Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
The Press and the Law by Hanno Hardt
The Politics of Communication by Claus Mueller.
Television and Antisocial Behavior: Field Experiments by Stanley Milgram and R. Lance Shotland.
A First Language: The Early Stages by Roger Brown.
Inside Intuition: What We Know About Nonverbal Communication by Flora Davis.
Children's Television: The Economics of Exploitation by William M. Melody.
Dream Telepathy by Montague Ullman and Stanley Krippner, with Alan Vaughan.
Mass Communication by R. K. Chatterjee.
A General Systems Philosophy for the Social and Behavioral Sciences by John Sutherland.
The Process of Psychotherapy by Donald J. Kiesler.
The People's Films: A Political History of U.S. Government Motion Pictures by Richard Dyer MacCann.
Mythologies by Roland Barthes.
Computer-Communication Networks edited by Norman Abramson and Franklin F. Kuo.
The New Journalism by Tom Wolfe, with an anthology edited by Tom Wolfe and E. W. Johnson.
Children Are Centers For Understanding Media edited by Susan Rice and Rose Mukerji.
Mass News: Practices, Controversies, and Alternatives edited by David J. LeRoy and Christopher H. Sterling.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
The Technological System by Jacques Ellul.
Communication and Social Structures: Critical Studies in Mass Media Research edited by Emile G.
Life on Television: Content Analyses of US. TV Drama by Bradley S.
Persuasion : New Directions in Theory and Research edited by Michael E. Roloff and Gerald R. Miller
Business and the Media edited by Craig Aronoff
Language and Learning: The Debate Between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky edited by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini.
Progress in Communication Sciences , Volume 2, edited by Brenda Dervin and Melvin J. Voigt.
Media · Power · Politics by David L. Paletz and Robert N. Entman.
Television, Imagination and Aggression: A Study of Preschoolers'Play and Television Viewing Habits by Jerome L. Singer and Dorothy G. Singer, Teaching Television: How to Use TV to Your Child's Advantage by Dorothy G. Singer, Jerome L. Singer, and Diana M. Zuckerman, Growing Up on Television: The TV Effect by Kate Moody, and Prime-Time Television: Content and Control by Muriel G. Cantor
Chicago Tribune: The Rise of a Great American Newspaper by Lloyd Wendt and The Colonel of Chicago by Joseph Gies
The "Technique" of Political Lying by Robert W. Rasberry     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Power—and the Courage to be Free by Hanno Hardt
Cable Television and the FCC: A Crisis in Media Control by Don R. LeDuc.
The Media in America by John Tebbel.
Popular Images of Politics by Dan D. Nimmo.
The Study of Social Dialects in American English by Walt Wolfram and Ralph W. Fasold.
Gaming: The Future's Language by Richard Duke.
Auding and Reading: A Development Model by Thomas G. Sticht, Lawrence J. Beck, Robert N. Hauke, Glenn M. Kleiman, and James H. James.
Radio and Television Broadcasting in Eastern Europe by Burton Paulu.
Paralanguage and Kinesics by Mary Ritchie Key.
Sociolinguistics: A Crossdisciplinary Perspective edited by Roger W. Shuy.
The Mass Media: Aspects of Modern Sociology by Peter Golding.
Human Communication Handbook: Simulations and Games by Brent D. Ruben and Richard W. Budd.
Vienna Broadcasts to Slooakia 1938–1939: A Case Study in Subversion by Henry Delfiner.
Teaching Reading in the Secondary School by Wilma H. Miller.
Mass Media in America by Don R. Pember.
Communication and Behavior edited by Gerhard J. Hanneman and William J. McEwen.
Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema by Christian Metz. Translated by Michael Taylor.
Communication Behavior and Experiments: A Scientific Approach by R. Wayne Pace, Robert R. Boren, and Brent D. Peterson.
How Adults Learn by J. R. Kidd.
How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart. Translation from the Spanish version, first published in 1971, and introduction by David Kunzle.     

