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SPHERES OF INFLUENCE.(The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications)(Book Review)
When did the press become the media? It seems to have happened sometime during the last generation--long enough ago, anyway, for us to have forgotten that "media" is plural. But people who use "the media" as a more encompassing term for "the press" (because it includes broadcast journalism, too) may find it hard to get used to the even more encompassing way it's used by scholars of communications: for them, it takes in just about any channel through which information is transmitted. As you're reading this, you are probably near a telephone, a television set, a computer hooked up to the Internet, a radio, a pager, a mailbox. Some of those things receive and some can also ...
- In the beginning ... government made media policy, and it was good.("The...
- Magazine article from: Columbia Journalism Review Snyder, Robert W. July 1, 2004 700+ words
...government and the news media begins and ends with...The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications...ones we suffer choking media monopolies, reduced...and related less to a medium's intrinsic properties...
- The Political Origins of Religious Liberty.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State Pierard, Richard V. September 22, 2008 700+ words
The Political Origins of Religious Liberty. By Anthony Gill. New York: Cambridge University...practice their faith openly, including owning property and access to the media, and to proselytize. Gill provides three case studies--colonial...
- Domesticating History: The Political Origins of America's House Museums.
- Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History HAGGLUND, CAROL February 1, 2001 700+ words
Domesticating History: The Political Origins of America's House Museums. By Patricia West. (Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, c. 1999. Pp. xiv...
- Remaking Chicago: The Political Origins of Urban Industrial Change.(Review)
- Magazine article from: American Political Science Review Saiz, Martin September 1, 2000 700+ words
Remaking Chicago: The Political Origins of Urban Industrial Change. By Joel Rast. DeKalb: Northern...costs on the urban periphery and elsewhere. The small- to medium-sized manufactures engaged in contracting or subcontracting...
- The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Michigan Law Review Weiser, Philip J. May 1, 2005 700+ words
THE CREATION OF THE MEDIA: POLITICAL ORIGINS OF MODERN COMMUNICATION. By Paul...Starr's (1) The Creation of the Media will enjoy a hallowed place in it...short, Starr's The Creation of the Media explains how the different segments...
- Taxing the working poor; the political origins and economic consequences of...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2009 700+ words
...9781847207784 Taxing the working poor; the political origins and economic consequences of taxing low...that the sharper the conflict between medium-skilled and low-skilled workers...also causing trade unions that represent medium-skilled workers to oppose it...
- Ebola virus may have political origins
- Newspaper article from: Michigan Chronicle Sheila D. Yancy June 13, 1995 700+ words
...Yancy Michigan Chronicle 06-13-1995 Ebola virus may have political origins. By Sheila D. Yancy CHRONICLE STAFF Accusing fingers are...African affairs appears regularly in the African American news media. The Ebola virus, named after a river in Zaire, has been...
- Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Keyssar, Alex April 26, 1993 700+ words
PROTECTING SOLDIERS AND MOTHERS: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States. By Theda Skocpol. Harvard. 714 pp. $34.95. The United States--as Bill Clinton...
