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Book SynopsisThe Voice of Newfoundland studies cultural and political changes in Newfoundland from 1939 to 1949 by taking a close look at the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland's radio programming and the responses of their listeners.Trade Review'The Voice of Newfoundland is a work of subtlety and imagination that provides a compelling view of the dialectic between broadcaster and audience in the creation of culture. It deserves an international audience and should be standard reading for PhD fields in Canadian history.' -- Bill Parenteau Canadian Historical Review: vol 91:04:10

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Book SynopsisA grassroots tour of small-town American newspapers, and the people who write, edit, and produce them.Trade Review"[Emus Loose in Egnar is an] engaging account of local journalism outside the major urban hubs. Without the muscle of a big-city newspaper—or the benefit of working at arm's length from public officials and advertisers—the passionate lunatics who put out America's small-town weeklies labor to keep local politicians honest while coping with anger, threats, pleading, exhaustion, poverty and, often, instead of gratitude, cold shoulders from neighbors on the checkout line at the IGA."—Daniel Akst, Wall Street Journal"Very occasionally under threat of violence, more often facing social isolation or financial pressure, these rural journalists' devotion to truth-telling keeps the First Amendment alive and communities connected in grassroots America."—Kirkus"A read through this rather gentle, inquisitive look at small-town weekly newspapers could be beneficial to your health. It may even lower your big city blood pressure."—Jonathan Rickard, New York Journal of Books“Spiced up with rich portraits of curmudgeons, quirky editors, and pugnacious reporters, Muller’s compelling and endearing defense of small town journalism proves the value of thinking globally while writing locally.”—ForeWord Magazine “Readers of this book, which is a rare combination of important and entertaining, will be surprised to discover how much small-towners have to teach the rest of us about life, and how much their local weekly newspapers have to teach big-city news media about survival.”—Bill Geist, correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning and best-selling author of Way Off the Road: Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small-Town America“Emus Loose in Egnar is what Mark Twain might have written if he had taken better care of himself and lived long enough to meet the collection of loners and lunatics in this book. I laughed until I cried, because I have been there.”—Richard Reeves, author of Daring Young Men and the founding editor of the Phillipsburg (NJ) Free PressTable of ContentsAcknowlegmentsPrologue1. Everything Old Is New Again2. Crusaders3. Curmudgeons4. Too Close for Comfort5. This Town Isn't Big Enough for the Two of Us 6. All the Names Unfit to Print7. Never Speak Ill of the Dead8. School Sports: Holy Hyperbole!9. They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore10. Coming HomeBibliography

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Book SynopsisAt its core the book grapples with questions about the limits of cultural hegemony at the height of the PRI and the cold warTrade Review“For most of its eighty-plus years, the media behemoth known today as Televisa, long the de facto propaganda arm of the Mexican state, has been all but hermetically sealed against inspection by researchers. Few have interviewed its executives, let alone probed its archives. That Celeste González de Bustamante has accessed two decades’ worth of broadcast news scripts is a feat of scholarly gumption and tenacity. Her resulting book offers a fascinating and unprecedentedly detailed account of news dissemination between 1950 and 1970 by the most influential television company in the Spanish- speaking world.”—Andrew Paxman, Hispanic American Historical Review“As the party that governed Mexico for seventy years returns to power amid protests over collusion between the media and politicians, Celeste González de Bustamante has published a timely examination of just how much influence television has. Based on five case studies and rare access to the archives of Latin America’s most influential television empire, Televisa, the study offers far more than its title promises. . . . The study also adds important insights to the rich literature on national identity formation. Muy Buenas Noches is a significant contribution that will add to the scholarly discussion in a variety of disciplines and fields.”—Juanita Darling, American Journalism“Each chapter’s consistent grounding in the larger arc of Mexican and international history makes Muy Buenas Noches an easily digestible book, even for those with little previous knowledge of the country. Undoubtedly, Muy Buenas Noches will stand as a central text for future researchers intrigued by the questions González de Bustamante raises, as well as those searching for the historical roots of the country’s current media climate.”—Taylor Jardno, NACLA Report on the Americas “One of the strengths of González’s book lays in her ability to paint a vivid picture of the behind-the-scenes machinations that defined the relationship between Telesistema Mexicano and the Mexican government. . . . Celeste González de Bustamante has produced an outstanding account of the first two decades of Mexican television news. Her illumination of the tensions that infused the connections between Telesistema Mexicano, the PRI, Mexican viewers, and the United States during the Cold War succeeds in underscoring the limits of cultural hegemony. In the process, this well written and solidly researched monograph will be of interest to both scholars and students of modern Mexico, media studies, and the Cold War.”—Michael A. Krysko, A Contra corrienteTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of TablesForeword by Richard ColeAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Rise of Television in Mexico2. The Invention of Tele-Traditions3. Rebels and Revolutionaries4. The First Television Diplomats5. Hot Rockets and Cold War6. Olympic Dreams and Tlatelolco Nightmares7. Victory for the Brazilians and EcheverriaConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe telephone marks the place of an absence. Affiliated with discontinuity, alarm, and silence, it raises fundamental questions about the constitution of self and other, the stability of location, systems of transfer, and the destination of speech. Profoundly changing our concept of long-distance, it is constantly transmitting effects of real and evocative power. To the extent that it always relates us to the absent other, the telephone, and the massive switchboard attending it, plugs into a hermeneutics of mourning. The Telephone Book, itself organized by a telephonic logic, fields calls from philosophy, history, literature, and psychoanalysis. It installs a switchboard that hooks up diverse types of knowledge while rerouting and jamming the codes of the disciplines in daring ways. Avital Ronell has done nothing less than consider the impact of the telephone on modern thought. Her highly original, multifaceted inquiry into the nature of communication in a technological ageTrade Review"With The Telephone Book, the deconstruction of 'phonocentrism' takes an unheard-of turn: Heidegger and Derrida are joined by Alexander Graham ('Ma') Bell in a party line that leaves one's ears (and eyes) ringing. Working with an advanced form of optical fiber, Avital Ronell establishes scandalously clear connections between her long-distance callers, and through them, between the mediatic and the literary, the technological and the political, the historical and the philosophical. In the White and Yellow Pages that result, 'criticism' catches up with the telephone and becomes rigorously colloquial."—Samuel Weber, International Operator"To think technology is not to think technology away. Avital Ronell calls us from afar. She does not think the question concerning technology by submitting it merely to evaluation, as has been done so often and so poorly. Rather, she seeks out what 'thinks' in technology and what is 'technological' in thinking. Her concern is located not in the instrumentality of technology with its good and bad points, but in unfolding the presence of technology in discourse, as discourse, or as the silence hidden within discourse. For example, when Heidegger refers to a telephone call whose political stakes are anything but indifferent, how is the 'call' of 'conscience' thereby implicated? The telephone serves here to open a line of inquiry, producing a series of analyses, eliciting a totally unprecendented style, whose general rule would be: how technoogy stimulates metaphorization, how it transports beyond itself, and gives way to thinking. That in the end it should bear something of the feminine, or that the mode of transport may itself be feminine (la télé-phonie), is the message waiting on our answering maching. Beep. Click. Blurb."—Jean-Luc Nancy, University of Strasbourg, France"Avital Ronell installs the telephone in the space of thinking Heidegger reserves for poetry and art, producing a series of reflections on philosophy, psychoanalysis and biography that may come to represent one of the most decisive readings of the technological since Heidegger."—Substance"A breakthrough work within the universe of academic publications."—Warren Lehrer, Designers & Books

