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Evening Street Review Number 5
Editor: Gordon Grigsby Associate Editors: Jan Schmittauer, Matthew M Cariello, & Donna Spector Managing Editor: Barbara Bergmann Evening Street Review is published in the spring and fall of every year by Evening Street Press. United States subscription rates are $24 for one year and $44 for two years (individuals), and $32 for one year and $52 for two years (institutions). ISBN: 978-1-937347-04-8 Evening Street Review is centered on the belief that all men and women are created equal, that they have a natural claim to certain inalienable rights, and that among these are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. With this center, and an emphasis on writing that has both clari...
Niche News
Fox News, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Rush Limbaugh Show, National Public Radio--with so many options, where do people turn for news? In Niche News, Natalie Stroud investigates how people navigate these choices and the political implications that their choice ultimately entails. By combining an analysis of the various news formats that citizens rely on with innovative surveys and experiments, she offers the most comprehensive look to date at the extent to which partisanship influences our media selections. At the heart of Niche News is the concept of "partisan selective exposure," a behavior that leads individuals to select news sources that match their own views....
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Sexual Deviance and Society
In a society where sexualized media has become background noise, we are frequently discouraged from frank and open discussions about sex and offered few tools for understanding sexual behaviors and sexualities that are perceived as being out of the norm. This book encourages readers to establish new ways of thinking about stigmatized peoples and behaviors, and to think critically about gender, sex, sexuality and sex crimes. Sexual Deviance and Society uses sociological theories of crime, deviance, gender and sexuality to construct a framework for understanding sexual deviance. This book is divided into four units: Unit I, Sociology of Deviance and Sexuality, lays the foundation for understan...
Delayed Democracy:How Press Freedom Collapsed in Gambia
The media plays a crucial role in shaping a healthy and vibrant democracy. It is the backbone of any functioning democracy. This book evaluates the role of the news media in The Gambia, in a variety of contexts and the major constraints and challenges which prevent journalism from fulfilling these ideal roles, and the most effective policy interventions available to strengthen the contribution of the news media to both democratic governance and human development. Specifically, it investigates the relationship between the Gambian Press and the military and quasi-military regimes in The Gambia, in the context of press freedom. This book examines in great detail decrees and laws enacted by the ...
Engaging the Public
This volume of original essays by leading political scientists and media scholars examines the nature of political disengagement among the public and offers concrete solutions for how the government and media can stimulate public engagement in the political process.
Saturday Night
Fiction. Volume II of the Hobblebush Granite State Short Story Series. Set mainly in the shadow of New Hampshire's White Mountains near the fictional small town of Prescott, the stories in SATURDAY NIGHT, AND OTHER SHORT STORIES span death, politics, infidelity, gardening, sci-fi, and musical zealotry. These stories vividly evoke, often quite unexpectedly, the absurd, bittersweet beauty of life.
Global Media Go to War
This book contains 45 essays from more than 60 mass media scholars around the world. It is the most comprehensive analysis available of the media's role in the 2003 Iraq war. The book is ideal for use in communication, political science and sociological courses on media and politics.