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Book reviewed in this article
The Sponsor: Notes on a Modern Potentate by Erik Barnouw.
Film and/as Literature edited by John Harrington.
The Media Society: Evidence About Mass Communication in America by Ever-ette E. Dennis.
Computers at Large by Charles J. Sippl and Robert Bullen.
Radical Change Through Communication in Mao's China by Godwin C. Chu.
The Creation of Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Magazine Science Fiction by Paul A, Carter.
The Serials: Suspense and Drama by Installment (second edition) by Raymond William Stedman.
Women in Media: A Documentary Source Book by Maurine Beasley and Sheila Silver.
Municipal Control of Cable Communications by Robert E. Jacobson.
Communication in the Classroom by H. Thomas Hurt, Michael D. Scott, and James C. McCroskey.
Politics in Public Service Advertising on Television by David L. Paletz, Roberta E. Pearson, and Donald L. Willis.
The Information Process: World News Reporting to the Twentieth Century by Robert W. Desmond.
Strategies for Communication Research edited by Paul M. Hirsch, Peter V. Miller, and F. Gerald Kline.
Christ and the Media by Malcolm Muggeridge.
Evaluation Studies: Review Annual, Volume 2, 1977 edited by Marcia Guttentag with Shalom Saar.
Language and Materialism: Developments in Semiology and the Theory of the Subject by Rosalind Coward and John Ellis.
Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior by Desmond Morris.
Public Relations, The Edward L. Bernayses, and the American Scene: A Bibliography compiled by Keith A. Larson.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Dictionnaire Critique de la Communication (Critical Dictionary of Communication) Edited by Lucien Sfez.
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from Ancient Times to the Information Age Edited by Theresa Enos.
Last Rights: Revisiting Four Theories of the Press Edited by John C. Nerone.
Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States By Thomas Streeter.
Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse By Richard R. John.
The Power of News By Michael Schudson.
Public Opinion and the Communication of Consent Edited by Theodore L. Glasser and Charles T. Salmon.
Political Style: The Artistry of Power By Robert Hariman.
The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media By John B. Thompson.
The Social Semiotics of Mass Communication By Klaus Bruhn Jensen.
Unstable Frontiers: Techno-medicine and the Cultural Politics of "Curing" AIDS By John Nguyet Erni.
The Death of Discourse By Ronald K. L. Collins and David M. Skover.
Emotion and the Structure of Narrative Film By Ed Tan.
Moving Images: Understanding Children's Emotional Responses to Television By David Buckingham.
Smooth Talkers: The Linguistic Performance of Auctioneers and Sportscasters By Koenrad Kuiper.
Situating Selves: The Communication of Social Identities in American Scenes By Donal Carbaugh.
American Communication Research: The Remembered History Edited by Everette E. Dennis and Ellen Wartella.
The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States By Michael Kammen.     

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book reviewed in this article:
Language Perspectives—Acquisitions, Retardation and Intervention edited by Richard L. Schiefelbusch and Lyle L. Lloyd.
Language and Public Policy edited by Hugh Rank.
Economics and Freedom of Expression: Media Structure and the First Amendment by Bruce M. Owen.
Theories of Mass Communication (third edition) by Melvin L. De Flew and Sandra Ball-Rokeach.
Studies in the New Experimental Aesthetics: Steps Toward an Objective Psychology of Aesthetic Appreciation edited by D. E. Berlyne.
Public Opinion in America: 1936–1970 by Rita James Simon.
Political Language and Oratory in Traditional Society edited by Maurice Bloch.
The Great American Communication Catalogue by Irving J. Rein.
Communication Science and Technology by Patrick R. Penland.
The Sociology of Language by Thomas Luckman.
Seniiology by Pierre Guiraud, translated by George Gross.
A Theory of Semiotics by Umberto Eco.
Articulation and Learning: New Dimensions in Research, Diagnostics and Therapy edited by W. Dean Wolfe and Daniel J. Goulding.