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Book SynopsisThis is a cultural history of a late Qing newspaper, "Shibao", the most influential reform daily of its time. Thebook explores the simultaneous emergence of a new print culture and a new culture of politics in early-20th-century China.Trade Review"Print and Politics is a first-rate study of a very influential Chinese newspaper. It provides us with a richly textured picture of the evolution of radical approaches to reform in the years leading up to the Revolution of 1911, as well as a fascinating overview of the attempts of one key group to develop a new political vocabulary rooted in indigenous and imported concepts that would empower the exercise of public opinion."—Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Indiana University

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Book SynopsisAssuming the burden of reading imposed by the correlation of the order of language and the order of events, this book argues that the possibility of reading and writing history is tied to the endurance of traces of the past and their coming to legibility, allegorically, at a given time. Through attentive readings of a range of textsincluding theoretical writings, diaries, newspaper reports, and live television broadcastsIn the Event elaborates the ways in which allegory disrupts our presumptions of continuity and simultaneity between the image (whatever its medium) and what we take it to represent.The author demonstrates that a theoretical corpus must be understood not merely as a discrete set of arguments, but as work that takes place in time and on which time itself is at work. Against the temptation to regard a text (including a text of philosophical aesthetics or critical linguistics) as explained or defined by a fixed temporal context, this book emphasizes the texTrade Review“An event of real significance in contemporary criticism, this book is an elegant and lucid study of the constitutive role of time in theoretical speculation and the structure of television, in the making of journalism, and the composing of personal diaries.”—Forest Pyle, University of OregonTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Introduction; Part I. Journals, Theories: 1. The invasion of the corpus snatchers; 2. The work to come; Part II. In The Wake Of Television: 3. No time like the present; 4. Mission in action; 5. Fast-forward; 6. The test of time; Part III. Journals Of Survival: 7. 'Only a question of time, etc'; 8. 'The only news was then'; Notes; Index.

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Book SynopsisFreud on Madison Avenue tells the story of how and why mid-twentieth-century advertisers adopted Freudian psychology to sell products. This study follows the careers of Paul Lazarsfeld, Herta Herzog, James Vicary, Alfred Politz, Pierre Martineau, Edward Bernays, and the father of motivational research, Ernest Dichter.Trade Review"Freud on Madison Avenue offers a valuable window into life in the United States in the 1950s, a time when consumerism was being rethought and Freud's influence was at its zenith." * American Journal of Sociology *"A good book. . . . The work is insightful, well-written and is an excellent introduction to this important area of business history." * Business History *"Commercial historian Lawrence R. Samuel presents a rich, detailed, and fascinating look at the historical evolution of motivation (aka motivational) research." * Journal of Consumer Research *"In Freud on Madison Avenue, Lawrence R. Samuel delves deep into the consumerist 'Mad Men' of midcentury, explaining how the subconscious mind could be imprinted for commerce, which laid the foundation for consumer insights, brand imagery, and disruptive creative ideas. A terrific read!" * John Gerzema, Chief Insights Officer, Young & Rubicam and author of The Brand Bubble *"This bracing tour of the psycho-cultural badlands of advertising is sure to provoke the reader's imagination. Nobody charts commercial history like Lawrence Samuel." * John F. Sherry, Jr., University of Notre Dame *"If you have any interest in marketing research, advertising, or communications, this book deserves a place on your shelf." * Neal M. Burns, University of Texas at Austin *"The first-ever look at the powerful yet controversial beginnings of the consumer research industry that exists today. Brilliant, thorough, and fascinating." * Megan Kent, Founder, Brand Synchronicity *"Pull up a couch. Open your mind to this incisive, intriguing and intelligent revelation of how psychological analysis transformed modern advertising." * John Bowman, Global Director of Strategic Equities, Saatchi & Saatchi *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Psychology of Everyday Living 2. The Sophisticated Sell 3. The Secret Pitch 4. The Fertile Moment 5. The Psychology of the World of Objects Epilogue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisEileen Reeves examines the ways in which a long-standing association of reportage with covert surveillance and astrological prediction was altered by the near simultaneous emergence of weekly newsheets, the invention of the Dutch telescope, and the appearance of Galileo Galilei's astronomical treatise, The Starry Messenger.Trade Review"Delving deep into the archives, Reeves seems preternaturally capable of hearing the minutest echoes." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"A magisterial book that will appeal to readers interested in early modern cultural and social history as well as the history of science and astronomy. Eileen Reeves shows how the dark room, the spyglass, and the telescope offered material for describing all the known and less known features of information in the early seventeenth century, from speed to tardiness, from accuracy to unreliability, from exclusivity to intermediation." * Filippo De Vivo, Birkbeck College, University of London *"Evening News convincingly demonstrates the entanglement of journalism and the news with optics and astronomy. Discovered snippets of private correspondence and other minute pieces of text, close readings of these passages, and connections to historical contexts manifest the author's impressive erudition." * Sven Dupré, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science *

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Book SynopsisHere, journalists can find the fast facts they need to accurately cover complex and controversial environmental stories ranging from indoor and outdoor air quality to sprawl and bioterrorism.Trade ReviewThe Reporter's Environmental Handbook is an excellent quick reference book for reporters and editors under deadline pressure. It contains a short background chapter on every imaginable kind of risk situation. It is a very useful guide for journalists reporting on environmental issues. -- Teya Ryan * executive vice president and general manager of CNN, U.S. *[An] indispensable book for any journalist, student, or informed lay person who needs to understand and communicate environmental risks. -- Bernard D. Goldstein * M.D., dean, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health *A valuable tool for print and broadcast journalists reporting on the major environmental hazards of this new century. Every news organization ought to have this book in easy reach for their reporters and editors. -- Jerome Aumente * distinguished professor emeritus and founding director, Journalism Resources Ins *

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Book SynopsisA collection of practical essays sharing concrete tips and tools that will help you connect more effectively at work, at home, under pressure, in leadership roles, and in high-tech environments. With timely examples and practical suggestions, this book is for anyone looking to improve their professional and personal relationships.Trade Review"Steve Adubato's engaging style makes his book a cut above most communications-skills guides." * Publishers Weekly *"Steve is an excellent executive coach and workshop facilitator. He is simply the best at what he does." -- Lucia DiNapoli Gibbons * Northern NJ Regional President, Wachovia *"Effective communication is vital to success at work, at play, or in between. Make the Connection is a cornucopia of good ideas that will help you do it better." -- Mario M. Cuomo * former governor of New York *"Columnist, TV anchor, and motivational speaker Adubato (Speak from the Heart: Be Yourself and Get Results) offers tips and strategies for maximizing communication at home and at work. Topics include keeping an audience engaged during presentations, saying no, and talking to children about scary world events. Loosely categorized under such topics as 'At Work' and 'Communication 101,' the essays lead off with illustrative anecdotes (many about high-profile leaders), followed by bulleted pointers for improving communication. The chapter titled 'Dean's Scream Ended His Dream' highlights the importance of maintaining self-control and being aware of the impact of one's message. It illustrates how presidential candidate Howard Dean's attempt to rally his supporters in the face of his disappointing finish in the Iowa caucuses was interpreted not as a rallying cry but as an out-of-control rant capped by a primal scream. The message here is that a speaker must know his audience and understand how his message is being perceived. Unlike Loretta Malandro's Say It Right the First Time, which is more instructional in tone, this work takes a more informal approach to communication improvement. Recommended for public and academic libraries." * Library Journal *"Make the Connection tells you how to 'connect' not only in your professional life but also in your personal life. Few people could break it down as simply and succinctly as Steve does. And anyone that watches Steve on FOX News knows he 'makes the connection' every time he's on TV!" -- Brian Kilmeade * host of FOX & Friends and New York Times best-selling author of The Games Do Cou *"Public speaking is always one of the best things I hate. But Steve always tells it right; he can make any talk easier than it sounds." -- Yogi Berra * Yankee Hall of Famer *

