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More Than a Music Box: Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi Media World

Andrew Crisell (ed.)

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2004), xiv, 315 pp.

"This collection of essays shows how in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and the South Pacific, radio continues to provide distinctive forms of content for the individual listener, yet also enables ethnic and cultural groups to maintain their sense of identity. Ranging from radio ... more

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Youth Media’s Impact on Audience & Channels of Distribution: An Exploratory Study

Social Policy Research Associates

New York: Open Society Institute;Surdna Foundation (2004), 62 pp.

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Handbook of Political Communication Research

Lynda Lee Kaid (ed.)

Mahwah, N.J: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2004), xviii, 541 pp.

"The Handbook of Political Communication Research is a benchmark volume, defining the most important and significant thrusts of contemporary research and theory in political communication. Editor Lynda Lee Kaid brings together exemplary scholars to explore the current state of political communicatio ... more

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Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity

Lawrence Lessig

New York: Penguin Press (2004), xvi, 345 pp.

"Lawrence Lessig shows us that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control ... more

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Communicating for Change: Strategies of Social and Political Advocates

John P. McHale

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2004), 251 pp.

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The Challenge of Indigenous Education: Practice and Perspectives

Linda King, Sabine Schielmann (eds.)

Paris: UNESCO (2004), 283 pp.

"Traditional indigenous education and its structures should be respected and supported. Our knowledge has not been written down by us – on the contrary: we dance it, we draw it, we narrate it, we sing it, we practise it. There is a need for a deeper understanding of what knowledge and learning are ... more

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Who Owns the Media: Global Trends and Local Resistances

Pradip N. Thomas, Nain Zaharom (eds.)

Penang: Southbound (2004), 330 pp.

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Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics

Daniel C. Hallin, Paolo Mancini

New York: Cambridge University Press (2004), xv, 342 pp.

"This book proposes a framework for comparative analysis of the relation between the media and the political system. Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies, Hallin and Mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems ... more

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Media at War: The Iraq Crisis

Howard Tumber, Jerry Palmer

London: Sage (2004), 188 pp.

"International media coverage of the war in Iraq provoked public scrutiny as well debate amongst journalists themselves. Media at War offers a critical overview of the coverage in the context of other preceding wars, including the first Gulf War, and opens up the debate on the key questions that eme ... more

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Zeitschrift für Kommunikationsökologie 1 (2004): Schwerpunkt Medien und globale Konflikte

Duisburg: Institut für Informations- und Kommunikationsökologie (2004), 110 pp.

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Speaking Out: Storytelling and Creative Drama for Children

Jack Zipes

New York; London: Routledge (2004), 219 pp.

"In his successful Creative Storytelling, Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for self-expression and for building children's imaginations. In Speaking Out, this master storyteller goes further, speaking out against rote learning and testing and for the positive force with ... more

Entertainment-Education and Social Change: History, Research and Practice
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Arvind Singhal, Michael J. Cody, Everett M. Rogers, Miguel Sabido (eds.)

Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2004), xxii, 458 pp.

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The Media Missionaries: American Support for Journalism Exellence and Press Freedom Around the Globe

Ellen Hume

Miami: Knight Foundation (2004), 136 pp.

"When the Communist barricades collapsed in 1989, hundreds of Americans rushed to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics to spread the gospel of democracy. Among them were some of America’s most altruistic journalists, who hoped to midwife a newly independent press. Since then, the U.S. go ... more

Beyond the Front Lines: How the News Media Cover a World Shaped by War

Philip Seib

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2004), 185 pp.

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Critical Readings: Media and Gender

Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner (eds.)

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2004), 366 pp.

War, Media, and Propaganda: A Global Perspective

Yahya R. Kamalipour, Nancy Snow (eds.)

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2004), 261 pp.

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Teaching Youth Media: A Critical Guide to Literacy, Video Production, and Social Change

Steven Goodman

New York: Teachers College Press (2003), 127 pp.

"This book explores the power of using media education to help urban teenagers develop their critical thinking and literacy skills. Drawing on his 20 years of experience working with inner-city youth at the acclaimed Educational Video Center (EVC) in New York City, Steven Goodman looks closely at bo ... more

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Voice of America: A History

Alan L. Heil

New York: Columbia University Press (2003), xi, 538 pp.

Christianity and the Mass Media in America: Toward a Democratic Accommodation

Quentin J. Schultze

East Lansing: Michigan State University Press (2003), 440 pp.