COM1103 MASS COMMUNICATION
McDaniel College Department of Communication
Richard W. Dillman (rdillman@ticopa.com)

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ADDITIONAL SOURCES

The following is not an exhuastive list of sources. It is intended to provide you with some examples of the kinds of texts that you will need to reference in your research for this course.

Some of these come and go, and others move their web sites frequently. If you notice a change, please let me know so that I can update this page.

WEBSITES

GENERAL/OTHER

  1. "Mass Media" in the Wikipedia Web encyclopedia entry
  2. Library Resources for Communication Studies From the association of college and research libraries
  3. Mass Communication at HFCL The professor's site
  4. The Media Environment at HFCL The professor's site
  5. Mass Media and Culture Maintained by the American Communication Association
  6. Media/Culture Popular culture and social theory
  7. C|NET Massive computer technology website
  8. Principia Cybernetica Virtual philosophy project
  9. Technorealism Living with technology
  10. Technology Review Mass market technology magazine
  11. New York Times Technology
  12. salon.com Trendy internet magazine website
  13. CNN.com Technology
  14. Media Awareness Network Privacy, Violence, Stereotyping
  15. Internet Resources on Media Law
  16. The History of Television The first 75 years
  17. Careers in TV and Radio

VIOLENCE IN THE MASS MEDIA

  1. Research on the Effects of Media Violence Media Awareness Network
  2. Childhood Exposure To Media Violence Predicts Young Adult Aggressive Behavior APA
  3. The Burden Of Proof First Amendment Center
  4. Media Violence
  5. Watch out for studies about TV harming kids
  6. Marketing of Violent Entertainment to Children Federal Trade Commission report
  7. The Media Violence Myth
  8. Dart Center for Journalism &Trauma A resource for journalists who cover violence
  9. Television, Violence, and Children
  10. I'm OK, You're A Dead Ninja Turtle
  11. Censoring Violence in Media
  12. V-Chip: Viewing Television Responsibly
  13. Buying Video Games for Teenagers
  14. American Psychological Association: Violence in the Media

MEDIA NEWS BIAS

  1. State of the News Media Annual statistics
  2. FactCheck.org Checks the accuracy of statements in the news and politics
  3. RealClearPolitics.com Non-partisan collection of links to political news and commentary
  4. TownHall.com Massively biased political news and commentary
  5. MoveOn.org Massively biased political news and commentary
  6. PollingReport.com Links to a variety of polling data
  7. Media Center at the American Press InstituteMedia Center at the American Press Institute
  8. Independent Media Center International web pages for independent journalists and publications

TEXT

  1. Text at HFCL The professor's site
  2. The Journal of Electronic Publishing
  3. Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts One of the first collections of public domain documents on the Internet
  4. Bookwire Web site for the book users
  5. Meme (archived) (pron. 'meem') A contagious idea that replicates like a virus
  6. The Elements of Digital Storytelling

MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS

  1. Media Organizations at HFCL The professor's site
  2. Who Owns What Traces the ownership of major global media outlets
  3. Annenberg Public Policy Center
  4. Property Rights Research

VIRTUAL WORLDS AND THE INTERNET

  1. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
  2. Virtual Worlds Links and Bibliography

ADVERTISING

  1. Advertising Age Magazine
  2. The Cluetrain Manifesto A powerful global conversation has begun.

 

ACADEMIC JOURNALS

  1. Advertising Age
  2. Columbia Journalism Review
  3. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
  4. Communication Education
  5. Communication Monographs
    6. Communication Monographs
  6. Communication Law & Policy
  7. Communication Quarterly
  8. Communication Research
  9. Communication Research Reports
  10. Communication Theory
  11. Critical Studies in Media Communication
  12. Human Communication Research
  13. International Journal of Advertising Research
  14. Journal of Applied Communication Research
  15. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
  16. Journal of Communication
  17. Journal of Communication Inquiry
  18. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
  19. Journal of Consumer Affairs
  20. Journal of Consumer Marketing
  21. Journal of Consumer Psychology
  22. Journal of Consumer Research
  23. Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising
  24. The Journal of Electronic Publishing
  25. Journal of Mass Media Ethics
  26. The Journal of popular film and television
  27. Journal of Public Relations Research
  28. Journalism History
  29. Journalism & Communication Monographs
  30. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
  31. Mass Communication & Society
  32. Media Psychology
  33. Media Culture and Society
  34. Newspaper Research Journal
  35. Public Relations Review
  36. Public Opinion Quarterly
  37. Qualitative Research Reports in Communication
  38. Quarterly Journal of Speech
  39. The Review of Communication
  40. Text and Performance Quarterly
  41. Visual Communication Quarterly
  42. Web Journal of Mass Communication Research

 

BOOKS

  1. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man / Herbert Marshall McLuhan
  2. War and Peace In the Global Village / Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore
  3. Culture Is Our Business / Marshall Mcluhan
  4. The Medium is the Massage / Marshall McLuhan
  5. Essential McLuhan / Marshall McLuhan, et al
  6. The Social Construction of Reality : A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge / Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann
  7. Future Shock / Alvin Toffler
  8. Taming the Beast: Choice & Control in the Electronic Jungle / Jason Ohler
  9. Then What? A Funquiry into the Nature of Technology, Human Transformation and Marshall McLuhan / Jason Ohler
  10. being digital / Nicholas Negroponte
  11. Silicon Alley : the rise and fall of a new media district / Michael Indergaard
  12. Society, ethics, and technology / Morton Winston, Ralph Edelbach [editors]
  13. Smart mobs : the next social revolution / Howard Rheingold
  14. Synthetic Worlds: the Business and Culture of Online Games / Edward Castronova
  15. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet / Sherry Turkle
  16. The Second Self : Computers and the Human Spirit / Sherry Turkle
  17. Virtual Ethnography / Christine M Hine
  18. Doing Internet Research : Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net / Steve Jones
  19. Designing Virtual Worlds / Richard Bartle
  20. First Person : New Media as Story, Performance, and Game / Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Pat Harrigan (Editors)
  21. Introduction to Behavioral Research on the Internet / Michael H. Birnbaum
  22. Internet Research Methods : A Practical Guide for the Social and Behavioural Sciences (New Technologies for Social Research) / Claire Hewson, Peter Yule, Dianna Laurent, Carl Vogel
  23. Internet Communication and Qualitative Research : A Handbook for Researching Online (New Technologies for Social Research series) / Chris Mann, Fiona Stewart
  24. Governing the News: The News Media as a Political Institution / Timothy E. Cook
  25. Society Online / edited by Howard and Jones
  26. Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture / Taylor
  27. Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space / Markham
  28. Virtual Ethnography / Hine
  29. Everything is Miscellaneous / Weinberger