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Book SynopsisUses extensive archival research into the files of studios, networks, advertising agencies, unions and guilds, theatre associations, the FCC, and key legal cases to analyse the tensions and synergies between the film and television industries in the early years of television.Trade Review"Broadcasting Hollywood unpacks a convoluted postwar industrial trail to presciently detail the complexities of Hollywood and TV's deep, awkward, but ultimately long-lasting affiliation. Dispensing with the idea of a studio-vs-network throw-down, Jennifer Porst shows how historical change is driven instead by the interactions of multiple stakeholders and intermediaries. This book shows why film histories must reckon with intermedia, and helps push reductive contemporary theories of convergence, transmedia, and disruption off their lazy perches as one-stop explanations for the digital era. A must-read for those interested in film history, digital media, and media industries." -- John T. Caldwell * Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA, author of Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television. (2008). *"Drawing on a trove of unexplored archival sources, Jennifer Porst has written a brilliant new addition to the field of media industry studies. Focused on the past but with revealing insights about the present—and future—Broadcasting Hollywood should be required reading for media students and researchers across film, television, and digital media." -- Michele Hilmes * Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison *"A compelling and incisive argument that to understand media convergence today we need to explore the past. Porst brings alive all that was at stake in the first real disruption of Hollywood. Part courtroom drama, part detective story, Broadcasting Hollywood brings to life current debates between studios, networks, creatives, the government. Want to prepare for the future of media? Read this book." -- Miranda Banks * author of The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild *"Broadcasting Hollywood unpacks a convoluted postwar industrial trail to presciently detail the complexities of Hollywood and TV's deep, awkward, but ultimately long-lasting affiliation. Dispensing with the idea of a studio-vs-network throw-down, Jennifer Porst shows how historical change is driven instead by the interactions of multiple stakeholders and intermediaries. This book shows why film histories must reckon with intermedia, and helps push reductive contemporary theories of convergence, transmedia, and disruption off their lazy perches as one-stop explanations for the digital era. A must-read for those interested in film history, digital media, and media industries." -- John T. Caldwell * Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA, author of Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Cri *"Drawing on a trove of unexplored archival sources, Jennifer Porst has written a brilliant new addition to the field of media industry studies. Focused on the past but with revealing insights about the present—and future—Broadcasting Hollywood should be required reading for media students and researchers across film, television, and digital media." -- Michele Hilmes * Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison *"A compelling and incisive argument that to understand media convergence today we need to explore the past. Porst brings alive all that was at stake in the first real disruption of Hollywood. Part courtroom drama, part detective story, Broadcasting Hollywood brings to life current debates between studios, networks, creatives, the government. Want to prepare for the future of media? Read this book." -- Miranda Banks * author of The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Media Disruption and Convergence 1 Systems of Authority and Evaluation 2 Exhibition, Audiences, and Media Consumption 3 Contracts, Rights, Residuals, and Labor 4 Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, and the Intervention of the Courts 5 Antitrust, Market Dominance, and Emerging Media 6 Feature Films Make Their Way to Television Conclusion: Disrupting a Big Market Can Be Bumpy Acknowledgments Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUses extensive archival research into the files of studios, networks, advertising agencies, unions and guilds, theatre associations, the FCC, and key legal cases to analyse the tensions and synergies between the film and television industries in the early years of television.Trade Review"Broadcasting Hollywood unpacks a convoluted postwar industrial trail to presciently detail the complexities of Hollywood and TV's deep, awkward, but ultimately long-lasting affiliation. Dispensing with the idea of a studio-vs-network throw-down, Jennifer Porst shows how historical change is driven instead by the interactions of multiple stakeholders and intermediaries. This book shows why film histories must reckon with intermedia, and helps push reductive contemporary theories of convergence, transmedia, and disruption off their lazy perches as one-stop explanations for the digital era. A must-read for those interested in film history, digital media, and media industries." -- John T. Caldwell * Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA, author of Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television. (2008). *"Drawing on a trove of unexplored archival sources, Jennifer Porst has written a brilliant new addition to the field of media industry studies. Focused on the past but with revealing insights about the present—and future—Broadcasting Hollywood should be required reading for media students and researchers across film, television, and digital media." -- Michele Hilmes * Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison *"A compelling and incisive argument that to understand media convergence today we need to explore the past. Porst brings alive all that was at stake in the first real disruption of Hollywood. Part courtroom drama, part detective story, Broadcasting Hollywood brings to life current debates between studios, networks, creatives, the government. Want to prepare for the future of media? Read this book." -- Miranda Banks * author of The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild *"Broadcasting Hollywood unpacks a convoluted postwar industrial trail to presciently detail the complexities of Hollywood and TV's deep, awkward, but ultimately long-lasting affiliation. Dispensing with the idea of a studio-vs-network throw-down, Jennifer Porst shows how historical change is driven instead by the interactions of multiple stakeholders and intermediaries. This book shows why film histories must reckon with intermedia, and helps push reductive contemporary theories of convergence, transmedia, and disruption off their lazy perches as one-stop explanations for the digital era. A must-read for those interested in film history, digital media, and media industries." -- John T. Caldwell * Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA, author of Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Cri *"Drawing on a trove of unexplored archival sources, Jennifer Porst has written a brilliant new addition to the field of media industry studies. Focused on the past but with revealing insights about the present—and future—Broadcasting Hollywood should be required reading for media students and researchers across film, television, and digital media." -- Michele Hilmes * Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison *"A compelling and incisive argument that to understand media convergence today we need to explore the past. Porst brings alive all that was at stake in the first real disruption of Hollywood. Part courtroom drama, part detective story, Broadcasting Hollywood brings to life current debates between studios, networks, creatives, the government. Want to prepare for the future of media? Read this book." -- Miranda Banks * author of The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Media Disruption and Convergence 1 Systems of Authority and Evaluation 2 Exhibition, Audiences, and Media Consumption 3 Contracts, Rights, Residuals, and Labor 4 Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, and the Intervention of the Courts 5 Antitrust, Market Dominance, and Emerging Media 6 Feature Films Make Their Way to Television Conclusion: Disrupting a Big Market Can Be Bumpy Acknowledgments Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOne of the first books to examine the status of broadcasting on its one hundredth anniversary, Radio's Second Century investigates both vanguard and perennial topics relevant to radio's past, present, and future.Trade Review“At a time when radio’s fortunes and future are being impacted by new audio technologies, it’s fitting to remind people of its continuing relevance and value in society. As radio enters its second century of public service, this volume provides readers with a full-on assessment of all aspects of the eldest electronic mass medium through a series of astutely and incisively written essays.” -- Michael C. Keith * Boston College *"How NPR can take cues from other broadcasters in its quest to broaden audience" by John Mark Dempsey * Current *Named a Radio Book of the Year: "A very stimulating and thought provoking collection of 15 essays by US and Canadian academics on various aspects of