Recently added articles from Communication Research Trends:
Preschool children and the media.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; Thorn, William J. ... 1. Introduction When the Kaiser Foundation released its report on electronic media use among infants, toddlers, and older preschoolers (Rideout, Vandewater, & Wartella, 2003), commentators, older adults, and parents of older children were shocked and amazed. Only the parents of ...
Cooper, Stephen D.: Watching the Watchdog: Bloggers and the Fifth Estate.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Prendergast, Mark J. ... Cooper, Stephen D. Watching the Watchdog: Bloggers and the Fifth Estate. Spokane, WA: Marquette Books, LLC, 2006. Pp. 355. ISBN 0-922993-46-7 (hbk.) $59.95; ISBN 0-922993-47-5 (pb.) $39.95. While it's not exactly news in 2008 that there's a new sheriff in Media Town, Stephen D ....
Edy, Jill A.: Troubled Pasts: News and the Collective Memory of Social Unrest.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Soukup, Paul A. ... Edy, Jill A. Troubled Pasts: News and the Collective Memory of Social Unrest. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 230. ISBN 1-59213-496-3 (hbk.) $69.50; 1-59213-497-1 (pb.) $22.95. How do people come to remember the past, particularly the troubled past? We ...
Ekstrom, Mats, Asa Kroon, and Mats Nylund (Eds.). News from the Interview Society.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Osborne, Tony ... Ekstrom, Mats, Asa Kroon, and Mats Nylund (Eds.). News from the Interview Society. Goteborg, Sweden: Nordicom, 2006. Pp. v, 267. ISBN 91-89471-37-7 (pb.) SEK 280, 30 [euro] (www.nordicom.gu.se) In 1859, Horace Greeley, the New York Tribune's legendary editor, ran a story ...
Feilitzen, Cecilia von and Ulla Carlsson (Eds.). Promote or Protect: Perspectives on Media Literacy and Media Regulations.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Srampickal, Jacob ... Feilitzen, Cecilia von and Ulla Carlsson (Eds.). Promote or Protect: Perspectives on Media Literacy and Media Regulations. Goteborg: NORDICOM International Clearing House on Children, Youth and Media, 2003. Pp. 260. ISBN 91-89471-23-7 (pb.). $25.00. The book looks at ways media ...
Jensen, Klaus Bruhn. (Ed.). Interface://Culture--The World Wide Web as Political Resource and Aesthetic Form.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Badaracco, Claire ... Jensen, Klaus Bruhn. (Ed.). Interface://Culture--The World Wide Web as Political Resource and Aesthetic Form. Frederiksberg, Denmark: Samfundslitteratur Press and Goteborg, Sweden: Nordicom, 2005. ISBN 978-87-5931-1146-0 (pb.) $46.00, 34.00 [euro]. This edited volume is part of ...
Kiernan, Vincent. Embargoed Science.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Badaracco, Claire ... Kiernan, Vincent. Embargoed Science. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp. 192. ISBN 978-0-252-03097-0 (hbk.) $30.00. Reporting about medicine and science is an area critical to the public interest, the author Vincent Kiernan argues, but separating out the ...
Lewis, C. K.: Romancing the Difference: Kenneth Burke, Bob Jones University, and the Rhetoric of Religious Fundamentalism.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Bicak, Pete ... Lewis, C. K. Romancing the Difference: Kenneth Burke, Bob Jones University, and the Rhetoric of Religious Fundamentalism. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2007. Pp. xii; 161. ISBN 978-1-60258-003-9 (hbk.) $39.95. Burkean critics often take a perspective by incongruity to put ...
Lull, James. Culture-On-Demand: Communication in a Crisis World.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; McAnany, Emile ... Lull, James. Culture-On-Demand: Communication in a Crisis World. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. Pp xxiv, 222. ISBN 13: 9781405160643 (hbk.) $69.95, ISBN 13: 9781405160650 (pb.) $24.95. In many ways this is a familiar book by James Lull that is in line with many of his contributions in ...
Mootz, Francis J. III. Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Critical Legal Theory.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Osborne, Tony ... Mootz, Francis J. III. Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Critical Legal Theory. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. 2006. Pp. ix, 256. ISBN 0-8173-1536-5 (hbk.) $49.50. In pre-Nazi Germany the philosopher Ernesto Grassi learned of the general disdain for ...
Nord, David Paul. Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Wirth, Eileen ... Nord, David Paul. Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 293. ISBN 978-0-252-07404-2 (pb.) $20.00. (New in paperback; original hardbound edition, 2001). Step into a standard ...
Packer, Jeremy and Craig Robertson (Eds.). Thinking with James Carey: Essays on Communications, Transportation, History.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Soukup, Paul A. ... Packer, Jeremy and Craig Robertson (Eds.). Thinking with James Carey: Essays on Communications, Transportation, History. New York: Peter Lang, 2006. Pp. viii, 234. ISBN-13 978-0-8204-7405-2; ISBN-10 0-8204-7405-3 (pb.) $26.95. For those of us fortunate enough to have known James ...
Ross, Susan Dente. Deciding Communication Law: Key Cases in Context.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Osborne, Tony ... Ross, Susan Dente. Deciding Communication Law: Key Cases in Context. Mahwah, NJ, Alabama: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. 2004. Pp. xiv, 619. ISBN: 0-8058-4698-0 (hbk.) $80.00. Modern libel law rests upon a wobbly 1964 precedent: in New York Times v. Sullivan the Supreme ...
Tridente, Giovanni. Attacco all'Informazione: Un approccio etico alla copertura mediatica del terrorismo [Attack on Information: An ethical approach to media coverage of terrorism].(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Way, Maria ... Tridente, Giovanni. Attacco all'Informazione: Un approccio etico alla copertura mediatica del terrorismo [Attack on Information: An ethical approach to media coverage of terrorism]. Rome: Apollinare Studi, 2006. Pp. 142. ISBN 88-8333-167-2. 13.00 [euro]. Giovanni Tridente is an ...