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More Damned Lies and Statistics
University of California Press 2004; US$ 27.95In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said "deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk," Joel Best continues his straightforward, lively, and humorous account of how statistics are produced, used, and misused by everyone from researchers to journalists. Underlining... more...
The Troubles of Journalism
Taylor and Francis 1998; US$ 39.95This book looks at criticisms of the journalism profession and evaluates many of the changes in journalism--both positive and negative. In addition, it suggests what the many changes mean for this nation and indeed for the world at large, as American journalism--its methods and standards--has markedly influenced the way many millions overseas receive... more...
Reporters on the Battlefield
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95Focusing on the embedded press system deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom, this book attempts to answer the following questions: How effective was the embedded press system in meeting the needs of the three main constituencies-the press, the military, and the citizens of the United States? What policy history led to the innovation of an embedded... more...
Media Firms
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 42.95Media Firms presents studies applying the company level approach to media and communication firms. It explores differences among missions, strategies, organizational choices, and other business decisions. Reviewing economic factors and pressures on media and communications companies, this book seeks to improve understanding of how these elements... more...
Advertising International
Taylor and Francis 1991; US$ 44.95A survey of the changes in the advertising industry in the last twenty years including coverage of the emergence of international conglomerates and the diversification of the agencies into public relations and media buying. more...
De-Westernizing Media Studies
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95De-Westernizing Media Studies brings together leading media critics from around the world to address central questions in the study of the media. How do the media connect to power in society? Who and what influence the media? How is globalization changing both society and the media? more...
Politics and the Press in Thailand
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 195.00This is the first book in the English language to examine the tangled web of relationships linking newspaper owners, editors and reporters, with leading politicians and power-holders. Duncan McCargo has been granted unique access to the editorial meetings of Thailand's leading newspapers, and drawing on this, the book uncovers the contradictions and... more...
Intifada Hits the Headlines
Indiana University Press 2004; US$ 15.95In this nuanced and detailed study of newspaper reporting during the escalation of the second Intifada in the fall of 2000, Daniel Dor shows how real events are subject to distortion and manipulation by the media. In an analysis of the heart of Israel's media establishment -- the newspapers Yediot Ahronot,... more...
What's Wrong With Competition Policy In New Media
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 199.00The current European consensus on competition in communications is based on a shared vision of contemporary market and technological developments. Roughly stated, the position, outlined in the 1994 Bangemann Report and the 1997 European Green Paper on Convergence (Marsden and Verhulst 1999, Blackman, 1998), claims the following: B Due to the ??end... more...
Understanding Media Economics
SAGE Publications 2002; US$ 60.00`This book provides an extremely well written and informative introduction to the subject of media economics, characterized by clarity in the explanation of concepts or frameworks and by a balanced discussion for the respective positions in areas of debate' - Paul MacDonald, Roehampton Institute more...









