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Each Chapter ends with "Looking Back and Moving Forward," Discussion Questions, and Suggestions for Further reading | |
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Preface | |
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About the Authors | |
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The Changing Media Landscape | |
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Mass Communication And Its Digital Transformation | |
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Media Quiz: The Nature of "Intermass" Communication | |
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Telephony: Case Study in Convergence | |
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Three Types of Convergence | |
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Technological Convergence | |
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Economic Convergence | |
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Cultural Convergence | |
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Convergence Context: User-Generated Content: Creativity Or Piracy? | |
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Convergence and Communications | |
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Convergence and Content | |
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Convergence and the Audience | |
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Convergence Culture: Mapping Sex Offenders | |
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Distribution Alters the Balance of Power | |
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Audience Fragmentation and The Daily Me | |
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Convergence and Communications Organizations | |
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Convergence and Communications Professionals | |
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international perspectives: Olympic Mascots Of The Apocalypse | |
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Convergence and Global Media | |
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Mass Communication in the Digital Age | |
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Interpersonal Communication | |
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Mass Communication | |
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Whither Mass Communication? | |
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Nature and Function of Mass Communication | |
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Surveillance | |
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Correlation | |
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Cultural Transmission | |
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Entertainment | |
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Theories of Communication | |
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Transmission Models | |
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Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | |
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Media Literacy And Ethics | |
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Media Quiz: How Media Literate Are You? | |
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Education and Media | |
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What Is Media Literacy? | |
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Variations in Media Use | |
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Regulatory Factors | |
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Sociocultural Factors | |
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Technological Factors | |
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Economic Factors | |
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Convergence Culture: Text Messaging and the Thumb Tribe | |
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Media Grammar | |
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Subtext Messages | |
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Print Media | |
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Radio and Recorded Music | |
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Film and Television | |
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Online Media | |
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How to Recognize Reliable Information and Evaluate Resources | |
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Dos and Don'ts When Evaluating Online Information | |
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Convergence Context: Wikipedia in Our Cites: The Trouble with Collaborative Knowledge | |
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Fragmentation of Media Channels | |
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The Multichannel Universe | |
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Diversity of Voices | |
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Mass Audiences | |
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Commercial Forces That Shape Media Content | |
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Profit and Nonprofit Media | |
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Product Placement and Corporate Sponsorship | |
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Commercial Forces in Public Service Media | |
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Concentration of Media Ownership | |
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Media Ethics | |
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The Golden Rule | |
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The Golden Mean | |
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Categorical Imperative | |
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Utilitarianism | |
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The Veil of Ignorance | |
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Discourse Ethics | |
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Conflicts and Issues with Ethical Decision Making | |
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Public Interests Versus Business Interests | |
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New Worlds--or Cultural Imperialism? | |
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International Perspectives: Giving Voice (and Video) to the Voiceless | |
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Media Types Influencing Content | |
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Mass-Communication Formats | |
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Digital Media: Online And Ubiquitous | |
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Media Quiz: How Tech Savvy Are You Really? | |
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Key Concepts in Digital Media | |
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Multimedia | |
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Interactivity | |
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Automation | |
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Ethereality | |
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Discussing Digital Media: Networks Are Key | |
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Social and Cultural Implications of Digital Media | |
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Pervasive Media | |
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Fluid Media | |
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Active Audiences | |
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Trust, Transparency, and Reputation | |
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Changing Conceptions of Privacy | |
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Digital Divide | |
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Convergence Context: The Trouble with "The Technology Made Me Do It" | |
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Exploring the Foundations of Digital Media | |
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Historical Development of the Internet and World Wide Web | |
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Creating an Internet Protocol | |
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Media Timeline: Milestones in the Development of the Internet | |
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Creating the World Wide Web | |
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Creating Graphical Web Browsers | |
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The Internet Today | |
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Bandwidth | |
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Telephone and Cable Company Broadband Services | |
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Broadband Changing Consumer Patterns | |
