Research Guides: Political Communication: Getting Started

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Communication & Mass Media Complete
Covers magazines and scholarly journals in the fields of mass media and communication studies.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Covers scholarly journal literature in the arts and humanities.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Provides citations to the international periodical literature in political science and its complementary fields.

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Encyclopedia of Political Communication
Hardcopy: REF JA85 .E64 2008
Contains nearly 600 entries for major theories, concepts, terms, events, and individuals involved in both the practice and study of political communication.
Encyclopedia of Politics, the Media, and Popular Culture
Hardcopy: P95.82.U6 C62 2009
This work examines the most important interactions between politics, the media, and popular culture of the last 200 years.
Oxford Reference Online
Includes over 200 titles, updated regularly, in the Oxford Companions and Oxford Dictionaries series. The collection covers a wide variety of subjects from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
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