Greenwood Publishing Group : Battleground: The Media [Two Volumes]

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-"[P]rovides a good cross-section of both long standing issues and recent developments....This work is recommended for both public and academic libraries, especially those supporting undergraduate programs in communication and mass media." —ARBA Online

-"This two-volume work offers a detailed, comprehensive review of contemporary issues, themes, and concepts of the millennial media universe. Nearly 100 alphabetical entries address such recent and relevant concepts as Blogosphere, Digital Divide, Embedded Journalism, Paparazzi, Shock Jocks, and TiVo....Recommended. Comprehensive collections supporting researchers or media/communication arts students at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels." —Choice

-"This two-volume set offers many entrance points into the vast topic of media and media literacy that can act as conversation starters in courses across the curriculum. In 88 alphabetic entries, the editors have assembled the writings of academic and professionals who discuss selected controverial or battleground issues related to the media....This useful set includes a list of topics organized by categories, brief biographies of the contributors, a lenghty bibliography and an index. Recommended for high school, public and academic libraries." —Doug's Student Reference Room

-"This specialized, sometimes scholarly titles is a treatise on the past, present, and future of the media, and the effects it has or has had on our daily lives....Eighty-eight entries cover topics ranging from Al Jazeera, reality television, journalists in peril, and pirate radio to television in schools, women's magazines, body image, and shock jocks....This title will be quite useful where media studies are in place." —School Library Journal

About the Author

Robin Andersen is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies, as well as Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at Fordham University. She is the author of A Century of Media, A Century of War (2006) and Consumer Culture and TV Programming (1995), and coeditor of Critical Studies in Media Commercialism (2000). She appears frequently as a media analyst for a variety of media outlets and educational documentaries. Andersen is also the series editor for Praeger's New Directions in Media series.

Jonathan Gray is Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. He is author of Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality (2006) and the forthcoming Television Entertainment, and is co-editor of Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World (2007) and the journal Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture.

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