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International Perspectives: Mobile Telephony in the Developing World | |
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The World of Digital Media | |
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Digital Print | |
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Digital Books | |
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Digital Newspapers and Magazines | |
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Digital Audio | |
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Digital Visual Media | |
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Convergence Culture: A Brief History of Interactive TV | |
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TV/PC Convergence | |
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Digital Television: Preparing the Way for Convergence | |
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Why DTV Matters in Mass Communication | |
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Capabilities of DTV | |
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Digital Media Economics | |
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The Open-Source Movement | |
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Revenue Models for Digital Media | |
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Advertising | |
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Subscriptions | |
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Ecommerce | |
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Books, Newspapers, And Magazines | |
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Media Quiz: Print Media | |
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Readership Patterns: Unconventional Wisdom | |
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Print Media and Their Functions | |
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Transmission of Culture | |
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Diffusion of Ideas and Knowledge | |
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Entertainment | |
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Historical Development of Books | |
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Monastic Scribes | |
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Johannes Gutenberg | |
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Beginnings of Mass Communication and Mass Literacy | |
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Cheaper and Smaller Books | |
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Dime Novels | |
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Mass-Market Paperbacks | |
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Print on Demand | |
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International Perspectives: Education for All 2015 | |
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Three Major Trends in Today's Book Industry | |
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Book Sales and Readership | |
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Newspapers and Their Functions | |
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Local Newspapers | |
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National Newspapers | |
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Historical Development of Newspapers | |
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Media Timeline: History (and Pre-History) of Newspapers | |
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The Commercial Press | |
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The Partisan Press | |
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The Golden Age of Newspapers | |
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Convergence Culture: Freesheets: Riding the Rails of Newspapers' Future? | |
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Newspapers Today | |
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Newspaper Readership, Circulation, and Advertising | |
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Declining Number of Daily Newspapers | |
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Declining Advertising | |
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The Newspaper Industry Today | |
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Newspaper Chains | |
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Newspapers Change | |
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Benefits of Chains | |
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Problems with Chains | |
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Leading Newspaper Chains | |
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Gannett | |
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Tribune Company | |
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The McClatchy Company | |
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Cox Enterprises | |
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Advance Publications | |
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The New York Times Company | |
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E. W. Scripps | |
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The Hearst Corporation | |
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Newspaper Economics | |
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The Future of Newspapers | |
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Magazines and Their Functions | |
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Historical Development of Magazines | |
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Specialization of Magazines | |
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Circulation Patterns and Titles | |
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Content Specialization | |
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Convergence Context: Will Printing on Dead Trees Ever Die? | |
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The Future of Magazines | |
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Audio Media: Music Recordings, Radio | |
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Media Quiz: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (It Will Be Listened To) | |
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The Recording Industry | |
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Functions of the Recorded-Music Industry | |
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Historical Development: From Edison to CDs | |
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The Recorded-Music Industry Today | |
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Recording-Industry Business Model | |
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Creation | |
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Promotion | |
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Distribution | |
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Pricing Structure | |
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Recording-Industry Reality Today: A Complex Landscape | |
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What Is Broadcasting? | |
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Convergence Context: The Alphabet Soup of Spectrum Allocation | |
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Radio | |
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Functions of Radio | |
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Radio's Historical Development | |
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Wireless Telegraphy | |
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Exploring Radio's Early Potential | |
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Media Timeline: Milestones in Early Radio-Technology Development | |
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Voice Transmission | |
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Radio Before, During, and After WW I | |
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Widespread Public Adoption of Radio | |
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FM Radio, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff | |
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Development of a Radio Business Model | |
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The Networks | |
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International Perspectives: Trusting in the Power of the Airwaves | |
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Radio Station Programming | |
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Convergence Culture: NPR and PRI: America's Public Radio Networks | |
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Radio Stations: The United States Today | |
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Radio Station Ownership | |
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Satellite Radio | |