Communicating Personally: A Theory of lnterpersonal Communication and Human Relationships by Charles M. Rossiter, Jr. and W. Barnett Pearce.
Communication Breakdown: Cause and Cure by David W. Shave.
No Laughing Matter: Rationale of the Dirty Joke , Vol. 2 by G. Legman.
Stylistics by G. W. Turner.
Social Communication by France Vreg.
Light and Shadows: A History of Motion Pictures by Thomas W. Bohn and Richard L. Stromgren.
Gaze and Mutual Gaze by Michael Argyle and Mark Cook.
Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture by Stuart Ewen.
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Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Organizational Communication by Gerald M. Goldhaber.
Readings in Interpersonal and Organizational Communication by Richard C. Huseman, Cal M. Logue, and Dwight L. Freshley.
Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste by Herbert J. Gans.
The Pulitzer Prizes by John Hohenberg.
On Message Structure by Ragnar Rommetveit.
Congress and the News Media , edited with notes and commentaries by Robert O. Blanchard.
Mass Communication Research: Major Issues and Future Directions , edited by W. Phillips Davison and Frederick T. C. Yu.
Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution by Paul Watzlawick, John Weakland, and Richard Fisch.
Nonverbal Communication by Ellen Steele McCardle.
Public Opinion: Micro and Macro by James J. Best.
About Documentary: Anthropology on Film. A Philosophy of People and Art by Robert Edmonds.
Handbook for Proxemic Research by Edward T. Hall.
Mass Media: An Introduction to Modern Communication by Ray Eldon Hiebert, Donald F. Ungurait, and Thomas W. Bohn.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Communication and Sociolinguistics by Fredrick Williams
Presidential Television (A Twentieth Century Fund Report) by Newton N. Minow, John Bartlow Martin, and Lee M. Mitchell.
Living With Change: The Semantics of Coping by Wendell Johnson and Dorothy Moeller.
The Mind Managers by Herbert I. Schiller.
Communication Strategies for Family Planning by Everett M. Rogers.
News From Nowhere: Television and the News by Edward Jay Epstein.
The Early Window: Effects of Television on Children and Youth by Robert M. Liebert, John M. Neale, and Emily S. Davidson.
Content Analysis: A Technique for Systematic Inference From Communications by T. F. Carney.
The Hidden Springs: An Enquiry Into Extra-Sensory Perception by Renée Haynes.
The American Newsreel 1911–1967 by Raymond Fielding.
Mass Media: A Worktext in the Processes of Modern Communication by Ann Christine Heintz, B.V.M., M. Lawrence Reuter, S.J., and Elizabeth Conley.
Children's Television Commercials: A Content Analysis by Charles Winick, Lorne G. Williamson, Stuart F. Chuzmir, and Mariann Pezzella Winick.
Human Connection and the New Media edited by Barry N. Schwartz.
Cable Television: A Guide For Citizen Action by Monroe Price and John Wicklein.
Men, Messages and Media: A Look at Human Communication by Wilbur Schramm.
The Personal Communication Process by John R. Wenburg and William W. Wilmot.
Social Psychology in Natural Settings: A Reader in Field Experimentation edited by Paul G. Swingle.
Conflict Among Humans by Robert D. Nye.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Economic Aspects of Television Regulation by Roger G. Noll, Merton J. Peck, and John J. McGowan.
The Future of Literacy edited by Robert Disch.
Invisible Colleges by Diana Crane.
Precision Journalism: A Reporter's Introduction to Social Science Methods by Philip Meyer.
Law of Mass Communications: Freedom and Control of Print and Broadcast Media by Harold L. Nelson and Dwight L. Teeter, Jr. Mineola
Cognitive Development and the Acquisition of Language edited by Timothy E. Moore.
Public Relations and Presidential Campaigns: A Crisis in Democracy by Melvyn H. Bloom.
Intercultural Communication: A Reader edited by Larry A.
