ICA Handbook Series
About the Book Series
The ICA Handbook Series is a series of scholarly handbooks that represent the interests of the International Communicaton Association (ICA) members and help to further the association’s goals of promoting theory and research in the communication discipline.
Targeting scholars and advanced students in communication and media studies and related disciplines, each handbook serves as a benchmark summary of current communication scholarship in a specific area of research. Handbooks published in the series comprehensively chart the field by covering a range of key debates, issues and contexts. In addition to a critical engagement with central theoretical and empirical traditions, they provide a systematic and accessible overview of the state of scholarship, advance theory-building and problem-solving, and identify areas for further theory and research in an international context.
The series includes handbooks that consider content areas in communication research, methodological approaches to communication research, and theoretical lenses for scholarship in communication. The series volumes attempt to cross sub-disciplinary boundaries to address timely problems of international scope. They do not just represent different areas of the field but bring them together to focus on intersecting problems and research interests. Such problems may be formulated as topical concerns (globalization; democracy; health and wellbeing; gender and sexuality), theoretical approaches (social cognition; critical studies; feminist theory), or matters of communication in general (environmental communication; organizational communication).
A joint venture between the International Communication Association and Routledge, the ICA Handbook Series is edited by Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Thomas Hanitzsch.
The Handbook of Disinformation and the Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Herman Wasserman
April 12, 2027
Responding to the growth of scholarship in the field of disinformation studies, this handbook provides an overview of the subject within the context of media, while also charting routes for future research. The volume firstly explores the evolving conceptual frameworks and theoretical approaches ...
The Handbook of Computational Communication Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Mario Haim, Emese Domahidi
March 16, 2027
Offering a broad overview with interdisciplinary influences as well as an in-depth discussion particularly geared for communication science, this handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the large and continuously growing field of Computational Communication Research (CCR). This handbook ...
The Handbook of Communication in Africa: Theory, Research, and Praxis
1st Edition
Edited
By Stacey L. Connaughton, Joëlle M. Cruz, Peter F. Masibo Lumala
March 04, 2026
This handbook bridges a research and praxis gap, with contributions from both scholars and scholar-practitioners, to form an overview of communication scholarship in African contexts. The anthology showcases how communication scholarship can converse with on-the-ground initiatives and activism on ...
The Handbook of Communication Ethics
2nd Edition
Edited
By Amit Pinchevski, Patrice M. Buzzanell, Jason Hannan
December 02, 2024
The second edition of this handbook offers a thoroughly updated overview of the different approaches and perspectives in communication ethics today. Extending the path paved by its predecessor, this handbook includes new issues and concerns that have emerged in the interim—from environmentalism to ...
The Handbook of Global Interventions in Communication Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Yoshitaka Miike, Jing Yin
March 11, 2022
Moving beyond the U.S.-Eurocentric paradigm of communication theory, this handbook broadens the intellectual horizons of the discipline by highlighting underrepresented, especially non-Western, theorists and theories, and identifies key issues and challenges for future scholarship. Showcasing ...
The Handbook of International Trends in Environmental Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruno Takahashi, Julia Metag, Jagadish Thaker, Suzannah Evans Comfort
December 28, 2021
This handbook provides a comprehensive review of communication around rising global environmental challenges and public action to manage them now and into the future. Bringing together theoretical, methodological, and practical chapters, this book presents a unique opportunity for environmental ...
The Handbook of Communication Science and Biology
1st Edition
Edited
By Kory Floyd, René Weber
May 21, 2020
The Handbook of Communication Science and Biology charts the state of the art in the field, describing relevant areas of communication studies where a biological approach has been successfully applied. The book synthesizes theoretical and empirical development in this area thus far and proposes a ...
The Handbook of Journalism Studies
2nd Edition
Edited
By Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Thomas Hanitzsch
July 06, 2019
This second edition of The Handbook of Journalism Studies explores the current state of research in journalism studies and sets an agenda for future development of the field in an international context. The volume is structured around theoretical and empirical approaches to journalism research and...
The Handbook of Communication and Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Bryan C. Taylor, Hamilton Bean
June 28, 2019
The Handbook of Communication and Security provides a comprehensive collection and synthesis of communication scholarship that engages security at multiple levels, including theoretical vs. practical, international vs. domestic, and public vs. private. The handbook includes chapters that leverage ...
The Handbook of Communication in Cross-cultural Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Donal Carbaugh
September 14, 2016
This handbook brings together 26 ethnographic research reports from around the world about communication. The studies explore 13 languages from 17 countries across 6 continents. Together, the studies examine, through cultural analyses, communication practices in cross-cultural perspective. In doing...
The Handbook of Communication History
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Simonson, Janice Peck, Robert T Craig, John Jackson
December 10, 2012
The Handbook of Communication History addresses central ideas, social practices, and media of communication as they have developed across time, cultures, and world geographical regions. It attends to both the varieties of communication in world history and the historical investigation of those ...
The Handbook of Intergroup Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Howard Giles
May 04, 2012
The Handbook of Intergroup Communication brings together research, theory and application on traditional as well as innovative intergroup situations, exploring the communication aspect of these groups. The volume is organized into four domains – cross-disciplinary approaches to intergroup study; ...