Communication Studies

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.

Check Credo Reference or Sage eReference.

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

CultureGrams Database

A Dictionary of Communication and Media studies 

Communication research : Strategies and Sources 

Communication, Cultural and Media Studies : the Key Concepts 

Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies 

A dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory

Dictionary of Cultural Theorists 

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communications 

A Glossary of cultural theory 

The Sage Dictionary of Cultural Studies

Sourcebook on Rhetoric : Key Concepts in Contemporary Rhetorical Studies

Encyclopedia of Communication and Information

Encyclopedia of international Media and Communications

Encyclopedia of New Media : An Essential Reference to Communication and Technology

From Talking Drums to the Internet : An Encyclopedia of Communications Technology

Encyclopedia of Public Relations

Encyclopedia of Rhetoric