Language Attitudes: Current Trends and Prospects edited by Roger W. Shuy and Ralph W. Fasold.
Rebel in Radio: The Story of WQXR by Elliott M. Sanger.     

Books

Book reviewed in this article:
Television and the Crisis of Democracy By Douglas Kellner.
The World Television Industry: An Economic Analysis By Peter J. S. Dunnett.
The Age Of Behetmths: The Globalization of Mas Media Firms By Anthony Smith/reviewed By Douglas M. McLeod
Inside Family Viewing: Ethnographic Research on Television's Audiences By James Lull.
Games and Sets: The Changing Face of Sport on Television By Steven Barnett.
Border Dialogues: Journeys in Postmodernity By Ian Chambers.
Enacting Political Culture: Rhetorical Transformations of Liberty Weekend 1986 By David E. Procter.
From The Avengers to Miami Vice : Form and Ideology in Television Series By David Buxton.
The Many Lives of the Batman Edited By Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio.
Pray TV: Televangelism in America By Steve Bruce.
Berlin Calling: American Broadcasters in Service to the Third Reich By John Carver Edwards.
FDR and the News Media By Betty Houchin Winfield.
Canadian Dreams and American Control: The Political Economy of the Canadian Film Industry By Manjunath Pendakur.
Profiles of Deception How the News Media Are Deceiving the American People By Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid.
Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media By Martin A. Lee and Norman Solomon.
The Press, Presidents, and Crises By Brigitte Lebens Nacos.
The Media and Foreign Policy Edited By Simon Serfaty.
Social Conflict and Television News By Akiba A. Cohen, Hanna Adoni, and Charles R. Bantz.
Mass Media and the Caribbean Edited By Stuart H. Surlin and Walter C. Soderlund.
Mass Communications in the Caribbean By John A. Lent.
Caribbean Popular Culture Edited By John A. Lent.     

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Reviewed in this article: Mass Media, Ideologies and the Revolutionary Movement by Armand Mattelart. Translated by Malcolm Coad. Marx and Engels on the Means of Communication by Yves de la Haye. Organizational Communication: Abstracts, Analysis, and Overview, Volume 7, by Howard H. Green-baum and Raymond L. Falcione. Organizational Behavior: An Applied Psychological Approach (revised edition) by Dennis W. Organ and W. Clay Hamner. Mass Media Research: An Zntroduction by Roger D. Wimmer and Joseph R. Dominick. Research Methods in Mass Communication edited by Guido H. Stempel, III, and Bruce H. Westley. Sounds Real: Radio in Everyday Life by C. S. Higgins and P. D. Moss . Language as Social Resource: Essays by Allen D. Grimshaw edited by Anwar S. Dil. Language, Culture, and Education: Essays by Norman A. Mc Quown edited by Anwar S. Dil. Media and the American Mind: From Morse to Mc Luhan by Daniel J. Czitrom. To Inform or to Control: The New Communications Network by Oswald H. Ganley and Gladys D. Ganley. Communication in the Human Services: A Guide to Therapeutic Journalism by Marcia S. Joslyn-Scherer. Mass Communications and Culture edited by Gunnar Andrén and Hans Strand. Face to File Communication: A Psychological Approach to Information Systems by Bruce Christie. Handbook of Political Communication edited by Dan D. Nimmo and Keith R. Sanders. Communication and Social Change in Developing Nations: A Critical View by Göran Hedebro. Teaching Critical Television Viewing Skills: An Integrated Approach by Milton E. Ploghoft and James A. Anderson. Common Culture and the Great Tradition: The Case for Renewal by Marshall W. Fishwick. The Time of the Sign: A Semiotic lnterpretation of Modern Culture by Dean MacCannell and Juliet Flower MacCannell. Gender and Nonverbal Behavior edited by Clara Mayo and Nancy M. Henley. Springer Series in Social Psychology. Prime-Time America: Life on and Behind the Television Screen by Robert Sklar. Strategies in Broadcast and Cable Promotion edited by Susan Tyler Eastman and Robert A. Klein. Black Families and the Medium of Television edited by Anthony W. Jackson. Ann Arbor. Permitted Dissent in the USSR: Novy Mir and the Soviet Regime by Dina Rome Spechler. Individuals in Mass Media Organizations: Creativity