Mass communication

MEDIA EDUCATION AND THE (RE)PRODUCTION OF CULTURE by David Sholle and Stan Denski (Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey/Greenwood, 1994— $55.00, ISBN 0–89789–254–2, 200 pp.)

CULTURES AND THE AD: EXPLORING OTHERNESS IN THE WORLD OF ADVERTISING by William M. O'Barr (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1994— $59.99/17.95, ISBN 0–8133–2196–4 hard, 0–8133–2197–2 paper, 212 pp.)

MASS COMMUNICATION RESEARCH: CONTEMPORARY METHODS AND APPLICATIONS by Michael Singletary (New York: Longman, 1994—price not given, ISBN 0–8013–0882–8, 473 pp.)

MASS COMMUNICATION RESEARCH: ON PROBLEMS AND POLICIES—THE ART OF ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS edited by Cees Hamelink and Olga Linne (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1994—price not given, ISBN 0–89391–738–9, 417 pp.)

GENDERED LIVES: COMMUNICATION, GENDER, AND CULTURE by Julia T. Wood (Belmont, CA.: Wadsworth, 1994—no price given, paper, ISBN 0–534–20316–7, 359 pp.)

FATAL WORDS: COMMUNICATION CLASHES AND AIRCRAFT CRASHES by Steven Cushing (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994—$23.50, ISBN 0–226–13200–5, 162 pp.)

THE DISABLED, THE MEDIA, AND THE INFORMATION AGE edited by Jack A. Nelson (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994— $55.00, ISBN 0–313–28472–5, 264 pp.)

COMMUNICATION ETHICS: METHODS OF ANALYSIS by James A. Jaska and Michael S. Pritchard (Belmont, CA: Wads‐worth, 1994—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–534–19896–1,244 pp.)

THE ROLE OF PRINT ON PAPER IN THE PUBLISHING HOUSE OF THE FUTURE by Joost Kist (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Program on Information Resources Policy, 1993—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–879716–05–4, 23 pp.)

MEDIA IMPACT: AN INTRODUCTION TO MASS MEDIA by Shirley Biagi (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1994—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–534–20184–9, 564 pp.)

RACE—AMERICA'S RAWEST NERVE, Media Studies Journal 8:3 (Summer 1994, 180 pp.)

RESETTING THE COMPASS: NEWS COVERAGE OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AFTER THE COLD WAR is an 11‐page report on a November 1993 meeting held in Zurich by the same Freedom Forum. This report ties to the Fall 1993 Media Studies Journal topic.     

Regulation

AMERICAN REGULATORY FEDERALISM & TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE edited by Paul Teske (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995—$36.00, ISBN 0–8058–1615–1, 167 pp.)

CROSSROADS ON THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY: CONVERGENCE AND DIVERSITY IN COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES (Institute for Information Studies, The Aspen Institute, Wye River Conference Centers, PO Box 222, Queenstown, MD 21658—$10.00, paper, ISBN 0–89843–164–6, 166 pp.)

MASS MEDIA LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS by Marc A. Franklin and David A. Anderson (Westbury, NY: Foundation Press, 1995—price not given, ISBN 1–56662–256–5, 802 pp.)

BROADCAST REGULATION: A REVIEW OF ‘94, A PREVIEW OF ‘95 (National Association of Broadcasters, 1771 N St. NW, Washington, DC 20036—$25 to BEA members; $65 to NAB members; $110 list price, paper, no ISBN given, 250 pp.)     

Canadian communications

AN ACTION PLAN FOR RADIO: TODAY'S CRISIS IN THE PRIVATE RADIO INDUSTRY AND TOMORROW'S OPPORTUNITIES FOR CANADIAN RADIO (Ottawa: Communications Canada, Radio Action Plan Consultation Group, 1992—price and ISBN not given, 68 pp.)

BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS: TELEVISION IN TRANSITION (Ottawa: Communications Canada, 1992—price not given, ISBN 0–662–20087‐X, 143 pp.)

HUMAN RESOURCES IN THE CANADIAN BROADCASTING INDUSTRY: PROJECT REPORT by Peat, Marwick, Stevenson & Kellogg (Ottawa: Employment and Immigration Canada, 1993—price and ISBN not given, 120 pp.)

ONTARIO COMMUNICATIONS HANDBOOK 1993 (Toronto: Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, 1993— price not given, ISBN 0–7778–1121–9, 145 pp.)

DOLLARS, DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS: THE NEW MEDIA CHALLENGE (London, Ontario: Graduate School of Journalism, University of Western Ontario, 1993—price not given, ISBN 0–7714–1544–3, 122 pp.)

