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Reviving the Fourth Estateby Julianne Schultz
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 38.00This lively and accessible book analyses the role of journalism and the scope of its democratic purpose. more...
Crisis of Public Communicationby Jay Blumler; Michael Gurevitch
Routledge 1995; US$ 39.95The role of the mass media in the world of politcs has become increasingly influential and controversial. This book traces the origins and development of this phenomena, basing discussion on critiques of BBC election coverage since 1966. more...
Media Reformby Monroe E. Price; Beata Rozumilowicz; Stefaan Verhulst
Routledge 2001; US$ 158.00Media Reform examines the relationship between the media and the development of democracy. Detailed worldwide case studies illustrate discussions on liberalisation of media, technological developments and new trends. more...
Dialogue as a Means of Collective Communicationby Bela H Banathy; Patrick M Jenlink
Springer 2005; US$ 169.00The authors in this work offer a cross-disciplinary approach to examining dialogue as a communicative medium. more...
Group Communication in Contextby Lawrence R. Frey
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2002; US$ 67.50This volume provides real-life studies of groups in the setting where they form. The book is designed for use as a text in courses on group communication and as a reference for group communication scholars. more...
Oralityby Graham Furniss
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 100.00Oral communication is quite different in its spontaneity and communicative power from textual and visual communication. Culturally-bounded expectations of ways of speaking and individual creativity provide the spark that can ignite revolution or calm the soul. This book explores, from a cross-cultural perspective, the centrality of orality in the ideological processes that dominate public discourse, providing a counterbalance to the debates that foreground literacy and the power of written communication. more...
New Media and American Politicsby Richard Davis; Diana Owen
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 70.00Examines the effect on modern politics of the new media, which include talk radio, tabloid journalism, television talk shows, entertainment media, and computer networks. The text discusses the new media's cultural environment, audience, and content. more...
Dialogue and Critical Discourseby Michael Macovski
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 28.35This is a collection of previously unpublished essays, by both linguists and literary critics, on the relationship between spoken language and written text in the light of the thought of the influential Russian formalist Mikhail Bakhtin. more...
Remaking Mediaby Robert Hackett
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 39.95With a focus on activism directed towards challenging and changing media content, practices and structures, this book explores the question: What is the political significance and potential of democratic media activism in the western world? more...
The People, Press, and Politics of Croatiaby Stjepan Malovic; Gary W. Selnow
Greenwood Publishing Group 2001; US$ 111.00This title examines the evolution of the press-government relationship in Croatia from the Tito era to the end of the 20th century. It is a story of three interacting players: the Croatian government, the compliant press and the largely quiescent public. more...









