The Communication Yearbook annuals publish diverse, state-of-the-discipline literature reviews that advance knowledge and understanding of communication systems, processes, and impacts across the discipline. Sponsored by the International Communication Association , each volume provides a forum for the exchange of interdisciplinary and internationally diverse scholarship relating to communication in its many forms. This volume re-issues the yearbook from 1983.

First published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume of Communication Yearbook develops and improves the annual's impressive tradition of providing the best of current research in communication science. It differs from its predecessors in that each chapter consists of a major work and two criticisms of it, dealing with such topics as the theory of mediation, effective policy for health care communication and feminist criticism of television. Other areas covered include organizational setting and the concept of the empowering organization, the perspective opened by conversation analysis and agenda-setting research. In each case a perceptive and incisive critique of every chapter is provided by one or more major communication scholars. Essential for its topic

The Communication Yearbook annuals originally published between 1977 and 2009 publish diverse, state-of-the-discipline literature reviews that advance knowledge and understanding of communication systems, processes, and impacts across the discipline. Topics dealt with include Communication as Process, Research Methodology in Communication, Communication Effects, Taxonomy of Communication and European Communication Theory, Information Systems Division, Mass Communication Research, Mapping the Domain of Intercultural Communication, Public Relations, Feminist Scholarship, Communication Law and Policy, Visual Communication, Communication and Cross-Sex Friendships Across the Life Cycle, Television Programming and Sex Stereotyping, InterCultural Communication Training, Leadership and Relationships, Media Performance Assessment, Cognitive Approaches to Communication.

First published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In Communication Yearbook 11 major contributions from leading scholars in a variety of communication fields are presented and then critiqued by other authorities (often representing complementary or competing schools of thought). Topics addressed and commented on include the mass media audience, the theory of mediation, effective policy for health care communication and feminist criticism of television.