REPORTING THE NATION'S BUSINESS: PRESS‐GOVERNMENT RELATIONS DURING THE LIBERAL YEARS, 1935–1957 by Patrick H. Brennan (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994—$45.00, ISBN 0–8020–2977–9, 250 pp.)

CANADA'S HOLLYWOOD: THE CANADIAN STATE AND FEATURE FILMS by Ted Magder (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993—$50.00, ISBN 0–8020–2970–1)

CHANNELS OF INFLUENCE: CBS AUDIENCE RESEARCH AND THE CANADIAN PUBLIC by Ross A. Eaman (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994_$55.00/19.95, ISBN 0–8020–2811‐X hard, 0–8020–7688–2 paper, 264 pp.)     

Communications

CONGLOMERATES AND THE MEDIA by Erik Barnouw, et al. (New York: The New Press, 1998‐$23.00, ISBN 1–56584–386‐X, 190 pp., photos, notes)

THE MEDIA IN QUESTION: POPULAR CULTURES AND PUBLIC INTERESTS by Kees Brants, Joke Hermes, and Liesbet van Zoonen (London: Sage, 1998‐$26.50, paper, ISBN 0–7619–5723–5, 184 pp., references, index)

POLITICS IN WIRED NATIONS: SELECTED WRITINGS OF ITHIEL DE SOLA POOL edited by Lloyd S. Etheredge (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998‐$44.95, ISBN 1–56000–344–8, 395 pp., tables, figures, notes, bibliography of Pool's works, index)

FREE EXPRESSION AND CENSORSHIP IN AMERICA: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA by Herbert N. Foerstel (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997‐$65.00, ISBN 0–313–29231–0, 260 pp., table of cases, bibliography, index)

BANNED IN THE MEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO CENSORSHIP IN THE PRESS, MOTION PICTURES, BROADCASTING, AND THE INTERNET by Herbert N. Foerstel (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998‐price not given, ISBN 0–313–30245–6, 252 pp., notes, appendices, bibliography, index)

MEDIAMAKING: MASS MEDIA IN A POPULAR CULTURE by Lawrence Grossberg, Ellen Wartella, and D. Charles Whitney (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998‐$31.95, ISBN 0–7619–1177–4, paper, 442 pp., diagrams, boxed features, references, index)

SEMINAR ON INTELLIGENCE, COMMAND, AND CONTROL: GUEST PRESENTATIONS, SPRING 1997 (Incidental paper 1–98–2, April 1998, ISBN 1–879716–47‐X, 220 pp.)

AT THE HEART OF EVOLVING LITERACY: A FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION by Morris L. Ernst (Publication P‐97–3, December 1997, ISBN 1–879716–44–5, 115 pp.)

STANDARDS FOR PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES by David J. Goodman (Publication P‐98–1, April 1998, ISBN 1–879716–46–1, 64 pp.)

CONTEXT FOR DECISIONS: GLOBAL AND LOCAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ISSUES by Anthony Oettinger (Incidental Paper I‐98–1, January 1998, ISBN 1–879716–3, 23 pp.)

PLUNKETT'S ENTERTAINMENT & MEDIA INDUSTRY ALMANAC by Jack W. Plunkett (Houston, TX: Plunkett Research, 1998‐$149.99, ISBN 0–9638268–6‐7, 626 pp., tables, index)

MEDIA LITERACY by W. James Potter (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998‐price not given, paper, ISBN 0–7619–0925–7, 406 pp., tables, boxed features, references, annotated chapter guides to further reading, index)

MEDIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW edited by Charles Warner (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997‐$39.50/22.50, ISBN 0–8058–1787–5 hard, 0–8058–1788–3 paper; 197 pp., tables, notes, index)     

Telecommunications policy

TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY: THE NEW LANDSCAPE edited by Philip E. Agre and Marc Rotenberg (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997—$30.00/15.00, ISBN 0–262–01162‐x hard, 0–262–51101–0 paper, 325 pp., diagrams, notes, index)

PRIVACY IN THE INFORMATION AGE by Fred H. Cate (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1997—prices not given, ISBN 0–8157–1316–9 hard, 0–8157–1315–0 paper, 248 pp., appendices, notes, bibliography, index)

PRIVACY ON THE LINE: THE POLITICS OF WIRETAPPING AND ENCRYPTION by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998—$30.00/15.00, ISBN 0–262–04167–7 hard, 0–262–54100–9 paper, 360 pp., notes, glossary, bibliography, index)

