Books in the Mediating American History series

Explores how the active voice of citizen-journalists and trained media professionals has turned to media to direct the moral compass of the people and to set the agenda for a nation, and discusses how changes in technology have altered the way in which participatory journalism is practiced.

Music and the Atomic Bomb on American Television, 1950-1969 is the first book to consider the important role that music and sound play in the destruction narratives about the Bomb on Cold War-era television.

This book reveals the evidence of secessionist conspiracy that appeared in American newspapers from the end of the 1860 presidential campaign to just before the first major battle of the American Civil War.

This book is an analysis of newspaper coverage of the civil-rights movement from 1963 to 1971, focusing on such theoretical concepts as agenda-setting, framing and gatekeeping to discern how newspapers of different regions of the country shaped that narrative.

A History of the American Civil Rights Movement through Newspaper Coverage: The Race Agenda traces the crusade for justice through the lens of major newspaper coverage to reveal the combating sectional press attitudes of the era.

This collection takes War of the Worlds as a starting point for investigating key issues in twenty-first-century communication, including: the problem of misrepresentation in mediated communication; the importance of social context for interpreting communication; and the dynamic role of listeners, viewers and users in talking back to media producers and institutions.

This collection takes War of the Worlds as a starting point for investigating key issues in twenty-first-century communication, including: the problem of misrepresentation in mediated communication; the importance of social context for interpreting communication; and the dynamic role of listeners, viewers and users in talking back to media producers and institutions.

The twentieth century was the magazine century in many ways. Between 1900 and 2000, the number of magazines grew from about 3,000 to 17,815 - a 593 percent increase, which exceeded population growth by 95 percent. This book shows how the growth of advertising enabled the cost of magazines to steadily decline.

Children, War and Propaganda

African Americans in the History of Mass Communication offers a variety of stories focusing on how African Americans use the media to educate, advocate, empower, and serve others. Stories ranging from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era, which include different forms of media from cinema and music to newspapers and public relations, offer perspectives that have yet to be told.

Taking a cultural approach, this book is unique in its focus on the press as a social, political, and economic institution that both shaped and was shaped by the Confederacy's experience in the Civil War. The story of the Confederate press provides a prime opportunity to study how a domestic war affects the American press.

The 2003 war against Iraq was not first instance of president taking nation into foreign conflict assisted by a submissive Congress and national press corps that did not adequately challenge case for intervention. This book examines supportive relationship of press to power in building a conflict rationale during vital period leading up to combat.

African Americans in the History of Mass Communication offers a variety of stories focusing on how African Americans use the media to educate, advocate, empower, and serve others. Stories ranging from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era, which include different forms of media from cinema and music to newspapers and public relations, offer perspectives that have yet to be told.

Based on interviews and extensive archival research, American Consultants and the Marketization of Television News in the United Kingdom offers unprecedented insight into American news consultants' role in reshaping British television news during the 1990s.