Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 498
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978-1-5381-1761-3 • eBook • August 2019 • $94.00 • (£72.00)
David T. Z. Mindich(Ph.D. New York University)is the chair of the journalism department at the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University. Before becoming a professor, Mindich worked as an assignment editor for CNN; he has written articles for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Wilson Quarterly, Columbia Journalism Review and other publications. Mindich founded Jhistory, an Internet group for journalism historians. In 1998-1999, he was head of the History Division of the AEJMC, and in 2002, the association awarded him the Krieghbaum Under-40 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research, Teaching and Public Service.
1 A New Approach to Media in Your Life
How Do Media Shape Public Opinion?
How Much Media Do We Consume?
What Media Do You Consume?
Where Do We Go from Here?
2 Growing Up in a Mediated World
Media Effects Theories
The Importance of Media Literacy
A Mediated Childhood
3 How We Acquire Language: Communication and Community
The Origins of Language
How We Acquire Language
Oral Communication
4 The Brain and the Birth of Writing
Coming Out of The Jungle into a Literate World
Orality versus Literacy
The Dynamic Paradox of Oral and Written Communication
The Oral Brain
The Early History of Writing
The Technological History of Early Writing
Writing and National Identity
Inter-textual Analysis
5 Printing, the Mass Public, and the Mass Private
The Print Revolutions
The Printing Press as a Challenge to Government Power and Attempts to Maintain Control
The Mass Public and Broadcasting
Wikipedia, Knowledge, Authority, and the Printing Press
Print, the Ballad, and Sensationalism
Print Invents the Celebrity
The Print Shop Today
6 Newspapers in a Digital Media World
1609 and the Birth of Newspapers
Lippmann’s First Stage: Government Monopoly, 1609–1735
Lippmann’s Second Stage: The Partisan Era, 1735–1835
Lippmann’s Third Stage: The Commercial Era
A Fourth Stage: The Decline of Print, the Rise of Innovation
7 Magazines and the Construction of the Story
An Early History of Magazines
The Black Press
The “Mirror”
The Magazine Industry’s Diverse Evolution
Massification and Progressive
Differentiation in the Magazine Business
The Magazine Landscape Today
8 Going Global: The Telegraph
Communication Before the Telegraph
Invention of the Telegraph
Impact of the Telegraph on Communication
9 Radio, Music, and the Soundtrack of Our Lives
The First Mediated Voices and Music
The Birth of Radio
Twentieth-century Radio
Twenty-First Century Radio
Development of the American Sound
The Music Business
World Music
10 Writing Images and Movement: Photography
When Did Photography Begin?
Early History of Photography
20th- and 21st-Century Photography
Photography’s Influence on Politics
11 Movies and the Dream Factory
The Birth of the Motion Picture Industry
The Silent Era
Talkies: The Best Seat in the House
Rising Audiences and the Working-Class Diversion
The Growth of Filmmaking in Hollywood and Abroad
Genres in Film
The Blockbuster
Critically Acclaimed Films
12 Television: Broadcasting and Narrowcasting
The “Vast Wasteland”
Early Television History
The New Visual Language of Television
Television and the Mass Private
Television in a New Media World
13 Advertising
The Pitch
Product Placement
Ads: from Pitch to Publication
Ads in the New Media World
Social Activism in Advertising
Advertising Research
Ethics and the Advertising Industry
14 Public Relations
Public Relations and Business
World War I and the Committee on Public Information
After the Wars: Edward Bernays
Creating a Public
Diverse Perspectives for a Rational Public or Distractions Paid for by Moneyed
Interests?
Public Relations and Journalism
Ethics and Public Relations
15 Law and Ethics, Media and Journalism
Law and the First Amendment
Serving the Public Good
Limits of Free Speech
The Pentagon Papers Case
Ethics
Bias in the News
16 Media and Agenda Setting in the Political Sphere
A Survey of Adversarial Journalism
Adversarial Journalism Today
The Relationship Between the Powerful and the Press
Adversarial Journalism in the New Media World
New and Continuing Ventures in Investigative Journalism
Agenda Setting in the Digital Age
Democracy, Media, and the Health of the Electorate
17 The New Media Explosion
Wikipedia and the Internet
The Prehistory of the Internet:
The Five Stages of Computing
Rise of the Internet
Content Diversity Online
The Internet and Identity’s New Frontier
18 In the Midst of a Revolution, Imagining the Future
An Age of Plenty
Challenges of New Technology
Predictions of the Future
Information in a User-Driven Media Landscape
The Mediated World is the textbook of media studies we did not even know we needed, with its timeless, deep, conceptual exploration combined with fun content about everything from movies to journalism to public relations to advertising. Media historian David T. Z. Mindich has managed a masterful, critical accounting of how media have changed the very ways in which we think, communicate, and make meaning in our lives.
— Sue Robinson, Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison
David Mindich brilliantly connects past and present, theoretical and practical, to help readers navigate a vast and ever-changing media environment and better understand how it impacts their lives. The Mediated World is a lively and powerful introduction to media literacy.— Janice Hume, Professor and Journalism Department Head, University of Georgia
David Mindich’s The Mediated World covers issues and topics—from personal to social, from practical to theoretical, from trivial to profound, from scary to comforting—that provide a comprehensive overview of the media and how they influence both our personal lives and the condition of the world. This overview avoids traditional categories to integrate historical, theoretical, and ethical analyses into each topical discussion while encouraging readers to consider their personal reactions. Like Mindich’s earlier work, this creative book should be fun and useful, not only to communication students but also to experienced scholars.
— William E. Huntzicker, independent scholar and author of The Popular Press, 1833–1865
The writing is clear and engaging. The author does a good job of weaving facts into well-told stories.
— Barry Smith, Mississippi University for Women
In The Mediated World, David Mindich’s approach brims with historical insight, cross-cultural awareness, theoretical sophistication, and contemporary relevance. This is a great undergraduate text for both media history and mass communications survey courses.
— Kim Pearson, professor, The College of New Jersey
- Chapter openings include vignettes and learning objectives
- Summaries that review key concepts and important chapter material close each chapter
- Three different types of feature boxes to drill concepts and test skills
- A marginal glossary defines key terms
- The text is accompanied by a full suite of ancillaries including -- for the instructor -- a test bank, PowerPoint® slides, and an instructor's manual; and for the student, a free and open-access companion site that hosts flash cards and self-quizzes.