COMPETITION AND COOPERATION: FROM BIOLOGY TO BUSINESS REGULATION by P. H. Longstaff (October 1998—price not given, paper, ISBN 1–879716–51–8, Paper P‐98–4, 58 pp., charts, notes, glossary, bibliography)

UNDERSTANDING THE USE OF ELECTRONIC MONEY: THE MISSING FACTOR IN POLICY by Supriya Singh (November 1998—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–86444–758–2, 25 pp., charts, tables, notes, acronyms)

KNOWLEDGE AS A STRATEGIC BUSINESS RESOURCE by William H. Read (January 1999—price not given, ISBN 1–879716–53–4, 27 pp., tables, notes)

SEMINAR ON INTELLIGENCE, COMMAND, AND CONTROL: GUEST PRESENTATIONS, FALL 1997 (January 1999—price not given, paper, ISBN 1–879716–54–2, 186 pp., diagrams, tables, notes)

THE WORLD WIDE WEB: A MASS COMMUNICATION PERSPECTIVE by Barbara K. Kaye and Norman J. Medoff (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing, 1999—$24.95, paper, ISBN 0–7674–0030–5, 404 pp., chapter links, references, charts, tables, appendix, glossary, index)

STATE UNIVERSAL FUNDING AND POLICY: AN OVERVIEW AND SURVEY by Edwin A. Rosenberg and John D. Wilhelm (September 1998— price not given, paper, NRRI 98–20, 84 pp., tables, notes, appendix)

QUALITY‐OF‐SERVICE AND MARKET IMPLICATIONS OF ASYMMETRIC STANDARDS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS by Michael Clements (October 1998—price not given, paper, NRRI 98–24, 32 pp., tables, figure, notes)

A TIME SERIES AND CROSS‐SECTIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF STATE REGULATORY POLICY ADOPTED FOR LOCAL EXCHANGE CARRIERS; DIVESTITURE TO PRESENT (1984–1998) by Jaison R. Abel and Michael E. Clements (December 1998—price not given, paper, NRRI 98–25, 107 pp., tables, references)

A COMPILATION OF “BEST PRACTICES”; TO IMPLEMENT THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1996 by Bob Rowe and Vivian Witkind Davis (April 1999—price not given, paper, NRRI 99–07, 100 pp.)

DIGITAL CAPITALISM: NETWORKING THE GLOBAL MARKET SYSTEM by Dan Schiller (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999—$29.95, ISBN 0–262–19417–1, 294 pp., notes, index)     

Law and policy

AN INTRODUCTION TO U.S. TELECOMMUNICATIONS LAW by Charles H. Kennedy (Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1994—price not given, ISBN 0–89006–752‐X, 169 pp.)

TOWARD COMPETITION IN CABLE TELEVISION by Leland L. Johnson (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute Press, 1994— price not given, ISBN 0–262–10054–1, 214 pp.)

THE AUDIENCE REFLECTED IN THE MEDIUM OF LAW: A CRITIQUE OF THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SPEECH RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES by Myles Alexander Ruggles (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1994‐$39.95/22.50, ISBN 0–89391–881–4 cloth, 0–89391–993–4 paper, 206 pp.)

DEMOCRACY AND THE PROBLEM OF FREE SPEECH by Cass R. Sunstein (New York: Free Press, 1993‐$22.95, hard, ISBN 0–02–932271–5, 300 pp.)

GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES FOR REGULATED UTILITIES: EVOLUTION AND IMPACTS by David Wirick and John J. Gibbons (National Regulatory Research Institute, 1080 Carmack Rd., Columbus, OH 43210—price not given, paper, 168 pp.)

THE LAW OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATION by Kent R. Middleton and Bill F. Chamberlin (White Plains, NY: Longman, 1994—price not given, ISBN 0–8013–1188–8, 625 pp.)

“TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY ISSUE,” Media Law & Policy (Media Law Project, 57 Worth St., New York, NY 10013–2960, no price given, no ISSN given)     

Foreign/International media systems

PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: THE SYMBOLIC CONSTRUCTS OF SUMMITS AND INTERNATIONAL RADIO NEWS by Robert S. Fortner (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994‐$55.00, ISBN 0–275–93594–9, 216 pp.)

TELEVISION AND THE VIEWER INTEREST: EXPLORATIONS IN THE RESPONSIVENESS OF EUROPEAN BROADCASTERS edited by Jeremy Mitchell and Jay G. Blumler, et al. (London: John Libbey, 1994‐$48, paper, ISBN 0–86196–440–3, 256 pp.)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF AFRICA by L. Kwabena Riverson (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993‐$34.00, ISBN 0–8191–9315–1, 115 pp.)

