Hampton Press Communication Series: Journalism & Mass Communication – serie

Dozens of communication researchers responded to the tragedies of 9/11 by immediately designing and carrying out research projects. This volume compiles the best of those research efforts. Studies include diffusion of news of the attacks, the role of the Internet, tracking of media use and gratifications, television coverage of the crisis, the portrayal of the enemy in editorial cartoons, national studies of stress reactions, parents' perceptions of their children's fears, and the role of communication in coping with terror.

Honors Jack M. McLeod as a significant force in the training of scholars and as a leader in the conduct of research. The editors have compiled chapters in this book that examine the major themes and enduring contributions of his work. In each case an author who worked with McLeod on the particular concept to that area was selected.