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Key readings in media today : mass communication in contexts /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Duffy, Brooke Erin, Turow, Joseph
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1 : Understanding the nature of mass media. Mass communication, popular taste and organized social action / Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Robert K. Merton
  • The definition of media literacy / W. James Potter
  • Common media for an uncommon nation / Ben H. Bagdikian
  • Political problem, political solutions / Robert McChesney
  • Not toasters : the special nature of media products / C. Edwin Baker
  • Four puzzles from cyberspace / Lawrence Lessig
  • pt. 2 : The print media. Making news : time and typifications / Gaye Tuchman
  • Convergence : news production in a digital age / Eric Klinenberg
  • Time ahead : digital challenges facing print magazines / Brooke Erin Duffy
  • Sex, lies, and advertising / Gloria Steinem
  • Is there a text in this advertising campaign? : literature, marketing, and Harry Potter / Philip Nel
  • Newspapers rocken espanol / Mark Fitzgerald
  • pt. 3 : The electronic media. What is news? / Neil Postman and Steve Powers
  • Queens for a day : Queer eye for the straight guy and the neoliberal project / Katherine Sender
  • Deconstructing the diversity principle / Philip M. Napoli
  • Radio and modernity : time, place and "communicative capacity" / David Hendy
  • Fallout : a follow up to "the internet debacle" / Janis Ian
  • Promoting the industry / Janet Wasko
  • Blockbuster meets superhero comic, or art house meets graphic novel? The contradictory relationship between film and comic art / Matthew P. McAllister, Ian Gordon, and Mark Jancovich
  • pt. 4 : The digital media. The long tail / Chris Anderson
  • Peer production and sharing / Yochai Benkler
  • Your brain on video games : could they actually be good for you? / Steven Johnson
  • Sports online : the newest player in mediasport / Michael Real
  • Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars? Digital cinema, media convergence, and participatory culture / Henry Jenkins
  • Download this : youtube phenom has a big secret / Ethan Smith and Peter Lattman
  • pt. 5 : Advertising and public relations. The work of adcult / James B. Twitchell
  • "Chaos scenario" : a look at the marketing industry's coming disaster / Bob Garfield
  • Rethinking television in the digital age / Joseph Turow
  • Philanthropy as public relations : a critical perspective on cause marketing / Inger L. Stole
  • Media, war, and propaganda : strategies of information management during the 2003 Iraq war / Deepa Kumar
  • The public and its problems : some notes for the new millennium / Stuart Ewen