TY - BOOK AU - Duffy, Brooke Erin. AU - Turow, Joseph. TI - Key readings in media today: mass communication in contexts SN - 9780415992046 (hardback : alk. paper) U1 - 302.23 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Mass media N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; pt. 1 : Understanding the nature of mass media; Mass communicatio n, popular taste and organized social action; Paul F. Lazarsfeld an d Robert K. Merton --; The definition of media literacy; W. James Potter --; Common media for an uncommon nation; Ben H. Bagdikian --; Political problem, political solutions; Robert McChesney --; Not toasters : the special nature of media products; C. Edwin B aker --; Four puzzles from cyberspace; Lawrence Lessig --; pt. 2 : The print media; Making news : time and typifications; Gaye Tuchman --; Convergence : news production in a digital age; Eric Klinenberg --; Time ahead : digital challenges facing print magazines; Brooke Erin Duffy --; Sex, lies, and advertising; Gloria St einem --; Is there a text in this advertising campaign? : literature, marketing, and Harry Potter; Philip Nel --; Newspapers rocken es panol; Mark Fitzgerald --; pt. 3 : The electronic media; What is news?; Neil Postman and Steve Powers --; Queens for a day : Qu eer eye for the straight guy and the neoliberal project; Katherine Sender --; Deconstructing the diversity principle; Philip M. Napo li --; Radio and modernity : time, place and "communicative capacity"; David Hendy --; Fallout : a follow up to "the internet debacle"; Janis Ian --; Promoting the industry; Janet Wasko --; Blo ckbuster meets superhero comic, or art house meets graphic novel? The c ontradictory relationship between film and comic art; Matthew P. Mc Allister, Ian Gordon, and Mark Jancovich --; pt. 4 : The digital medi a; The long tail; Chris Anderson --; Peer production and shari ng; Yochai Benkler --; Your brain on video games : could they act ually be good for you?; Steven Johnson --; Sports online : the ne west player in mediasport; Michael Real --; Quentin Tarantino's S tar Wars? Digital cinema, media convergence, and participatory culture; Henry Jenkins --; Download this : youtube phenom has a big secre t; Ethan Smith and Peter Lattman --; pt. 5 : Advertising and publ ic relations; The work of adcult; James B. Twitchell --; "Chao s scenario" : a look at the marketing industry's coming disaster; B ob Garfield --; Rethinking television in the digital age; Joseph Turow --; Philanthropy as public relations : a critical perspective o n cause marketing; Inger L. Stole --; Media, war, and propaganda : strategies of information management during the 2003 Iraq war; De epa Kumar --; The public and its problems : some notes for the new mi llennium; Stuart Ewen ER -