Mass Communication

VOLUME ONE: THEORIES, BASIC CONCEPTS AND VARIETIES OF APPROACH The Origins of Individual Media-System Dependency - Sandra J Ball-Rokeach Structural Analysis and Mass Communication - Olivier Burgelin A Cultural Approach to Communication - James W Carey Defining Media Events - Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz Theories of Communication and Theories of Society - Peter Golding and Grahan Murdock Ideology and Communication Theory - Stuart Hall The Propaganda Model - Edward S Herman A Retrospective The Television Audience - Denis McQuail, Jay G Blumler and J R Brown A Revised Perspective Medium Theory - Joshua Meyrowitz The Mass Society - C Wright Mills The Internet as a Mass Medium - Merrill Morris and Christine Ogan Models of Media Effects - Elizabeth M Perse Distrust of Representation - John Durham Peters Habermas on the Public Sphere Interpersonal Influence in Election Campaigns - John P Robinson Two-Step Flow Hypotheses Communication Research - Karl Erik Rosengren One Paradigm or Four? Social Theory and the Media - J B Thompson Mass Media and the Differential Growth in Knowledge - Phillip J Tichenor, George A Donohue and Clarice N Olien A New Paradigm? - Liesbet Van Zoonen A Conceptual Model for Mass Communication Research - Bruce Westley and Malcolm S MacLean Jr Functional Analysis and Mass Communication - Charles R Wright VOLUME TWO: MEDIA SYSTEMS, ECONOMY, GOVERNANCE AND GLOBALIZATION Beyond Journalism - Jo Bardoel A Profession between Information Society and Civil Society Towards a Theory of Press-State Relations in the US - W Lance Bennett The Third Age of Political Communication - Jay G Blumler and Dennis Kavanagh Influences and Fears Towards a New Classification of Tele-Information Services - Jan L Bordewijk and Ben van Kaam Journalistic Codes of Ethics in Europe - Tiina Laitila Levels of Analysis in Mass Media Decision-Making - John Dimmick and Philip Coit The Mythology about Globalization - Majorie Ferguson Media and Political Systems and the Question of Differentiation - Daniel C Hallin and Paolo Mancini Fields of Broadcast Regulation - Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem Reasons for the US Dominance of the International Trade in Television Programs - Colin Hoskins and Rolf Mirus What Things Regulate - Lawrence Lessig Foundations and Limits of Freedom of the Press - Judith Lichtenberg What Kind of Commodity Is News? - John H McManus A Framework of Principle for Media Assessment - Denis McQuail The Social Responsibility Theory of the Press - Theodore Peterson Research into International TV Flows - Preben Sepstrup The Discourse of Cultural Imperialism - J Tomlinson Media Policy Paradigm Shifts - Jan J Van Cuilenburg and Denis McQuail VOLUME THREE: MEDIA PRODUCTION AND CONTENT The News Factory - Charles R Bantz, Suzanne McCorkle and Roberta C Baade The Hollywood TV Producer - Muriel G Cantor Framing US Coverage of the International News - Robert M Entman Contrasts in Narratives of the KAL and Iran Air Incidents The Structure of Foreign News - Johan Galtung and Mari Holmboe Ruge Explicating Sensationalism in TV News - Maria E Grabe, Shuhua Zhou and Brooke Barnett Content and the Bells and Whistles of Form Press and Television as Opinion Resources in Presidential Campaigns - Doris A Graber Reading Realism - Alice Hall Audiences' Evaluations of the Reality of Media Texts Quality Assessment of Broadcast Programming - Sakae Ishikawa and Yasuko Muramatsu Professional Models in Journalism - Morris Janowitz The Gatekeeper and the Advocate News as Purposive Behavior - Harvey L Molotch and Marilyn J Lester From the Persian Gulf to Kosovo - Stig A Norstedt et al War Journalism and Propaganda News as a Form of Knowledge - Robert E Park Political Roles of the Journalist - Thomas E Patterson The Ideal Romance - Janice Radway The Roots of a Sociology of News Production - Stephen D Reese and Jane Ballinger Remembering Mr Gates and Social Control in the Newsroom The Product Image - John Ryan and Richard A Peterson The Fate of Creativity in Country Music Song-Writing Prime-Time Television - Stacy L Smith, Amy I Nathanson and Barbara J Wilson Assessing Violence during the Most Popular Viewing Hours Making News by Doing Work - Gaye Tuchman Routinizing the Unexpected A Theory of Evaluative Discourse - Jan J Van Cuilenburg, Jan Kleinnijenhuis and Jan de Ridder Towards a Graph Theory of Journalistic Texts Discourse Analysis - Teun Van Dijk Its Development and Application to the Structure of News Objective News Reporting - Jurgen Westerstahl VOLUME FOUR: AUDIENCES AND EFFECTS OF MASS COMMUNICATION I Am Ashamed to Admit It But I Have Watched Dallas - Pertti Alasuutari The Moral Hierarchy of Television Programmes The Third Person Effect - W Phillips Davison The British, Canadian and US Pornography Commissions and Their Use of Social Research - Edna F Einsiedel Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power - William Gamson and Andre Modigliani The Political Correlates of TV Viewing - George Gerbner et al Seeing Is Remembering - Doris A Graber How Visuals Contribute to TV News Diffusion of News of the Kennedy Assassination - Bradley S Greenberg Practising Embodiment - Joke Hermes Reality, Respect and Issues of Gender in Media Reception News Coverage of the Gulf War and Public Opinion - Shanto Iyengar and Adam Simon A Study of Agenda-Setting, Priming and Framing Five Traditions in Search of the Audience - Klaus B Jensen and Karl Erik Rosengren Patterns of Involvement in Television Fiction - Tamara Liebes and Elihu Katz A Comparative Analysis Interpretative Viewers and Structured Programs - Sonia L Livingstone The Implicit Representation of Soap Opera Characters The Social Uses of Television - James Lull The Agenda-Setting Function of the Press - Maxwell E McCombs and Donald L Shaw The Future of the Mass Audience - W Russell Neumann The Theory of Public Opinion - Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann The Concept of the Spiral of Silence Marketing Communication and the Hierarchy of Effects - Michael L Ray Communication and Development - Everett M Rogers The Passing of the Dominant Paradigm Ritualized and Instrumental Television Viewing - Alan M Rubin A Theory of TV Program Choice - James G Webster and Jacob J Wakshlag From the Boob Tube to the Black Box - W Gill Woodall, Dennis K Davis and Haluk Sahin TV News Comprehension from an Information Processing Perspective