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Welcome to the International Encyclopedia of Communication Online, a vast library giving instant access to the most authoritative and up-to-date scholarship in your field. With unbeatable functionality, students, lecturers, and researchers will find the International Encyclopedia of Communication Online an invaluable learning, teaching, and research resource. You can access the content in a number of ways:

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Updated twice a year, The International Encyclopedia of Communication Online ensures that you are kept abreast of developments in the field.

The latest update (August 2010) features 9 new entries as well as over 75 revised and updated entries, ensuring the Online Encyclopedia stays at the cutting edge of Communication Studies.

New entries for August 2010 are:

  • Benjamin, Walter
    Matthew Jordan
  • Carey, James
    Jeremy Packer
  • Ecoding-Decoding
    Toby Miller
  • Flow Theory
    Anja Kalch&Helena Bilandzic
  • Hall, Stuart
    John Nguyet Erni
  • Herzog, Herta
    Elisabeth Perse
  • Rapport
    Amanda Hemmesch & Linda Tickle-Degnen
  • Schiller, Herbert I.
    Vincent Mosco
  • Response Rates
    Michael W. Traugott

Revised entries are:

  • Academy Awards
  • Advertising, Economics of
  • Affects and Media Exposure
  • Africa: Media Systems
  • Attending to the Mass Media
  • Australia: Media System
  • Austria: Media System
  • Balkan States: Media System
  • China: Media System
  • Communication Law and Policy: Middle East
  • Communication Law and Policy: North America
  • Communication Law and Policy: South America
  • Computer Games and Reality Perception
  • Consolidation of Media Markets
  • Consumer Culture
  • Convergence of Media Systems
  • Cross-Media Marketing
  • Cross-Media Production
  • Czech Republic: Media System
  • Development, Gender, and Communication
  • Digital Divide
  • Digitization and Media Convergence
  • Diversification of Media Markets
  • Domain Names
  • E-Democracy
  • Educational Television, Children's Responses to
  • Egypt: Media System
  • Exposure to Film
  • Exposure to Print Media
  • Exposure to Radio
  • Fear Induction through Media Content in Children
  • Feminist Media
  • Gender and Journalism
  • Gulf States: Media System
  • International Communication
  • Internet and Popular Culture
  • Internet: International Regulation
  • Interpersonal Communication Competence and Social Skills
  • Israel: Media System
  • Italy: Media System
  • Journalists: Professional Associations
  • Media and Group Representations
  • Media Corporations, Forms of
  • Media Democracy
  • Media Literacy
  • Media Production and Content
  • Media Relations
  • Media System Dependency Theory
  • Migration and Immigration
  • News
  • News Audience
  • News Routines
  • Noelle-Neumann, Elisabeth
  • North Africa: Media Systems
  • Online Relationships
  • Online Research
  • Organizational Change Processes
  • Organizations, Cultural Diversity in
  • Political Advertising
  • Political Communication
  • Political Media Use
  • Portugal: Media System
  • Public Relations
  • Public Relations: Global Firms
  • Quality of the News
  • Radio Broadcasting, Regulation of
  • Rating Methods
  • Rhetoric and Race
  • Scandinavian States: Media Systems
  • Singapore: Media System
  • Social Conflict and Communication
  • Social Movements and Communication
  • Social Stereotyping and Communication
  • South Africa: Media System
  • Spain: Media System
  • Telecenters
  • Televised Debates
  • United States of America: Media System
  • Violence as Media Content, Effects on Children of
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