Research Guide - Communication
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Journal Databases
Primary Databases
Multidisciplinary Databases Covering Communication
- With Full Text
- Indexing, abstracts, and occasional links to full text
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Online Reference Sources
Dictionaries, Glossaries & Encyclopedic Sources |
Directories
Dictionaries, Glossaries & Encyclopedic Sources
- AP Stylebook
- The Encyclopedia of Television
includes
more than 1,000 original essays from more than 250 contributors and examines
specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, major policy
disputes and such topics as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show
scandal. It also includes histories of major television networks as well as
broadcasting systems around the world and is complemented by resource materials,
photos and bibliographical information.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Rhetorosaurus Rhetoric Dictionary
- WikiPedia - user generated online encyclopedia covering
all topics, including communication. Other interesting services are
WikiQuote, a compendium of quotations
from notable people and creative works in every language, and
Wikinews, a free news source.
Directories
Selected Sources in Axe Library
Associations and Societies
- American Communication Association
(ACA) - A professional association
committed
to enabling the effective use of new... technologies to facilitate communication
instruction, research and criticism, and to offering a technologically supportive
venue for all who study the ways in which humans communicate
- American Forensic Association
(AFA) - Supports
activities and research of forensics and debate professionals.
- Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
(AEJMC) - promote[s]
education
in journalism and mass communication, to encourage... communication research...
and... defend and maintain freedom of expression in day-to-day living.
- Association for Educational Communications and Technology
(AECT) -
provide[s]
international leadership by promoting scholarship and best practices in
the creation, use, and management of technologies for effective teaching
and learning in a wide range of settings.
- Central States Communication Association
(CSCA) -
professional...
academic organization of primary and secondary... teachers [and] students,
college and university professors, and communication professionals [organized]
to promote the communication discipline in educational, scholarly, and professional
endeavors. The association... [includes] the states of North Dakota, South
Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio.
- International Federation of Communication Associations
(IF) -
organization
oriented towards improving the sharing of research on a global basis because
of the need...[for more] exchange of communications research between both
developed and developing countries.
- Kansas Association for Educational Communications and Technology
(KAECT) - Affiliated
with the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Formed
To
improve education through the use of educational communications and technology
- Kansas Association of Broadcasters
(KAB) - KAB's mission is to
provide
professional lobbying and governmental representation, efficient communication
and effective recruiting, education and training for Kansas broadcasters
- National Association of Broadcasters
(NAB) -
a
full-service trade association which represents the interests of free,
over-the-air radio and television broadcasters.
Lists of Communication Associations and Societies:
Selected Web Sites
General Overview |
Online Publications |
Communication Topics
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Broadcast Media -
Journalism -
Public Relations -
Rhetoric -
Theatre
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Career & Job Information
General Overview
oljournals
Online Publications
Lists of Communication Journals
web_topics
Communication Topics
- Advertising
- Clio Awards - Annual award that honors
creative advertising. Archives go back as far as 1960.
- Broadcast Media
- Journalism
- Public Relations
- Buzzkiller.net - a Google
Blogger site (since August, 2000) made up of
a
few journalists trying to stop a few thousand buzzwords. Crusading
writers from Forbes, Wired and elsewhere do their best to make the
tech world safe for English majors. Educational and humorous.
- Rhetoric
- American Rhetoric -
Bank of online speeches, written and on film, pivotal to events
in American and world history. Ancient to modern times covered.
Includes top 100 speeches of the 20th century ("I have a dream" is first),
movie speeches, most requested speeches and other services for
scholars and talented amateurs of rhetoric.
- Handbook of Rhetorical Devices, helpful for
those not knowing their Alliteration from their Zeugma...
- Michigan State University
Libraries > Vincent Voice Libraries - Containg over 15, 000 sound files, the
VVL is a
collection
of primary source sound material, found mainly in speech, interview,
lecture and performance formats. It is the largest academic voice
library in the United States. Strong areas of collection emphasis
include, American and foreign politics and government, labor history,
show business and media history, academic lectures, sports, popular
culture, literature and the arts and Michigan State University history..
- Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (BYU) -
This
site is intended to help beginners, as well as experts, make sense
of rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and examples of
specific terms) and on the large scale (the purposes of rhetoric,
the patterns into which it has fallen historically as it has been
taught and practiced for 2000+ years).
- Wikipedia > Rhetoric
- Theater
Career & Job Information
Course Related Web Sites
PSU Department of Communication.
PSU 2003-2005 University Catalog - Communication
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