Recommended bibliography of communication studies

First, the theory of news communication

Marxist analysis of media

Author: [English] John Molyneux; Translated by Yang Qian, published by Communication University of China Press, 2065438+February 2008.

Introduction | This book uses Marxist standpoints, viewpoints and methods to directly attack the current media chaos in Europe and the United States, penetrate the appearance, discard the dross and save the dross, and deeply and meticulously criticize the capitalist media crisis. Among them, there are many reflections on European and American popular variety shows, soap operas and advertising forms, as well as in-depth analysis of the seemingly developed and false prosperity of western media, which has aroused readers' deep thinking. This book is a new work of British classic Marxist school on media criticism, and its criticism of capitalist media can be described as firm and clear-cut in western society.

Tracing Plato: An Introduction to the Origin of Communication Studies

Authors: [America] Michael Days and [America] mary brown; Translated by Wang Hai, Press: Science Press, publishing time: 20 18 1 1 month.

Introduction | This book is the leading work of communication, which introduces the origin, category and methods of communication, outlines the development track of communication from the early wise to contemporary communication for more than 2500 years, comprehensively discusses communication, and considers communication to be a sound social science, humanities and practical art; This paper discusses the research methods of communication, including quantitative and qualitative social science methods, and various paths of modern and post-modern criticism.

Expanding ability

Author: [America] Manuel Castells; Translated by Tang Jingtai and Chen Xing, published on 20 18 10.

Introduction | This book continues Caster's grand narrative clue and describes the importance of the communication process for establishing and maintaining various political, economic and cultural powers. Caster believes that communication is an open and dynamic time and space in the new social form of network society. In the chain of communication, politics, market and non-governmental forces are playing a big game across time and space. We need an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective to see the process of their game.

Deviation of communication (revised edition in Chinese and English)

Author: (Canadian) harold Inis, translator: He Daokuan, press: Communication University of China, publishing time: 2065438+March 2008.

Introduction | The Deviation of Communication written by harold Inis tries to answer a question raised by a psychological article. In The Deviation of Communication, Inis used a lot of space to describe the opposition between oral and written methods in the learning process. In the chapter "Critical Criticism", he explained: "I am inclined to the oral tradition, especially the oral tradition reflected in Greek civilization. I think it is necessary to regain its charm. " Generally speaking, kiness, as the founder of the technical school, did not publicize the word "technology" obviously, but preferred grand historical narrative, and demonstrated (or properly described) the influence of time bias, space bias and space-time media on national character and even history from the progress of media and history. It can even be said that this is a history of communication from another angle, which is more obvious than the label of technicalism.

News: Illusion Politics (9th Edition)

Author: Melanie Bennett, Press: Renmin University of China Press, published on March 20 18.

Introduction | As the core of a country's political information system, how can news play a good role in serving democracy? In order to explore this important issue, this book examines from two aspects: how politicians try to make the information they want to convey news; How do journalists and media report news? Great changes in news consumption and production are the driving force behind the alternation of old and new times in journalism. News: The politics of illusion became a milestone in the study of political communication when 1983 was first published. In the ninth edition, Bennett discusses and analyzes these changes.

Cybernetics (Second Edition)

Author: (America) norbert wiener's works, translated by Chen Juan, published by Communication University of China Press, published in February 2065438+2008.

Introduction | The birth of cybernetics is one of the great scientific achievements in the 20th century. Norbert wiener's Cybernetics (bilingual version on control and communication of animals and machines, 2nd edition) (essence) reveals that the communication and control functions in machines are the same as those of human nerves and senses. It provides a brand-new scientific method for modern scientific and technological research; It broke through the shackles of traditional thinking in many ways, and effectively promoted a series of changes in modern scientific thinking mode and contemporary philosophical concepts.

Sociological analysis of media politics

Author: Jinchuan Xie, Press: Communication University of China Press, published on 20 1 1/08.

Introduction | This book focuses on several important aspects related to the media, including media technology, media production, media discourse and media action. However, this study is different from the analysis based on communication ontology, but establishes the correlation analysis between these important aspects and politics, capital, society and even individuals. Obviously, this process needs interdisciplinary thinking, interdisciplinary horizon fusion and transformation, in order to obtain more abundant explanations and research findings. At the same time, the book also adheres to the global perspective and local experience, but this is not a process in which local experience verifies the global theory, but a process in which the theory is investigated and the uniqueness of local experience is expounded. In addition, because there are more or less many excellent research results related to this, this study is also a process of combing and dialogue with related results.

Introduction to Computational Communication

Author: Zhang Lun, Press: Beijing Normal University Press, published on 20 18 12.

Introduction | The research in the field of computational communication is the result of the combination of "big data" technology and journalism and communication research. This textbook aims to systematically introduce "Computational Communication", a brand-new research paradigm of communication, with the background of "Computational Social Science", so that readers can have the basic ability to conduct communication research by interdisciplinary methods and lay a solid theoretical and technical foundation for students who intend to study for master's or doctoral degrees in related fields in the future. Through practical training in data collection, analysis and results display, this book provides readers interested in emerging media industries (for example, IT industry, social advertising, data analysts, etc.) with basic skills in data collection and analysis. ) in the future.

Tsinghua News Bibliography Guide (100)

Author: Bing Lin Li Haibo, publishing house: Tsinghua University Publishing House, publishing time: 20 18 1 1.

Introduction | "Tsinghua News Bibliography Guide (100)" carefully selects hundreds of works for journalism students, and outlines a knowledge map of journalism. This book list is divided into 50 general categories and 50 professional categories. Before this article, Nan Zeng, former editor-in-chief of Xinhua News Agency, wrote an article "Cultivating Reading into a Hobby of Journalists". The text is a reading guide written by a senior scholar. Readers who are still dissatisfied after reading the whole book can also look for relevant books for further research according to the "extended reading" information at the end of each article.