TELEVISION/RADIO NEWS & MINORITIES by Donald R. Browne, Charles M. Firestone, and Ellen Mickiewicz (Aspen Institute Publications Office, PO Box 222, 109 Houghton Lab Lane, Queenstown, MD 21658— apparently free on request, paper, ISBN 0–89843–154–9, 177 pp.)

MEDIA IN EUROPE TOWARDS THE MILLENNIUM (Club de Bruxelles, 10 rue du College St. Michel, B‐1150, Brussels, Belgium—price not given, no ISBN given) is a 420 page combination of a five‐part study (230 pp.)

TELECOMMUNIQUE ASIA (Argus, 6151 Powers Ferry Road, NW, Atlanta 30330–9562‐$997 charter price, bi‐weekly [24 issues per year], no ISSN given)

OFTEL 1993 ANNUAL REPORT (London: HMSO, 1994‐LI5.10, paper, ISBN not given, 130 pp.)

TRENDS AND ISSUES (Australian Broadcasting Authority, Canberra, Australia)

JAHRESBIBLIOGRAPHIE MASSENKOMMUNIKATTON 1992 by Wilbert Ubbens (Berlin: Wissenschaftsverlag Volker Spiess, 1994—price not given, paper, ISBN 3–89166–179–7, 390 pp.)

REPORTERS SANS FRONTIERES: 1994 REPORT—FREEDOM OF THE PRESS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD (London: John Libbey, 1994—about $30, paper, ISBN 0–86196–452–7, 389 pp.)     

Communication law

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, SECOND SUPPLEMENT 1978–1992 by Ralph E. McCoy (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994—$ 100.00, ISBN 0–8093–1583–1, 443 pp.)

COMMUNICATIONS LAW 1993 (Practicing Law Institute, 810 Seventh Ave., New York, 10019— $90.00, three vols, paper, ISBN not given)

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLICY STUDIES, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, edited by Stuart S. Nagel (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1994—$195.00, but available in classroom quantity at $65.00, ISBN 0–8247–9142–8, 956 pp.)

THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE FOURTH ESTATE by T. Barton Carter, Marc A. Franklin and Jay B Wright (Westbury, NY: Foundation Press, 1994—price not given, ISBN 1–56662–147‐X, 925 pp.)     

Electronic media

ELECTRONIC MEDIA LAW AND REGULATION by Kenneth C. Creech (Stoneham, MA; Focal Press, 1993—$34.95, paper, ISBN 0–240–80130‐X, 404 pp.)

MEDIA, SEX AND THE ADOLESCENT edited by Bradley S. Greenberg, Jane D. Brown, and Nancy L. Buerkel‐Rothfuss (Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1993—$55.00/24.95, ISBN 1–881303–36–5 cloth, 1–881303–37–3 paper, 376 pp.)

CHILDREN & TELEVISION: IMAGES IN A CHANGING SOCIOCULTURAL WORLD edited by Gordon L. Berry and Joy Keiko Asamen (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1993—$23.95, paper, ISBN 0–8039–4700–3, 332 pp.)

“RADIO: THE FORGOTTEN MEDIUM.” Media Studies Journal 7:3, Summer 1993 (Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, Columbia University, 2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027–7004—$5.00 per copy, ISSN 1057–7416, 204 pp.)

ALL TALK: THE TALKSHOW IN MEDIA CULTURE by Wayne Munson (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993—price not given, ISBN 0–87722–995–3, 216 pp.)

THE GODS OF TELEVANGELISM: THE CRISIS OF MEANING AND THE APPEAL OF RELIGIOUS TELEVISION by Janice Peck (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1993—$45.00/19.95, ISBN 1–881303–65–9 cloth, 1–881303–66–7 paper, 296 pp.)

WORKING IN COMMERCIALS: A COMPLETE SOURCEBOOK FOR ADULT AND CHILD ACTORS by Elaine Keller Beardsley (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1993—$19.95, paper, ISBN 0–240–80160–1,194 pp.)

THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE FIFTH ESTATE: REGULATION OF ELECTRONIC MASS MEDIA by T. Barton Carter, Marc A. Franklin, and Jay B. Wright (Westbury, NY: Foundation Press, 1993—price not given, ISBN 1–56662–039–2, 891 pp.)     

Communication technology

THE EXPLODING POLITICAL POWER OF PERSONAL MEDIA by Gladys D. Ganley (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1992—price not given, ISBN 0–89391–756–7, 181 pp.)

