Bøger i History of Communication serien

American mass culture's conservative response to the Great Depression and the coming of World War II

The cure for an American media where market interests have usurped democratic participation

It hasn't occurred to even the harshest critics of advertising since the 1930s to regulate advertising as extensively as its earliest opponents almost succeeded in doing. This title examines how these consumer activists sought to limit the influence of corporate powers by rallying popular support to moderate and transform advertising.

Scripps's daring endeavor to produce a newspaper without advertising

Triple Award Winner: 2006 History Division Book Award of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2006 Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha Communications Award, and 2005 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research

Exposes the vested interests behind the US slide toward conflating corporate values with democratic values. Through an examination of professionalization in both the press and the law and free speech as property, this book demonstrates that present democracy is about trying to control and manage citizens than giving them freedom to participate.

Reveals how newspapers, radio stations and television programs became strategic sites of Native resistance to the economic and cultural agendas of non-Native settlers. This work demonstrates that freedom for indigenous peoples is not only premised on control over their political economy, but also on their capacity to tell their own stories.

Power relations within the global telecommunications empire

A readable overview of the media in Central America and its relationship to the region's existing governments.

Tracing the development of communication markets and the regulation of international communications from the 1840s through World War I, this book examines the political, technological, and economic forces at work during the formative century of global communication.

Explores how British female subjects themselves forged a wide range of new political identities through the pages of their press. This book reveals the important relationship between print culture and the gender politics that provided a vehicle for women's mobilization in the political culture of modern Britain.

Argues that the media, far from providing a bedrock for freedom and democracy, have become a significant antidemocratic force in the United States and, to varying degrees, worldwide. This title addresses the corporate media explosion and the corresponding implosion of public life that characterizes our times.

Presents the biography of the important American inventor Charles Francis Jenkins (1867-1934). This book documents the life of Jenkins from his childhood in Indiana and early life in the West to his work as a prolific inventor whose productivity was cut short by an early death.

The significance of news and the institutions that produce it to American history

A searing study of the intersection of journalism, fiction, and traumatic violence

A detailed study of American public radio's early history

Argues that the laws governing Israeli electronic media are structured to limit the boundaries of public discourse. This title contends that free speech in Israel is institutionally muted to ensure the continued domination of the Jewish majority and its preferred interpretation of what Israel means as a Jewish-democratic state.

Identifying problems and pointing to solutions in media representation

A comprehensive historical examination of the relationship between the journalistic and religious traditions in the United States

How and why the First Amendment fails to protect speech rights

Tells the story of Hollywood's depiction of American journalism from the start of the sound era. This work argues that films have relentlessly played off the image of the journalist as someone who sees through lies and hypocrisy, sticks up for the little guy, and serves democracy.

Describes and analyzes the battles over the powerful medium of radio, which helped spark the massive upsurge of organized labor during the Depression. Organized chronologically, this work explores the advent of local labor radio stations such as WCFL and WEVD, labor's anti-censorship campaigns, and unionist experiments with early FM broadcasting.

Traces the role of America's newspapers in the country's descent into war.

Exploring links between nuclear arms policy and the visibility of oppositional groups in the media, this title assesses the extent to which antinuclear movements have succeeded in debunking official fictions, raising public consciousness, and reorienting government policy.

Edward Willis Scripps revolutionized the newspaper industry by applying modern business practices to his chain of more than forty newspapers and creating a telegraphic news service and illustrated news features syndicate. This title presents a portrait of this entrepreneurial giant, drawing on Scripps' business correspondence.

Looks at how newspapers and news-making practices shaped the representations of Native Americans.

In the modern era there arose a prolific and vibrant print culture - books, newspapers, and magazines issued by and for diverse, often marginalized, groups. This collection offers a fresh foray into the multicultural world of reading and readers in the United States.