Hampton Press Communication Series: Mass Media and Journalism – serie

Synthesizing research on popular music and adolescence, this work covers research on music uses and gratifications, music preferences, imagery, and audiences for music. It seeks to examine the impact of music on attitudes and what, if anything should be done in terms of government regulation.

Small-scale electronic media (local radio and television stations) have experienced much turbulence and change in the 1990s. In western Europe, local and regional stations have achieved legitimation in national media policies; in central and eastern Europe, stations have been emerging at an explosive rate; and elsewhere in the world, developments have been no less substantial. These changes, taken as a whole, signal substantial albeit diverse forms of engagement and utilization of small-scale electronic media. These developments have been recorded in only a handful of academic studies. No scholarly consideration of these media developments has appeared, despite the range of development and widespread acknowledgement of their place in the media landscape. This volume is intended to fill this void through an integrated series of contributions emphasizing theoretical perspectives, empirical research findings and developments regarding policy and practice. It reflects the state of scholarly work in this niche of the media landscape and charts areas for further investigations.

This volume examines the relationship between the NBA and the television networks who broadcast its games. It reveals several broadcast strategies that were implemented to help grow the sport of NBA basketball from the late 1970s-80s to the present. It features exclusive interviews with key personnel and offers an integrated model of mass media and uses and gratifications effects.

This volume provides work toward developing a theory of criticism. Beginning from the perspective that a theory of press criticism should be grounded in a theory of the press itself, the book builds a foundation for the press that rests on the ideals of a discursive democracy. The discursive paradigm is then used to develop a model for criticism that makes the relationship between the critics and the press analogous to the one that occurs between the citizenry and state in a discursive democracy.