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1. Making the University Matter

   Edited by Barbie Zelizer

   Series: Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies

   Making the University Matter investigates how academics situate themselves simultaneously in the university and the world and how doing so affects the viability of the university setting. The university stands at the intersection of two sets of interests, needing to be at one with the world while...

   Published June 20th 2011 by Routledge
2. Journalism After September 11

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Barbie Zelizer, Stuart Allan

   Series: Communication and Society

   Praise for the first edition: This collection of essays comes mainly from academics but nobody should bridle at theorists lecturing practitioners. They properly challenge the way September 11th was reported - in a way that's both an endorsement of the role of the media and a wake-up call on its...

   Published April 20th 2011 by Routledge
3. The Changing Faces of Journalism

   Tabloidization, Technology and Truthiness

   By Barbie Zelizer

   Series: Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies

   The collection is introduced with an essay by Barbie Zelizer and organized into three sections: how tabloidization affects the journalistic landscape; how technology changes what we think we know about journalism; and how ‘truthiness’ tweaks our understanding of the journalistic tradition. Short...

   Published April 30th 2009 by Routledge
4. Explorations in Communication and History

   Edited by Barbie Zelizer

   Series: Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies

   When and how do communication and history impact each other? How do disciplinary perspectives affect what we know? Explorations in Communication and History addresses the link between what we know and how we know it by tracking the intersection of communication and history. Asking how each...

   Published October 21st 2008 by Routledge
5. Reporting War

   Journalism in Wartime

   Edited by Stuart Allan, Barbie Zelizer

   Reporting War explores the social responsibilities of the journalist during times of military conflict. News media treatments of international crises, especially the one underway in Iraq, are increasingly becoming the subject of public controversy, and discussion is urgently needed. Each of this...

   Published September 15th 2004 by Routledge