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Visual Media: Movies And Television | |
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Media Quiz: Eye-Q Test | |
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Photography | |
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Historical Development of Photography | |
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Media Timeline: Early Photography | |
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International perspectives: Photojournalist's Dilemma: Sudan, Starvation, and Suicide | |
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Seeing Beyond the Human Eye | |
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Movies | |
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The Functions of the Movie Industry | |
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Historical Development of Movies: The Early Years | |
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Silent Era: New Medium, New Technologies, New Storytelling | |
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George M�li�s and D. W. Griffith | |
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F. W. Murnau and Sergei Eisenstein | |
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Media Timeline: Selected Milestones in Early Motion Pictures | |
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Sound and Color Come to Movies | |
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Convergence Context: 3-D Movies: Perennial Fad, or Wave of the Future? | |
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Introduction to the Movie Industry | |
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The Hollywood Star System | |
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The Motion Picture Industry Today | |
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Exhibition Windows for Movies | |
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Going Digital | |
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Television | |
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Functions of Television | |
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Television's Historical Development | |
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Seeing the Light: The First Television Systems | |
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Modern Television Takes Shape | |
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The Rise of Flat-Panel Displays | |
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Television Distribution | |
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Broadcast TV | |
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Cable TV | |
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Origins of Cable TV | |
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Cable System Structure | |
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Cable Services and Programming: Audience Fragmentation | |
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Satellite | |
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Direct Broadcast Satellite | |
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Satellite-Cable Convergence | |
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The Television Industry Today | |
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The Shift to Digital Television | |
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Convergence Culture: Television Learns Music's Lessons | |
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How Digital Media Are Changing Our World | |
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Information Overload, Usability, And Interactive Media | |
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MEDIA QUIZ: Searching for Knowledge | |
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Characteristics of Storage, Representation, and Retrieval | |
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Longevity | |
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Capacity | |
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Portability | |
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Accessibility | |
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Reproducibility | |
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Nonelectronic Media Versus Electronic Media | |
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Media Timeline: Development of Electronic Recording Devices | |
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Social and Political Impact of Storing Information | |
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Stone Tablets to Papyrus | |
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Vellum to Paper | |
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The Kitchen Debate to Watergate | |
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Rodney King to the Oval Office | |
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Email to Facebook | |
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Managing Information | |
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Development of Digital Storage Devices | |
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Media Timeline: Development of Digital Storage Media | |
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Convergence Context: DVRs: Changing Television Viewing Habits--and the Industry | |
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Compression of Digital Audio and Video | |
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The Role of Search Engines | |
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Social and Political Impact of Information Overload | |
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The Importance of User Interface | |
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Current Problems with User Interface | |
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Development of the User Interface | |
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The Television Screen | |
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Television and Remote Control | |
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The Computer Interface | |
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The Creation of Intuitive Interfaces | |
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Keyboards | |
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International Perspectives: The Internet of Babel | |
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Computer Mouse | |
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Touch-Sensitive Screens | |
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Natural Input Methods | |
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Graphical User Interface | |
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The Desktop Metaphor | |
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Implications of User Interface for Mass Communication | |
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Interactive Media | |
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Interactivity Defined | |
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The Importance of Interactive Media | |
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Ethics of Interactive Media | |
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Free Speech for Everyone? | |
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Interactive Advertising | |
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Convergence Culture: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the (Google) Bomb | |
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Search Engine Keywords | |
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Networks And Distributing Digital Content | |
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Media Quiz: Network Knowledge | |
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Historical Influences on Modern Networks | |
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Government and Private Industry | |
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Evolving Technology: From the Telegraph to Fiber Optics | |
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Telegraphy | |
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Telephony | |
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Wireless Telecommunications | |
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Satellites | |
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International Perspectives: Al Jazeera: CNN of the Middle East? | |
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Fiber Optics | |
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The Nature of Networks: Key Concepts | |
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Sarnoff's Law | |
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Metcalfe's Law | |
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Reed's Law | |
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Computer Networks: Key Concepts | |
