LibGuides: Subject Guide: Media and Communications: Find Background

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

These sources will give quick overviews or definitions, and sometimes supply lists of recommended sources.

Dictionary of Media and Communications Studies
Publication Date: 2015

Brief definitions of terms
Encyclopaedia of Mass Media
Publication Date: 2010
Encyclopedia of Communication Theory
Call Number: Reference P87.5 .E496 2009

Publication Date: 2009
Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications
Publication Date: 2003

Fairly lengthy articles with bibliographies of recommended further readings.
Handbook of Media and Mass Communication Theory
Publication Date: 2014

Essays covering theories and theorists.
International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society
Publication Date: 2015

Fairly lengthy articles, with selected bibliographies.
Key Concepts in Media and Communications
Publication Date: 2011

Overviews of terms and issues in the field, with added recommendations for further reading