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Regulating the Future
Broadcasting Technology and Governmental Control
Av W.A. K. Huff
E-bok, 2001
1178 kr
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This comprehensive study examines the case of AM stereo and subsequent technologies to demonstrate the FCC's evolution from stern to reluctant regulator. It also examines emerging technologies, such as multichannel television sound, digital audio broadcasting, and high definition television, and …
Covering McCarthyism
How the Christian Science Monitor Handled Joseph R. Mccarthy, 1950-1954
E-bok, 1999
1204 kr
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Strout examines how the Christian Science Monitor, a highly influential newspaper of the era, covered Joseph R. McCarthy and McCarthyism from the Senator's Lincoln Day speech in February 1950 through his censure in December 1954. Through his in-depth examination of the Monitor's interoffice …
Significance of the Printed Word in Early America
Colonists' Thoughts on the Role of the Press
E-bok, 1999
1344 kr
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The American press played a significant role in the transference of European civilization to America and in the shaping of American society. Settlement entrepreneurs used the press to persuade Europeans to come to America. Immigrants brought religious tracts with them to spread Puritanism and other …
Manufacturing the Gang
Mexican American Youth Gangs on Local Television News
E-bok, 2002
1204 kr
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Coverage of Mexican-American youth gangs has been a staple of local television news in the United States for decades, and its form and content have come to embody many journalistic cliches: the rising tide of violence, the spread of drug addiction, the alienated minority youth. But as this bold new …
Giving Meanings to the World
The First U.S. Foreign Correspondents, 1838-1859
E-bok, 2002
1204 kr
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How did the first United States foreign correspondents help shape an American common sense about the rest of the world? This new study is the first to address this key question, examining the images of foreign countries that emerge from the first formally organized American foreign correspondence. …
Sob Sister Journalism
E-bok, 1990
963 kr
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On June 25, 1906 an event of little public importance occurred. Fueled by popular mood and climate, and capitalized upon by the press, it became the hottest story of the century. Phyllis Leslie Abramson's book recreates the social, political, and economic climate; the murder; and the subsequent …
Personalities and Products
A Historical Perspective on Advertising in America
E-bok, 1998
1204 kr
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Profiling such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin, P. T. Barnum, John Wanamaker, and Harley Procter, this book examines the contributions that several prominent individuals have made to advertising in America. The work opens with a discussion of Colonial advertising and the printers, such as Benjamin …
Rights vs. Responsibilities
The Supreme Court and the Media
E-bok, 1997
1076 kr
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In the past 65 years, the United States Supreme Court has outlined, through its decisions, its conceptions of the roles and responsibilities of the U.S. media. Analyzing every Supreme Court media case from 1931 to 1996, this book explores the changes in how the Court has conceived of the media's …
Press and the Decline of Democracy
The Democratic Socialist Response in Public Policy
E-bok, 1985
993 kr
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The author discusses the role of economic concentration in limiting public access to information and reducing opportunities for public discourse. Picard examines the government policies that have contributed to the erosion of democratic participation and have permitted the growth of large …
News Ombudsmen in North America
Assessing an Experiment in Social Responsibility
Av Neil Nemeth
E-bok, 2003
942 kr
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This book offers the most comprehensive look to date at the effort of about forty U.S. media organizations to make themselves more accountable. Nemeth provides a critical assessment of the ombudsmen's work from the ombudsmen themselves, their editors, media critics, and scholars.
Gordon McLendon
The Maverick of Radio
Av Ronald Garay
E-bok, 1992
1169 kr
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Students and others interested in radio history will be intrigued by this fast-paced biography of Gordon McLendon's career in the radio industry, touching also on his work in motion pictures and involvement in Texas politics. Following a glimpse into his childhood, education, and military career, …
Native American Speakers of the Eastern Woodlands
Selected Speeches and Critical Analyses
E-bok, 2001
1344 kr
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This collection of essays examines, in context, eastern Native American speeches, which are translated and reprinted in their entirety. Anthologies of Native American orators typically focus on the rhetoric of western speakers but overlook the contributions of Eastern speakers. The roles women …
Mass Media in 2025
Industries, Organizations, People, and Nations
Av Erwin K. Thomas, Brown H. Carpenter
E-bok, 2001
1204 kr
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The future of mass media may appear unpredictable and too complex to fathom, but Mass Media in 2025 takes a scholarly, theoretical approach to identifying trends and explaining their possibilities. Noted contributors approach a variety of media with a solid grounding in the history of each, and an …
Voices in the Wilderness
Images of Aboriginal People in the Australian Media
E-bok, 2000
1169 kr
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This book examines race relations in Australia through various media representations over the past 200 years. The early colonial press perpetuated the image of aboriginal people as framed by early explorers, and stereotypes and assumptions still prevail. Print and television news accounts of …
Brown and Black Communication
Latino and African American Conflict and Convergence in Mass Media
E-bok, 2003
1169 kr
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Though Latinos and African Americans have lived together in large cities as neighbors, there is much that is still misunderstood between them. Those who live in non-diverse locales have only news and entertainment representations on which to base their information about the two cultures. This new …
Innovators and Preachers
The Role of the Editor in Victorian England
Av Joel H. Wiener, Joel H. Wiener