radio....Excellent." * Communication Journal *"Very readable, well-researched...I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in broadcasting." * Radio User Magazine *"An excellent read for a college student pursuing a degree in communications or journalism and needing insight into the radio industry. It’s also suitable for those who like to think hard about the roles that radio and audio play in our culture and how people interact with them." * Radio World *"One outstanding feature of the chapters is the variety of research methods used." * Journal of Radio & Audio Media *"This volume expands our understanding of radio as classic broadcasting and offers a diversity of themes relevant to its evolution. The chapters vary not only in their topics but also in their length, style, and theoretical and methodological approaches. This eclecticism may be especially useful for junior college students or new radio industry professionals in mapping the current trends and themes in radio research. Radio is entering its second century—it is already demonstrating and will undoubtedly demonstrate many more diverse paths of development." * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsContents Foreword by Michael Brown Preface Part I  Contemporary Radio: Social and Digital Media 1 Digital Radio: Audio Listening from AM to FM to XM…and Beyond John Allen Hendricks and Bruce Mims 2 Audience Research and Web Features of Radio Stations in a Time of Uncertainty Lu Wu and Daniel Riffe  3 The Parasocial Nature of the Podcast Laith Zuraikat  4 Social Media Analytics, Radio Advertising, and Strategic Partnerships Joseph R. Blaney  Part II Programming Matters: Localism, Personalities, and Audiences 5 The Shrinking Electronic Town Square: Localism in American Talk Radio David Crider 6 The Fandom of Howard Stern and Its Relationship to His Success: The “King of All Media” and a Dynamic Audience  Rachel Sussman-Wander Kaplan 7 The “War of the Worlds” Broadcast: Fake News or Engaging Storytelling? John F. Barber 8 Unpredictable Programming: A Freeform Approach to Building Audiences Emily W. Easton Part III Social Issues: Contemporary Overtones 9 Air to the Kingdom: Religion and the Soul of Radio Mark Ward, Sr. 10 “A More Inclusive Public Service”: Can NPR Serve All of America? John Mark Dempsey 11 The Sound of Yellow Rain: Resisting Podcasting’s Sonic Whiteness Anjuli Joshi Brekke Part IV International Perspectives: Modern Paradigms 12 Canadian Community/Campus Radio: Struggling and Coping on the Cusp of Change Anne F. MacLennan 13 Revenge of the Nerds: How Public Radio Dominated Podcasting and Transformed Listening to Audio Brad Clark and Archie McLean 14 Reproducing Analog Pathologies in the Digital Radio Landscape: The Case of Greece Michael Nevradakis 15 Almost 100 Years of Women in Radio: Where Are We Now? Simon Order Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisOne of the first books to examine the status of broadcasting on its one hundredth anniversary, Radio's Second Century investigates both vanguard and perennial topics relevant to radio's past, present, and future.Trade Review“At a time when radio’s fortunes and future are being impacted by new audio technologies, it’s fitting to remind people of its continuing relevance and value in society. As radio enters its second century of public service, this volume provides readers with a full-on assessment of all aspects of the eldest electronic mass medium through a series of astutely and incisively written essays.” -- Michael C. Keith * Boston College *"How NPR can take cues from other broadcasters in its quest to broaden audience" by John Mark Dempsey * Current *Named a Radio Book of the Year: "A very stimulating and thought provoking collection of 15 essays by US and Canadian academics on various aspects of radio....Excellent." * Communication Journal *"Very readable, well-researched...I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in broadcasting." * Radio User Magazine *"An excellent read for a college student pursuing a degree in communications or journalism and needing insight into the radio industry. It’s also suitable for those who like to think hard about the roles that radio and audio play in our culture and how people interact with them." * Radio World *"This volume expands our understanding of radio as classic broadcasting and offers a diversity of themes relevant to its evolution. The chapters vary not only in their topics but also in their length, style, and theoretical and methodological approaches. This eclecticism may be especially useful for junior college students or new radio industry professionals in mapping the current trends and themes in radio research. Radio is entering its second century—it is already demonstrating and will undoubtedly demonstrate many more diverse paths of development." * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsContents Foreword by Michael Brown Preface Part I  Contemporary Radio: Social and Digital Media 1 Digital Radio: Audio Listening from AM to FM to XM…and Beyond John Allen Hendricks and Bruce Mims 2 Audience Research and Web Features of Radio Stations in a Time of Uncertainty Lu Wu and Daniel Riffe  3 The Parasocial Nature of the Podcast Laith Zuraikat  4 Social Media Analytics, Radio Advertising, and Strategic Partnerships Joseph R. Blaney  Part II Programming Matters: Localism, Personalities, and Audiences 5 The Shrinking Electronic Town Square: Localism in American Talk Radio David Crider 6 The Fandom of Howard Stern and Its Relationship to His Success: The “King of All Media” and a Dynamic Audience  Rachel Sussman-Wander Kaplan 7 The “War of the Worlds” Broadcast: Fake News or Engaging Storytelling? John F. Barber 8 Unpredictable Programming: A Freeform Approach to Building Audiences Emily W. Easton Part III Social Issues: Contemporary Overtones 9 Air to the Kingdom: Religion and the Soul of Radio Mark Ward, Sr. 10 “A More Inclusive Public Service”: Can NPR Serve All of America? John Mark Dempsey 11 The Sound of Yellow Rain: Resisting Podcasting’s Sonic Whiteness Anjuli Joshi Brekke Part IV International Perspectives: Modern Paradigms 12 Canadian Community/Campus Radio: Struggling and Coping on the Cusp of Change Anne F. MacLennan 13 Revenge of the Nerds: How Public Radio Dominated Podcasting and Transformed Listening to Audio Brad Clark and Archie McLean 14 Reproducing Analog Pathologies in the Digital Radio Landscape: The Case of Greece Michael Nevradakis 15 Almost 100 Years of Women in Radio: Where Are We Now? Simon Order Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAddresses the growing concern about journalism ethics in the United States and worldwide. Essays provide insights into the motivations, techniques, and challenges of journalists everywhere.Table of ContentsContributors. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. Part I Introduction. Chapter 1 Journalism as a Mission: Ethics and Purpose from an International Perspective. Chapter 2 Chaos and Order: Sacrificing the Individual for the Sake of Social Harmony. Part II In the United States and Latin America. Chapter 3 Ways of a Muckraker. Chapter 4 A Sinister Zone of Likeness: Journalists as Heroes and Villains in the U.S. South and in Central and Eastern Europe. Chapter 5 From Collusion to Independence: The Press, The Ruling Party, and Democratization in Mexico. Chapter 6 The Outspoken Journalist is an Expression, a Symbol of Colombia. Part III In Europe. Chapter 7 The Stranger: Minorities and Their Treatment in the German Media. Chapter 8 Between State Control and the Bottom Line: Journalism and Journalism Ethics in Hungary. Chapter 9 SITA: Slovakia's First Independent News Service and Its Battles with the Huey Long of the Danube. Chapter 10 Holding Politicians' Feet to the Fire in Slovenia. Part IV In the Middle East and Africa. Chapter 11 Lebanese Television: Caught Between the Government and the Private Sector. Chapter 12 Press Freedom and the Crisis of Ethical Journalism in Southern Africa. Chapter 13 Nigerian Press Ethics and the Politics of Pluralism. Part V In South and East Asia. Chapter 14 The Indian Press: Covering an Enigma. Chapter 15 Palace Intrigue in Katmandu and the Press in Nepal. Chapter 16 The Press in Japan: Job Security versus Journalistic Mission. Part VI Three Journalists and Their Missions. Chapter 17 A Journey in Journalism: From Idealism to Bankruptcy. Chapter 18 Reclaiming Responsibility: A Journalist and Artist in the Catholic Worker Movement. Chapter 19 Ryszard Kapuscinski: The Empathetic Existentialist. Postscript: The White Rose: On the Martyrdom of Student Pamphleteers in Nazi Germany and Their Legacy. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Pulitzer is acknowledged as the most distinguished prize in journalism. This book illustrates the evolution of editorial writing over decades. Each entry contains the entire text of the prize-winning editorial from that year, and is preceded by an introduction from the editors.Table of ContentsContents new to this edition include:. 1994 R. Bruce Dold, Chicago Tribune 1995 Jeffrey Good, St. Petersburg Times (FL) 1996 Robert B. Semple, Jr., New York Times 1997 Michael Gartner, Daily Tribune (Ames, IA) 1998 Bernard L. Stein, Riverdale Press (NY) 1999 Editorial Board, New York Daily News 2000 John C. Bersia, Orlando Sentinel 2001 David Moats, Rutland Herald (VT) 2002 Alex Raksin and Bob Sipchen, Los Angeles Times 2003 Cornelia Grumman, Chicago Tribune

