Starting Point: In the Light of the Fires
Throughout this issue we address the media's mandate to provide meaningful political discourse, an abstract phrase that we struggle to...
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TELEVISION: The Search for Meaning
Sut Jhally, an associate professor of communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is the author of The Codes of...
اقرأ المزيدBetween the Lines: Stereotyping of Sisters in the Media
Whether it's for the National Enquirer, People magazine, or the Catholic Digest, nuns are pretty good copy. Stories about sisters...
اقرأ المزيدCartoons’N Comics: Communication to the Quick
The comics. They may be worth a glance as you check your horoscope. They may provide a chuckle as you...
اقرأ المزيدConfound it! It Talks!
It's the spring of 1876. and people are talking about a new device that promises to handle essential communication tasks...
اقرأ المزيدWhat are You Worth? Audience for Sale
What is the purpose of radio and television? When I start my first-year broadcasting students off with this question in...
اقرأ المزيدPASTORING: Holy Arenas! A Look at Sport As Ritual
Since ancient times, the holding of sports events has been linked to religious experience. In Greece, the Olympics were only...
اقرأ المزيدFAMILY: Learning to Live In Interracial World
"What do you think Bryan feels like? What would Bryan like to do?" Marshall's mother asks those questions often. She...
اقرأ المزيدUndercutting “Slashers”: Evaluating Video Violence
Question: Do you know where your children are? Answer: At home, watching videos. Saturday night is still movie night, and...
اقرأ المزيدJ.R. in Hell: Sin and Salvation on the Small Screen
Academic television critics have been discussing the content of dramatic television recently as "text," not recognizing the religious connotations implied...
اقرأ المزيدCovering Conflict: How the News Media Handles Ethnic Controversy
In the fall of 1968, I was a wire service reporter in New York City covering the lengthy public school...
اقرأ المزيدYOUTH: Training Creates Media Wise Voters
After eight years in office, Ronald Reagan is the only president preteens can remember. And even older teenagers have shaped...
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