LibGuides: Journalism & Mass Communication: Reference

Using Reference Materials

Reference materials, including encyclopedias and dictionaries, can be used when you are starting your research to get background information.

They are great for giving you keywords that you can use when you start searching for articles on your topic in the library databases or on the web.

Credo Reference
Sage Knowledge

Selected Journalism and Mass Comm Reference Materials

Subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks typically provide background essays, definitions, broad overviews of various topics, or other pertinent facts.

Communication research: Strategies and Sources
Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts
Dictionary of Cultural Theorists
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communications
Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications
Encyclopedia of New Media: An Essential Reference to Communication and Technology
Encyclopedia of Public Relations
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric
Glossary of Cultural Theory