Stanley Cohen's study of Mods and Rockers in the 1960s was a foundational text both in terms of investigating the workings of subcultural groups and identifying the concept of a 'moral panic' generated by the media, which leads to groups being vilified in the popular imagination, and inhibits rational debate about solutions to the social problems such groups represent. The insights Cohen provides into subculture and mass morality are as relevant today as they were when the book was originally published in 1972, as illustrated by the author's introduction for this new edition, in which he tracks moral panics over the last thirty years, commenting on the demonization of young offenders and asylum seekers and on the News of the World's 'name and shame' campaign against paedophiles.Revisiting the theory of moral panic and exploring the way in which the concept has been used, this new edition features a select bibliography of key texts for further reading. The third edition of Folk Devils and Moral Panics makes available a valuable and widely recommended text.

Product Description: A strong, open relationship with reporters is the key ingredient for achieving fair, complete coverage of schools. You'll find dozens of tips on establishing credibility, conducting a good interview, communicating during a crisis and using media tools such as news releases and public service announcements...read more

Product Description: Nonfiction. What is terrorism? Who defines the term and for what purpose? In this powerful collection multiple and oftentimes conflicting meanings of terrorism are revealed and argued in compelling and accessible essays, discussions, and images...read more

Product Description: A record of 70 years of British radio, TV and film, tracing images of homosexuality. When did lesbianism first come to Ambridge? What was it that Mrs Dale couldn't write about in her diary? When was the first same-sex kiss on television? These questions and many more are answered in this book...read more

A fine copy with a neat inscritpion in ink from the author: "to Gene Autry, What an honor it was to work for you all those years. You are loved by everyone who knows you. I always used your name when I was on a news story and wanted some special help. It worked like magic. Gene, thank you for everything and my 11 children thank you as well, Stan Chambers KTLA Sept. 14, 1994." Also there is a KTLA bannerhead book releaseslip paperclipped in - typed: "Dear Gene, Stan and KTLA would like you to have a copy of his recent book. Because of your leadership and guidance throughout the years, KTLA News has become the historical news of record for Los Angeles. Best regards, [signed in ink] Greg and typed Greg (Greg Nathanson). An interesting association copy.

Product Description: The Twelfth Edition examines the legal implications of changes in media systems and services wherever they occur. It both traces communications law issues to their sources and considers their future directions. The text reviews the historical and constitutional foundations of free expression, and the implications of mass communications law for the citizen...read more

This book presents an overview of what is suddenly happening within the relatively new field called computer-assisted reporting (CAR). The rapid rate at which personal computing is changing has made it a tool for journalists. And as personal computing grows, so do its applications in the media newsroom. To introduce journalists to computer-assisted reporting, this book describes how leading journalists are using personal computers for more than just writing in the news gathering process. American society has been inundated by a flood of computerized public and private records. Many records formerly kept on paper are now stored in computers. Many records that were never before kept are now retained in databases. And records that are not computerized can very easily be converted into databases. These developments have prompted journalists to become increasingly more involved with computers during the past decade. Much, if not most, news reporting now depends upon the use of computers. Knowledge of how to access and use computer databases is essential for the journalists of the future. This book focuses on the computerization of news reporting. Not only does the personal computer of the mid-1990s assist journalists by making writing easier, it makes reporting more efficient. The book begins with a demonstration of methods reporters can use to get more from their computers -- data retrieval and analysis, information storage, and dissemination of that information in both processed and unprocessed forms. The book concludes with a proposal for development of computer literacy in the newsroom. This is not a "how-to" book. It is best described as a "what's happening" book because it discusses current and future developments in the use of computers for information gathering by the news media. The single most important focus is on the changing nature of news reporting in the wake of down-sizing, down-pricing, up-powering, and up-speeding of business-type desktop and portable personal computers. Numerous new approaches to reporting and research have developed in the past decade in parallel with the evolution of personal computers. With these new techniques coming to the field of reporting in the mid-1990s, there is need for a book that covers both the merger of traditional information gathering methods and the newly developing ones. This book introduces readers to the new information gathering and analytical techniques evolving with new computer-based technology. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Max Frankel characterized Unsecular Media as a book that leaves you thinking about the saintly role that religion has acquired in our allegedly irreligious media.Mark Silk's book is the first to offer a comprehensive description and analysis of how American news media cover religion...read more

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This text examines the United States activities of the mass media and their economic impact on culture and society. Each chapter analyses major industries in the field of media economics, and provides written learning objectives and review questions. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Rather than taking a traditional view of media influence flowing over a relatively passive audience, the contributors to this volume of essays treat political communication as an interactive process of making meaning. Meaning refers to what one intends to convey especially through language, as well as to what is actually conveyed and reflects the processes of message creation and interpretation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Sian Lewis explores the role of news and information in shaping Greek society from the sixth to the fourth centuries, b.c. Applying ideas from the study of modern media to her analysis of the functions of gossip, travel, messengers, inscriptions, and institutions in the polis, she demonstrates that news was a vital concern for the ancient Greeks. Specifically, the acquisition and exchange of information played a key role in determining status and power. Proceeding from a discussion of individual citizens involved in the exchange of news to an account of more complex forms of communication organized by the polis, Lewis traces the role of what we call news in a culture that was primarily oral. She contrasts the informal exchanges that occurred among travelers and merchants with the official announcements made by heralds and envoys. She also analyzes the motives behind such official announcements and the ways in which the authorities exerted control over the flow of information. Finally, she reconsiders the role of the political assembly and the origins of the public inscription, which has until now been assumed to have been the primary source of news for Greek citizens. Not for sale in the British Commonwealth except Canada or in Europe

Product Description: What are the issues -- practical and political -- involved in bringing reports of armed conflict to our television screens? What is the role of the media in our perception of warfare? Are the media reports accurate? These are some of the questions addressed in this new collection of essays...read more

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Product Description: Old Media/New Media, 3e, offers a well-balanced and effective framework for examining the advances made in media technology and assessing the dramatic impact of these changes on mass media and society. The text explores the convergence of old media (e...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book offers a major reconceptualization of the term “audience,” including the landscape of a given audience—the situated and territorializing features of any way of seeing and defining the world. Given de Certeau's hypothesis that listening, watching, and reading all occur in places and result in produce transformed paths or spaces, the contributors to this landmark volume have provided innovative essays analyzing the transformations that take place in the geography between sender and receiver...read more

Product Description: Posing questions about the quality of life today, and our role as media consumers, this study attempts to analyze attitudes to the revolutionary changes affecting the media, encapsulated in the terms "digital revolution" and "multimedia"...read more