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Mass media

Here are entered works on the modern means of mass communication. Works on the communications industries treated collectively are entered under Communication and traffic. Works on human communication, including both the primary techniques of language, pictures, etc. and the secondary techniques, such as the press and radio, are entered under Communication.

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• Communication

• Mass media -- Aesthetics
• Mass media -- Africa
• Mass media -- Arab countries
• Mass media -- Audiences
• Mass media -- Australia
• Mass media -- Bibliography
• Mass media -- Biography
• Mass media -- Canada
• Mass media -- Censorship
• Mass media -- China
• Mass media -- Congresses
• Mass media -- Developing countries
• Mass media -- Directories
• Mass media -- Economic aspects
• Mass media -- Employees
• Mass media -- Europe
• Mass media -- France
• Mass media -- Germany
• Mass media -- Great Britain
• Mass media -- History
• Mass media -- India
• Mass media -- Influence
• Mass media -- Iraq
• Mass media -- Italy
• Mass media -- Japan
• Mass media -- Law and legislation
• Mass media -- Middle East
• Mass media -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Mass media -- Objectivity
• Mass media -- Periodicals
• Mass media -- Philosophy
• Mass media -- Political aspects
• Mass media -- Psychological aspects
• Mass media -- Religious aspects
• Mass media -- Research
• Mass media -- Social aspects
• Mass media -- South Africa
• Mass media -- Soviet Union
• Mass media -- Study and teaching
• Mass media -- Technological innovations
• Mass media -- Textbooks
• Mass media -- United States
• Mass media -- Vocational guidance
• AIDS (Disease) in mass media
• Alternative mass media
• Armed Forces and mass media
• Celebrities in mass media
• Communication -- International cooperation
• Communism and mass media
• Crime in mass media
• Cyborgs in mass media
• Digital media
• Documentary mass media
• Environmentalism in mass media
• Ethnic mass media
• Feminism and mass media
• Genetics in mass media
• Hispanic Americans and mass media
• Indian mass media
• Information storage and retrieval systems -- Mass media
• Latter Day Saints in mass media
• Libraries -- Special collections -- Mass media
• Libraries and mass media
• Local mass media
• Mass media criticism
• Mass media in literature
• Mass media policy
• Motion pictures
• Murder in mass media
• Newspapers
• Periodicals
• Protest movements in mass media
• Radio broadcasting
• Selling -- Mass media
• Sex role in mass media
• Social classes in mass media
• Sound in mass media
• Storytelling in mass media
• Television broadcasting
• Terrorism and mass media
• Violence in mass media
• Women in mass media
• Women in the mass media industry

• Mass communication
• Media, Mass
• Media, The

• Stories in Between: Narratives and Mediums @ Play (text-only version; c2008), by Drew Davidson
  • PDF with commentary at CMU
  • PDF with commentary at Figshare
• Designing Media (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Bill Moggridge
  • multimedia with commentary at designing-media.com
  • PDF and audio files with commentary at MIT Press

• The Image of Africa in Ghana's Press: The Influence of Global News Organisations (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Michael Yao Wodui Serwornoo (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Arab Media Systems (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Carola Richter and Claudia Kozman (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Introducing Vigilant Audiences (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Daniel Trottier, Rashid Gabdulhakov, and Qian Huang (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Australia in the Information Age (ACSJC occasional paper #14; North Sydney, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, c1992), by Christina Spurgeon and Paul Chadwick (PDF in Australia)

• Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, by Noam Chomsky (HTML at zcomm.org)

• The Chinese Media: More Autonomous and Diverse, Within Limits (1997), by Todd Hazelbarth
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archvie.org
  • PDF with commentary at cia.gov
• Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China (2008), ed. by Monroe E. Price and Daniel Dayan (HTML at Michigan)
• Speak No Evil: Mass Media Control in Contemporary China, by Ashley Esarey (PDF at freedomhouse.org)

• Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), ed. by Michael Curtin and Kevin Sanson
  • multiple formats with commentary at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by Sasha Costanza-Chock, contrib. by Manuel Castells (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Liberated and Occupied Iraq: New Beginnings and Challenges for Press Freedom (2004), by Freedom House (U.S.) (PDF at unhcr.org)

• Media Law Handbook (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2013), by Jane E. Kirtley (PDF files at america.gov)

• Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), ed. by Walter Armbrust (HTML at UC Press)

• To Tell You the Truth: The Ethical Journalism Initiative (Brussels: International Federation of Journalists, c2008), by Aidan White (PDF at ethicaljournalisminitiative.org)

• Jonesboro: Were the Media Fair?, by Freedom Forum (PDF files at Wayback Machine)

