Communication Yearbook 25

<p><i>Communication Yearbook 25</i> is devoted to publishing state-of-the-art literature reviews in which authors critique and synthesize a body of communication research. This volume contains critical integrative reviews of research on democracy and new communication technologies; the Federal Communication Commission's communication policymaking process; cognitive effects of hypermedia; mediation of children's television viewing; informatization world systems and developing countries; communication ethics; communication in culturally diverse work groups; and attitudes toward language. In addition it also includes senior scholars' reviews of research on imagined interactions and symbolic convergence theory. <br><br> Representing media interpersonal intercultural and other areas of communication this is an important reference on current research for scholars and students in the social sciences. Each of the chapters make a unique contribution to the field. </p>