Provides a close-up analysis of the rapid growth of political blogs and their ability to influence--or failure to influence--American political life, arguing that their wide dissemination of information and opinions enhances the American democracy and political culture; highlights some noteworthy blog sites; and explains how they are becoming part of mainstream political life.

Product Description: Ever since the invention of the telegraph, journalists have sought to remove the barriers of time and space. Today, we readily accept that reporters can jet quickly to a distant location and broadcast instantly from a satellite-connected, video-enabled cell phone hanging from their belts...read more

Product Description: Picturing China in the American Press juxtaposes what the ordinary American news reader was shown visually in Time Magazine between 1949 and 1973 with contemporary perspectives on the behind-the-scenes history of the period. Time Magazine is an especially fruitful source for such a visual-historical contrast and comparison because it was China-centric, founded and run by Henry Luce, a man who loved China and was commensurably obsessed with winning China to democracy and Western influence...read more

Product Description: Picturing China in the American Press juxtaposes what the ordinary American news reader was shown visually inTime Magazine between 1949 and 1973 with contemporary perspectives on the behind-the-scenes history of the period. Time Magazine is an especially fruitful source for such a visual-historical contrast and comparison because it was China-centric, founded and run by Henry Luce, a man who loved China and was commensurably obsessed with winning China to democracy and Western influence...read more

An examination of the history of warfare in art discusses everything from ancient cave paintings to modern high-tech images (view table of contents)

Product Description: Policing the Media is an investigation into one of the paradoxes of the mass media age. Issues, events, and people that we see most on our television screens are often those that we understand the least. David Perlmutter examined this issue as it relates to one of the most frequently portrayed groups of people on television: police officers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

How to communicate in the political world. Paperback 1999 (view table of contents)

Product Description: David Perlmutter examines concerns over the interplay of pictures in the press, elite decision-making and public opinion on foreign policy. His focus is on certain celebrated, indelible images that, it is said, sum up famous events, provoke moral outrage, mobilize public opinion, and spur government action: the icons of outrage...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)