The International Encyclopedia of Communication Available to Purchase

The editor of this encyclopaedia is right to say that communication is so dynamic, large, omnivorous, pluralistic, global, cross‐cultural, inter‐disciplinary, and so full of theoretical and practical ideas and issues and applications, that defining and representing the field is in itself a major challenge. He refers to predecessors in this area, like Schement (2001) and Johnston (2003). In his introduction aspects of the challenge were representing plurality, finding a coherent system of terms, and ensuring that its quality was consistent and coverage truly international. These will be among the criteria any librarian will use when weighing up whether to...