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Death Makes the News is a breakout study and milestone contribution to the literature . . . By taking us behind the curtain of newsrooms, inside the editorial decision-making process through interviews and observation, [Fishman] reveals how and why journalists make the choices they do in terms of what to show us about the dead." * International Journal of Communication *"The book pinpoints political pressures affecting news choices, particularly when it comes to wartime censorship." * Times Higher Education *"“Death Makes the News is a breakout study and milestone contribution to the literature. As such, it is likely to remain a highly cited standard source." -- International Journal of Communication"Fishman’s study is clearly written, liberally illustrated, and compelling… a significant study of value-laden dimensions of gatekeeping decisions, one that should stimulate discussions in classes on media sociology and media ethics." -- Newspaper Research Journal"Fishman provides readers with a powerful and informed dissection of the presentation of both death and the corpse in contemporary American media. Weaving a rich tapestry… [in] carefully crafted, meticulously copy-edited and beautifully type-set prose, accompanied by a cacophony of images, she presents a holistic account of the role and treatment of the corpse… and has created a powerful and engaging manuscript." -- Canadian Journal of Sociology

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Book SynopsisAims to provide a deeper and more nuanced understanding of management within the entertainment industries. This book traces the changing roles of management both historically and in the contemporary moment within US and international contexts, and across a range of media forms, from film and television to video games and social media.Trade ReviewMaking Media Work marks a distinctive intervention in the study of management in the media industries. Drawing from a variety of perspectives and incorporating rare insights from industry insiders, this book promises to be highly influential for media scholars, providing a useful framework and extended focus on the work of intermediaries. A terrific book. -- Alisa Perren,author of Indie, Inc.: Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990sThis collection by academics and researcherschallenges the traditional and often stereotypical imagery of the entertainment and media industrys management ethos across a range of media forms, from film and television to video games and social media. With an interdisciplinary emphasis on configuration theory and organizational sociology, the books13 chapters provide an intimate insight and perspective on the industrys administrative leadership and its operations management.Summing Up: Recommended. * Choice *The volume speaks to a growing number of media researchers and students interested in the transformation of media labor and workplace politics in the making of media contents. * Cultural Sociology *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Discourses, Dispositions, Tactics: Reconceiving Management in Critical Media Industry StudiesDerek Johnson, Derek Kompare, and Avi SantoI. 1. Building Theories of Creative Industry Managers: Challenges, Perspectives, and Future DirectionsAmanda D. Lotz 2. Towards a Structuration Theory of Media Intermediaries Timothy Havens 3. Linear Legacies: Managing the Multiplatform Production ProcessJames Bennett and Niki Strange 4. Enterprising Selves: Reality Television and Human Capital Laurie OuelletteII. 5. Record Men: Talent Scouts in the U.S. Recording Industry, 1920-1935Kyle Barnett 6. Recasting the Casting Director: Managed Change, Gendered LaborErin Hill 7. Brazilian Film Management Culture and Partnering with os majors: A Midlevel ApproachCourtney Brannon Donoghue 8. Constructing Social Media's Indie Auteurs: Management of the Celebrity Self in the Case of Felicia DayElizabeth EllcessorIII. 9. "Selling Station Personality": Managing Impending Change in Postwar Radio, 1948-1953Alexander Russo 10. Tweeting on the BBC: Audience and Brand Management via Third Party WebsitesElizabeth Evans 11. Market Research in the Media Industries: On the Strategic Relationship between Client and SupplierJustin Wyatt 12. Listening and Empathizing: Advocating for New Management Logics in Marketing and Corporate CommunicationSam FordBibliographyContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe legendary voice of the New York Knicks, Giants, and Jets writes also of his years as a Syracuse football star and a track Olympian who was denied his chance to compete in the 1936 Olympics due to anti-Semitism in Berlin, where he was dropped from the 400 metre relay team.

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Book SynopsisOffers information on more than 90 specific jobs, including job duties, salary ranges, skill and education requirements, helpful organizations, and tips for entry. This title includes salary ranges and employment opportunities, as well as comprehensive, appendixes of organizations, periodicals, associations, schools, and resources.Trade Review"...a practical and concise guide...a valuable resource...recommended." - American Reference Books Annual "...organized, comprehensive, and easy to use...Highly recommended." - Choice"

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Book SynopsisThe story of a journalist's coming of age in Duluth during the boom days of print.Trade Review"Laurie is a top notch storyteller and this book is an intimate and entertaining look at a wonderful career in journalism." —Cathy Wurzer"This affectionate and insightful memoir may recount Laurie Hertzel's days at the Duluth News Tribune but it will resonate with anyone who has loved newspapers and newspaper reporting." —Louise Keirnan"I thought journalists’ lives—aside from the stories we write about others—were ho-hum affairs. That was before I read Laurie Hertzel’s honest, engaging and witty memoir about working at her hometown newspaper in Duluth. " —Lake Superior MagazineTable of ContentsContents A Storyteller Is Born Not Making Coffee Eyewitness to Change Murder! On the Night Desk An Accidental Reporter Up the Shore Reporting from Russia Enter Mayme A Month in the South Back to Russia The Long Goodbye Epilogue Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisHow a woman reporter from Columbus, Ohio, broke into the ranks of the male-dominated upper echelon at the New York Times.Trade Review“Charlotte Curtis was one smart, tough, and sassy journalist. Marilyn Greenwald splendidly captures the life and times of a newspaper legend.” * Village Voice *“What can you say about a woman who was brilliant, unique, and never let her own success go to her head — a woman who died all too young at the tender age of fifty-eight and at the top of her game?”

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Book SynopsisIn July 1973, for the first time in its history, the New York Times Magazine devoted a full issue to a single article: Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist J. Anthony Lukas’s account of the Watergate story to date. Six months later, a second installment ran in another full issue.Trade Review“That the facts about Watergate are now as straight as they are, in spite of all official attempts to conceal them, is a tribute to Lukas's skill as a reporter and more broadly to the journalistic tradition he represents.” * New York Times Book Review *“Highly recommended for those with an insatiable fascination for the Watergate story. The author … shuns grandiloquent probing for deeper meanings while providing an almost minute-by-minute account of a cast of hundreds, interspersed with concise biographical vignettes.” * Foreign Affairs *“[A] model of measured judgment and of careful selection and synthesis … it is presented with such masterly narrative skill that one reads the old familiar story as if it were all new and fresh.” * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisCentral Asia has long stood at the crossroads of history. It was the staging ground for the armies of the Mongol Empire, for the nineteenth-century struggle between the Russian and British empires, and for the NATO campaign in Afghanistan.Trade Review“An illuminating travelogue through Central Asia…. As a genial travel guide, Mould, an academic who doesn’t write like an academic, shows how one should resist the temptations to stereotype a culture too easily and understand it too quickly.” * Kirkus Reviews *“Mould is the ideal author to demystify the region and its people…. (An) accomplished tome that covers topics ranging from culture and politics to history, the environment, economics, and human rights. Of particular interest are sections that probe national identity; the literary landscape of Semay, Kyrgyzstan; and his overall impression of Central Asia. VERDICT: With a sense of humor, Mould’s memoir will…stimulate interest in this lesser-known region.” * Library Journal *“Books providing a stimulating, readable survey of the five countries that straddle Europe and Asia—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan—targeted at those with little or no existing knowledge are few and far between. David H. Mould’s Postcards from Stanland promises to be a notable exception. …The western traveler to Central Asia is rare. One with the patience, enthusiasm and attention to detail to provide a considered and mostly vivid portrait…is rarer still. For that reason, Postcards from Stanland is a valuable contribution to the literature on the region.” * New Eastern Europe *“Postcards from Stanland is an ambitious undertaking, encompassing the history, politics, sociology and local color of a part of the world almost unknown and often misunderstood outside the territory. We would all do well to study and learn more from Mould’s observations.” * Book Reporter *“Postcards from Stanland is strongest when it discusses the subtleties of national and ethnic identity and the way the past affects the present.” * The Asian Review of Books *“An engagingly written exploration of a remote, multifaceted, strategically vital and intriguingly complex region of the world.”“The book’s mixture of personal anecdotes, political analysis, historical background, and cultural commentary makes it both an enjoyable and instructive read. … With its rich depiction of life in Central Asia and authoritative yet accessible style, Postcards deserves a wide audience, from high school students to secretaries of state.” * EurasiaNet *

