Theories of Communication

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Anderson, A. (2014). Media, Environment and the Network Society. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Atkin, A. (2013). ‘Peirce's theory of signs’, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Baxter, J. (2015). ‘Feminist post-structural discourse analysis’. In K. Tracy, C. Ilie, & T. Sandel (eds.). The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction. Volume 1. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 613-618.

Bennett, W. L., & Iyengar, S. (2008). ‘A new era of minimal effects? The changing foundations of
political communication’. Journal of Communication, 58(4), 707-731.

Boudon, R. (1991). ‘What middle-range theories are’. Contemporary Sociology, 20, 519–522.

boyd, d. (2010). 'Social network sites as networked publics: Affordances, dynamics, and implications'. In Papacharissi, Z (ed.) A Networked Self: Identity, Community and Culture on Social Network Sites. London: Routledge, 47-66.

Dearing, J. W. (2006). ‘Communication as diffusion’. In G.J. Shepherd, J. St. John, & T.G. Striphas (eds.) Communication as…: Perspectives on Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 174-179.

van Dijk, J. (2020). The Network Society. 4th edition. London: SAGE Publications.

Eggins, S. (2004). An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics. 2nd edition. London: Continuum.

Evans, S. K., Pearce, K. E., Vitak, J., & Treem, J. W. (2017). ‘Explicating affordances: A conceptual framework for understanding affordances in communication research’. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 22(1), 35-52.

Finlayson, J.G. (2006). Habermas: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Flusberg, S. J., Matlock, T., & Thibodeau, P. H. (2017). ‘Metaphors for the war (or race) against climate change’. Environmental Communication, 11(6), 769-783.

Griffin, E. (2012). A First Look at Communication Theory. 8th edition. New York: McGraw-Hill

Hall, S. (2001). ‘Foucault: Power, knowledge and discourse’. In M. Wetherell, S. Taylor, & S. Yates (eds.) Discourse, Theory and Practice. London: SAGE Publications, 72-81.

Harris, S. (1991). 'Evasive action: How politicians respond to questions in political interviews'. In. P. Scannell (ed.) Broadcast Talk. London: SAGE Publications, 76–99.

Herring, S. C. (2004). ‘Computer-mediated discourse analysis’. In Barab, S.A., Kling, R. & Gray, J.H., (eds.) Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 338-376.

Lee, E. J. (2007). ‘Deindividuation effects on group polarization in computer-mediated communication: The role of group identification, public-self-awareness, and perceived argument quality’. Journal of Communication, 57(2), 385-403.

Mangion, C. (2011). Philosophical Approaches to Communication. Bristol: Intellect.

Nicotera, A. M. (2020). Organizational Communication: A Comprehensive Introduction to the Field. Oxford: Routledge.

Paltridge, B. (2021). Discourse Analysis: An Introduction. London: Bloomsbury.

Schulz, W. (2004). ‘Reconstructing mediatization as an analytical concept’. European Journal of Communication, 19(1), 87-101.

Stibbe, A. (2017). 'Positive Discourse Analysis: Rethinking human ecological relationships'. In Fill, A.F. & Penz, H. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics, London: Routledge, 165-178.

Stibbe, A. (2024). Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology, and the Search for New Narratives to Live by. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Tajfel, H., & Turner, J. C. (2004). The Social Identity Theory of Intergroup Behavior. In Political Psychology, Psychology Press, 276-293.

Tandoc Jr, E. C., Lim, D. & Ling, R. (2020). ‘Diffusion of disinformation: How social media users respond to fake news and why’, Journalism, 21(3), 381-398.

de Vreese, C. H. (2005). ‘News framing: Theory and typology’. Information Design Journal + Document Design, 13, 51-62.

Walther, J. B. (2011). ‘Theories of computer-mediated communication and interpersonal relations’. In Knapp, M. K. & Daly, J. A. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Interpersonal Communication. Fourth Edition. London: SAGE Publications.

Wittgenstein, L. (2008). ‘Language games’. In Gergen, K. J., Schrader, S. M., & Gergen, M. M. (eds.) Constructing Worlds Together: Interpersonal Communication as Relational Process. Boston: Pearson.

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