Censorship of Expression in the 1980s

John B Harer, Steven R Harris

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• The study of censorship is important not because we are shocked by the contents of a book or because a complaint about a work offends our sensibilitie... Lees meer

The Course of Tolerance

Donna Lee Dickerson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• This work examines the operation of the First Amendment, especially where it concerns freedom of the press, during the nineteenth century. It examines... Lees meer

Native Americans in the News

Mary Ann Weston

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• From the Pueblo land protests of the 1920s to the sports teams' mascot controversies of the 1990s, this book chronicles the depictions of Native Ameri... Lees meer

The Democracy Gap

Jill Hills, Stylianos Papathanassopoulos

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• This work examines the political choices that surround the new technologies of telecommunications and broadcasting, and focuses on the essential issue... Lees meer

Developing Sanity in Human Affairs

Robert P. Holston, Susan Kodish

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• How can humans learn to function most effectively in their individual and social lives and best approach important ethical and social concerns? Develo... Lees meer

Native American Speakers of the Eastern Woodlands

Barbara Alice Mann

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• This collection of essays examines, in context, eastern Native American speeches, which are translated and reprinted in their entirety. Anthologies of... Lees meer

Risky Business

Lillian Black Wilkins, Philip Patterson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• The fifteen chapters in this volume deal with science, medicine, technology, disaster, and hazard coverage by the media from the perspectives of socio... Lees meer

The Significance of the Printed Word in Early America

Julie Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• The American press played a significant role in the transference of European civilization to America and in the shaping of American society. Settlemen... Lees meer

Media Messages in American Presidential Elections

Diana Owen

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• Focusing her attention on the audience, Diana Owen investigates the way people process media messages during campaigns. This study examines the role o... Lees meer

Communications and History

Paul Heyer

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• This innovative volume selectively assesses three centuries of inquiry into the role of communications in the history of civilization. It challenges t... Lees meer

Innovators and Preachers

Joel H. Wiener

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• This volume consists of fifteen essays by leading scholars dealing with the Victorian editor and his influence on the culture of his time. The first s... Lees meer

Media and Apocalypse

Conrad Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• This book is a critical examination of how newspaper and television journalists reported three catastrophes. The focus is on the processes by which jo... Lees meer

Media Freedom and Accountability

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications | nr. 14
• How, when, and to what extent should people be able to talk back to the media; what works, what doesn't, what's possible? This volume, sponsored by th... Lees meer

Advertising, Alcohol Consumption, and Abuse

Joseph C Fisher

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• An advertising executive and sociologist who has studied alcoholism at length analyzes worldwide theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship... Lees meer

The Joint Press Conference

David J Lanoue, Peter R Schrott, Anthony Messina

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• Despite the brouhaha accorded presidential debates by the media, which regards these confrontations as events of significant magnitude, social scienti... Lees meer

Personalities and Products

Edd Applegate

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• Profiling such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin, P. T. Barnum, John Wanamaker, and Harley Procter, this book examines the contributions that several pr... Lees meer

The Best of the Rest

Sam Riley

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• The Best of the Rest presents the work of 77 of America's most talented local newspaper columnists from 41 states. They represent the rest because edi... Lees meer

Papers for the Millions

Joel H. Wiener

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• This scholarly work deals specifically with the important changes in popular journalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A pionee... Lees meer

Beyond Agendas

Philip Gaunt

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• Foremost scholars explore new directions in communication research in the light of social, economic, and technological changes in recent years. They a... Lees meer

The Press in Times of Crisis

Lloyd E Chiasson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications | nr. 48
• Throughout American history, the press has been incredibly adept at making the public aware. The history of the press in crisis situations is in many ... Lees meer

Predictions of Public Opinion from the Mass Media

David Fan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• Those of us on the lookout for insights into social behavior must be impressed when a book strikes us as being powerful enough to shake firmly held be... Lees meer

Sexual Rhetoric

Meta G. Carstarphen, Susan Zavoina

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• This work explores, through case studies and critical analyses, how media depictions affect the social construction of gender, sexuality, and identity... Lees meer

Before Video

Anthony Slide

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• The video revolution in the 1980s affected all areas of the American entertainment industry; its impact was most dramatic--ultimately devastating--to ... Lees meer

Mass Media in 2025

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
• The future of mass media may appear unpredictable and too complex to fathom, but Mass Media in 2025 takes a scholarly, theoretical approach to identif... Lees meer