Communication Studies – WCC Library Research Guides

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Media and communication topics are covered in many academic disciplines you will find books throughout the library. Some of the major sections are listed here.

Communication Studies Call Numbers

HM 1206 – HM 1236	Media and Society. Propaganda. Persuasion. Public opinion.
P 87-96	Communication. Mass media.
P 94.7	Interpersonal Communication
P 95 – P 95.6	Oral Communication
P 99.5 – P 99.6	Nonverbal Communication
P 301 – P 301.5	Rhetoric in Persuasion, Debate
PN 4129.15	Public Speaking
PN 1990- 1992.92	Broadcasting.
PN 1993-1999	Motion Pictures.
PN 4699-5650	Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
PN 6700-6790	Comic books, strips, etc.
PR 901 – PR 907.2	English Literature – Oratory

Disciplines

General Interpersonal Communication Websites

Speech and Oral Communication Websites

U.S. Presidential Debates

Organizations

Advertising

Duke Libraries Digital Collection: Advertising Collection
Includes several collections such as Ad*Access (covering product categories such as Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda – dated between 1911 and 1955) and AdViews (thousands of television commercials dated 1950s – 1980s) plus several more stellar collections.

Gender Ads Project
Created by Scott A. Lukas of Lake Tahoe Community College, the website is dedicated to understanding the contexts of sexism and advertising, gender and advertising, women and advertising, men and advertising, advertising and violence.

Adrants
This blog offers “Marketing and advertising news with attitude.” Get an inside look at ads, marketing and campaigns.

Media Ownership

Who Owns What

Tool to trace corporate ownership of media, from the Columbia Journalism Review.

Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting

Website for FAIR, a national media watch group.

Media Matters
What’s happening in broadcast media? How are pundits and journalists behaving? Media Matters analyzes what’s going on with the Fourth Estate.

Intercultural Communication

Intercultural Communication Institute
The Intercultural Communication Institute (ICI) offers resources for intercultural, cross-cultural, multicultural, international, diversity training, and education.

Public Speaking

public speaking icon Public Speaking: The Virtual Text
A free online public speaking textbook.

Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking
A user-friendly guide to creating, researching, and presenting public speeches.

Keep Learning

Sexy Technical Communication Because good technical writing is powerful and clear and gets the job done.

US Newsstream: Search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as newspaper archives, wire services, broadcast transcripts, and blogs. National and regional sources.

Six Minutes
Great blog on public speaking and developing presentation skills.

Communication Nation
This blog looks at the way that we engage each other and communicate as individuals and in societies.

The Communication Blog
(by Joseph A. DeVito, Hunter College of the City University of New York)