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Everything Was Better in America
Print Culture in the Great Depression
Av David Welky
Häftad, 2008
348 kr
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As a counterpart to research on the 1930s that has focused on liberal and radical writers calling for social revolution, David Welky offers this eloquent study of how mainstream print culture shaped and disseminated a message affirming conservative middle-class values and assuring its readers that …
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Communication Politics in Dubious Times
Inbunden, 1999
506 kr
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Long seen as a bedrock of democracy and freedom, the media have in fact become a significant antidemocratic force in the United States and around the world. The corporate media explosion has set off a corresponding implosion of public life that characterizes a perilous present-and threatens our …
Cultural Politics and the Mass Media
Alaska Native Voices
Av Patrick J. Daley, Beverly James
Inbunden, 2004
511 kr
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Alaska's indigenous peoples have used various forms of mass media and community media for purposes of cultural expression, self-determination, and political resistance. Patrick J. Daley and Beverly A. James elegantly reveal how newspapers, radio stations and television programs became strategic …
Investigated Reporting
Muckrakers, Regulators, and the Struggle Over Television Documentary
Av Chad Raphael
Inbunden, 2005
653 kr
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Triple Award Winner: 2006 History Division Book Award of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication,2006 Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha Communications Award, and2005 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research The public often …
Women Making News
Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain
Inbunden, 2005
623 kr
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Starting in the mid-nineteenth century, female editors and journalists created a new genre of political journal they proclaimed to be both for and by women. Specialized periodicals like Women's Penny Paper and Shafts fostered the proliferation of diverse political agendas aimed at reimagining …
Freedom from Advertising
E. W. Scripps's Chicago Experiment
Inbunden, 2007
670 kr
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Disgusted by publishers and editors who refused to cover important stories for fear of offending advertisers, the press baron E. W. Scripps rejected conventional wisdom and set out to prove that an ad-free newspaper could be profitable entirely on circulation. Duane C. S. Stoltzfus details the …
Scripps Newspapers Go to War, 1914-18
Av Dale Zacher
Inbunden, 2008
757 kr
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Before radio and television, E. W. Scripps's twenty-one newspapers, major newswire service, and prominent news syndication service comprised the first truly national media organization in the United States. Dale E. Zacher details the scope, organization, and character of the mighty Scripps empire …
Telecommunications and Empire
Av Jill Hills
Inbunden, 2007
641 kr
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Jill Hills picks up from her pathbreaking study The Struggle for Control of Global Communication: The Formative Century to continue her examination of the political, technological, and economic forces at work in the global telecommunications market from World War II to the World Trade Organization …
Normative Theories of the Media
Journalism in Democratic Societies
Av Clifford G Christians, Theodore Glasser m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1239 kr
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In this book, five leading scholars of media and communication take on the difficult but important task of explicating the role of journalism in democratic societies. Using Fred S. Siebert, Theodore Peterson, and Wilbur Schramm's classic Four Theories of the Press as their point of departure, the …
Radio's Hidden Voice
The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States
Inbunden, 2009
685 kr
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Since the 1960s, the existence of a largely noncommercial public broadcasting system has become a familiar feature of American cultural and social life. Most histories of broadcasting, however, overlook public radio's early development during the 1920s and 1930s by focusing on the mainstream, …
Radio Utopia
Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest
Inbunden, 2011
1275 kr
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As World War II drew to a close and radio news was popularized through overseas broadcasting, journalists and dramatists began to build upon the unprecedented success of war reporting on the radio by creating audio documentaries. Focusing particularly on the work of radio luminaries such as Edward …
Chronicling Trauma
Journalists and Writers on Violence and Loss
Inbunden, 2011
762 kr
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To attract readers, journalists have long trafficked in the causes of trauma--crime, violence, warfare--as well as psychological profiling of deviance and aberrational personalities. Novelists, in turn, have explored these same subjects in developing their characters and by borrowing from their own …
Equal Time
Television and the Civil Rights Movement
Inbunden, 2012
1239 kr
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Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement explores the crucial role of network television in reconfiguring new attitudes in race relations during the civil rights movement. Due to widespread coverage, the civil rights revolution quickly became the United States' first televised major …
Advertising at War
Business, Consumers, and Government in the 1940s
Inbunden, 2012
1275 kr
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Advertising at War challenges the notion that advertising disappeared as a political issue in the United States in 1938 with the passage of the Wheeler-Lea Amendment to the Federal Trade Commission Act, the result of more than a decade of campaigning to regulate the advertising industry. Inger L. …
C. Francis Jenkins, Pioneer of Film and Television
Inbunden, 2014
651 kr
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This is the first biography of the important but long-forgotten American inventor Charles Francis Jenkins (1867-1934). Historian Donald G. Godfrey documents the life of Jenkins from his childhood in Indiana and early life in the West to his work as a prolific inventor whose productivity was cut …
Digital Rebellion