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Book SynopsisH. L. Mencken’s reputation as a journalist and cultural critic of the twentieth century has endured well into the twenty-first. His early contributions as a writer, however, are not very well known. He began his journalistic career as early as 1899 and in 1910 cofounded the Baltimore Evening Sun.Trade Review“This is the latest of Joshi’s important contributions to the broadening of Mencken’s general audience, at a time when the Sage of Baltimore’s star is once again on the rise. Thanks to collections like this, he is reclaiming his position as America’s greatest journalist and (next only to his idol Twain) its greatest humorist and satirist.”“In this collection … we get a sense of the issues that defined Mencken’s voice—freedom from censorship and battling against temperance and other moral reform movements among them—and the passion behind a man hellbent on ridding his community of, as he writes, ‘stupidity, flapdoodle, and buncombe.’” * Baltimore Magazine *“This book fills a significant gap in the republication of Mencken’s newspaper work and criticism, and with Joshi’s judicious selection and substantial critical introduction, makes an important and useful contribution to Mencken scholarship.”

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Book SynopsisWhy do we have copyrights? What's "fair use"? This book provides a commentary on the most pressing issues facing law, art, property, and the digital world of remixed culture.Trade Review“A knockout comic book about fair use and filmmaking. Bound by Law? riffs expertly on classic comic styles, from the Crypt Keeper to Mad Magazine, superheroes to Understanding Comics, and lays out a sparkling, witty, moving and informative story about how the eroded public domain has made documentary filmmaking into a minefield.”—Cory Doctorow, co-editor of the blog BoingBoing.net“An indispensable guide for the perplexed (ain’t we all!) in this postmodern information age.”—Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize–winning comic book artist“This wonderful, funny, and clever comic makes a very complex issue simple. . . . I keep a copy in my desk.”—Davis Guggenheim, Oscar-winning director of the documentary An Inconvenient Truth

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Book SynopsisAsserts that the labor issues in the music industry can stimulate insights about the political-economic and imaginative challenges currently facing working people of all kindsTrade Review“Here is a book that does several things at once. It explains the current status of recording artists, both as subordinated employees and as free entrepreneurs who license rights to intellectual property, namely their music compositions and recordings. It also shows how, from the standpoint of labour politics, these cultural workers are not so different from other workers in a neoliberal political economy: competing individually while dreaming of autonomy, and contractually tied to a record company that snaps up their creative output for exploitation and keeps them indebted while offering little security.” -- Hillegonda Rietveld * Times Higher Education *“An important addition to the field of popular music studies and labor studies, Unfree Masters lucidly and bracingly documents the imbricated, contested working relationship between artists and labels…[the book] offers the most detailed and exhaustively researched writing to date on the contractual relationships between artists and record labels and on the political stratagems designed to codify these relationships and change the nature of labor relationships between ‘workers’ and ‘bosses’.” -- John Dougan * Labor *“What Stahl’s fascinating study shows then, in sum, is that the creative labour of recording artists is like regular work in being conditioned by the inequality of the employment relation and by the spurious freedom of contract.” * Reviews in Cultural Theory *“Matt Stahl provides an absorbing account of a pivotal period in the history of the recording industry in the United States…. [T]his text is sure to spark further debate and discourse and as such Unfree Masters is a valuable and timely contribution to the field of popular music studies.” -- Kenny Barr * Popular Music *“Unfree Masters takes in an impressive range of materials and methods in shedding light on sites of ideological tension within recording industry work. It will be of interest not only to students of the music industry but also to those who seek a more general understanding of how neoliberal ideology plays out in everyday culture and politics." -- Rob Drew * International Journal of Communication *"After reading this book one will understand well why major record companies are in trouble today—and will probably not be very sympathetic with their plight. Summing Up: Highly recommended." -- R. J. Phillips * Choice *"Unfree Masters is an important book which ought to be widely read. It contributes not only to an enlightening turn towards cultural and musical labour in contemporary scholarship; it is also part of a renewal of radical critique in popular music studies." -- Jason Toynbee * Popular Music History *"Unfree Masters makes an important contribution to the field of recording industry studies by providing a detailed overview of the landscape of labour in the North American popular music industries. The research and its implications can be applied beyond music and into other creative industries including film, television and media." -- Natalie Lewandowski * Perfect Beat *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Popular Music and (Creative) Labor 1 Part I: Representation 31 1. American Idol and Narratives of Meritocracy 36 2. Rockumentary and the New Model Worker 64 Part II: Regulation 101 3. Carving Out Recording Artists from California's Seven-Year Rule 105 4. Freedom, Unfreedom, and the Rhetoric of the Recording Contract 143 5. Recordings Artists, Work for Hire, Employment, and Appropriation 182 Conclusion: "I'm Free!" 226 Notes 235 Bibliography 269 Index 283

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Book SynopsisJan M. Padios examines the massive call center industry in the Philippines in the context of globalization, race, gender, transnationalism, and postcolonialism, outlining how it has become a significant site of efforts to redefine Filipino identity and culture, the Philippine nation-state, and the value of Filipino labor.Trade Review"As an example of the transnational turn in Asian American studies, Padios’s book gives us insight into how work is being reinvented, and the ways in which this reinvention has muddled distinctions between the United States and a place like the Philippines." -- Min Hyoung Song * Public Books *"Jan M. Padios describes with colorful detail the ways that neoliberalism draws upon Filipino/American relatability to garner profits, cheaply pay Filipinos, and serve U.S.-based customers within the call center industry." -- Giselle Cunanan * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"A Nation on the Line is relevant to audiences interested in Filipino diasporic migrations, transnational Filipino identities, and transnational labor studies writ large. The author provides an analysis of the global political economy that echoes other work on the production and management of global Filipino labor; however, this work simultaneously lends a clarity to the subjective identities and affective and relational aspect of labor that has yet to be fully explored among this group of workers." -- Fumilayo Showers * American Journal of Sociology *"This book is an important contribution towards understanding how the new communication technologies are affecting everyday life in the Philippines. . . . It is stylistically excellent, and Padios presents complex and revealing truths in deceptively simple language." -- Raul Pertierra * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Listening Between the Lines: Relational Labor, Productive Intimacy, and the Affective Contradictions of Call Center Work 34 2. Contesting Skill and Value: Race, Gender, and Filipino/American Relatability in the Neoliberal Nation-State 63 3 Inside Vox Elite: Call Center Training and the Limits of Filipino/American Relatability 93 4. Service with a Style: Aesthetic Pleasures, Productive Youth, and the Politics of Consumption 131 5. Queering the Call Center: Sexual Politics, HIV/AIDS, and the Crisis of (Re)Production 157 Conclusion 181 Notes 189 Bibliography 213 Index 225

