"This is an international survey of all types of literature on mass communication of the Caribben region presenting 3,695 citations. The book is organized by regions, divided by the nations' ties to a metropolitan power. Countries such as Dominican Republic and Haiti with longer histories of indepen
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dence are listed separately. (The vast reservoirs of data on Cuban mass communication necessitated a separate volume.) Topically, the chapters are divided into possible categories of general studies, advertising, broadcasting, development communication, film, freedom of the press, history of media, journalism education and training, news agencies, popular culture, print media, and telecommunications. Because of the recency of Caribbean mass communication as a field of study, the emphasis in this book is the period from the 1970s to the present. Many works of historical significance, however, are also cited, including nineteenth and early twentieth century works. Overall, the bibliography is representative in covering all genres of publications – books, periodicals, dissertations, theses, and conference papers. Although the bibliography consists mainly of English-language publications, hundreds of citations appear from other languages. The work is complete with a general subject index and author index." (Publisher website)
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"The new classic. Containing 1,947 annotated entries, with most of the new titles published between 1980-1987. Blum is now professor emeritus of library science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and recipient of the Association of Journalism and Mass Communications's first Eleanor Bl
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um Distinguished Service to Research Award. Wilhoit, a former editor of Journalism Abstracts, continues to direct the Journalism Library at Indiana University and is assistant professor at the School of Journalism. Their preface notes that the bibliography serves three primary purposes: 1) a reference source, 2) a research and reading list, and 3) a collection management and buying guide. "All entries have one common factor: they treat the subject in broad general terms." Chapters include "General Communications," "Broadcasting Media," "Print Media," "Film, Advertising and Public Relations," "Bibliographies, Directories and Handbooks," "Journals," and "Indexes to the Mass Communication Literature." Topics not covered (unless in the course of discussing broader mass communications subjects) are censorship, law, copyright, printing, post office, instructional broadcasting, and telephone and telegraph. Entries are descriptive and detailed. In the citation to Douglass Cater's The Fourth Branch of Gouernment (no. 59), for example, it is revealed that Cater was one of the early writers to realize the importance of the reporter's role in government, as exemplified by the Washington journalist. As a Washington reporter himself who was working at the time for The Reporter, an analytical fortnightly, he observed and participated, so that his book is written from first-hand knowledge. It is this attention to detail that makes Mass Media Bibliography so indispensable. When used as a buying guide, the only problem one might encounter is the lack of purchase price and ISBN numbers. Author, title, and subject indexes are exhaustive. So is everything else." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 12)
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"In spite of its youth, this is one of the most important publications in the field of communications, and it is the first of its kind. It addresses a broad range of topics in communications, with numerous references to subjects in journalism and mass communication. More than 450 scholars and profes
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sionals contributed to this four-volume collection of signed articles on animal communication, arts, Communications research, computers, education, folklore, government regulation' international communication' journalism, language and linguistics, literature, media, motion pictures, music, nonverbal communication' photography, political communication, print media, radio, religion, speech, television, and communication theories and theorists. This set features more than 550 alphabetically arranged articles, a comprehensive index, topical guide, cross-references and illustrations. Each entry also contains a brief bibliography, listing basic bibliographic information but, unfortunately, no publishers (place of publication, however, is included). In all, 9 editorial board members,25 section editors, and 170 editorial advisers were involved in this project." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 125)
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"Extensive bibliography on communications and the impact on popular culture in Latin America." (Latin America and the Caribbean: A Critical Guide to Research Sources. Ed. Paula H. Covington. New York et al.: Greenwood Press, 1992, nr. 5521)