• The Journal of e-Media Studies (2008-) (full serial archives)
• NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies (2012-) (full serial archives)

• Voices of Resistance: Communication and Social Change (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2012), by Mohan J. Dutta (PDF files with commentary at Purdue)
• Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, by Noam Chomsky (HTML at zcomm.org)
• The Strategy of Culture (1952), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Peculiar Portrayals: Mormons on the Page, Stage, and Screen (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2010), ed. by Mark T. Decker and Michael Austin, contrib. by Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Kevin Kolkmeyer, J. Aaron Sanders, John Charles Duffy, Juliette Wells, and Karen D. Austin
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• From Media Hype to Twitter Storm: News Explosions and Their Impact on Issues, Crises, and Public Opinion (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), ed. by P. Vasterman (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Media, Technology, and Society: Theories of Media Evolution (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), ed. by W. Russell Neuman (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Worlds Apart: How the Distance Between Science and Journalism Threatens America's Future, by Jim Hartz and Rick Chappell (PDF at Freedom Forum)

• Media, Technology, and Society: Theories of Media Evolution (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), ed. by W. Russell Neuman (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Software Takes Command: Extending the Language of New Media (New York and London: Bloomsbury, c2013), by Lev Manovich (illustrated HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections)

• Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship, ed. by Michelle Ferrier and Elizabeth Mays (multiple formats with commentary at rebus.community)

• Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (New York: Penguin Press, 2004), by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at free-culture.cc)
• The Information Commons: A Public Policy Report (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2004), by Nancy C. Kranich (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by Sasha Costanza-Chock, contrib. by Manuel Castells (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Terrorism and Other Public Health Emergencies: A Reference Guide for Media (2005), by United States Department of Health and Human Services (PDF files with commentary at phe.gov)

• The U.S.S.R.'s AIDS Disinformation Campaign (1987), by United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)

• Alternative and Mainstream Media: The Converging Spectrum (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2011), by Linda Jean Kenix (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)
• Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2016), by Nicholas Thoburn (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• YouTube War: Fighting in a World of Cameras in Every Cell Phone and Photoshop on Every Computer (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2009), by Cori Elizabeth Dauber
  • multiple formats at armywarcollege.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Fame Attack: The Inflation of Celebrity and Its Consequences (London: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), by Chris Rojek (HTML with commentary at bloomsburycollections.com)

• Communist Activity in Mass Communications: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee To Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Eighty-Fifth Congress, Second Session (3 parts; Washington: GPO, 1958-1959), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, contrib. by A. G. Mezerik, Albert Eugene Kahn, Jerome B. Caplin, Oakley C. Johnson, and Milton Meltzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television (New York, NY: American Business Consultants, 1950), by American Business Consultants (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Mediatization of the O. J. Simpson Case: From Reality Television to Filmic Adaptation (Media Studies v102; Bielefeld: Transcript, 12023), by Tatjana Neubauer (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• "Taking a Bite Out of Crime": The Impact of a Mass Media Crime Prevention Campaign (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 1984), by Garrett J. O'Keefe and Harold Mendelsohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cyborgs in Latin America (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, c2010), by J. Andrew Brown (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Bringing Nothing to the Party: True Confessions of a New Media Whore (Creative Commons licensed online edition, c2008), by Paul Carr (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy (New York: Institute for Distributed Creativity, c2011), ed. by Trebor Scholz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mapping Intermediality in Performance (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2010), ed. by Sarah Bay-Cheng, Chiel Kattenbelt, Andy Lavender, and Robin Nelson (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and "Worked Examples" as One Way Forward (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by James Paul Gee (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Putting Knowledge to Work and Letting Information Play: The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (2009), ed. by Timothy W. Luke and Jeremy Hunsinger (PDF at vt.edu)
• AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives (London: University of Westminster Press, c2021), ed. by Pieter Verdegem (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)
• Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2021), by Whitney Trettien (HTML with commentary at mn.edu)
• Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2019), by Justin Hodgson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Haidy Geismar (HTML and PDF with commentary at UCL Press)
• Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Douglas Eyman (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion (2008), by Harold Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry R. Lewis (PDF with commentary at bitsbook.com)
• Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Tara McPherson (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2016), by Nicholas Thoburn (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age (c2013), by G. Wayne Clough (PDF with commentary at Smithsonian)
• Debates in the Digital Humanities (enhanced electronic edition, 2013), ed. by Matthew K. Gold (Javascript-dependent HTML at CUNY)
• The Future of the Curriculum: School Knowledge in the Digital Age (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2013), by Ben Williamson (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Mediactive (c2010), by Dan Gillmor (HTML and PDF with commentary at mediactive.com)

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