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Book SynopsisJan M. Padios examines the massive call center industry in the Philippines in the context of globalization, race, gender, transnationalism, and postcolonialism, outlining how it has become a significant site of efforts to redefine Filipino identity and culture, the Philippine nation-state, and the value of Filipino labor.Trade Review"As an example of the transnational turn in Asian American studies, Padios’s book gives us insight into how work is being reinvented, and the ways in which this reinvention has muddled distinctions between the United States and a place like the Philippines." -- Min Hyoung Song * Public Books *"Jan M. Padios describes with colorful detail the ways that neoliberalism draws upon Filipino/American relatability to garner profits, cheaply pay Filipinos, and serve U.S.-based customers within the call center industry." -- Giselle Cunanan * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"A Nation on the Line is relevant to audiences interested in Filipino diasporic migrations, transnational Filipino identities, and transnational labor studies writ large. The author provides an analysis of the global political economy that echoes other work on the production and management of global Filipino labor; however, this work simultaneously lends a clarity to the subjective identities and affective and relational aspect of labor that has yet to be fully explored among this group of workers." -- Fumilayo Showers * American Journal of Sociology *"This book is an important contribution towards understanding how the new communication technologies are affecting everyday life in the Philippines. . . . It is stylistically excellent, and Padios presents complex and revealing truths in deceptively simple language." -- Raul Pertierra * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Listening Between the Lines: Relational Labor, Productive Intimacy, and the Affective Contradictions of Call Center Work 34 2. Contesting Skill and Value: Race, Gender, and Filipino/American Relatability in the Neoliberal Nation-State 63 3 Inside Vox Elite: Call Center Training and the Limits of Filipino/American Relatability 93 4. Service with a Style: Aesthetic Pleasures, Productive Youth, and the Politics of Consumption 131 5. Queering the Call Center: Sexual Politics, HIV/AIDS, and the Crisis of (Re)Production 157 Conclusion 181 Notes 189 Bibliography 213 Index 225

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Book SynopsisTopics covered by the essays in this volume include: documentary film pioneer Robert Flaherty; a discussion of Holland's role in Western civilization; accounts of pioneers of camera obscura and magic lantern phantasmagoria; and a history of communication breakthroughs.Trade Review“It is always a joy to come upon a new book by Erik Barnouw. Among film and media historians his writing stands out for the elegance of its prose and the steely clarity of the thinking—there is never a word wasted. Barnouw is remarkable for his ability to keep focused on the big picture, to relate his subject to the wider society and the sweep of history.---—William Sloan, The Museum of Modern Art“Erik Barnouw, the guru of media scholars, teachers, and practitioners, once again instructs and challenges us to construct new views on both old and new issues. He uniquely combines personal experience, theory, and even-handed objective judgments as bases for the practical application of knowledge to make the world a better place. In a field that is increasingly technologically oriented, Barnouw continues to focus on humanity.”---— Robert L. Hilliard, Emerson College“This wonderful collection proves again and again with insight and quiet humor that Erik Barnouw is our keenest observer of the frighteningly complicated world of media. No one has seen more, no one sees more, no one understands more than Barnouw. I am a huge admirer.”---—Ken Burns, Filmaker

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Book SynopsisStories with no substance. Talking heads without a clue. Teamcoverage that still misses the big picture. Overheated hype. Cute chatter. Film at eleven. Is it any wonder more and more of us count less and less on the news?It used to be that a news story told you who, what, where, when, how, and why,Art Athens writesTrade ReviewArt Athens always got it right on the radio and he gets it right here. Check this out if you want to learn the five Ws - and the how - of being a broadcast journalist from one of the best in the business.---—Lynn Sherr, ABC News

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Book SynopsisUsing contemporary examples from American and global media companies, this book contains a wealth of information, including useful charts and tables, important for both those who work in and study media industries. It goes beyond simplistic explanations to show how various internal and external forces direct and constrain decisions in media firms.Trade Review"Picard nicely covers traditional media with respect to both economics and finance and addresses many aspects of digital media." -Choice

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Book SynopsisEmploys business concepts and analyses to explore the operations and activities of media firms and the forces and issues affecting them. This book surveys the structures and operations of various media, including their business characteristics and business models, how they differ from other products and services, and why failure rates are so high.Trade Review"Picard nicely covers traditional media with respect to both economics and finance and addresses many aspects of digital media." -Choice

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Book SynopsisProvides an international perspective on theoretical approaches to data-based communications policymaking in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and AfricaTrade Review"Making communications policy is difficult because policymakers are constantly forced to select one among multiple policy alternatives when neither principles nor theory can provide a definitive answer. Ideally data-based analysis could be used to resolve such uncertainties, but all too frequently the data available and empirical methods employed to analyze it are not up to the task. Beyond Broadband: Developing Data-Based Information Policy Strategies tackles this problem head-on. Chapters by leading communications policy scholars identify problems with the data and empirical methods currently employed to address communications policy problems, offer suggestions for improving both, and recommend process improvements to improve the way data-based analysis is used to inform policy decisions. Communications policy scholars and policy officials should both find this book to be a helpful resource." -- -Steven Wildman Michigan State UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Numbers That Matter Richard D. Taylor and Amit M Schejter PART I: Theory 1. Beyond Broadband Access: What Do We Need to Measure and How Do We Measure It Catherine Middleton 2. Understanding Digital Gaps: A Quartet of Empirical Methodologies Bin Zhang and Richard D. Taylor 3. Broadband Nicrofoundations: The Need for Traffic Data Steven Bauer, David Clark, and William Lehr 4. Ubiquitous Broadband Deployment: Examination of Adoption Factors, Network Competition, and Network Effects Sangwon Lee and Justin S. Brown 5. Approaches to Overcoming Data Challenges in International Comparisons Johannes Bauer and Sungjoong Kim 6. Data, Policy, and Democracy Jorge Reina Schement 7. "Rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties and rulers of tens": Does Democracy Count? Amit M. Schejter PART II: The Use and Abuse of Data in Information Policymaking 8. Ph.D. Heal Thyself: In Search of Evidence Based Research for Evidence Based Policy Eli Noam 9. Case Studies in Abandoned Empiricism and Peer Review at the Federal Communication Commission Rob Frieden 10. The Determinants of Disconnectedness: Understanding US Broadband Unavailability Kenneth Flamm 11. Is European Broadband Spending a Sensible Project? The Opportunity Cost Concept and Implications of Input-Output Analysis Ibrahim Kholilul Rohman and Erik Bohlin 12. Using Data for Policy Development: Designing a Universal Service Fund for Tanzania Heather Hudson Notes Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisRecounts the story of America’s last great newspaper war between the New York Daily News and the New York Post, as both papers’ long rivalry turned existential amid the rise of digital news. The story is told through the eyes of the reporters, or “runners,” and photographers who fought the war on the ground in cities across America.Table of ContentsPrologue: “Shell Shock for News Nuts” | 1 1 “Serb Thug to New York . . . Kiss My Ash” | 5 2 “All Play, No Pay for Page Fix” | 16 3 “Ford to City: Drop Dead” | 39 4 “Cops Shoot Groom Dead” | 51 5 “N.J. Miss in a Fix Over Her Pics!” | 62 6 “2 Cops Shot During Traffic Stop” | 92 7 “Tracked Down and Busted in Pa. Woods” | 113 8 “Sports’ Worst Nightmare” | 123 9 “‘Mayday’ Last Call from Doomed Bravest at Ground Zero” | 143 10 “The Juice Is on the Loose: O.J. Simpson Leaves Jail after Posting $125,000 Bail” | 162 11 “Preppie Killer Robert Chambers Acts Like a ‘Dumb’ Doper” | 191 12 “Legend of Jim Leyritz’s Swing against Braves Spoiled by His Swigs” | 198 13 “If Spitzer Really Wore Socks in Bed, May Mean Fear of Intimacy: Sex Experts” | 234 14 “Ma Goes to Bat for Derek Jeter” | 253 15 “What to Tell Kids When Daddy Has Two Families” | 262 16 “Temple of Doom . . . Madoff Fleeced Fifth Avenue Synagogue” | 283 Glossary | 291 Notes | 293 Index | 299 Photographs follow page 152

