 pp. $25.00. ISBN: 978-1-78453-062-4.
Language and Conflict: Selected Issues
. Karol Janicki. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 228 pp. $30.00. ISBN: 978-1-137-38140-8.
Language and Identity: Discourse in the World.
David Evans. London, England: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. 233 pp. $128.00. ISBN: 978-0-567-33816-7.
Mad Men and Politics: Nostalgia and the Remaking of Modern America
. Linda Beail and Lilly J. Goren. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. 311 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 978-1-5013-0635-8.
Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions, Movements.
Jun Okada. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015. 166 pp. $26.95. ISBN: 978-0-8135-6501-9.
Masculinity in Breaking Bad: Critical Perspectives
. Bridget Roussell Cowlishaw, ed. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 227 pp. $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-7864-9721-8.
Mass Moralizing: Marketing and Moral Storytelling
. Phil Hopkins. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. 247 pp. $90.00. ISBN: 978-0-7391-8851-4.
Media Independence: Working With Freedom or Working for Free?
James Bennett and Niki Strange, eds. New York: Routledge, 2015. 291 pp. $140.00. ISBN: 978-1-138-02348-2.
Media Marathoning: Immersions in Morality
. Lisa Glebatis Perks. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. 209 pp. $85.00. ISBN: 978-0-7391-9674-8.
Mediated Nostalgia: Individual Memory and Contemporary Mass Media.
Ryan Lizardi. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. 159 pp. $80.00. ISBN: 978-0-7391-9621-2.
Metonymy: Hidden Shortcuts in Language, Thought and Communication.
Jeannette Littlemore. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 227 pp. $99.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-04362-6.
News and Politics: The Rise of Live and Interpretive Journalism
. Stephen Cushion. London, UK: Routledge, 2015. 182 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-415-74471-3.
News Frames and National Security: Covering Big Brother.
Douglas M. McLeod and Dhavan V. Shah. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 220 pp. $29.99. ISBN: 978-0-521-13055-4.
Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists
. Cristina Devereaux Ramirez. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2015. 256 pp. $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-8165-3074-8.
The Political Economy of News in China: Manufacturing Harmony.
Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. 153 pp. $75.00. ISBN: 978-0-7391-8292-5.
The Politics of HBO’s the Wire: Everything Is Connected.
Shirin S. Deylami and Jonathan Havercroft, eds. New York: Routledge, 2015. 179 pp. $140.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-85410-8.
Post-Object Fandom: Television, Identity and Self-Narrative.
Rebecca Williams. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. 235 pp. $107.99. ISBN: 978-1-62356-436-6.
Radio Audiences and Participation in the Age of Network Society.
Tiziano Bonini and Belén Monclús, eds. New York: Routledge, 2015. 295 pp. $140.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-73915-3.
Reporting Baseball’s Sensational Season of 1890: The Brotherhood War and the Rise of Modern Sports Journalism
. Scott D. Peterson. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 273 pp. $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-7864-7368-7.
The Semantics of Free Indirect Discourse: How Texts Allow Us to Mind-Read and Eavesdrop
. Regine Eckardt. Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill, 2015. 283 pp. $149.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-26672-8.
Spartacus in the Television Arena: Essays on the Starz Series
. Michael G. Cornelius, ed. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 212 pp. $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-7864-9801-7.
A State of Arrested Development: Critical Essays on the Innovative Television Comedy
. Kristin M. Barton, ed. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 248 pp. $40.00. ISBN: 978-0-7864-7991-7.
Talking With the President: The Pragmatics of Presidential Language
. John Wilson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 274 pp. $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-985879-8.
Teaching Communication and Media Studies: Pedagogy and Practice.
Jan Fernback. New York: Routledge, 2015. 174 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-415-88664-2.
Upstairs and Downstairs: British Costume Drama Television from the Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey
. James Leggott and Julie Anne Taddeo, eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 298 pp. $70.00. ISBN: 978-1-4422-4482-5.
Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone
. Gil Z. Hochberg. Durham, UK: Duke University Press, 2015. 212 pp. $23.95. ISBN: 978-0-8223-5887-9.
Women Pre-Scripted: Forging Modern Roles Through Korean Print
. Ji-Eun Lee. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2015. 182 pp. $49.00. ISBN: 978-0-8248-3926-0.
The Writing Dead: Talking Terror With TV’s Top Horror Writers
. Thomas Fahy. Jackson: University of Mississippi, 2015. 168 pp. $50.00. ISBN: 978-1-6284-6201-2.