and Constraint edited by James S. Ettema and D. Charles Whitney. Communication Models for the Study of Mass Communications by Denis Mc Quail and Sven Windahl. A Victorian Authority: The Daily Press in Late Nineteenth-Century Canada by Paul Rutherford. Persuasion and Human Action: A Review and Critique of Social Influence Theories by Mary John Smith. Who Owns the Media? Concentration of Ownership in the Mass Communications Industry (second edition) by Benjamin M. Compaine, Christopher H. Sterling, Thomas Guback, and J. Kendrick Noble, Jr. Communication and Education: Social and Psychological Interactions by Gavriel Salomon. The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition edited by C. L. Baker and John J. Mc Carthy. Communication Yearbook 5 edited by Michael Burgoon. Media Analysis Techniques by Arthur Asa Berger. The Question of Animal Awareness: Evolutionary Continuity of Mental Experience (revised edition) by Donald R. Griffin. Conversational Organization: Interaction Between Speakers and Hearers by Charles Goodwin. Reporting U.S.-European Relations: Four Nations, Four Newspapers edited by Michael Rice with James A. Cooney. Art Worlds by Howard S. Becker. Comparative Communication Research by Alex S. Edelstein. Knowledge/power/politics Computers and Politics: High Technology in American Local Governments by James N. Danziger, William Dutton, Rob Kling, and Kenneth L. Kraemer. Violence as Communication: Insurgent Terrorism and the Western News Media by Alex P. Schmid and Janny de Graaf. Culture, Society and the Media edited by Michael Gurevitch, Tony Bennett, James Curran, and Janet Woollacott.     

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Broadcasting in the Third World by Elihu Katz and George Wedell Unmailable: Congress and the Post Ofice by Dorothy Ganfield Fowler Big Media, Little Media: Tools and Technologies for Instruction by Wilbur Schramm PSI: Scientific Studies of the Psychic Realm by Charles T. Tart. Cognitive Styles in Law Schools By Alfred G. Smith To Dance Is Human A Theory of Nonverbal Communication By Judith Lynne Hanna The Sign and Its Masters By Thomas A. Sebeok The View From Highway 1: Essays on Television by Michael J. Arlen Hugo Black and the Bill of Rights edited by Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton. Theories of Human Communication by Stephen W. Littlejohn. Stay Tuned: A Concise History of American Broadcasting by Christopher H. Sterling and John M. Kittross Printed Propaganda under Louis XIV: Absolute Monarchy and Public Opinion by Joseph Klaits Sex Differences in Human Communication by Barbara Westbrook Eakins and R. Gene Eakins The Southern California Conference on The Media and the Law, sponsored by Los Angeles Times/Ford Foundation, edited and with a foreword by John FoIey, Robert C. Lobdell, and Robert Trounson. The Tangled Net: Basic Issues in Canadian Communications by Patricia Hindley, Gail M. Martin, and Jean McNulty. Communication and Social Behavior: A Symbolic Interaction Perspective by Don F. Fades and Dennis C. Alexander The Gallup International Public Opinion Polls edited by George H. Gallup Reluctant Regulators: The FCC and the Broadcast Audience by Barry Cole and Ma1 Oettinger Quatre Milliards de Journaux by Francois Archambault and Jean Francois Le-moine. Perspectives on Human Communication by B. Aubrey Fisher. Meaning in Child Language: Issues in the Study of Early Semantic Development by Laurence B. Leonard Pragmantic and Semantic Aspects of Early Language Development by Ernst L. Moerk Mass Media and Man's View of Society: A Conference Report and International Bibliog- raphy by the International Association for Mass Communication Research Words and Women: New Language in New Times by Casey Miller and Kate Swift “Ezra Pound Speaking”: Radio Speeches of World War 11 edited by Leonard W. Doob. Political Communication and Public Opinion in America by Dan Nimmo Social Responsibilities of the Mass Media edited by Allen Casebier and Janet Jenks Casebier.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Darwin and Facial Expression: A Century of Research in Review edited by
INTELSAT, Politics and Functionalism by Joseph N. Pelton.