The Birth of the Cyber Left
Av Todd Wolfson
Inbunden, 2014
1239 kr
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Digital Rebellion examines the impact of new media and communication technologies on the spatial, strategic, and organizational fabric of social movements. Todd Wolfson reveals how aspects of the mid-1990s Zapatistas movement--network organizational structure, participatory democratic governance, …
Heroes and Scoundrels
The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture
Av Matthew C. Ehrlich, Joe Saltzman
Inbunden, 2015
1239 kr
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Whether it's the rule-defying lifer, the sharp-witted female newshound, or the irascible editor in chief, journalists in popular culture have shaped our views of the press and its role in a free society since mass culture arose over a century ago. Drawing on portrayals of journalists in television, …
Polish Hearst
Ameryka-Echo and the Public Role of the Immigrant Press
Av Anna D Jaroszynska-Kirchmann
Inbunden, 2015
842 kr
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Arriving in the U.S. in 1883, Antoni A. Paryski climbed from typesetter to newspaper publisher in Toledo, Ohio. His weekly Ameryka-Echo became a defining publication in the international Polish diaspora and its much-read letters section a public sphere for immigrants to come together as a community …
Real Cyber War
The Political Economy of Internet Freedom
Av Shawn M. Powers, Michael Jablonski
Inbunden, 2015
1239 kr
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Contemporary discussion surrounding the role of the internet in society is dominated by words like: internet freedom, surveillance, cybersecurity, Edward Snowden and, most prolifically, cyber war. Behind the rhetoric of cyber war is an on-going state-centered battle for control of information …
Acid Hype
American News Media and the Psychedelic Experience
Av Stephen Siff
Inbunden, 2015
1239 kr
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Now synonymous with Sixties counterculture, LSD actually entered the American consciousness via the mainstream. Time and Life, messengers of lumpen-American respectability, trumpeted its grand arrival in a postwar landscape scoured of alluring descriptions of drug use while lesser outlets …
Making the News Popular
Mobilizing U.S. News Audiences
Inbunden, 2016
1275 kr
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The professional judgment of gatekeepers defined the American news agenda for decades. Making the News Popular examines how subsequent events brought on a post-professional period that opened the door for imagining that consumer preferences should drive news production--and unleashed both crisis …
Mister Pulitzer and the Spider
Modern News from Realism to the Digital
Inbunden, 2016
477 kr
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A spidery network of mobile online media has supposedly changed people, places, time, and their meanings. A prime case is the news. Digital webs seem to have trapped "legacy media," killing off newspapers and journalists' jobs. Did news businesses and careers fall prey to the digital "Spider"? To …
Indians Illustrated
The Image of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press
Inbunden, 2016
1424 kr
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After 1850, Americans swarmed to take in a raft of new illustrated journals and papers. Engravings and drawings of "buckskinned braves" and "Indian princesses" proved an immensely popular attraction for consumers of publications like Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Harper's Weekly . In …
Across the Waves
How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio
Inbunden, 2017
1239 kr
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In 1931, the United States and France embarked on a broadcasting partnership built around radio. Over time, the transatlantic sonic alliance came to personify and to shape American-French relations in an era of increased global media production and distribution. Drawing on a broad range of American …
Race News
Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century
Av Fred Carroll
Inbunden, 2017
1275 kr
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Once distinct, the commercial and alternative black press began to crossover with one another in the 1920s. The porous press culture that emerged shifted the political and economic motivations shaping African American journalism. It also sparked disputes over radical politics that altered news …
Becoming the Story
War Correspondents Since 9/11
Inbunden, 2018
1275 kr
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The September 11 attacks produced great changes in journalism and the lives of the people who practiced it. Foreign reporters felt surrounded by the hate of American colleagues for "the enemy." Americans in combat areas became literal targets of anti–U.S. sentiment. Behind the lines, editors and …
Journalism and Jim Crow
White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America
Av Kathy Roberts Forde, Sid Bedingfield
Inbunden, 2021
1448 kr
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Winner of the American Historical Association’s 2022 Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize. White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War. At the same time, a vibrant Black press fought to disrupt these …
Sunday Paper
A Media History
Av Paul Moore, Sandra Gabriele
Inbunden, 2022
1617 kr
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Pullout sections, poster supplements, contests, puzzles, and the funny pages--the Sunday newspaper once delivered a parade of information, entertainment, and spectacle for just a few pennies each weekend. Paul Moore and Sandra Gabriele return to an era of experimentation in early twentieth-century …
Century of Repression
The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press
Av Ralph Engelman, Carey Shenkman
Inbunden, 2022
1617 kr
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A Century of Repression offers an unprecedented and panoramic history of the use of the Espionage Act of 1917 as the most important yet least understood law threatening freedom of the press in modern American history. It details government use of the Act to control information about U.S. military …
Eternity in the Ether
A Mormon Media History
Av Gavin Feller
Inbunden, 2023
1239 kr
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Mass media and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints evolved alongside each other, and communications technology became a fundamental part of the Church's institutions and communities. Gavin Feller investigates the impact of radio, television, and the internet on Mormonism and what it …
