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21. Journalism and Free Speech

    By John Steel

    Journalism and Free Speech brings together for the first time an historical and theoretical exploration of journalism and its relationship with the idea of free speech. Though freedom of the press is widely regarded as an essential ingredient to democratic societies, the relationship between the...

    Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge
22. Communication Matters

    Materialist Approaches to Media, Mobility and Networks

    Edited by Jeremy Packer, Stephen B. Crofts Wiley

    Series: Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies

    Communication has often been understood as a realm of immaterial, insubstantial phenomena—images, messages, thoughts, languages, cultures, and ideologies—mediating our embodied experience of the concrete world. Communication Matters challenges this view, assembling leading scholars in the fields of...

    Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
23. The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism

    Edited by Stuart Allan

    The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism presents an authoritative, comprehensive assessment of diverse forms of news media reporting – past, present and future. Including 60 chapters, written by an outstanding team of internationally respected authors, the Companion provides scholars and...

    Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
24. Legitimating Television

    Media Convergence and Cultural Status

    By Michael Z Newman, Elana Levine

    Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a "plug-in drug" offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a...

    Published September 7th 2011 by Routledge
25. Race and News

    Critical Perspectives

    By Christopher P. Campbell, Kim M. LeDuff, Cheryl D. Jenkins, Rockell A. Brown

    The history of American journalism is marked by disturbing representations of people and communities of color, from the disgraceful stereotypes of pre-civil rights America, to the more subtle myths that are reflected in routine coverage by journalists all over the country. Race and News: Critical...

    Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge
26. Network Nations

    A Transnational History of British and American Broadcasting

    By Michele Hilmes

    In Network Nations, Michele Hilmes reveals and re-conceptualizes the roots of media globalization through a historical look at the productive transnational cultural relationship between British and American broadcasting. Though frequently painted as opposites--the British public service tradition...

    Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge
27. Controversies in Media Ethics

    3rd Edition

    By A. David Gordon, John Michael Kittross, John C. Merrill, William Babcock, Michael Dorsher

    Controversies in Media Ethics offers students, instructors and professionals multiple perspectives on media ethics issues presenting vast "gray areas" and few, if any, easy answers. This third edition includes a wide range of subjects, and demonstrates a willingness to tackle the problems raised by...

    Published June 13th 2011 by Routledge
28. The Evolution of Integrated Marketing Communications

    The Customer-driven Marketplace

    Edited by Don Schultz, Charles Patti, Philip Kitchen

    This book reviews, updates and enhances the basic concepts surrounding the academic theory and practice of Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC). Since the introduction of IMC in the late 1980s, the concept has spread around the world. In that expansion, many authors have written about IMC;...

    Published April 27th 2011 by Routledge
29. 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
30. Media Today

    An Introduction to Mass Communication, 4th Edition

    By Joseph Turow

    Media Today puts students at the center of the profound changes in the twenty-first century media world – from digital convergence to media ownership – and gives them the skills to think critically about what these changes mean for the role of media in their lives. Media Today, Fourth Edition&...

    Published January 30th 2011 by Routledge