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View by Stanley Milgram.
Communicational Structure: Analysis of a Psychotherapy Transaction by Albert E. Scheflen, M.D.
Theatres: An Architectural & Cultural History by Simon Tidworth.
Communication Horizontal: Cambios de Estructuras y Moxvilizacion Social by Frank Gerace Larufa with the collaboration of Hernando Lazaro.
Persuasion: Reception and Responsibility by Charles U. Larson.
Die Zeitung auf dem Weg ins Jahr 2000 edited by Christian Padrutt, Hermann Strehler, and Hans Zollikofer, Jr.
Intercultural Communication by L. S. Harms.
The Comic-Stripped American by Arthur Asa Berger.
The Shadow in the Cave by Anthony Smith.
Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street by Gerald S. Lesser.
Getting to Sesame Street: The Origins of the Children's Television Workshop by Richard M. Polsky.
The Role of Communications in the Middle East Conflict: Ideological and Religious Aspects by Yonah Alexander.
Feedback and Society: A Study of the Uses of Mass Channels for Coping by Benjamin D. Singer.
Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI) edited by Carl Sagan.
The Explanation of Social Behavior by Romano Harre and Paul F. Secord.
The Film Industries: Practical Business/Legal Problems in Production, Distribution, and Exhibition by Michael F. Mayer.
On Purposeful Systems by Russell L. Ackoff and Fred E. Emery.     

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Book reviewed in this article Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality by Gaye Tuchman. National Sovereignty and International Communication: A Reader edited by Kaarle Nordenstreng and Herbert I. Schiller. Aarilisis del “nueuo orden” international de la información by Esteban López- Escobar. Questions and Politeness: Strategies in Social Interaction edited by Esther N. Goody. Those Radio Commentators! by Irving E. Fang. Foreword by Lowell Thomas. Rhetoric and Ideology in Advertising by Gunnar Andén, Lars o. Ericsson, Ragnar Ohlsson, and Torbjörn Tännsjö. Big Bad Wolues: Masculinity in the American Film by Joan Mellen. Nonverbal Communication: The State of the Art by Robert G. Harper, Arthur N. Wiens, and Joseph D. Matarazzo. Radio for Education and Development by Dean T. Jamison and Emile G. Mc-Anany. The War that Hitler Won: The Most Infamus Propaganda Campaign in Histoty by Robert Edwin Herzstein. Radio for Education and Development by Dean T. Jamison and Emile G. Mc-Anany. Justice Hugo Black and the First Amendment edited by Everette E. Dennis, Donald M. Gillmor, and David L. Grey. Emotionale Wirkungen des Fernsehens—Jungendliche als Rezipienten [Emotional effects of television—young people as recipients] by Hertha Sturm, Katharina Holzheuer, and Reinhard Helmreich. The Production of Political Television by Michael Tracey. The Vital Network: A Theory of Communication and Society by Patrick Williams and Joan Thornton Pearce. Communication Yearbook 2 (An Annual Review Published by the International Communication Association) edited by Brent D. Ruben. Institutional Exploration in Communication Technology edited by Godwin C. Chu, Syed A. Rahim, and D. Lawrence Kincaid. Broadcasting Across Borders: A Study on the Role of Propaganda in External Broadcasts By Rutger Lindahl. Questioning Media Ethics edited by Bernard Rubin. Reporters' Ethics by Bruce M. Swain. Culture as Polyphony: An Essay on the Nature of Paradigms by James M. Curtis. Whose Media? The Annan Report and After: A Citizen's Guide to Radio and Television by Peter M. Lewis. The History of Broadcasting in the United States, Volume IV: Sound and Vision by Asa Briggs. Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers by Michael Schudson. Mass Media and Society (third edition) edited by Allan Wells. The News Media: Whut Makes Them Tick? by John L. Hulteng.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928–1935 By Robert W. McChesney.
