• ISBN13: 9780415889650
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: January 1, 2012
• Pages: 432
• Original Price: GBP 115.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 772 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Communication Studies, Interpersonal Relations, and Social Psychology

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 "intergroup" umbrella integrates and transcends many traditional conceptual boundaries in communication (including media, health, intercultural, organizational); hence the Handbook will appeal to scholars and graduate students not only in the core area of intergroup communication itself, but across varying terrains of study in communication and beyond, including intergroup relations and social psychology.

Howard (Howie) Giles is Professor of Communication at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has served as Chair of the Communication Department and as the Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies in the College of Letters and Science. Prior to UCSB he was Chair of Social Psychology and Head of Psychology at Bristol University. His research interests revolve around the study of intergroup communication in different domains (interethnic, gay-straight, between-gender, physically challenged-ablebodied people), and his current interests focus on intergenerational communication and lifespan aging from a cross-cultural perspective.