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Peer-to-Peer Model | |
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Client/Server Model | |
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Wireless Networks | |
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Connectivity | |
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Quality of Service | |
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Convergence Context: The Great Net Neutrality Debate | |
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Characteristics of Digital Distribution | |
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Distributing Bits | |
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Low Distribution Costs | |
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Perfect Infinite Copies | |
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Instantaneous Distribution | |
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New Distribution Dynamics | |
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The Audience as Distributor | |
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File-Sharing Services | |
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Centralized File Sharing: The Case of Napster | |
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Decentralized File Sharing | |
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Gnutella | |
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Freenet | |
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Jabber | |
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Streaming File Sharing: The Next Wave | |
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Convergence Culture: SETI@home: Is There Anybody Out There? | |
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New Distribution Technologies, New Legal, Ethical, and Social Issues | |
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Legal Issues | |
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Ethical Issues | |
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Social Issues | |
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Social Media And Web 2.0 | |
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Media Quiz: How Connected Are You? | |
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Defining Social Media | |
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Differences with Traditional Media | |
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What Is "Social" About Social Media? | |
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Choice | |
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Conversation | |
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Curation | |
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Creation | |
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Collaboration | |
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International Perspectives: Lily Allen: MySpace Star Reaches the Stars | |
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Types of Social Media | |
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Email | |
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Discussion Boards and Web Forums | |
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Chat Rooms | |
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Blogs | |
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Wikis | |
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Social-Networking Sites | |
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Why Social Networks Matter | |
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Convergence Culture: Are We Really Separated by Six Degrees? | |
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Collaborative Media Work | |
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Roots in the Open-Source Movement | |
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Changing Audiences: From Consumers to "Produsers" | |
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Reputation, Ratings, and Trust | |
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Ethical and Legal Issues with Social Media | |
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Privacy | |
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Transparency | |
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Convergence Context: Web 3.0: The Semantic Web | |
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Media Perspectives | |
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Journalism | |
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Media Quiz: Nose for News | |
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What Is News? | |
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The Historical Development of Journalism | |
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Objectivity and the Associated Press | |
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Minority Newspapers | |
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Pulitzer and Hearst: The Circulation Wars, Sensationalism, and Standards | |
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Joseph Pulitzer | |
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William Randolph Hearst | |
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The Muckrakers | |
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The Rise of Electronic Journalism | |
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Murrow and News in TV's Golden Age | |
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Changes in Television News Coverage | |
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Foundations of Journalism | |
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The Hutchins Commission and A Free and Responsible Press | |
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The Separation of Editorial and Business Operations | |
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Fairness and Balance in News Coverage | |
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Framing the News | |
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International Perspectives: Covering Islam | |
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Expert Sources | |
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The News Agenda of Newspapers | |
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The News Agenda of Television News | |
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From Event to Public Eye: How News Is Created | |
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Gathering the News | |
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Producing the News | |
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Convergence Culture: Platypus Journalism: Journalism's Future, or Evolutionary Dead End? | |
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Distributing the News | |
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Types of Journalism | |
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Alternative Journalism | |
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Public Journalism | |
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Citizen Journalism | |
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An International Perspective | |
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Journalism in the Digital World | |
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The 24/7 News Cycle | |
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Nontraditional News Sources | |
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Online Users' Media Habits | |
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Personalization | |
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Contextualization of News | |
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Convergent Journalism | |
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Journalism Ethics | |
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Privacy Rights Versus the Public's Right to Know | |
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Going Undercover | |
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Convergence Context: Do the Ends Justify the Means? | |
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Victimizing the Victims | |
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The Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics | |
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The Business of Journalism | |
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Salaries | |
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Diversity in the Newsroom | |
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Careers in Journalism | |
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Specialized Journalism Types | |
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Business and Financial Journalism | |
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Arts and Entertainment Journalism | |