The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles By Hamid Nancy.
The Ambivalent Welcome: Print Media, Public Opinion, and Immigration By Rita J. Simon and Susan Alexander.
Media Systems in Society: Understanding Industries, Strategies, and Power By Joseph Turow.
Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth By Camille Bacon-Smith.
Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema By Tom Conley.
Information & Frontiers: Roman Foreign Relations in Late Antiquity . By A. D. Lee.
Language and Economy . By Florian Coulmas.
Communication and Citizenship: Journalism and the Public Sphere in the New Media Age . By Peter Dahlgren & Colin Sparks (Eds.).
The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo . By Saskia Sassen.
Perilous States: Conversations on Culture, Politics, and Nation . By George E. Marcus (Ed.).     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare 1945-1960 By Christopher Simpson.
On Social Research and Its Language By Paul F. Lazarsfeld. Raymond Boudon (Ed.)
American Folklore and the Mass Media By Linda Dégh
Blasphemy by David Lawton By David Lawton
The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire . By Thomas Richards
The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age . By Allucquére Rosanne Stone
Hyper/text/Theory / By George P. Landow (Ed.)
The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society By David Lyon
Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice . By Anthony G. Hopwood and Peter Miller (Eds.)     

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Book reviewed in this article:
National Television Violence Study 3 Edited by Center for Communication and Social Policy
Television Violence and Public Policy Edited by James T. Hamilton.
Governing with the News: The News Media as a Political Institution By Timothy E. Cook.
Psychology and the Internet: Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Transpersonal Implications Edited by Jayne Gackenbach.
The Avengers By Toby Miller.     

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Book reviewed in this article: More Than News: Media Power in Public Affairs by Michael Bruce MacKuen and Steven Lane Coombs. Foreword by Warren E. Miller. The Entertainment Functions of Television edited by Percy H. Tannenbaum. The Relationship of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication (student edition) edited by Mary Ritchie Key. Network Television and the Public Interest: A Preliminary Inquiry edited by Michael Botein and David M. Rice. Radio in the Television Age by Peter Fornatale and Joshua E. Mills. Television: A Family Focus and other materials (elementary school through fifth grade). Prepared by Division of Learning and Media Research Critical Television Viewing (middle-school level). Prepared by WNET-Channel 13. Znside Television: A Guide to Critical Viewing (secondary-school level). Prepared by Ned White Critical Television Viewing Skills (four volumes; post-secondary level). Prepared by School of Public Communication Aspects o Nonverbal Communication edited by Walburga von Raffler-Engel Almost Midnight: Reforming the Late-Night News by Itzhak Roeh, Elihu Katz, Akiba A. Cohen, and Barbie Zelizer. Communication Yearbook 3 edited by Dan Nimmo. Canadian Broadcasting: Market Structure and Economic Performance by Stuart McFadyen, Colin Hoskins, and David Gillen. Telecommunications and Productivity edited by Mitchell L. Moss. Applied Communication Research: A Dramatistic Approach by John F. Cragan and Donald C. Shields. Small Voices and Great Trumpets: Minorities and the Media edited by Bernard Rubin. Copyright: Intellectual Property in the Information Age by Edward W. Ploman and L. Clark Hamilton. Bold Experiment: The Story of Educational Television in American Samoa by Wilbur Schramm, Lyle M. Nelson, and Meret T. Betham. Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology by Klaus Krippendorff. The Message of Television by Roger Silverstone. The Language o Television by Albert Hunt. Video Discs: The Technology, the Applications and the Future by Efrem Sigel, Mark Shubin, and Paul F. Merrill with Kenneth S. Christie, John Rusche, and Alan Horder. On the Small Screen: New Approaches in Television and Video Criticism by Hal Himmelstein. Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era (revised edition) by Robert Theobald. Informing the People: A Public Aflairs Handbook edited by Lewis M. Helm, Ray Eldon Heibert, Michael R. Naver, and Kenneth Rabin. Reader in Public Opinion and Mass Communication (third edition) edited by Morris Janowitz and Paul M. Hirsch. Perspectives in Consumer Behavior (third edition) by Harold H. Kassarjian and Thomas S. Robertson. Lectures on Language Performance by Charles E. Osgood. The Complete Guide to Home Video by Leonard Maltin and Allan Greenfield. Religious Publishing and Communications by Judith S. Duke. Mass Media Law (second edition) by Don R. Pember. The Voices and Words of Women and Men edited by Cheris Kramarae. Books received     

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Books reviewed in this article: Paradigmatic guidance Rethinking Communication (two volumes) edited by Brenda Dervin, Lawrence Grosberg, Barbara J. O'Keefe, and Ellen Wartella. A high-involvement framework Audience Responses to Media Diversification: Coping with Plenty edited by Lee B. Becker and Klaus Schoenbach. Prophylactic irony Boxed In: The Culture of TV by Mark Crispin Miller. Serving the needs of others The Voice of America: From Detente to the Reagan Doctrine by Laurien Alexandre. A nose for irony A Culture for Democracy: Mass Communication and the Cultivated Mind in Britain Between the Wars by D. L. LeMahieu. Is cultural imperialism a myth? Transnational Media and Third World Development: The Structure and Impact of Imperialism by William H. Meyer. Substance and accessibility Super Media: A Cultural Studies Approach by Michael R. Real. Its only master Target: Prime Time: Advocacy Groups and the Struggle over Entertainment Television by Kathryn C. Montgomery. The Korean Air Lines controversy Flights of Fancy, Flight of Doom: KAL 007 and Soviet-American Rhetoric by Marilyn J. Young and Michael K. Launer. Behind closed doors From Whistle Stop to Sound Bite: Four Decades of Politics and Television by Sig Mickelson. The indispensable ITU The Politics of International Telecommunications Regulation by James G. Savage. The third stage Cultural Politics in Contemporary America edited by Ian Angus and Sut Jhally. Discourses on oppression The Telenovela and Emancipation: A Study on W and Social Change in Brazil by Nico Vink. Law meets technology The Electronic Media and the Transformation of Law by M. Ethan Katsh. Theory and policy The Pay-per Society: Computers and Communication in the Information Age by Vincent Mosco. When Plato met Aristotle Communication: The Living End by John A. Ciampa. McLuhan's space Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger by Philip Marchand. Laws of Media: The New Science by Marshall McLuhan and Eric McLuhan. The Global Village: Transformations in World Lfe and Media in the 22st Century by Marshall McLuhan and Bruce R. Powers. Letters of Marshall McLuhan edited by Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, and William Toye. Complex patterns The Information Society: Economic, Social, and Structural Issues edited by Jerry L. Salvaggio. Media Use in the Information Age: Emerging Pattern of Adoption and Consumer Use edited by Jerry L. Salvaggio and Jennings Bryant. Redefining public responsibility Wrong Number: The Breakup of AT&T by Alan Stone. Bars, cops, courts Organizational Life on Television by Leah R. Vande Berg and Nick Trujillo. A veritable encyclopedia Reshaping the Media: Mass Communication in an Information Age by Everette E. Dennis. News of the old order Reporting a Revolution: The Iranian Revolution and the NIICO Debate by J. V. Vilanilam. A control mechanism News as Hegemonic Reality: American Political Culture and the Framing of News Accounts by Allan Rachlin. 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