in Journalism and Mass Communication
The Columbia Journalism Review has published articles on the latest FCC report on the state of media and journalism. We’ve linked to both an article about the FCC report and a Q&A they had with the FCC report author, Steve Waldman.
- Heavy On Problems, Light On Solutions: The FCC Report Has Landed – CJR, June 9
- Q&A With FCC Report Head Writer Steve Waldman – CJR, June 20 & 21
The Information Needs of Communities
You can read the full FCC report below.
This month the FCC released their report, Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age.
You can read the full report below.
The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Message Shaped the 2008 Election. Kate Kenski, Bruce Hardy, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson (2010). New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 378.
Blogging the Political: Politics and Participation in a Networked Society. Antoinette Pole (2010). New York: Routledge. pp. 161.
Political communication scholars and educators are well aware of how new developments in social media, e-mail, blogging, and the microtargeting of messages to niche audiences have altered American politics and political campaigns. Two new books delve into these topics, one by focusing on the presidential campaign of 2008 and the other by examining political blogging by minorities, women, and political elites.
The Nightly News Nightmare: Media Coverage of U.S. Presidential Elections, 1988-2008. (3d ed.) Stephen J. Farnsworth and Robert Lichter. Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010. 246 pp.
The conclusion I draw from this updated edition of the classic work by Stephen Farnsworth and Robert Lichter, both of George Mason University, is that the free-to-air U.S. television networks long ago reneged on the deal implied but ill-articulated by the 1936 Communications Act that, in return for free access to publicly owned spectrum, these advertising-driven operations would deliver a news product that served citizenship and democracy.
Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism. Alison Piepmeier. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2009. 272 pp.
Although the study of feminist zine culture that blossomed in the 1990s might strike the casual reader as a snapshot of an underground phenomenon in a brief historical moment, Alison Piepmeier makes the point in Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism that so-called grrrl zines are, in fact, a bedrock of third-wave feminism. In this well-researched book about the preferred media of the riot grrrl culture, she makes a compelling case for us to view the publications produced by young women in this time period as an important marker in the long history of the feminist movement.
Piepmeier, an assistant professor and director of Women’s and Gender Studies at the College of Charleston, constructs a history of grrrl zines and weaves a theoretical understanding of them through a multi-method, interdisciplinary approach that borrows from “participatory media to print culture studies to art theory” and uses oral history, critical content analysis of both zines and comments of the women who produced them. [Read more...]
At War with Metaphor: Media, Propaganda, and Racism in the War on Terror. Erin Steuter and Deborah Wills. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008. 244 pp.
Erin Steuter and Deborah Wills, who teach sociology and English at Canada’s Mount Allison University, are commited to raising the level of public understanding about the role that media play in bringing people into and through a seemingly endless string of wars. Although this book is focused primarily on U.S. media constructions of the so-called “War on Terror,” its emphasis on the role that metaphor plays in the strategic “othering” of countless enemies helps to establish the historical roots of this discursive practice. [Read more...]
From Poynter.org. The Year in Media. The top 10 Romenesko posts of 2010. Read more.
