Communication studies Books
The University of Chicago Press News
Book SynopsisFor over thirty years, News: The Politics of Illusion has not simply reflected the political communication field it has played a major role in shaping it. Today, the familiar news organizations of the legacy press are operating in a fragmenting and expanding mediaverse that resembles a big bang of proliferating online competitors that are challenging the very definition of news itself. Audience-powered sites such as the Huffington Post and Vox blend conventional political reporting with opinion blogs, celebrity gossip, and other ephemera aimed at getting clicks and shares. At the same time, the rise of serious investigative organizations such as ProPublica presents yet a different challenge to legacy journalism. Lance Bennett's thoroughly revised tenth edition offers the most up-to-date guide to understanding how and why the media and news landscapes are being transformed. It explains the mix of old and new, and points to possible outcomes. Where areas of change are clearly established
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press Bad News Good News Conversational Order in
Book SynopsisUncovering the verbal and nonverbal patterns in the bearing of news on everyday conversations, as well as hospitals and other settings, Maynard shows how people give and receive good or bad news, how they come to realize the news and share it with others.
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Gesture and Thought
Book SynopsisThe shape and timing of gestures depends not only on what speakers see but on what they take to be distinctive; this, in turn, depends on the context. Those who remembered the same context saw the same distinctions and used similar gestures. This book presents a study of how we communicate and how language is connected to thought.Trade Review"David McNeill's book is a momentous contribution to our understanding of kinetic and visual expression.... McNeill's detailed descriptions of how gestures represent ideas contribute greatly to our understanding of images as carriers of abstractions." - Rudolf Arnheim, Leonardo"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Politics for Everybody Reading Hannah Arendt in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Animated not just by a theoretical and academic interest in Arendt’s work, but also by a practical intent to change the current manner of seeing politics and improve the quality of citizenship and freedom, as well as the daily art of living together. . . Written not only from the scholar’s but also from the citizen’s perspective and with the critical responsibility of the public intellectual for the values and culture of his society. . . . In a sense, the main message of O’Gorman’s book is that, if we are to properly rise to the challenges of the twenty-first century, in a world that is increasingly characterized by change and uncertainty and where strangers are, literally, at our doors, we need to relearn the art of living together, as strangers and across our differences, and of imagining and creating together “new, relatively stable political orders."" * The Review of Politics *"An unusually learned and layered treatise on the current state of US democratic society. It deserves to be engaged widely—within rhetorical studies, alongside exemplary works on Arendt from scholars like Ronald Arnett, and in multiple scholarly and civic communities beyond. Indeed, O'Gorman's intellectual work in Politics for Everybody is dexterous yet broadly accessible, suited to a contemporary revival of interest in Arendt among academic as well as bestseller lists amid fears of democratic erosion and creeping authoritarianism." * Quarterly Journal of Speech *“In Politics for Everybody, O’Gorman presents a concise and engaging argument for why political participation, leadership, and judgment are honorable and essential practices for a free society. His prose is clear and accessible, and at times truly eloquent. More than just a superb introduction to Arendt, this book could directly improve civic life in the United States.” * Robert Hariman, Northwestern University *“Politics for Everybody is a brave and successful attempt to introduce readers to Arendt’s ideas of politics in the face of the distorted examples in contemporary political thinking and acting. O’Gorman’s assumes—rightly, I think—that people are ready to hear a new case made for politics and the political, terms which here refer to an activity and an attitude, an ethic and an ethos. All those interested in contemporary politics will profit from meditating on O’Gorman’s rethinking of what politics should be about.” * Richard H. King, University of Nottingham *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction. Prodigal Politics Chapter 1. Untwisting Politics Chapter 2. Phenomenal Politics Chapter 3. Judging Politics Chapter 4. Lies, Damned Lies, and Politics Chapter 5. Why We Need Rhetoric Chapter 6. The Political Imagination (or, Freedom!) Conclusion. Politics Reborn Acknowledgments Artist Statement Notes Bibliography Index
£89.02
The University of Chicago Press Politics for Everybody
Book SynopsisIn this age of nearly unprecedented partisan rancor, you'd be forgiven for thinking we could all do with a smaller daily dose of politics. In his provocative and sharp book, however, Ned O'Gorman argues just the opposite: Politics for Everybody contends that what we really need is to do is engage more deeply with politics, rather than chuck the whole thing out the window. In calling for a purer, more humanistic relationship with politics--one that does justice to the virtues of open, honest exchange--O'Gorman draws on the work of Hannah Arendt (1906-75). As a German-born Jewish thinker who fled the Nazis for the United States, Arendt set out to defend politics from its many detractors along several key lines: the challenge of separating genuine politics from distorted forms; the difficulty of appreciating politics for what it is; the problems of truth and judgment in politics; and the role of persuasion in politics. O'Gorman's book offers an insightful introduction to Arendt's thought
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Institutional Literacies
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This book will inform a diverse array of readers and stakeholders on university campuses about the need to develop a set of literate practices to better understand the impact of technology on teaching and learning. Altogether, it is a phenomenal contribution to conversations in rhetoric and composition and beyond that, like so much of Selber’s work, will become canonical in a range of disciplines.” * Kristine L. Blair, Duquesne University *"In arguing that writing and communication teachers should strategically engage with academic IT, Selber has done the field an important service, providing both grounds and methods for future pedagogical, administrative, and research projects that engage these powerful institutional entities." * Journal of Business and Technical Communication *"A must-read for a diverse array of readers, such as academic IT specialists, teachers, students, school administrators, university stakeholders, and all of those in academia who are increasingly spending more time online, relying more on IT resources, and contributing more content to digital environments." * International Journal of Communication *"In conclusion, Selber’s Institutional Literacies expands our understanding of how academic IT units function to enable, constrain, and shape literacy practices. This understanding is particularly useful for teachers in the pandemic context that has significantly increased the need for online education as well as reliance on and collaboration with information technology for teaching and learning purposes." * Composition Forum *Table of ContentsPreface 1 Situating Academic IT 2 Historicizing Academic IT 3 Spatializing Academic IT 4 Textualizing Academic IT 5 Engaging Academic IT References Index
£74.10
The University of Chicago Press Fear of Diversity The Birth of Political Science
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This book will inform a diverse array of readers and stakeholders on university campuses about the need to develop a set of literate practices to better understand the impact of technology on teaching and learning. Altogether, it is a phenomenal contribution to conversations in rhetoric and composition and beyond that, like so much of Selber’s work, will become canonical in a range of disciplines.” * Kristine L. Blair, Duquesne University *"In arguing that writing and communication teachers should strategically engage with academic IT, Selber has done the field an important service, providing both grounds and methods for future pedagogical, administrative, and research projects that engage these powerful institutional entities." * Journal of Business and Technical Communication *"A must-read for a diverse array of readers, such as academic IT specialists, teachers, students, school administrators, university stakeholders, and all of those in academia who are increasingly spending more time online, relying more on IT resources, and contributing more content to digital environments." * International Journal of Communication *"In conclusion, Selber’s Institutional Literacies expands our understanding of how academic IT units function to enable, constrain, and shape literacy practices. This understanding is particularly useful for teachers in the pandemic context that has significantly increased the need for online education as well as reliance on and collaboration with information technology for teaching and learning purposes." * Composition Forum *Table of ContentsPreface 1 Situating Academic IT 2 Historicizing Academic IT 3 Spatializing Academic IT 4 Textualizing Academic IT 5 Engaging Academic IT References Index
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press Political Perversion Rhetorical Aberration in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The problem Gunn takes up here is the current status of political discourse in the time of the Trump presidency. In my opinion, no rhetorical problem could be more significant to examine for the future of what we might become as a nation. It is both timely and timeless."--Thomas S. Frentz, University of ArkansasTable of ContentsPreambling toward Profligacy Introduction: Eating Poorly, or Ketchup on a Steak 1. On Critical Violence 2. The Psychoses of Speed, with the Example of Social Networking 3. The Perverse Style, with Eventual Reference to Pee-wee Herman 4. Showmancing the Presidency: Perverse Genres and the Problem of Judgment Conclusion: Don’t Play (with) That Acknowledgments Notes Index
£68.40
The University of Chicago Press Political Perversion Rhetorical Aberration in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The problem Gunn takes up here is the current status of political discourse in the time of the Trump presidency. In my opinion, no rhetorical problem could be more significant to examine for the future of what we might become as a nation. It is both timely and timeless."--Thomas S. Frentz, University of ArkansasTable of ContentsPreambling toward Profligacy Introduction: Eating Poorly, or Ketchup on a Steak 1. On Critical Violence 2. The Psychoses of Speed, with the Example of Social Networking 3. The Perverse Style, with Eventual Reference to Pee-wee Herman 4. Showmancing the Presidency: Perverse Genres and the Problem of Judgment Conclusion: Don’t Play (with) That Acknowledgments Notes Index
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Microsociology Discourse Emotion and Social
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The University of Chicago Press 911 The Culture of Commemoration
Book SynopsisConsidering the ways the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 have been aestheticized, exploited, and appropriated, this title examines the complex and paradoxical character of American public discourse since then. Calling for a sustained cultural and theoretical analysis, it considers these events with a perspective grounded in the humanities.Trade Review"Simpson's book is a necessary attempt to critically engage what we call '9/11' as a singular moment in the history of memory, as a cultural event. Its major contribution resides in that it forces us to reflect on the monumental imprint of 9/11 and on its dissemination and circulation in public mourning and remembrance, in architecture and memorialization. The book articulates a passionate and ethical call for cultural and theoretical analysis." - Gil Anidjar, Columbia University"
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press The Architectonics of Meaning Foundations of the
Book SynopsisThe Architectonics of Meaning is a lucid demonstration of the purposes, methods, and implications of philosophical semantics that both supports and builds on Richard McKeon's and other noted pluralists' convictions that multiple philosophical approaches are viable. Watson ingeniously explores ways to systematize these approaches, and the result is a well-structured instrument for understanding texts. This book exemplifies both general and particular aspects of systematic pluralism, reorienting our understanding of the realms of knowing, doing, and making.