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Sports Journalism | |
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Health or Medical Journalism | |
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Science and Technology Journalism | |
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Environmental Journalism | |
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Entertainment | |
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Media Quiz: Are You an Entertainment Junkie? | |
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Functions of Entertainment | |
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The Historical Development of Entertainment | |
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Entertainment Media | |
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Television | |
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Early Days: Programming and Genre Influences | |
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Pushing the Programming Envelope | |
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The MTV Generation and Rise of Cable | |
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Cable Comes of Age | |
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International Perspectives: Pay-TV Piracy in Asia | |
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Public Service Broadcasting: Public Service in a Commercial World | |
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Types of Programming | |
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Changes in Media, Changes in Programming | |
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Filling the Days | |
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Convergence Culture: The Quiz Show That Became a Town | |
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Filling the Nights | |
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Sports | |
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Questionable Programming | |
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Movies | |
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Hollywood's Legendary Movie Moguls | |
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The Warner Brothers | |
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Walt Disney | |
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Samuel Goldwyn | |
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Marcus Loew: Mogul of the East | |
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Louis B. Mayer | |
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Film Genres | |
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The Director as Auteur | |
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Technological Influences on Movie Genres | |
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Other Entertainment Sources for Movies | |
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DVDs and Videotapes | |
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Video Games | |
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Convergence Context: Is Playing Video Games Bad for You? | |
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Music | |
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From Tin Pan Alley to Hollywood | |
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Roots of Rock and Roll | |
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Redefining Rock | |
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Music and MTV | |
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Books and Magazines | |
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Entertainment Ethics and Law | |
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The Censorship of Comics | |
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The Hays Code | |
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Stereotypes in Entertainment | |
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The Business of Entertainment | |
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Careers in Entertainment | |
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Salaries in Entertainment | |
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Advertising And Public Relations | |
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Media Quiz: The Power of Persuasion | |
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Strategic Communications | |
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Persuasive Communications | |
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The Role of Media in Persuasion | |
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Advertising | |
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The Historical Development of Advertising | |
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Greater Prominence of Advertising | |
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Development of the Advertising Agency | |
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Growth of Commercial Television | |
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Commercialization of the Internet | |
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Convergence Context: Me 2.0: The Guide to Branding Yourself | |
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The Rise of Branding | |
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Selling Products, Selling Ideas | |
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Advertising Channels | |
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Print Media | |
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Electronic Media | |
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Convergence Culture: The Super Bowl of Advertising | |
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Outdoor | |
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Direct Mail | |
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Advertising in a Digital World | |
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Email Marketing | |
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Banner Ads | |
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Pop-Ups, Interstitials, Superstitials, and Video | |
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Classifieds and Auction Sites | |
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Search Engine Ads | |
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Viral Marketing | |
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The Advertising Business | |
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Advertising Agencies | |
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Ethical Issues in Advertising | |
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Deceptive Advertising | |
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Puffery | |
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International Perspectives: Finding the Right Formula for Advertising Regulations | |
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Public Relations | |
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The Historical Development of Public Relations | |
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Trends in the Development of Public Relations | |
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PR and Media Relations | |
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Pseudo Events | |
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Distributing News to the Media in the Digital Age | |
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Finding Sources Online | |
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PR Firms and the PR Industry | |
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Ethical Issues in Public Relations | |
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Changing Trends in Advertising and PR | |
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Careers in Advertising and PR | |
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Media And Society | |
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Media Theory And Research: From Writing To Text Messaging | |
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Media Quiz: Bringing Out Your Inner Researcher | |
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The Role of Theory and Research | |
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Media Research: What Type of Science Is It? | |
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Quantitative Research | |
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Qualitative Research | |
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Qualitative and Quantitative Research Working Together | |
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The First Media Revolution: The Written Word | |
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Media Representations and Understanding the World | |
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Semiotics | |
