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Program Evaluations Metaevaluation Checklist
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage (1999), 8 pp.
"This checklist is for performing final, summative metaevaluations. It is organized according to the Joint Committee Program Evaluation Standards. For each of the 30 standards the checklist includes 6 checkpoints drawn from the substance of the standard. It is suggested that each standard be scored
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Image Journeys: Audio-Visual Media and Cultural Change in India
New Delhi; Thousand Oaks; London: Sage (1999), 338 pp.
"This volume examines the influence of audio-visual media in cultural change in India. The essays focus on: the dynamics of network change; the relationships between image and viewer; and the journey of images between points of reading in contemporary India that are mediated through television, cine
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Qualitative Evaluation: Introducing Qualitative Methods
London: Sage (1999), 226 pp.
Rethinking the Media Audience: The New Agenda
London et al.: Sage (1999), 212 pp.
"The key idea of this book is to argue that a 'third generation' of reception studies and audience ethnography is presently taking shape and will establish itself in the near future. However, the division of the development of reception studies and audience research into three 'generations' outlined
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The Globalization of News
London: Sage (1998), 256 pp.
"This book overviews and reconsiders media organizations - the news agencies - which report and film the news for the press and broadcast media. Incorporating institutional, historical, political economic and cultural studies perspectives, the book: reviews agency provision of general news, video ne
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Intercultural Communication: An Introduction
Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2nd ed. (1998), 489 pp.
Finding Out Fast: Investigative Skills for Policy and Development
London: Sage (1998), 376 pp.
"Recognizing that policy decisions are typically made under pressure of time and on the basis of incomplete data or with limited resources with which to obtain information, the authors provide guidance on how to locate, evaluate and use relevant information, fast. This book is essential reading for
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Media Research Techniques
Thousand Oakes et al.: Sage, 2nd ed. (1998), viii, 175 pp.
"The book is designed to provide introductory techniques that allow students to engage immediately in their own research projects, and in so doing they learn various ways of conducting communication research both in theory and practice. The author has added new chapters on experimentation, historica
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Religion in the News: Faith and Journalism in American Public Discourse
Thousand Oaks: Sage (1998), xi, 234 pp.
Understanding Global News: A Critical Introduction
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage (1998), 239 pp.
"Understanding Global News invites the reader to explore contemporary journalistic practice, and questions the assumption that the media provide a mere window on the world. Challenging the often unquestioned notions of media objectivity, the author turns the classic questions: Who? What? When? and W
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Communism, Capitalism and the Mass Media
London: Sage (1998), xix, 214 pp.
Ritual Communication: From Everyday Conversation to Mediated Ceremony
London: Sage (1998), 208 pp.
"This book combines bibliographic essay and theory construction to provide a perspective on ritual as a special and powerful form of communication. Part one is a critical review of definitions of ritual from anthropology, sociology, communication studies and other literature, ending with a theoretic
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Women, Democracy and the Media: Cultural and Political Representation in the Indian Press
New Dehli: Sage (1998), 209 pp.
International Communication and Globalization: A Critical Introduction
London: Sage (1997), viii, 228 pp.
"Leading contributors offer a range of perspectives on the relationship between the process of globalization and international communication. Individual chapters examine the impact of market relations, deregulation and technology of Third World countries, as well as the ethics of the global communic
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Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture
Thousand Oaks; London; New Delhi: Sage (1997), x, 332 pp.
"The growing connections between media, culture and religion are increasingly evident in contemporary society, but until now have rarely been theoretically linked. The contributors to this volume effectively combine these areas into a coherent whole. The issues they examine include: the decline of r
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Communication Ethics and Universal Values
Thousand Oaks; London; New Delhi: Sage (1997), 384 pp.
"This volume is designed to revolutionize the field of communication by identifying a broad ethical theory which transcends the world of mass media practice to reveal a more humane and responsible code of values. The contributors, representing a diverse range of intercultural perspectives, defend th
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Audience Analysis
Thousand Oaks et al.: Sage (1997), x, 166 pp.
"Denis McQuail provides a coherent and succinct account of the concept of ‘media audience’ in terms of its history and its place in present-day media theory and research. McQuail describes and explains the main types of audience and the main traditions and fields of audience research. Audience A
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Religion and Mass Media: Audiences and Adaptations
London: Sage (1996), 294 pp.
"How do religious audiences react to and use the mass media? Religion and Mass Media is an audience-centered examination that reveals how a variety of Christian traditions experience media news and entertainment - in the context of institutional religious influences and expectations. Drawing on soci
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Participatory Communication for Social Change
Thousand Oaks: Sage (1996), 287 pp.