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McGill-Queen's University Press Sound and Noise
Book SynopsisThis book is about how you listen and what you hear, about how to have a dialogue with the sounds around you. Marcia Jenneth Epstein gives readers the impetus and the tools to understand the sounds and noise that define their daily lives in this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of how auditory stimuli impact both individuals and communities. Epstein employs scientific and sociological perspectives to examine noise in multiple contexts: as a threat to health and peace of mind, as a motivator for social cohesion, as a potent form of communication and expression of power. She draws on a massive base of specialist literature from fields as diverse as nursing and neuroscience, sociology and sound studies, acoustic ecology and urban planning, engineering, anthropology, and musicology, among others, synthesizing and explaining these findings to evaluate the ubiquitous effects of sound in everyday life. Epstein investigates speech and music as well as noise and explores their physical anTrade Review"Personal, descriptive, and filled with anecdotes and everyday life examples, Sound and Noise often addresses the reader in the second person, posing ethical questions and dilemmas and raising controversial issues. An excellent and provocative book." Barry Truax, Simon Fraser University and editor of Handbook for Acoustic Ecology
£24.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Eyewitness Textures UserGenerated Content and
Book SynopsisJournalists are increasingly incorporating user-generated content into news stories. Tracing recent shifts in journalism practice around the world, Eyewitness Textures examines the creative adaptation and strategies of journalists and news organizations in the face of transformative technological change.Trade Review“This book explores the breadth of new dimensions crucial to understanding the implications of user-generated content today. While this kind of content has become commonplace, the blurred distinctions between it and citizen witnessing, or between witnessing in general and the processes of publication, are not easily resolved. The global case studies and dialogues in Eyewitness Textures constitute a particularly thoughtful and enriching discussion that moves beyond the familiar accounts of user-generated content we are so used to hearing.” Scott A. Eldridge II, University of Groningen and author of Online Journalism from the Periphery: Interloper Media and the Journalistic Field
£35.10
Columbia University Press The Press Presidents and Crises
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£54.40
Columbia University Press Parchment Printing and Hypermedia
Book SynopsisThis text considers the ebb and flow of political power and authority as a function of changes in modes of communication. It examines the emergence of printing and its impact on the transformation of medieval to the modern order and then considers the impact of digital electronic communications.
£29.75
Columbia University Press Journalistic Authority Legitimating News in the
Book SynopsisWhen we encounter a news story, why do we accept its version of events? Matt Carlson weaves together journalistsâ relationships with their audiences, sources, technologies, and critics to present a new model for understanding journalism as a relationship while advocating for practices we need in an age of fake news and shifting norms.Trade ReviewThe most comprehensive statement about journalistic authority I have ever read-bar none. Journalistic Authority fills a gaping hole in the scholarship and will be cited as an important and significant work in the field going forward. -- Sue Robinson, University of Wisconsin-Madison Matt Carlson unpacks the historical, philosophical, and embodied linkages between professionalism and authority, and, in what amounts to a major contribution, assesses the present state of journalistic authority. Among the book's many strengths is its very generous and catholic embrace of literatures from a broad swath of disciplines-sociology, political science, philosophy, history, and, of course, communication, journalism, and media studies. -- Linda Steiner, University of MarylandTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Many Relationships of Journalism Part I. Foundations of Journalistic Authority 1. Professionalism as Privilege and Distance: Journalistic Identity 2. Texts and Textual Authority: Forms of Journalism 3. Telling Stories About Themselves: Journalism's Narratives Part II. Journalistic Authority in Context 4. Recognizing Journalistic Authority: The Public's Opinion 5. Legitimating Knowledge Through Knowers: News Sources 6. Mediating Authority: The Technologies of Journalism 7. Challenging Journalistic Authority: The Role of Media Criticism Conclusion: The Politics of Journalistic Authority Notes Index
£79.20
Columbia University Press Journalistic Authority
Book SynopsisWhen we encounter a news story, why do we accept its version of events? Matt Carlson weaves together journalists’ relationships with their audiences, sources, technologies, and critics to present a new model for understanding journalism as a relationship while advocating for practices we need in an age of fake news and shifting norms.Trade ReviewThe most comprehensive statement about journalistic authority I have ever read-bar none. Journalistic Authority fills a gaping hole in the scholarship and will be cited as an important and significant work in the field going forward. -- Sue Robinson, University of Wisconsin-Madison Matt Carlson unpacks the historical, philosophical, and embodied linkages between professionalism and authority, and, in what amounts to a major contribution, assesses the present state of journalistic authority. Among the book's many strengths is its very generous and catholic embrace of literatures from a broad swath of disciplines-sociology, political science, philosophy, history, and, of course, communication, journalism, and media studies. -- Linda Steiner, University of MarylandTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Many Relationships of Journalism Part I. Foundations of Journalistic Authority 1. Professionalism as Privilege and Distance: Journalistic Identity 2. Texts and Textual Authority: Forms of Journalism 3. Telling Stories About Themselves: Journalism's Narratives Part II. Journalistic Authority in Context 4. Recognizing Journalistic Authority: The Public's Opinion 5. Legitimating Knowledge Through Knowers: News Sources 6. Mediating Authority: The Technologies of Journalism 7. Challenging Journalistic Authority: The Role of Media Criticism Conclusion: The Politics of Journalistic Authority Notes Index
£999.99
Columbia University Press American Eloquence
Book SynopsisThis book examines a wide swath of political discourse to shed new light on the meaning and significance of eloquence. Roderick P. Hart, a leading scholar of political communication, develops new ways of measuring persuasiveness and rhetorical power through the use of computer-based methods.Trade ReviewThis brilliant book was like taking a walk through US history with a good (and smart!) friend by my side. I was excited to see where many of my favorites, like Barbara Jordan, would land in Hart’s assessment. I truly enjoyed reading this book and recommend it to all who care about our democracy and where it is going. -- Terri Givens, author of Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial DividesIn this eloquent analysis of eloquence, Roderick Hart pulls out all the stops to diagnose, to redeem, and even to measure. Eloquence can be unsafe and even illegal, but it can also save us. Itself a compendium of eloquent remarks by others (and the author), this book might be just what is needed as American democracy hangs in the balance. -- John Durham Peters, coauthor of Promiscuous Knowledge: Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in HistoryAmerican Eloquence marshals Hart’s decades of experience as a rhetorical critic, bolstered by the calculative capacity of the digital humanities, to illustrate why “eloquence is an abiding human need.” Readers will find his Eloquence Index stimulating, and the author’s rapid-fire wit should keep everyone engaged. -- Celeste Michelle Condit, author of Angry Public Rhetorics: Global Relations and Emotion in the Wake of 9/11Democracy at once depends upon eloquence and treats eloquence suspiciously. The label can serve as praise, as denigration, even as a backhanded compliment or a self-own. Using a remarkable range of method, American Eloquence presents a compelling, sophisticated, and approachable account of what makes eloquence work and how it animates political discourse in the United States. -- Andrew Perrin, author of American Democracy: From Tocqueville to Town Halls to TwitterOne of our most adroit scholars of American political speech, Rod Hart wrests eloquence from all its contradictions--from its power to inspire the better angels of our nation to the dangers of disinformation, demonization and demagoguery. American Eloquence is thought provoking, fun, nostalgic, sometimes scary but always bracing. -- Charlton McIlwain, author of Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives MatterTable of Contents1. Eloquence: Why?2. Eloquence: When and Where?3. Eloquence: How?4. Cultural Resonance5. Personal Investment6. Poetic Imagination7. Eloquence Assessed8. Eloquence TomorrowAppendix: “Importance” Versus “Eloquence” Rankings for Twentieth-Century SpeechesAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£82.80
University of Illinois Press Normative Theories of the Media
