Books in the History of Communication series

It hasn't occurred to even the harshest critics of advertising since the 1930s to regulate advertising as extensively as its earliest opponents almost succeeded in doing. This title examines how these consumer activists sought to limit the influence of corporate powers by rallying popular support to moderate and transform advertising.

In How Free Can the Press Be? Randall P. Bezanson explores contradictions embedded in understanding press freedom in America by discussing nine of the most pivotal and provocative First Amendment cases in U.S. judicial history.

Reexamines early magazines and their reach to show how magazine culture was multivocal and presented a porous distinction between author and reader, as opposed to novel culture, which imposed a one-sided authorial voice and restricted the agency of the reader.

Presents the biography of the important American inventor Charles Francis Jenkins (1867-1934). This book documents the life of Jenkins from his childhood in Indiana and early life in the West to his work as a prolific inventor whose productivity was cut short by an early death.

The advertising industry's rise to power, in war and peace

Details missed opportunity in the newspaper industry's diversity efforts

Details the televising of the revolution in American civil rights

The significance of news and the institutions that produce it to American history

Tracing the development of communication markets and the regulation of international communications from the 1840s through World War I, this book examines the political, technological, and economic forces at work during the formative century of global communication.

A comprehensive historical examination of the relationship between the journalistic and religious traditions in the United States

How and why the First Amendment fails to protect speech rights

American mass culture's conservative response to the Great Depression and the coming of World War II

The cure for an American media where market interests have usurped democratic participation

Traces the role of America's newspapers in the country's descent into war.

Exploring links between nuclear arms policy and the visibility of oppositional groups in the media, this title assesses the extent to which antinuclear movements have succeeded in debunking official fictions, raising public consciousness, and reorienting government policy.

In the modern era there arose a prolific and vibrant print culture - books, newspapers, and magazines issued by and for diverse, often marginalized, groups. This collection offers a fresh foray into the multicultural world of reading and readers in the United States.

Takes a close look at the intertwining nature of the Communist Party and the news media in China, how they affect each other, and what the future might hold for each. This book contains interviews with a range of scholars, media administrators, and media professionals.

A contemporary analysis of mass media and modern democracy

A detailed study of American public radio's early history

Identifying problems and pointing to solutions in media representation

Invigorating global social change through communication

Describes and analyzes the battles over the powerful medium of radio, which helped spark the massive upsurge of organized labor during the Depression. Organized chronologically, this work explores the advent of local labor radio stations such as WCFL and WEVD, labor's anti-censorship campaigns, and unionist experiments with early FM broadcasting.