The History of Media and Communication – serie
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Everything Was Better in America
Print Culture in the Great Depression
Av David Welky
Häftad, 2008
346 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 …
Mister Pulitzer and the Spider
Modern News from Realism to the Digital
Inbunden, 2016
474 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 …
Broadcasting Empire
The American Forces Network and the Postwar Projection of US Power
Av Stacy Takacs
Inbunden, 2026
1440 kr
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At first a tool to boost troop morale, the Armed Forces Network (AFN) evolved into a worldwide communications system that blended entertainment with spreading American culture and helping troops understand their missions.Stacy Takacs traces the AFN's role in the worldwide expansion of …
Selling Free Enterprise
The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60
Häftad, 1995
362 kr
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The post-World War II years in the United States were marked by the business community's efforts to discredit New Deal liberalism and undermine the power and legitimacy of organized labor. In Selling Free Enterprise, Elizabeth Fones-Wolf describes how conservative business leaders strove to …
Fanatics and Fire-eaters
Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War
Av Lorman A. Ratner, Dwight L. Teeter Jr.
Häftad, 2004
321 kr
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In the troubled years leading up to the Civil War, newspapers in the North and South presented the arguments for and against slavery, debated the right to secede, and in general denounced opposing viewpoints with imagination and vigor. At the same time, new technologies like railroads and the …
Chasing Newsroom Diversity
From Jim Crow to Affirmative Action
Häftad, 2013
341 kr
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Social change triggered by the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s sent the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) on a fifty-year mission to dismantle an exclusionary professional standard that envisioned the ideal journalist as white, straight, and male. In this book, Gwyneth Mellinger …
Digital Rebellion
The Birth of the Cyber Left
Av Todd Wolfson
Häftad, 2014
383 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, …
The Real Cyber War
The Political Economy of Internet Freedom
Av Shawn M. Powers, Michael Jablonski
Häftad, 2015
327 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 …
Indians Illustrated
The Image of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press
Häftad, 2016
440 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
Häftad, 2017
383 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
Häftad, 2017
365 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
Häftad, 2018
351 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 …
Mister Pulitzer and the Spider
Modern News from Realism to the Digital
Häftad, 2018
376 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 …
A Century of Repression
The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press
Av Ralph Engelman, Carey Shenkman
Häftad, 2022
358 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 …
Mr. Associated Press
Kent Cooper and the Twentieth-Century World of News
Av Gene Allen
Häftad, 2023
406 kr
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Finalist for the AEJMC Tankard Book AwardBetween 1925 and 1951, Kent Cooper transformed the Associated Press, making it the world’s dominant news agency while changing the kind of journalism that millions of readers in the United States and other countries relied on. Gene Allen’s biography is a …
Strawberries and Technologies
How Media Transforms Farmworker Communities in Southern California
Inbunden, 2027
1239 kr
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Strawberries and Technologies
How Media Transforms Farmworker Communities in Southern California
Häftad, 2027
385 kr
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