Book SynopsisA contemporary analysis of mass media and modern democracyTrade ReviewAwarded the Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award for best research-based book on journalism/mass communication, 2010. "[The contributors] see four roles for the press: a monitor of events in the world, a facilitator of democratic decision making, a radical communicator free of any restraint, and a collaborator with those in power. Each of these four is explained in detail, with many excellent examples. . . . Highly recommended.”--Choice"A deeper and more satisfactory approach to tackling many of the issues first raised in Four Theories [of the Press]."--Australian Journalism Review"This long-awaited book by a group of the most distinguished scholars of journalism and the media will define the terms of discussion of normative theory for the next generation."--John C. Nerone, coauthor of The Form of News: A HistoryTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction: Beyond Four Theories of the Press; Part One: Normative Theory; Chapter 1. Evolution of Normative Traditions; Chapter 2. Characteristics of Normative Theory; Part Two: Democracy; Chapter 3. Principles and Practice of Democracy; Chapter 4. Roles of News Media in Democracy; Part Three: Roles; Chapter 5. Monitorial Role; Chapter 6. Facilitative Role; Chapter 7. Radical Role; Chapter 8. Collaborative Role; Prospects; Conclusion; References
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Radios Hidden Voice
Book SynopsisA detailed study of American public radio's early historyTrade ReviewWinner of the Best Book in Journalism and Mass Communication given by the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), 2010. "Undergirding this discussion with prodigious research in primary sources, Slotten provides an ambitious history of public broadcasting in the US. . . . Recommended."--Choice"This is a masterful work. It is for anyone interested in exploring the ways in which education institutions helped develop broadcast policy in the United States."--Journalism History"A gem of a look a the birth of public broadcasting."--Jhistory"An important contribution to the histories of both radio and higher education."--The Annals of Iowa"Impressively researched and clearly written, Radio's Hidden Voice recovers a lost and important chapter in American broadcasting history."--James L. Baughman, author of Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961"This thoroughly researched and engaging account constitutes an important contribution to the growing shelf of scholarship on public radio, early radio history, and on questions of how the 'public interest' has been defined in broadcast and communication policy in the twentieth century."--Jason Loviglio, author of Radio's Intimate Public: Network Broadcasting and Mass-Mediated DemocracyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Prologue 1 1. Public-Service Experimentation, Land-Grant Universities, and the Development of Broadcasting in the United States, 1900-1925 9 2. University Stations, Extension Ideals, and Broadcast Practices during the 1920s 40 3. Public-Service Broadcasting and the Development of Radio Policy, 1900-1927 80 4. The Federal Radio Commission and the Decline of Noncommercial Educational Stations, 1927-34 113 5. Education and the Fight to Reform Radio Broadcasting, 1930-36 152 6. Broadcast Practices and the Stabilization of Noncommercial Stations during the 1930s and 1940s 178 7. Network Practices, Government Oversight, and Public-Service Ideals: The University of Chicago Round Table 216 Epilogue 239 Abbreviations 251 Notes 257 Index 305
£40.50
University of Illinois Press We Are the Union Democratic Unionism and Dissent
Book SynopsisA timely account of workers taking back their unionTrade Review"Provides readers with the authentic voices of workers struggling to be heard."--Industrial and Labor Relations Review"[A] detailed and well-researched study. . . . Makes a case for a more aggressive, more democratic labor movement that could reverse declining union membership density. Recommended."--Choice"Cloud poignantly portrays the exhausting costs of activism—personal, financial, and political."--Journal of American History"Dana Cloud explores how rank-and-file workers used their union both to advance their interests and to challenge the company. The author and her narrators together shape a history of a strong intra-union protest movement and expose the narrators' disagreements with one another about strategy along the way."--Oral History Review"The book connects the subterranean intellectual tradition of militant worker history. . . . with struggles unfolding in the current political conjuncture. . . . An exceptional contribution to labor movement and rhetorical scholarship and the promise that the insights of this scholarship can impact the world beyond the walls of the academy."--Rhetoric Society Quarterly"Highly recommended."--Labour/Le Travail"We Are the Union offers an excellent cautionary tale to union educators, activists, and leaders for finding ways to reinvigorate the American labor movement in the face of union bureaucracy and hostile employers and their political supporters."--Labor Studies Journal"Dana Cloud's We are the Union demonstrates the importance of local actors in union change and renewal. . . . [and] how workers are aware of the various types of discrimination and their agency in navigating the spaces of discrimination. Various audiences. . . . could benefit from this text including labor scholars and activists, communications scholars and qualitative researchers."--Work, Employment and Society "Dana L. Cloud raises vital, critical questions: Why have union reformers had so little success in the last thirty-five years? To what extent have their own analyses, actions, and choices contributed to the shortfalls or outright failures of their efforts? Given the deepening crisis of the U.S. labor movement, it is well past time to ask these questions. This will be a widely read and passionately contested contribution to contemporary labor history."--Peter Rachleff, author of Hard Pressed in the Heartland: The Hormel Strike and the Future of the Labor Movement "We Are the Union is an important record and analysis of rank-and-file voices during a key period in the union democracy movement at Boeing. The depth of the conversations Dana L. Cloud documents, along with her engagement with workers' stories, disputes media propaganda that workers are selfish and think only of themselves rather than the greater common good."--Deepa Kumar, author of Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike
£42.30
University of Illinois Press The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine
Book SynopsisRadically revising literary history by revisiting periodicalsTrade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013 EBSCO host-Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP) Book Prize, 2013 Notable Title, Annual Book Award, Society for US Intellectual History, 2013. "Essential… The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture deserves to be dubbed In dispensable. As the most sustained and persuasive analysis of the early American magazine's cultural significance that we possess,and as the most detailed account of its repeated failure to prosper, Gardner's book is notable for its ability to draw broad conclusions and strong claims from the material it treats."--Amerikastudien / American Studies "The book offers much food for thought in depicting an 18th-century version of an inclusive public sphere, where semi-anonymous voices engaged in an ongoing virtual conversation without seeking recognition or profits."--Journal of Magazine & New Media Research "An eloquent picture of magazine journalism's place in literary history as the seminal contributor to the beginnings of the great American novel."--American Journalism"Jared Gardner provides an innovative account of the place of the magazine in U.S. literary history that allows for a reimagining of a large part of the conventional wisdom of the field. His well-written, original book situates magazine culture between and against the newspaper press on one hand and the novel on the other, and he usefully explains both the curious career trajectories of a number of familiar writers and the reasons why intelligent men and women continued to produce magazines without rational expectation of commercial success or viability."--John C. Nerone, coauthor of The Form of News: A History"Gardner demonstrates that early American periodicals constitute a coherent genre and play a more central role in the formation of an early American literary imagination than is generally recognized. . . . Essential."--Choice"Stimulating and highly readable. . . . fizzes with ideas, offered as answers to a question glossed over by established literary histories."--H-Net Reviews"Smoothly written and well researched. . . . an important contribution to the University of Illinois Press's valuable History of Communication series."--The Journal of American History"This erudite, incisive, and important book traces the history of magazine culture in America from its eighteenth-century origins through the early nineteenth-century. . . . A nuanced and illuminating account of a tradition we have ignored, to our detriment, for far too long."--American Periodicals "The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture is an ambitious reimagining of magazine culture in the early national period, which largely has been viewed not only as a failure but also as less important and less rich than the so-called golden age of nineteenth-century periodicals. Under Gardner's careful attention, however, the early national period emerges as a time of extraordinary periodical experimentation and worthy, in its own right, of a study such as this."--Patricia Okker, author of Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America
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University of Illinois Press Saving the World
