Media/Materials Clearinghouse (M/MC)
The Media/Materials Clearinghouse (M/MC) is a repository for health communication materials from around the world–pamphlets, posters, audiotapes, videos, training materials, job aids, electronic media...
View ArticleSpecial 100th Issue of Health Communication
A special double issue of Health Communication celebrates its 100th issue (Volume 25, Issue 6-7, September 2010). It’s chock full of reflective articles on the state of the health communication field,...
View ArticleThemed Journal Issue on Crisis Communication
Media International Australia (No. 137, November 2010) is titled The Victorian Bushfires and Other Extreme Weather Events: Case Studies in Crisis, Culture and Communications. Edited by Louise North...
View ArticleClimate Change and the Media
The November 2010 issue of Public Understanding of Science has several articles on climate change and the media. The journal is available from the Penn Libraries e-journals. Climates of risk: A field...
View ArticleCommunicating Risks & Benefits from the FDA
The Risk Communication Advisory Committee to the Food and Drug Administration has just released Communicating Risks and Benefits: An Evidence-Based User’s Guide (edited by Baruch Fischhoff, Noel T....
View ArticlePolicy & Internet
The Policy Studies Organization has a rich website given the list of open access journals they publish, including Policy & Internet, Poverty & Public Policy, Risk, Hazards & Crisis in...
View ArticleResearch Feature: Environmental Rhetoric of Barack Obama
ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY 48:3 (Winter 2012) features research on President Obama’s rhetoric on global warming and other environmental issues. Titled Salience Over Sustainability: Environmental...
View ArticleReducing Health Disparities in JOC
Communication Strategies to Reduce Health Disparities is the title of the Journal of Communication‘s special issue (February 2013, Volume 63:1). Edited by Nancy Grant Harrington (University of...
View ArticleResilience and Communication (or Not)
The May 10, 2013 Chronicle Review’s cover story is titled: Resilience: An Idea Takes Root. Authors discuss post-catastrophic recuperation from various interdisciplinary perspectives. Whether from acts...
View ArticleSpecial Issue on Rhetoric and Gun Violence in R&PA
Rhetoric & Public Affairs (Volume 14, Number 4, Winter 2014) is titled “Special Issue on Civility” but it’s the title from the editors’ Introduction “Weapons and Words: Rhetorical Studies of the...
View ArticlePain Communication Research
It’s always nice to see good communication research getting picked up in the broader media, as in the case of Elena Gonzalez- Polledo‘s work on how social media users–in this case, Tumblr– communicate...
View ArticleTelemedicine Resources
My favorite regular feature in ACRL’s (Association of College and Research Libraries) College & Research Libraries News is Internet Resources, which I like to “repost” if at all...
View ArticleHistorical Coverage of Contraception in the Media
An historical look at birth control and the media is the theme of Journalism & Communication Monographs’ last issue of 2016 (Volume 18, Number 4). The issue’s monograph by Ana C. Garner and Angela...
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