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Voices of a Nation: A History of Mass Media in the United States (4th Edition)
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by Jean Folkerts and Dwight Teeter
Sales Rank: 653726
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Cover Type: Paperback with 588 pages
Published by: Allyn & BaconEdition: 4th Edition November 30, 2002
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0205335462
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0205335466
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.9 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.5 pounds
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Recognizing the significant "voices" of such non-traditional media as suffrage newspapers, ethnic newspapers, and cultural movement papers and magazines, this book emphasizes that mainstream newspapers and broadcast outlets are not the only types of media that have impacted American history. The third edition of this book continues to view media within a social, political, and economic framework and considers the impact of owners, audiences, journalists, technology and government. It also increases its material on relationships between the US and England and the emphasis on the triumph of large-circulation magazines. New material on converging communication media in relation to the Internet and Interactive computing is also included. Media historians.
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This review is from: Voices of a Nation: A History of Mass Media in the United States (Paperback)
The grammer and overall literary style is the least of the problems with this text. Overall it is a reflection of the mass media that it portends to be chronicling. Its factual inaccuracies, lack of historical depth, perpensity towards over-simplification, combined with the bad writing all conspire to make this text an example of the inadequacies of the mass media that pervades society, while providing very little real understanding of what the media has meant to the development of American society. Understandably, it is one of the few texts to deal with the subject and it does make a noble effort at synthesing a great deal of information, but higher demands of both grammer style and factual accuracy should have been placed upon it. As a high school text it may work, but I find it severely lacking in the meat of true historical analysis and understanding of the media within American society. One would find a much better historical analysis of the media in Michael Schudson's "Discovering the News." Though limited in scope, it provides the historical and social analysis that this book is sorely lacking.
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