Book SynopsisInvigorating global social change through communicationTrade Review"It presents in-depth policy analyses to outline a vision for how communication technologies have--and still can--impact social change and economic/cultural development. . . . McAnany builds an historical paradigm that melds technology with social entrepreneurship. "-- Communication Booknotes Quarterly "Saving the World offers a judicious integration of Emile G. McAnany's own first-hand experience with many of the seminal people and projects in communication for development. McAnany provides a very valuable understanding of the underlying structure of the field and how these ideas have been implemented and theorized."--Joseph Straubhaar, author of Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology "All students who are just beginning will find this book an excellent introduction not only to the ideas and theories but also to the key thinkers who have helped frame the debate over the last 30 or 40 years. . . . Knowing the people and their histories gives an invaluable background to our knowledge."--Communication Research Trends "A comprehensive, ambitious history and policy analysis of the field of development communication. McAnany's grasp of the major developments, issues, and advances of this field will appeal to scholars of communication, sociology, political science, and economics."--Robert Huesca, professor of communication, Trinity University "Savings the World provides a strong history for understanding the context of efforts to use communication to spur development. McAnany's continuing push for measures that will demonstrate success or failure is welcome. This volume will be most valuable to those seeking historical context as they delve into the role of information and communication technologies for development."--International Journal of Communication "Saving the World is a fascinating examination of how earlier technologies were applied to foster social change. An easy-to-read, well-organized document; while McAnany carefully relays theory, he does it in a concise way that anyone will find accessible."--Technical Communication Table of ContentsCoverTitle PageCopyright PageContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Communication in the Lives of the Globe1. Saving the World: Beginnings of Communication for Development2. Globalization, Discourse, and Development Communication: UNESCO as Prime Mover3. Commuunication for Development: Does It Work?4. Rethinking the Paradigm: The Dependency Phase5. Another Paradigm: Participatory Communication6. Paradigm for a New Millennium: Social Entrepreneurship7. Past, Present, and Future: An Agenda for 2015 and Beyond8. The Future: Some Final ThoughtsReferencesIndexBack Cover
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Advertising at War
Book SynopsisThe advertising industry's rise to power, in war and peaceTrade Review"Terrific new study of the advertising industry's role in silencing capitalism's most outspoken critics."--Consumption, Markets & Culture"Can spark an interesting debate about advertising's role in society and its relationship to consumer demand and desire. . . . well written, highly readable."--Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly"Inger L. Stole provides a well-researched study of the advertising industry's political maneuvers during World War II and their implications for the postwar era. Stole's study is the most detailed account to date of the wartime advertising industry as a whole."--The Journal of American History"Stole weaves a thought-provoking tale of corporate power and government collusion drawn from the archives of the Ad Council, the Consumer's Union, the Federal Trade Commission, the Offices of War Programs and Information, and numerous federal officials and corporate big-wigs. The result is a lucid, top-down discussion."--Journal of American Culture"An excellent case study of a business during the war. . . . Stole shows us that the advertising industry was carefully and craftily navigating the potentially hazardous waters of the war economy, and thus laying the groundwork for its postwar efflorescence."Journal of American Studies"Well conceived and judiciously argued, Advertising at War shows how the World War II years were critical to solidifying advertising's place as one of the basic institutions of American society and economy. Stole provides insight into the advertising industry's campaign to defend itself and free enterprise as well as the wartime consumer movement."-- Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, author of Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic RadioTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vi Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Chapter 1. Prelude to War 17 Chapter 2. Advertising Navigates the Defense Economy 35 Chapter 3. The Initial Year of the Advertising Council 56 Chapter 4. The Consumer Movement's Return 71 Chapter 5. Advertising, Washington, and the Renamed War Advertising Council 94 Chapter 6. The Increasing Role of the War Advertising Council 121 Chapter 7. Peace and the Reconversion of the Advertising Council 153 Epilogue 176 Notes 189 Index 255
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Hillary Clinton in the News
Book SynopsisThe charge of inauthenticity has trailed Hillary Clinton from the moment she entered the national spotlight. This book shows how the US news media created their own news frames of Hillary Clinton's political authenticity and image-making, from her participation in Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign through her own 2008 presidential bid.Trade ReviewMarie Hochmuth Nichols Award, Public Address Division, National Communication Association (NCA), 2015. "Shawn J. Parry-Giles has written an insightful, exhaustive, and historically rooted analysis of Hillary Rodham Clinton's numerous media permutations. The book will be useful to non-academics as well as academic researchers as we seek to understand the role news media play in constructing the public personae of women."--Mary Douglas Vavrus, author of Postfeminist News: Political Women in Media Culture"In Hillary Clinton in the News, the author builds a steady and compelling argument about the recurring frames the news media have used to portray Clinton in her many roles as first lady, policy advocate, legal defendant, political candidate, international emissary, and U.S. senator. . . . The images and discourse surrounding Hillary Clinton in the broadcast media provide a fascinating case study of the rhetorical relationship between gender and power."--H-Net"Parry-Giles presents a fascinating analysis of media framing of Hillary Clinton, exploring the tone and frames used to present Clinton in various stages of her political career. . . .Recommended."--Choice"Parry-Giles has written a lucid monograph about news representations of a political woman--a book that opens urgent conversations for other scholars to join."--Rhetoric Review"As Parry-Giles's book aptly illustrates, coverage of her in broadcast media is disconcertingly predictable."--Rhetoric & Public Affairs
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University of Illinois Press Virtual Homelands
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Gives the reader unique and detailed information about Indian and Indian American internet culture and public discourses about technology and transnationality during the birth of the World Wide Web. . . . The sections on Indian immigration and the technology industry and culture will be fascinating to scholars in digital media studies as well as scholars in Asian and Asian American studies. I can't think of a single other book that covers this territory." --Lisa Nakamura, author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet
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University of Illinois Press Sport History in the Digital Era
Book SynopsisFrom statistical databases to story archives, from fan sites to the real-time reactions of Twitter-empowered athletes, the digital communication revolution has changed the way sports fans relate to their favorite teams. In this volume, contributors from Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States analyze the parallel transformation in the field of sport history, showing the ways powerful digital tools raise vital philosophical, epistemological, ontological, methodological, and ethical questions for scholars and students alike. Chapters consider how the philosophical and theoretical understanding of the meaning of history influence a willingness to engage with digital history, and conceptualize the relationship between history making and the digital era. As the writers show, digital media''s mostly untapped potential for studying the recent past via blogs, chat rooms, gambling sites, and the like forge a symbiosis between sports and the internet, and ofTrade Review"Each essay is thought-provoking and grounded with examples or connections to sport history that challenge us to consider the utility of digital technologies—and our relationship to them—moving forward. . . . Osmond and Phillips show a keen awareness of the major developments, debates, and conversations in the digital humanities and offer an important book that will serve as an accessible conversation starter for historians of sport."--Sport in American History "Those who are interested in sport history will appreciate this resource on using the Internet in their work. Highly recommended."--Choice"This book should interest anyone who does research into sports history or who teaches a graduate-level class on doing research, especially archival work."--Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly "This book sets out to make history safe for the Internet age that has been thrust upon us ready or not in this century. . . . Sport historians, sports studies and sociology of sport scholars, and digital humanities scholars will all find useful ideas for their research and their efforts in the classroom in the volume's ten chapters."--ARETE"Sport History in the Digital Era offers a well-timed overview of the ways that sport historians can work in this milieu."--Sport History Review"Provides a thoughtful exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of online sport history, which is especially valuable for those reluctant to embrace the digital age."--New Media & Society"The stimulating ideas presented make this essential reading for all those interested in how sports history will fare in the digital age. The contributors, some cautious, others more polemic, discuss the limits and possibilities of digitized knowledge and assess the challenges and opportunities offered by digital technology."--Wray Vamplew, co-author of Mud, Sweat and Beers: A Cultural History of Sport and Alcohol"A digital revolution has already altered much of what sport historians do, from archival research to classroom pedagogy and options for publication, to attaining the rewards of professional advancement. But is it creating different tools for doing the same old work, or is the work itself being transformed? The question is unavoidable—avoiding it is its own response—but the answers aren't obvious. These instructive and provocative essays offer a timely guide to issues that will shape the future of the discipline."--Michael Oriard, author of Bowled Over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era "Reading the essays in this book opened me up to an unexpectedly broad array of ways to use internet tools and resources for both scholarship and teaching. It is a timely--indeed prescient--addition to the scholarship in the field and will likely be the standard text in this area for many years."--Susan Birrell, co-editor of Reading Sport: Critical Essays on Power and Representation "Taking a very balanced approach and careful not to pass judgment without adequate evidence, the editors make clear that there are advantages and disadvantages to using digital tools and that the engagement with digital history ultimately raises important methodological questions and concerns. A truly significant contribution to the field. The first volume of its kind."--David K. Wiggins, author of Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes
