A spidery network of mobile online media has supposedly changed people, places, time, and their meanings. A prime case is the news. Digital webs seem to have trapped "legacy media," killing off newspapers and journalists' jobs. Did news businesses and careers fall prey to the digital "Spider"? ......
Emerging out of changes in technology, culture, and economics, interactive journalism is a visual presentation of storytelling that allows users to interact with the reporting of information. Today it stands at a nexus: part of the traditional newsroom, yet novel enough to ......
Illustrates how the conservative gossip maven contributed mightily to the public understanding of film, while providing a platform for women to voice political views within a traditionally masculine public realm.
The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists And Their Cartoons
Offers a slant on 20th-century and early 21st-century America through the humorous perspectives of the talented women who have captured in pictures and captions many of the key social issues of their time. This work portrays the art and contributions of the female cartoonists in America's greatest magazine - "The New Yorker".
This book explores the evolution of how sports journalists have covered the struggle of professional athletes who have experienced mental illness. Combining historical research and narrative analysis, Ronald Bishop interrogates whether sports journalists have finally begun to cover the experience of mental illness with sufficient depth.
This book provides strategies fpr building back truth online. It provides solutions so that we can repair our existing social media platforms and build better ones that prioritize value over profit, strengthen community ties, and promote access to trustworthy information.
Competing Motivations in the True Crime Podcast Ecosystem
This book explores the exponential growth of true crime podcasting and its effects on the growth of criminal justice reform advocacy in the United States. Sherrill argues that true crime podcasts exist as hybrid organizations with multiple goals, including entertainment, criminal justice reform advocacy, and journalistic inquiry.
The Life and Works of Writer and Cartoonist Ted Carroll
This book is a celebration of legendary African American sports writer and boxing cartoonist Ted Carroll, whose career spanned one of the most exciting periods of boxing's past, from Joe Louis to Muhammad Ali. His experiences and commentary are of great historical significance, encompassing issues of race, sport, culture, and society.
In this book, H. Sidky examines how a cadre of American academics influenced by French postmodern philosophy during the 1980's and 1990's informed and empowered the assault on science and truth by corporate organizations, post-truth politicians, religious extremists, and right-wing populists in the present post-truth era.
This current and comprehensive overview of global media developments discusses key concepts like freedom, journalism ethics and education, news cultures, and international news flow. With timely case studies, the book offers a foundation for today's journalism students learning about the practice, growth, and impact of global journalism. .
A nuts-and-bolts guide to the craft of visual storytelling, written for students and up-and-coming journalists by one of the country's best-loved news correspondents.
A new political economy of digital capitalismFor decades society venerated advanced information and communications technologies (ICTs) as a source of economic rejuvenation and uplift. The financial crisis of 2007-08 shook such ideas. Originating in the United States, the driver of digital systems and services, the prolonged economic slump ......
Looks at news not as a type of media but instead as a commodity bought and sold on the market, comparing unique measures of news content to survey data from a wide variety of sources.
A searing study of the intersection of journalism, fiction, and traumatic violenceTo attract readers, journalists have long trafficked in the causes of trauma--crime, violence, warfare--as well as psychological profiling of deviance and aberrational personalities. Novelists, in turn, have explored these same subjects in developing their characters ......
In an age before radio and television, E. W. Scripps's ownership of twenty-one newspapers, a major news wire service, and a prominent news syndication service represented the first truly national media organization in the United States. In The Scripps Newspapers Go to War, 1914-18, Dale Zacher details the scope, organization, and character of the ......
Helps students both with editing skills and the "people skills" necessary to professional success, covering: how to edit for grammar, punctuation, usage and style; attend to broader issues of fairness and focus; develop strong headlines and other display elements; and work collaboratively.
Critical and Practical Strategies for the Journalism and Mass Communicat
This edited volume will guide instructors through the practice of integrating intersectionality into courses and curriculum in both undergraduate and graduate courses. The chapters will incorporate phenomenology and real-life examples from authors who have employed intersectional content and strategies in their own respective teaching and research ......
Critical and Practical Strategies for the Journalism and Mass Communicat
This edited volume will guide instructors through the practice of integrating intersectionality into courses and curriculum in both undergraduate and graduate courses. The chapters will incorporate phenomenology and real-life examples from authors who have employed intersectional content and strategies in their own respective teaching and research ......