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Release Date: July 01, 2008
The co-authors of Outrage present a critical analysis of additional power abuses by the American government, wealthy corporations, and high-profile celebrities, in an account that addresses topics ranging from sub-prime mortgages and the secret purchases of Dubai to corporate salaries and the 2008 election. 150,000 first printing.

Release Date: December 17, 2004

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Stephen Vaughn - Freedom And Entertainment: Rating The Movies In An Age Of New Media

Release Date: September 30, 2004
Media, Audiences, Effects teaches students how to evaluate media effects research and better understand the role media play in our everyday lives.

This text introduces readers to more than 300 contemporary research studies focusing on twelve important topic areas, including television violence, gender and ethnicity, sexuality and pornography, and advertising bans. It provides a framework for understanding how researchers study media effects and what mass communication theory and research tell us about the relationship between media and society.

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• Includes summaries of more than 300 articles published since 1990, providing readers with a large body of contemporary research to synthesize, critique, and explore.
• Features research studies in twelve key topic areas including children and advertising, race and ethnic stereotyping, and television and presidential politics, helping students truly engage in topics that affect their lives.
• Includes

Release Date: March 01, 2000

How is globalization changing both society and the media? De-Westernizing Media Studies brings together leading media critics from around the world to address central questions in the study of the media, breaking away from the narrow Anglo-American perspective that has dominated media studies. In a series of case studies from Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Australia, the contributors explore relationships between media, power and society in a variety of regional and national contexts, and the effects of globalization. They also confront the limitations of conventional theories on media and globalization in understanding these relationships.

Contributors: Hussein Amin, Lance Bennett, Stuart Cunningham, James Curran, Peter Dahlgren, Terry Flew, Daniel Hallin, Chang-Nam Kim, Raymond Kuhn, Tawana Kupe, Chin-Chuan Lee, Colin Leys, Tamar Liebes, Eric Kit-wai Ma, Brian McNair, Paolo Mancini, Zahoran Nain, James Napoli, Myung-Jin Park, Arvind Rajagopal, Helge

Release Date: January 01, 2002
In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order.

Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous treatment of “worthy” versus “unworthy” victims, “legitimizing” and “meaningless” Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media’s behavior and performance. Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case studies, and it discusses several other applications. These include