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University of Illinois Press Media Geopolitics and Power
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBook of the Year, Global Communication and Social Change Division of the International Communication Association (ICA), 2019 UCT Book Award (University of Cape Town), 2020 "Wasserman’s book offers a rich and insightful account of the South African media in the context of shifting centres of global power and knowledge production. While focusing on the South African transition, the book demonstrates the close interrelationship between the local and the global, between the dominance of the advanced democracies of the West and the struggles of the Global South for recognition and influence. By taking the perspective of the Global South, familiar concepts such as citizenship, tabloidization, and mediation are put in a new light, thus enriching our theoretical and empirical understanding of the role of the media in a changing world."--Katrin Voltmer, author of Comparing Political Communication across Time and Space: New Studies in an Emerging Field"Wasserman's book would surely be deemed as one of the most powerful articulations from the Global South, urging media professionals and scholars to rethink and recontextualize global journalism in this post-West, post-order, post-truth world."--Anbin Shi, Tsinghua University"Wasserman shines a bright light on the changing media's role and journalism practice during the transition to democracy in South Africa....A must-read for all who want to understand South Africa's embrace of democracy and the political economy of communication therein." --The Journalist"The strength of this book is not only that Herman Wasserman gives us a comprehensive overview of the major changes in South Africa's journalism industries since the transition to democracy, but that he does it through the theoretical lens of Global South thinking." --Journal of Asian and African Studies
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University of Illinois Press Graphic News
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewChoice Outstanding Academic Title, 2020 "This generously illustrated book delves into the period just before the end of the nineteenth century when America was beginning to take its place in the world. It would be useful to anyone teaching or researching that formative period. It is accessible and attractive. Ironically enough, its extensive use of graphic pictures from the period make it not only an informative but entertaining read." --American Journalism"This book—or a selection of chapters—would add depth to a multitude of journalism, sociology and history courses. The themes Frisken reveals using these 19th-century news narratives and illustrations resonate with our 21st-century news narratives about immigration, marginalized groups and the #MeToo movement." --Newspaper Research Journal"A comprehensive and thoughtful exploration of the role of sensationalism in visual news, Graphic News will be of particular value for scholars and students of late nineteenth-century visual culture, journalism history, communication, and American Studies." --Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era"A deeply researched and acutely observed social and cultural history of journalism that, with particular attention to popular visual media, delineates the ways publications' reportorial conventions and practices shaped and were shaped by the era's gender, race, and class relations.”—Joshua Brown, author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America”A worthy endeavor that engages major social and cultural issues and makes a significant contribution to the history of visual journalism in the United States.”—John Coward, author of Indians Illustrated: Images of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press"An intriguing analysis of the manner in which sensational pictorial representations altered US journalism during the final three decades of the 19th century... Well researched with an extensive reliance on primary documents." --Choice
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University of Illinois Press The Sunday Paper
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Essential for communication collections and for anyone looking at book or literacy history of the period." --Choice"Paul Moore and Sandra Gabriele's The Sunday Paper: A Media History presents a narrative of the rise of a new form of media in an existing field of publishing power. . . . This book will be of great value for those scholars researching American newspapers as well as those with a theoretical background for understanding media within changing public spheres of knowledge production." --H-Net Reviews"An engaging and pleasantly readable text, supported by examples, illustrations, and primary sources. . . . The innovation, nurturing, and maturity of the Sunday paper, and its rippling cultural effects, makes for interesting, informative reading for just about everyone." --New York Pennsylvania Collector"With this meticulously researched and smartly written book, Paul Moore and Sandra Gabriele have demonstrated the central role Sunday newspapers played in the creation of modern media culture. The Sunday Paper recovers a vibrant interactive multimedia form that historians of both popular culture and journalism have long ignored. This book deserves a place on the short shelf of indispensable media histories."--John C. Nerone, coauthor of The Form of News: A History"While sharing much with the newspapers appearing on the other six days of the week, the Sunday paper was a media experience unto itself. These weekly print spectacles were physically heavy, stuffed with supplements, and offered a kaleidoscopic view of modern life. They were meant to be read but also written upon and cut up, and they offered visual and tactile pleasure for millions of people every week. Sunday newspapers were extraordinary media, and Paul Moore and Sandra Gabriele have written a book that does justice to their strange and wonderful form and content."--Michael Stamm, author of Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth-Century North America
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University of Illinois Press Front Office Fantasies
Book SynopsisTrade Review“In this sharply written and impressive book, Branden Buehler provides compelling new insights into the social, cultural, and visual consequences of sports media’s preoccupation with managerialism, financialization, and quantification. A vital and necessary work, this sophisticated account of managerial sports media is a must-read for all sports, film, and media scholars.”--Samantha N. Sheppard, author of Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on ScreenTable of ContentsPreface: Sporting Fantasies Acknowledgments Introduction: “The Age of the General Manager” The Managerial American Dream: The Administrative Fantasies of Managerial Sports Films “He’s looking like a depressed asset”: The Financial Logics of Managerial Sports Talk Datavisuality: The Quantified Aesthetic of Managerial Sports Television White-Collar Play: Managerial Sports Games and the Modeling of Neoliberal Capitalism Conclusion: The Banality of Managerial Sports Media Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Illinois Press The Newspaper Indian
Book SynopsisNewspapers catalyzed public opinion in the nineteenth century, and the press''s coverage and practices shaped the representation of Native Americans for white audiences. John M. Coward delves into the complex ways journalism both perpetuated and created the many stereotypes of the American Indian.The newspaper Indian emerged not only from centuries of stereotypes but also as an Other standing in the way of economic growth and national expansion. As economic entities hungry for profits, newspapers sought colorful and exciting stories that attracted readers and confirmed the correctness of American values and goals. Journalists came to rely on easily understood formulas and clichés to explain American Indians while the changing technology of newsgathering promoted a fact-based but narrow native identity that standardized the representations of indigenous peoples. The result was a harsh, paternalistic identity that dominated American newspapers for decades—and stillTrade Review"Greeley's contempt for Indian people as lazy, violent, unprogressive, and unworthy of justice mirrored a larger national view that had flourished since the first captivity narratives had been published in Puritan New England. . . . Coward's book emerges as the most comprehensive and authoritative account of journalistic treatment of American Indians in the nineteenth century."--Michael L. Tate, South Dakota History"Coward's outstanding study places Indian stereotyping within a broader historical context and demonstrates the continuity of popular misconceptions. . . . Extremely well written, researched, and organized, this monograph makes a major contribution to nineteenth-century Native American historiography and provides unique insights into the press's role in molding the popular imagination."--Thomas A. Britten, The Historian"Ideal for an undergraduate class since it is written in an informed and up-to-date, but very accessible style. . . . An engaging read."--Gillian Poulter, Left History"A strong contribution to research engaging the complexities resulting from the nineteenth-century newspaper accounts of American Indians. . . . A lucid analysis of why perceptions of American Indians by the American public and the American press even to this day are biased, unbalanced, and unclear."--John Sanchez, Rhetoric and Public Affairs"Every scholar who uses newspaper sources in the study of nineteenth-century Indian affairs would do well to read it carefully."--Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., New Mexico Historical Review
