Research Guides: COM 130: Mass Communication: Finding Books

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HE 8689 to HE 8700.95: Radio and television broadcasting

P 87 to P 96: Communication, Mass media

PN 4699 to PN 4748: Journalism, The press and government, liberty

Traditional Media

These are just some of the library's books related to Mass Communication -- the library has many more. Please don't hesitate to ask a librarian for help finding them!

Making News: The Political Economy of Journalism in Britain and America From the Glorious Revolution to the Internet by R.John
Publication Date: 2015
Charts the institutional arrangements that news providers have relied on to facilitate the production and distribution of news; Surveys the news business following the commercialization of the Internet. Argues that the emergence of a competitive marketplace for the production and distribution of news has limited the resources for high-quality reporting.
From Big Bang to Big Data: A History of the Media by J. Jarlbrink
Publication Date: 2023
Provides a new way of thinking about media in history - and about human societies past and present; Contains a history of the media - how it has been established, used, and transformed from the beginning of recorded time until the present.
24/7 Politics: cable television and the fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News by K. Brownell
Call Number: HE8700.76.U6 B769 2023
Publication Date: 2023
Tells the story of how the cable industry worked with political leaders to create a new approach to television, becoming a medium that prioritized cult followings, reshaped party politics, and sowed the seeds of democratic upheaval.
Media Bias and the Role of the Press by E. Doyle
Publication Date: 2018
Explores the obligations of the media, the rise of satirical news outlets, and how to interpret news in a post-fact era.

Digital Media

Race and Gender in Electronic Media by R. Lind
Publication Date: 2016
Examines the consequences, implications, and opportunities associated with issues of diversity in the electronic media; Sections include: Content, Context (audiences, effects, and reception), and Culture (media industries, policy, and production).
Esports and the Media by A. Torres-Toukoumidis (Editor)
Publication Date: 2022
Takes a multidisciplinary approach to the question of esports and their role in society.

Regulation

Net Neutrality and the Battle for the Open Internet by D. Kimball
Publication Date: 2022
A cultural history of net neutrality that reveals how this intentionally "boring" world of internet infrastructure and regulation hides a fascinating and pivotal sphere of power.
Media and Law: Between Free Speech and Censorship by M. Deflem
Publication Date: 2021
Explores free speech and the control thereof from both a political and cultural lens.
Empires of Entertainment: Media Industries and the Politics of Deregulation, 1980-1996 by J.Holt
Publication Date: 2011
Integrates legal, regulatory, industrial, and political histories to chronicle the dramatic transformation within the media between 1980 and 1996; Explores the politics of deregulation, the reinterpretation of antitrust law, and lasting modifications in the media landscape.

Persuasive Media

Media, Persuasion and Propaganda by M. Soules
Publication Date: 2015
Guides the reader through the many varieties of persuasion and its performance, exploring the protocols of rhetoric unique to the medium, from orality and print to film and digital images.
Advertising: What Everyone Needs to Know by M. Einstein
Publication Date: 2017
Exposes how our shopping, political and even dating preferences are unwittingly formed by brand images and the mythologies embedded in them; Enables the reader to understand how marketing industries work in the digital age, particularly in their uses and abuses of Big Data.

Topics in Mass Media

The Pen and the Sword: Press, War, and Terror in the 21st Century by Calvin F. Exoo
Call Number: PN4784 .T45 E96 2010
Publication Date: 2010
(Print and Digital Copies.) Contains an informative, chronological development of the journalistic narrative of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, including 9/11 to the Obama doctrine. Also covers the creation and mainstreaming of a newly pervasive right-wing media.
Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts by J. Abramson
Call Number: PN4867.A27 2019
Publication Date: 2019
Reports on the disruption of the news media over the last decade; covers the revolution in technology, economics, standards, commitment, and endurance that pits old vs. new media.
Silenced in the Library: Banned books in America by Z. Jarvis
Publication Date: 2017
Examines the motivations and effects of censorship, shows how our view of right and wrong has evolved over the years, and helps readers understand the importance of books and films in our society.
Media Ownership by H. Velliotis
Publication Date: 2009
Reviews the number and ownership of various media outlets; the level of minority- and women-owned broadcast outlets; the influence of economic, legal and regulatory, and technological factors on the number and ownership of media outlets; and stakeholders' opinions on modifying certain media ownership laws and regulations.

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