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1. News

   By Jackie Harrison

   Series: Routledge Introductions to Media and Communications

   From an author highly knowledgeable in the field, News is a handy and accessible guide that examines the history of news, both as newspapers and radio, and as entertainment and information, and introduces students to the key concepts and issues that surround the news. Using up-to-date case...

   Published November 9th 2005 by Routledge
2. Violence on Television

   Distribution, Form, Context, and Themes

   By Barrie Gunter, Jackie Harrison, Maggie Wykes

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   Concern about violence on television has been publicly debated for the past 50 years. TV violence has repeatedly been identified as a significant causal agent in relation to the prevalence of crime and violence in society. Critics have accused the medium of presenting excessive quantities of...

   Published December 31st 2002 by Routledge
3. Violence on Television

   An Analysis of Amount, Nature, Location and Origin of Violence in British Programmes

   By Barrie Gunter, Jackie Harrison

   Television is often accused of showing too much violence. However, it is rare that anyone stops to ask what this statement means. Violence on Television provides an objective analysis of the violence on television, how much there is and what form it takes.It presents findings from the largest ever...

   Published February 18th 1998 by Routledge