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University of Illinois Press Making Truth
Book SynopsisA stimulating perspective on how scientists interpret the world and communicate among themselves and with othersTrade Review"An interesting and important book . . . filled with insight about the way scientists think and work, a book that will generate an important dialogue about science and science education.”--Journal of Chemical Education"Making Truth is an engaging and well-written book about the importance of metaphor in science, intended for a wide audience."--Philosophy of Science"Brown has a fluid and accessible writing style, and whether or not you find his thesis convincing, Making Truth makes for thought-provoking and worthwhile reading."--The Nucleus“For anyone interested in the philosophy of science. Highly recommended.”--Choice"To sum up: Theodore L. Brown's book is excellent."--HYLE--International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry"Anyone with a serious interest in science must read this book. In it, Brown demonstrates that metaphorical thought is central in all branches of science, just as it is in everyday life and mathematics. Particles as waves, time as a spatial dimension, gravity as the curvature of space-time, ion channels, protein folding. All these crucial scientific metaphors--and many more--allow us to understand science in terms of our embodied experience, build comprehensible models, make predictions, and perform precise calculations."--George Lakoff, coauthor of Metaphors We Live By, Philosophy in the Flesh, and Where Mathematics Comes From“This is an important book. Scientists will find it thought-provoking, and science teachers will find it a gold mine. Indeed, this book could be transforming for science education at the elementary, high school, and introductory college level.”--Linda S. Wilson, president emerita of Radcliffe College and coauthor of Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender DimensionTable of ContentsPreface ix 1. Scientific Thought and Practice 1 2. Introduction to Metaphor 14 3. The Theory of Conceptual Metaphor 31 4. The Classical Atom 53 5. The Modern Atom 74 6. Molecular Models in Chemistry and Biology 100 7. Protein Folding 122 8. Cellular-Level Metaphors 146 9. Global Warming 160 10. Science's Metaphorical Foundations: The Social in Science 183 Notes 197 Index 211
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University of Illinois Press Normative Theories of the Media
Book SynopsisA contemporary analysis of mass media and modern democracyTrade ReviewAwarded the Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award for best research-based book on journalism/mass communication, 2010. "[The contributors] see four roles for the press: a monitor of events in the world, a facilitator of democratic decision making, a radical communicator free of any restraint, and a collaborator with those in power. Each of these four is explained in detail, with many excellent examples. . . . Highly recommended.”--Choice"A deeper and more satisfactory approach to tackling many of the issues first raised in Four Theories [of the Press]."--Australian Journalism Review"This long-awaited book by a group of the most distinguished scholars of journalism and the media will define the terms of discussion of normative theory for the next generation."--John C. Nerone, coauthor of The Form of News: A HistoryTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction: Beyond Four Theories of the Press; Part One: Normative Theory; Chapter 1. Evolution of Normative Traditions; Chapter 2. Characteristics of Normative Theory; Part Two: Democracy; Chapter 3. Principles and Practice of Democracy; Chapter 4. Roles of News Media in Democracy; Part Three: Roles; Chapter 5. Monitorial Role; Chapter 6. Facilitative Role; Chapter 7. Radical Role; Chapter 8. Collaborative Role; Prospects; Conclusion; References
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University of Illinois Press Reorienting Global Communication Indian and
Book SynopsisPresents an examination of the global nature of Indian and Chinese media.Trade Review"Reorienting Global Communication meets an urgent need in the fields of media globalization and international cultural studies by providing an in-depth examination of the Indian and Chinese media industries and the changing concepts of 'nation' and 'home' in an increasingly globalized world.”--Shujen Wang, author of Framing Piracy: Globalization and Film Distribution in Greater ChinaTable of ContentsContributors are: Michael Curtin, Chua Beng Huat, Shanti Kumar, Chin-Chuan Lee, Madhavi Mallapragada, Divya C. McMillin, Sreya Mitra, Sujata Moorti, Zhongdang Pan, Aswin Punathambekar, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Hemant Shah, Lakshmi Srinivas, Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, and Yuezhi Zhao
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University of Illinois Press Dirty Words
Book SynopsisAnalyzing how health professionals and educators communicated with constituents about sexTrade ReviewDistinguished Book Award, Health Communication Division, National Communication Association (NCA), 2015. "Approaching the early struggles over sex education in the public schools from the fresh angle of rhetorical analysis, Jensen provides a useful guide to contemporary debates on this important issue. This book is of special interest to students and scholars of history, education, women's studies, communications, and rhetoric."--Jeffrey P. Moran, author of Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the Twentieth Century"Illuminating a rich collection of primary texts, Jensen demonstrates that despite exclusion from existing historical accounts, women played a significant role in the advocacy of sex education. This important Progressive Era history details the deliberative context in which debates about sex education occurred and analyzes strategies employed by often-overlooked female advocates."--Susan Zaeske, author of Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity
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University of Illinois Press Becoming the Second City
Book SynopsisA colorful history of Chicago journalism in the nineteenth centuryTrade Review"Splendid."--American Journalism "Recommended."--Choice"Valuable and necessary, the book shows the degree to which mass media assisted in the formation of Chicago history and helped carve its identity as the Second City."--Journal of Illinois History"A detailed, energetic overview of newspaper coverage and interest in Chicago in the 1800s. Junger's Becoming the Second City will be appreciated by a wide audience of historians and general readers, in the nation's 'Second City' and beyond!"--Duane C. S. Stoltzfus, author of Freedom from Advertising: E. W. Scripps's Chicago Experiment
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University of Illinois Press Saving the World
Book SynopsisInvigorating global social change through communicationTrade Review "It presents in-depth policy analyses to outline a vision for how communication technologies have--and still can--impact social change and economic/cultural development. . . . McAnany builds an historical paradigm that melds technology with social entrepreneurship. "-- Communication Booknotes Quarterly "Saving the World offers a judicious integration of Emile G. McAnany's own first-hand experience with many of the seminal people and projects in communication for development. McAnany provides a very valuable understanding of the underlying structure of the field and how these ideas have been implemented and theorized."--Joseph Straubhaar, author of Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology"All students who are just beginning will find this book an excellent introduction not only to the ideas and theories but also to the key thinkers who have helped frame the debate over the last 30 or 40 years. . . . Knowing the people and their histories gives an invaluable background to our knowledge."--Communication Research Trends "A comprehensive, ambitious history and policy analysis of the field of development communication. McAnany's grasp of the major developments, issues, and advances of this field will appeal to scholars of communication, sociology, political science, and economics."--Robert Huesca, professor of communication, Trinity University "Savings the World provides a strong history for understanding the context of efforts to use communication to spur development. McAnany's continuing push for measures that will demonstrate success or failure is welcome. This volume will be most valuable to those seeking historical context as they delve into the role of information and communication technologies for development."--International Journal of Communication "Saving the World is a fascinating examination of how earlier technologies were applied to foster social change. An easy-to-read, well-organized document; while McAnany carefully relays theory, he does it in a concise way that anyone will find accessible."--Technical Communication