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Media Ecology | |
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Agenda Setting and Framing | |
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Mass Society, Mass Communication | |
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Media-Effects Research | |
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Propaganda and the Magic Bullet | |
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Payne Fund | |
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Radio's Wider Impact | |
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Television and Violence | |
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Convergence Culture: Advertising and Its Negative Effects on Women | |
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Limited Effects | |
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Cultivation Analysis | |
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Convergence Context: It's a Mean, Mean World--At Least on TV | |
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Spiral of Silence | |
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Third-Person Effect | |
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Criticisms of Media-Effects Research | |
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Understanding the Audience | |
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Audiences Creating Meaning | |
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Uses and Gratifications | |
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Encoding/Decoding | |
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Reception Analysis | |
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Cultural Studies | |
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Ideology and the Culture Industry | |
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Political Economy | |
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International Perspectives: Theories Old, Theories New, Theories Borrowed... | |
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Criticisms of Cultural Studies | |
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Digital Media Theory and Research | |
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Information Society | |
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Audiences as Consumers, Users, or Produsers? | |
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Communication Law And Regulation In The Digital Age | |
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Media Quiz: Legal Limits | |
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The Legal Framework | |
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The Foundations of Freedom of Expression | |
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National Security | |
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Clear and Present Danger | |
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Prior Restraint | |
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Libel | |
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The New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) | |
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Protecting Journalists Against Libel | |
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Shield Laws | |
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Censorship | |
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Indecent Content | |
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Obscenity | |
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Criticism, Ridicule, or Humor | |
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The Evolution of Regulating Electronic Media | |
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Early Days and the Radio Act of 1912 (1911-1926) | |
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Increasing Regulation and the Federal Radio Commission (1927-1933) | |
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CONVERGENCE CULTURE: (Low) Power to the People | |
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The Communications Act and Spectrum Scarcity (1934-1995) | |
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The Telecommunications Act and Its Effects (1996-present) | |
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Electronic Media Regulation Internationally | |
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International Perspectives: The Rise and Fall of Russian Media | |
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) | |
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Regulating Radio and Television | |
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Universal Service | |
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Spectrum Auction | |
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The FCC, Station ID, and License Renewal | |
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FCC Limits on Stations | |
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Regulating Content | |
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Commercial Speech | |
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Tobacco and Alcohol Advertising | |
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False Advertising | |
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Political Speech | |
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Equal-Time Rule | |
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Fairness Doctrine | |
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Children's Programming Protections | |
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The Children's Television Act | |
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Violent and Sexual Programming: The V-Chip | |
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TV Parental Guidelines | |
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Intellectual Property Rights | |
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Fair Use | |
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Legal Issues in the Digital World | |
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Digital Rights Management | |
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CONVERGENCE CONTEXT: Creative Commons License | |
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Privacy | |
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Content Rights and Responsibilities | |
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Mass Communication And Politics In The Digital Age | |
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Media Quiz: Playing Politics | |
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Four Theories of International Mass Communication | |
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The Authoritarian Theory | |
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International Perspectives: Searching for Truth: Self-Censorship in China | |
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The Libertarian Theory | |
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The Social Responsibility Theory | |
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The Soviet Theory | |
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The Public, the Public Sphere, and Public Opinion | |
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Political Issues with Media | |
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Media in Developing Countries | |
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The Digital Divide | |
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The Role of Media in Political Elections | |
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Sound Bites and Horse Races | |
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Convergence Context: Sound Bite Shakespeare | |
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The Changing Tone of Television Political Coverage | |
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Opinion Polls | |
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Political Advertising | |
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The Impact of Negative Advertising | |
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Negative Advertising Effectiveness | |
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Political Debates | |
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Convergence Culture: Image Is Everything | |
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The Internet and Political Campaigns | |
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The Role of YouTube | |
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Changing Rules for Politicians | |
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Online Media and Political Communications | |
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Glossary | |
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Notes | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |