Books in the The History of Media and Communication series

Explores how British female subjects themselves forged a wide range of new political identities through the pages of their press. This book reveals the important relationship between print culture and the gender politics that provided a vehicle for women's mobilization in the political culture of modern Britain.

Argues that the media, far from providing a bedrock for freedom and democracy, have become a significant antidemocratic force in the United States and, to varying degrees, worldwide. This title addresses the corporate media explosion and the corresponding implosion of public life that characterizes our times.

Presents an inquiry into the history and the moral significance of mass communication as an idea and social form. Organized around narrative accounts of individuals and their communicative worlds, this title strives to refigure mass communication as a concept, and illuminate significant but overlooked rhetorical episodes in its history.

Details the televising of the revolution in American civil rights

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

The use of confidential sources during a tumultuous period in American history and journalism

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.

A contemporary analysis of mass media and modern democracy