HOT TOPICS: MEDIA AND SOCIETY
Scope|Overview
Sources|Circulating
Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade
Publications|Web Sites
SCOPE: The media has a great influence on today’s society and has increased information access and
openness (Miller, A Companion to Cultural Studies). A debate often ensues regarding the ethical and moral aspects of the media especially in reference to violence and sexuality. The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing of all the resources available in the library on this topic, but as a selective sampling of the many types of materials available.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Books dealing with media and society are listed in the Baddour Library’s on-line catalog under the following subject headings:
Violence in mass media
Mass media and public opinion—United States
Mass media—Moral and ethical aspects—United States
Mass Media—Influence
Mass Media—Psychological aspects
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
CQ Researcher (online database):
Issues and Controversies database from Facts on
File
REF HM 623.C65 2001 A Companion to Cultural Studies
Some representative books from the circulating collection located upstairs in the library are:
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Bogart, Leo.
Over the Edge: How the Pursuit of Youth by Marketers and
the Media has Changed American Culture. Chicago:
Ivan R. Dee, 2005.
Davis, Glyn & Kay Dickinson.
Teen TV: Genre, Consumption, Identity. London: BFI
Pub., 2004.
Hoggart, Richard.
Mass Media in a Mass Society: Myth and Reality. New
York:
Continuum, 2005.
Martin, Christopher R. Framed!:
Labor and the Corporate Media. Ithaca,N.Y: ILR
Press, 2004.
McChesney, Robert
Waterman.
The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in
the Twenty-First Century. New York: Monthly Review
Press, 2004.
Potter, W. James. The 11
Myths of Media Violence. Thousand Oaks,CA: Sage
Publications, 2003.
Pritchard, David,ed. Holding the
Media Accountable: Citizens, Ethics, and the Law.
Reeves, Byron. The
Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Televison, and
New Media Like Real People and Places. Stanford,CA: CSLI Publications, 2002.
West, Darrell M. The
Rise and Fall of the Media Establishment. Boston: Bedford/St.
Martin’s, 2001.
Wykes, Maggie.
The Media and Body Image: If Looks Could Kill.
Thousand Oaks,
California: SAGE, 2005.
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the links for a list of full text journals
available through our databases in:
Open Access Journals in
Media & Communication
WEB SITES
Center for Media and Public Affairs
http://cmpa.com/
Foremost authority on US media whose “goal is to
provide an empirical basis for ongoing debates over
media fairness and impact through well-documented,
timely, and readable studies of media content.”
Cornell Media & Research Group
http://www.comm.cornell.edu/msrg/msrg.html
The Peabody Center for Media & Society
http://www.peabody.uga.edu/programs
Updated
08/24/2007
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