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 Why Local Television News Matters | 19 2 A Brief History of Political Advertising | 39 3 Research Method and Market Profiles | 61 4 Political Ads | 75 5 Political Stories | 98 6 The Markets | 131 7 The Business of News | 174 Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here? | 210 Acknowledgments | 227 Reference List | 231 Index | 253

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 Why Local Television News Matters | 19 2 A Brief History of Political Advertising | 39 3 Research Method and Market Profiles | 61 4 Political Ads | 75 5 Political Stories | 98 6 The Markets | 131 7 The Business of News | 174 Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here? | 210 Acknowledgments | 227 Reference List | 231 Index | 253

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Book SynopsisThe diary of radio correspondent James Cassidy presents a unique view of World War II as this reporter followed the Allied armies into Nazi Germany.James Joseph Cassidy was one of 362 American journalists accredited to cover the European Theater of Operations between June 7, 1944, and the war's end. Radio was relatively new, and World War II was its first war. Among the difficulties facing historians examining radio reporters during that period is that many potential primary documentstheir live broadcastswere not recorded. In NBC Goes to War, Cassidy's censored scripts alongside his personal diary capture a front-line view during some of the nastiest fighting in World War II as told by a seasoned NBC reporter.James Cassidy was ambitious and young, and his coverage of World War II for the NBC radio network notched some notable firsts, including being the first to broadcast live from German soil and arranging the broadcast of a live Jewish religious service fTable of ContentsForeword by Michael S. Sweeney | vii List of Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Army Terms | ix Introduction | 1 1. July 24 through August 3, 1944 | 13 2. August 4 through August 23, 1944 | 25 3. August 24 through September 14, 1944 | 47 4. September 16 through October 13, 1944 | 76 5. October 14 through November 30, 1944 | 105 6. December 1 through December 31, 1944 | 134 Text of James Cassidy Broadcasts, December 21 through 29, 1944 | 165 Appendix: Significant American Correspondents Mentioned in Text | 183 Acknowledgments | 189 Notes | 191 Index | 201

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography of advertising in postmillennial South Korea, Flower of Capitalism details contests over advertising freedoms and obligations among divergent vested interests while positing far-reaching questions about the social contract that governs advertising in late-capitalist societies.

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography of advertising in postmillennial South Korea, Flower of Capitalism details contests over advertising freedoms and obligations among divergent vested interests while positing far-reaching questions about the social contract that governs advertising in late-capitalist societies.Trade ReviewIn Flower of Capitalism, Olga Fedorenko offers a multisited ethnography of South Korean advertising. Against scholarly approaches that universalize the function of advertising as a predictable element of capitalism, she insists on the historical and situational specificity of advertising’s role and function, and the social expectations placed upon it, in different contexts." —Robert M. Oppenheim, The University of Texas at Austin"South Korea evinced a precocious interest in noncommercial and public service advertising: in the wake of its devastating war, the market became the medium of all public communication partly because preexisting social ties were so badly ruptured. Fedorenko offers us a compelling catalogue both of how advertising takes shape and how it is interpreted in the militarized modernity of post-Cold War South Korea." —Arvind Rajagopal, New York University

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Book SynopsisThe Economic Impact of Digital Technologies offers a profoundly illuminating examination of ICT transformations in Europe and its critical role in greater social inequality.Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction 1. Digital Development in Europe: A Theoretical Framework 2. The Internet in Everyday Life 3. A Metrics for Digital Development 4. Digital Inequalities in Europe 5. The Economic Impact of e-Inclusion: A Review of the Literature 6. The Economic Impact of Digital Technologies: An Empirical Analysis on European Countries 7. The Impact of e-Inclusion in Europe: A Scenario Analysis 8. Digital Development: An Overall EU Policy Framework Appendix: EDDI European Digital Development Index: Definition of Methodology References Index

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Book SynopsisThis impressive new book uniquely focuses on the phenomenon of media clusters and is designed to inform policy makers, scholars, and media practitioners about the underlying challenges of media firm agglomerations, their potential, and their effects.Trade Review‘Charlie Karlsson and Robert G. Picard have edited an impressive volume that addresses the efficacy and impact of media clusters on economic and regional development and on creativity and output of media products. Its focus on media clusters not only advances our understanding of the specific spatial and organizational dynamics of the media as compared to other industries, but also our understanding of the wide variety of media clusters characteristics, policies, and histories. . . All contributions are well written, and each makes a unique contribution to the overall theme of the book. They can be separate, stand-alone pieces, however they also build on each other, creating a captivating flow of information and analysis that makes the whole book a pleasure to read. . . This edited volume makes very important contributions to the academic literature of regional economic development and media clusters in particular. The book is relevant to scholars, students, media professionals, and policymakers. And while it is especially geared towards people interested in media clusters, it also offers interesting questions and information for anyone researching and learning about regional clusters in general and cultural industries clusters in particular.’ -- Doreen Jakob, Journal of Regional ScienceTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: CLUSTERS AND AGGLOMERATION 1. Media Clusters: What Makes them Unique? Charlie Karlsson and Robert G. Picard 2. Promotion of Company and Local Economic Growth through Clusters Sören Eriksson 3. Media Clusters: Development Paths and Core Issues Leona Achtenhagen and Robert G. Picard 4. Media Industry Clusters and Public Policy Charles H. Davis PART II: MEDIA CLUSTER STUDIES Section A. Clusters Maintaining or Reinvigorating Media Leadership 5. Back to Hilversum: Consolidation of the Dutch Broadcast Cluster Erik Hitters 6. Microclustering of the Media Industries in London Andy C. Pratt 7. Munich’s Media Cluster at the Crossroads Harold Bathelt Section B: Clusters Expanding or Improving their Position 8. The Transformation of Broadcasting and Film in Manchester and Liverpool Gary Cook and Jennifer Johns 9. Sydney’s Media Cluster: Continuity and Change in Film and Television Tom O’Regan, Ben Goldsmith and Susan Ward 10. The Toronto Media Cluster: Between Culture and Commerce Charles H. Davis 11. Vancouver as Media Cluster: The Cases of Video Games and Film/TV Trevor Barnes and Neil M. Coe Section C: Start-up Clusters 12. Dubai Media City: Creating Benefits from Foreign Media Developments Robert G. Picard and Leon Barkho 13. Media Industry Clustering in South Africa: Prospects for Economic Development and Spatial Reconfiguration Harry Dugmore and Johanna Mavhungu 14. Can Singapore Develop into a Global Media City? Sören Eriksson 15. Creating a Film Production Cluster in Sweden’s West: The Cast of ‘Trollywood’ Leona Achtenhagen PART III: CONCLUSION 16. The Challenges of Media Clusters Charlie Karlsson and Robert G. Picard Index

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