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University of Illinois Press On The Condition of Anonymity Unnamed Sources
Book SynopsisThe use of confidential sources during a tumultuous period in American history and journalismTrade Review"Carlson offers an interesting, well-written, and lucid cultural analysis of the ‘unique risks and rewards’ that occur ‘from the bargain struck’ between reporters and confidential sources."-- Journalism "Raises important issues related to sources and to the structural forces currently challenging the meaning of journalism in today's multimedia world."--Library Journal "Carlson’s book is a must-read for people trying to understand what direction journalism should take in redefining itself in the face of rising threats—technological, economic, political, and otherwise."--Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly "Carlson offers sensible prescriptions for less reliance on anonymous sources and for more transparency when they are relied upon by journalists. His book injects calm reason and scholarly rigor into a debate that often arouses passions."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch"Contributes significantly to understanding not only the use of anonymous sources (the benefits and the dangers) but also journalism broadly. Recommended."--ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Problems - and Promise - of Unnamed Sources; 1. Media Culpas: Prewar Reporting Mistakes at the New York Times and Washington Post; 2. "Blogs 1, CBS 0": 60 Minutes and the Killian Memos Controversy; 3. Journalists Fight Back: Newsweek and the Koran Abuse Story; 4. Deep Throat and the Question of Motives; 5. "Journalism on Trial": Confidentiality and the Plame Leak Case; 6. Rethinking Anonymity: Problems and Solutions Notes; Index
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University of Illinois Press Hillary Clinton in the News
Book SynopsisShows how the US news media created their own news frames of Clinton's political authenticity and image-making, from author's participation in Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign through her own 2008 presidential bid.Trade ReviewMarie Hochmuth Nichols Award, Public Address Division, National Communication Association (NCA), 2015. "Shawn J. Parry-Giles has written an insightful, exhaustive, and historically rooted analysis of Hillary Rodham Clinton's numerous media permutations. The book will be useful to non-academics as well as academic researchers as we seek to understand the role news media play in constructing the public personae of women."--Mary Douglas Vavrus, author of Postfeminist News: Political Women in Media Culture"In Hillary Clinton in the News, the author builds a steady and compelling argument about the recurring frames the news media have used to portray Clinton in her many roles as first lady, policy advocate, legal defendant, political candidate, international emissary, and U.S. senator. . . . The images and discourse surrounding Hillary Clinton in the broadcast media provide a fascinating case study of the rhetorical relationship between gender and power."--H-Net"Parry-Giles presents a fascinating analysis of media framing of Hillary Clinton, exploring the tone and frames used to present Clinton in various stages of her political career. . . .Recommended."--Choice"Parry-Giles has written a lucid monograph about news representations of a political woman--a book that opens urgent conversations for other scholars to join."--Rhetoric Review"As Parry-Giles's book aptly illustrates, coverage of her in broadcast media is disconcertingly predictable."--Rhetoric & Public Affairs
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University of Illinois Press Media Geopolitics and Power
Book SynopsisThe end of apartheid brought South Africa into the global media environment. Outside companies invested in the nation's newspapers while South African conglomerates pursued lucrative tech ventures and communication markets around the world. Many observers viewed the rapid development of South African media as a roadmap from authoritarianism to global modernity. Herman Wasserman analyzes the debates surrounding South Africa's new media presence against the backdrop of rapidly changing geopolitics. His exploration reveals how South African disputes regarding access to, and representation in, the media reflect the domination and inequality in the global communication sphere. Optimists see post-apartheid media as providing a vital space that encourages exchanges of opinion in a young democracy. Critics argue the public sphere mirrors South Africa's past divisions and privileges the viewpoints of the elite. Wasserman delves into the ways these simplistic narratives obscure the country's intTrade ReviewBook of the Year, Global Communication and Social Change Division of the International Communication Association (ICA), 2019 UCT Book Award (University of Cape Town), 2020 "Wasserman’s book offers a rich and insightful account of the South African media in the context of shifting centres of global power and knowledge production. While focusing on the South African transition, the book demonstrates the close interrelationship between the local and the global, between the dominance of the advanced democracies of the West and the struggles of the Global South for recognition and influence. By taking the perspective of the Global South, familiar concepts such as citizenship, tabloidization, and mediation are put in a new light, thus enriching our theoretical and empirical understanding of the role of the media in a changing world."--Katrin Voltmer, author of Comparing Political Communication across Time and Space: New Studies in an Emerging Field"Wasserman's book would surely be deemed as one of the most powerful articulations from the Global South, urging media professionals and scholars to rethink and recontextualize global journalism in this post-West, post-order, post-truth world."--Anbin Shi, Tsinghua University"Wasserman shines a bright light on the changing media's role and journalism practice during the transition to democracy in South Africa....A must-read for all who want to understand South Africa's embrace of democracy and the political economy of communication therein." --The Journalist"The strength of this book is not only that Herman Wasserman gives us a comprehensive overview of the major changes in South Africa's journalism industries since the transition to democracy, but that he does it through the theoretical lens of Global South thinking." --Journal of Asian and African Studies
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University of Illinois Press Graphic News
Book SynopsisYou furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war. This famous but apocryphal quote, long attributed to newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, encapsulates fears of the lengths to which news companies would go to exploit visual journalism in the late nineteenth century. From 1870 to 1900, newspapers disrupted conventional reporting methods with sensationalized line drawings. A fierce hunger for profits motivated the shift to emotion-driven, visual content. But the new approach, while popular, often targeted, and further marginalized, vulnerable groups. Amanda Frisken examines the ways sensational images of pivotal cultural eventsobscenity litigation, anti-Chinese bloodshed, the Ghost Dance, lynching, and domestic violencechanged the public's consumption of the news. Using intersectional analysis, Frisken explores how these newfound visualizations of events during episodes of social and political controversy enabled newspapers and social activists alike to communicateor challengepreTrade ReviewChoice Outstanding Academic Title, 2020 "This generously illustrated book delves into the period just before the end of the nineteenth century when America was beginning to take its place in the world. It would be useful to anyone teaching or researching that formative period. It is accessible and attractive. Ironically enough, its extensive use of graphic pictures from the period make it not only an informative but entertaining read." --American Journalism"This book—or a selection of chapters—would add depth to a multitude of journalism, sociology and history courses. The themes Frisken reveals using these 19th-century news narratives and illustrations resonate with our 21st-century news narratives about immigration, marginalized groups and the #MeToo movement." --Newspaper Research Journal"A comprehensive and thoughtful exploration of the role of sensationalism in visual news, Graphic News will be of particular value for scholars and students of late nineteenth-century visual culture, journalism history, communication, and American Studies." --Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era"A deeply researched and acutely observed social and cultural history of journalism that, with particular attention to popular visual media, delineates the ways publications' reportorial conventions and practices shaped and were shaped by the era's gender, race, and class relations.”—Joshua Brown, author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America”A worthy endeavor that engages major social and cultural issues and makes a significant contribution to the history of visual journalism in the United States.”—John Coward, author of Indians Illustrated: Images of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press"An intriguing analysis of the manner in which sensational pictorial representations altered US journalism during the final three decades of the 19th century... Well researched with an extensive reliance on primary documents." --Choice
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University of Illinois Press Four Theories of the Press
Book SynopsisPresented here are the four major theories behind the functioning of the world's presses:(1) the Authoritarian theory; (2) the Libertarian theory; (3) the Social Responsibility Theory; and (4) the Soviet Communist Theory. These theories in this title summarize the conflict among the major approaches to communication.