Inbunden, 1985
1094 kr
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This volume consists of fifteen essays by leading scholars dealing with the Victorian editor and his influence on the culture of his time. The first section analyzes the relationship between Victorian editors and their audience. The essays show how editors effectively balanced fiction and politics, …
Transnational Media and Third World Development
The Structure and Impact of Imperialism
Inbunden, 1988
839 kr
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The study first addresses the political issues and media theories that culminated in the demand for the NWIO, and the ongoing debate among scholars, policymakers, and diplomats concerning reforms in communications. Through a comparative analysis of Western and Third World media practices, Meyer …
Foreign Policy and the Press
An Analysis of The New York Times' Coverage of U.S. Foreign Policy
Inbunden, 1990
851 kr
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The role that the press plays in foreign policy is generally seen as taking one of two forms. It is either cited as an active participant in the policy process or as an instrument to be molded and manipulated by the president and his media managers. This study challenges both of these views and …
Rhetoric of Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Inbunden, 1991
992 kr
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Richard Leeman analyzes the possible discursive responses to terrorism, prescribing democratic rhetoric as the most strategic counterterrorist response available. He examines counterterrorism as a response to terrorism, considering each side as one-half of a dialogue. Given the inherently …
Media and Apocalypse
News Coverage of the Yellowstone Forest Fires, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, and Loma Prieta Earthquake
Inbunden, 1992
877 kr
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This book is a critical examination of how newspaper and television journalists reported three catastrophes. The focus is on the processes by which journalists identified news sources and gathered data, on the professional values of the journalists and on the ways that those values contributed to …
Cold War Guerrilla
Jonas Savimbi, the U.S. Media and the Angolan War
Inbunden, 1992
1063 kr
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This is the first book on U.S. policy in Angola during the 1980s. Elaine Windrich shows how the Reagan administration and U.S. media inflated the importance of Jonas Savimbi and helped inflame the civil war in Angola. Pinpointing media strengths and weaknesses in shaping and in reporting on a major …
Before Video
A History of the Non-Theatrical Film
Inbunden, 1992
1128 kr
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The video revolution in the 1980s affected all areas of the American entertainment industry; its impact was most dramatic--ultimately devastating--to the non-theatrical film field. Non-theatrical film is the term used to describe motion pictures which are not shown in movie theaters, but are …
Political Protest and Street Art
Popular Tools for Democratization in Hispanic Countries
Inbunden, 1993
1602 kr
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This first cross-national book-length study of street art as political protest and communication focuses on art forms traditionally used by collectives and state interests in the Hispanic world--posters, wallpaintings, graffiti, murals, shirts, buttons, and stickers, for example. Professor Chaffee …
Native Americans in the News
Images of Indians in the Twentieth Century Press
Inbunden, 1996
1063 kr
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From the Pueblo land protests of the 1920s to the sports teams' mascot controversies of the 1990s, this book chronicles the depictions of Native Americans in the press. Weston shows how some images of Indians that date from the time of Columbus have persisted into the present, and she asks whether …
Rights vs. Responsibilities
The Supreme Court and the Media
Inbunden, 1997
978 kr
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In the past 65 years, the United States Supreme Court has outlined, through its decisions, its conceptions of the roles and responsibilities of the U.S. media. Analyzing every Supreme Court media case from 1931 to 1996, this book explores the changes in how the Court has conceived of the media's …
Press on Trial
Crimes and Trials as Media Events
Av Lloyd E. Chiasson, Jr. Chiasson, Lloyd m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
978 kr
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Perhaps no drama catches the interest of the American public more than a spectacular trial. Even though the reporting of a crime may quickly diminish in news value, the trial lingers while drama builds. Although this has become seemingly more pronounced in recent years with the popularity of …
Personalities and Products
A Historical Perspective on Advertising in America
Inbunden, 1998
1094 kr
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Profiling such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin, P. T. Barnum, John Wanamaker, and Harley Procter, this book examines the contributions that several prominent individuals have made to advertising in America. The work opens with a discussion of Colonial advertising and the printers, such as Benjamin …
Covering McCarthyism
How the Christian Science Monitor Handled Joseph R. McCarthy, 1950-1954
Inbunden, 1999
1094 kr
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Strout examines how the Christian Science Monitor, a highly influential newspaper of the era, covered Joseph R. McCarthy and McCarthyism from the Senator's Lincoln Day speech in February 1950 through his censure in December 1954. Through his in-depth examination of the Monitor's interoffice …
Native American Speakers of the Eastern Woodlands
Selected Speeches and Critical Analyses
Av Barbara Alice Mann, Barbara Alice Mann
Inbunden, 2001
1222 kr
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This collection of essays examines, in context, eastern Native American speeches, which are translated and reprinted in their entirety. Anthologies of Native American orators typically focus on the rhetoric of western speakers but overlook the contributions of Eastern speakers. The roles women …
Brown and Black Communication
Latino and African American Conflict and Convergence in Mass Media
Inbunden, 2003
1063 kr
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Though Latinos and African Americans have lived together in large cities as neighbors, there is much that is still misunderstood between them. Those who live in non-diverse locales have only news and entertainment representations on which to base their information about the two cultures. This new …