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Indiana University Press Arts of Being Yoruba
Book SynopsisTrade Review Arts of Being Yoruba is timely and strategic. It is a commendable output, which makes pronouncements that further rekindles hope and sustained interest in African cultural studies generally. * African Studies Quarterly *In uniting various themes and topics, the book creates a tool and methodology to rethink interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity, hybridity, and modernity. Recommended. * Choice *Arts of Being Yorùbá is a needed contribution to Yorùbá studies and a welcome rejoinder to a more culturally essentialist understanding of what it means to be – or not be – Yorùbá. * Journal of Modern African Studies *This book will remain an unparalleled prestigious excavation of the very best in Yorùbá artistic, literary, cultural, and philosophical studies for many years to come. It belongs in every Yorùbá household as well as in the archives of Yorùbá social and cultural history. * Research in African Literature *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. "Writing" and "Reference" in Ifaì Divination Chants2. Culture, Meaning, Proverbs 3. Reading, Writing, and Epistemic Instability in Faìguìnwa's Novels4. Sex, Gender, and Plot in FaìguìnwaÌ's Adventures5. Lost in Translation: IÌsòoÌòlaì's Eòfuìnsòetaìn AniìwuìraÌ and YoruÌbaì Woman-Being6. From Orality to Visuality: Photography and the Panegyric in Contemporary YoruÌbaì CultureConclusion: Book Launching as Cultural AffirmationsBibliographyIndex
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University of Notre Dame Press Confession and Resistance
Book SynopsisFor scholars of medieval literature, confession, with its language of sin and contrition, has often provided the basis for our understanding of medieval selfhood and subjectivity. Confessional texts, whether penitential manuals or literary depictions of confession, suggest ways that people spoke about themselves and how they understood their interiority.In Confession and Resistance, Katherine C. Little cautions that medieval selfhood should not be understood merely in terms of confessional practice. She points to the controversy over confession and, more generally, lay instruction that was generated in late medieval England around the heresy known as Wycliffism (or Lollardy). This controversy, she maintains, reveals the contested nature of the language of medieval selfhood.Through her readings of Wycliffite sermons and polemical writings, Little argues that the Lollard resistance to confession should be understood as a debate over self-formation. For the WycliffTrade Review“Little is most successful . . . with Hoccleve because here we do indeed have a writer of the post-1401 generation, and one of explicit autobiographical bent. Although I would tend to place the Old Man's discourse in Hoccleve's Regiment as much in the consolatio genre as in the confessio genre, Little's argument, based on the latter, succeeds for that genre.” —American Historical Review"Confession and Resistance is a significant contribution to our understanding of late medieval Christianity and culture in England. Little shows the inventiveness with which Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve engage with Wycliffite textuality and ideology, often assimilating these as sources of a self-reflexive and vigorous orthodoxy cultivated by a learned, 'clerical' laity. Her focus should make the book of interest to those working in early modern fields as well as to medievalists." —David Aers, James B. Duke Professor of English and Religion, Duke University“This concise study explores the impact of Wycliffite challenges to an auricular confession on the development of selfhood or discourses of the ‘interior.’ . . . [The book] has plenty to offer by the way of suggestion and inspiration for further work on the history of subjectivity, on the genre of confession, and on the legacy of Wycliffism.” —Modern Philosophy"Our understanding of the intricacies of medieval thinking about the self is still less sophisticated than it needs to be, if we are ever to have a full history of the western subject. Built around a series of readings of Middle English theorizations of the self, confession, and community, this carefully-focussed and well-written book significantly advances our thinking on these closely related topics. On the way to its goal, Little's study also illuminates several other areas of current interest in medieval studies: the exemplum as a system of teaching and object of suspicion; the fault-line between Lollardy and fourteenth-century orthodoxy; and the impact of the Lollard controversy on the new patterns of orthodox belief and practice that emerged in the fifteenth century." —Nicholas Watson, Harvard University“In this book, the author looks at the Wycliffite movement in late fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century England to examine not its theology but its importance for the history of self-definition. The discussion is based on the theories of Foucault and Benveniste about the uses of the sacrament of confession, language, and narrative to form late medieval selves...This book has solid scholarship, with copious use of primary sources, an extensive bibliography, and intelligent reinterpretations.” —The Historian"Quite appropriately in a book so concerned with language and its ability to shape perceptions and definitions, Little has written a careful and well-crafted analysis of language as it was employed by the church, the Wycliffites, and those who lived during the time the two came into conflict. She integrates this compelling analysis with a well-balanced foundation in theoretical concerns as well as the scholarly work that has preceded her own. She has produced a valuable contribution to the scholarly discourse on Wycliffite heresy and on late medieval subjectivity in the form of an engaging and accessible piece of scholarship." —Comitatus“Confession and Resistance examines penitential discourses as sources of a language of subject formation, or as Little prefers to call it, 'self-definition.' . . . Little seeks to demonstrate that there may be simultaneously a variety of competing discourses by examining texts produced during the period when the Wycliffites challenged the theology and institutions of penance. . . . The analyses are finely done, offering persuasive insights, new perspectives, and much to think about.” —Speculum
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University of Notre Dame Press Confession and Resistance
Book SynopsisFor scholars of medieval literature, confession, with its language of sin and contrition, has often provided the basis for our understanding of medieval selfhood and subjectivity. Confessional texts, whether penitential manuals or literary depictions of confession, suggest ways that people spoke about themselves and how they understood their interiority.In Confession and Resistance, Katherine C. Little cautions that medieval selfhood should not be understood merely in terms of confessional practice. She points to the controversy over confession and, more generally, lay instruction that was generated in late medieval England around the heresy known as Wycliffism (or Lollardy). This controversy, she maintains, reveals the contested nature of the language of medieval selfhood.Through her readings of Wycliffite sermons and polemical writings, Little argues that the Lollard resistance to confession should be understood as a debate over self-formation. For the WycliffTrade Review“Little is most successful . . . with Hoccleve because here we do indeed have a writer of the post-1401 generation, and one of explicit autobiographical bent. Although I would tend to place the Old Man's discourse in Hoccleve's Regiment as much in the consolatio genre as in the confessio genre, Little's argument, based on the latter, succeeds for that genre.” —American Historical Review"Confession and Resistance is a significant contribution to our understanding of late medieval Christianity and culture in England. Little shows the inventiveness with which Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve engage with Wycliffite textuality and ideology, often assimilating these as sources of a self-reflexive and vigorous orthodoxy cultivated by a learned, 'clerical' laity. Her focus should make the book of interest to those working in early modern fields as well as to medievalists." —David Aers, James B. Duke Professor of English and Religion, Duke University“This concise study explores the impact of Wycliffite challenges to an auricular confession on the development of selfhood or discourses of the ‘interior.’ . . . [The book] has plenty to offer by the way of suggestion and inspiration for further work on the history of subjectivity, on the genre of confession, and on the legacy of Wycliffism.” —Modern Philosophy"Our understanding of the intricacies of medieval thinking about the self is still less sophisticated than it needs to be, if we are ever to have a full history of the western subject. Built around a series of readings of Middle English theorizations of the self, confession, and community, this carefully-focussed and well-written book significantly advances our thinking on these closely related topics. On the way to its goal, Little's study also illuminates several other areas of current interest in medieval studies: the exemplum as a system of teaching and object of suspicion; the fault-line between Lollardy and fourteenth-century orthodoxy; and the impact of the Lollard controversy on the new patterns of orthodox belief and practice that emerged in the fifteenth century." —Nicholas Watson, Harvard University“In this book, the author looks at the Wycliffite movement in late fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century England to examine not its theology but its importance for the history of self-definition. The discussion is based on the theories of Foucault and Benveniste about the uses of the sacrament of confession, language, and narrative to form late medieval selves...This book has solid scholarship, with copious use of primary sources, an extensive bibliography, and intelligent reinterpretations.” —The Historian"Quite appropriately in a book so concerned with language and its ability to shape perceptions and definitions, Little has written a careful and well-crafted analysis of language as it was employed by the church, the Wycliffites, and those who lived during the time the two came into conflict. She integrates this compelling analysis with a well-balanced foundation in theoretical concerns as well as the scholarly work that has preceded her own. She has produced a valuable contribution to the scholarly discourse on Wycliffite heresy and on late medieval subjectivity in the form of an engaging and accessible piece of scholarship." —Comitatus“Confession and Resistance examines penitential discourses as sources of a language of subject formation, or as Little prefers to call it, 'self-definition.' . . . Little seeks to demonstrate that there may be simultaneously a variety of competing discourses by examining texts produced during the period when the Wycliffites challenged the theology and institutions of penance. . . . The analyses are finely done, offering persuasive insights, new perspectives, and much to think about.” —Speculum
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Pennsylvania State University Press Ceremony Civility in English Renaissance Prose
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