1992 COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY UPDATE edited by August E. Grant and Liching Sung (Technology Futures, Inc., 6034 West Courtyard Dr., Suite 380, Austin, TX 78730–5014‐$19.95, paper, no ISBN given, 124 pp.)

DEMYSTIFYING MEDIA TECHNOLOGY: READINGS FROM THE FREEDOM FORUMCENTER edited by John V. Pavlikand Everette E. Dennis (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing, 1993—price not given, paper, ISBN 1–55934–145–9, 194 pp.)

COMMUNICATION, MEDIA AND CHANGE by Jack Lyle and Douglas McLeod (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing, 1993‐$23.95, paper, ISBN 0–87484–935–7, 264 pp.)

THE EVOLUTION OF MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS IN THE U.S. AND EUROPE: REGULATION, TECHNOLOGY, AND MARKETS by Michael Paetsch (Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1993—price not given, ISBN 0–89006–688–4, 417 pp.)

MULTIMEDIA 2000: MARKET DEVELOPMENTS, MEDIA BUSINESS IMPACTS AND FUTURE TRENDS edited by Marcia de Sonne (1993‐$125/75 for NAB/BEA members, paper, ISBN 0–89324–166–0, 240 pp.)

UNDERSTANDING DAB: A GUIDE FOR BROADCAST MANAGERS & ENGINEERS (1992‐$70/35 for NAB/BEA members, paper, ISBN 0–89324–152–0, 125 pp.)

NAB 1993 GUIDE TO HDTV IMPLEMENTATION COSTS by S. Merrill Weiss and Rupert L Stow (1993‐$100/50 to NAB/BEA members, paper, ISBN 0–89324–167–9, ca. 250 pp.)

1993 NAB HDTV WORLD CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (1993‐$75/50 to NAB and BEA members, paper, ISBN 0–89324–163–6, 505 pp.)

THE 1993/1994 WORLD SATELLITE ANNUAL written and compiled by Mark Long (MLE Inc., 150 North Federal highway, Suite 230, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301‐$59.95, paper, no ISBN or ISSN given, 435 pp.)

TECHNOLOGY 2001: THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS edited by Derek Leebaert (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991‐$14.95, paper, ISBN 0–262–62084–7, 392 pp.)

INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONICS CONTACTS by the EIA International Business Council (Electronic Industries Assn., 2001 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20006–1813‐$75; $40 to EIA members, no ISBN given, 68 pp.)

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS‐U.S. SALES 1989–1993 by the EIA Marketing Services Dept. (EIA, address immediately above‐$95, free to EIA members, no ISBN given, 26 pp.)

LEADING‐EDGE TECHNOLOGIES AND ALLIANCES is the first issue of Technology Knowledge Activities (IC2 Institute, University of Texas, 2815 San Gabriel, Austin, TX 78705—no price given, irregular)     

Developing communication systems

SOAP OPERAS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: TOWARD A METHODOLOGY FOR ENTERTAINMENT‐EDUCATION TELEVISION by Heidi Noel Nariman (New York: Praeger, 1993—$47.95, ISBN 0–275–94389–5, 184 pp.)

POWER AND TELEVISION IN LATIN AMERICA: THE DOMINICAN CASE by Antonio V. Menendez Alarcon (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992—$47.95, ISBN 0–275–94275–9, 208 pp.)

BROADCASTING IN THE ARAB WORLD: A SURVEY OF THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA IN THE MIDDLE EAST edited by Douglas A. Boyd (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993— $37.95, ISBN 0–8138–0468‐X, 390 pp.)

CREATIVE COMPROMISE: THE MacBRIDE COMMISSION: A FIRSTHAND REPORT AND REFLECTION ON THE WORKINGS OF UNESCO'S INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE STUDY OF COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS by William G. Harley (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993—$39.50, ISBN 0–8191–8906–5,359 pp.)

COMMUNICATIONS AND THE “THIRD WORLD” by Geoffrey Reeves (New York: Routledge, 1993—$17.95, paper, ISBN 0–415–04762–5, 277 pp.)

TELEVISION, POLITICS, AND THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA edited by Thomas E. Skidmore (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993—$25.00, ISBN 0–943875–44–7, 188 pp.)

NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE PRIVATIZATION STUDY: EXPERIENCE OF JAPAN AND LESSONS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES‐‐World Bank Discussion Papers No. 179 by Yoshiro Takano (World Bank, 1818 H. St NW, Washington, DC 20433—$9.95, paper, ISBN 0–8213–2224–9, 130 pp.)     

Recent Film and Photography Production Guides

BEYOND FTS 2000: A PROGRAM FOR CHANGE by Bernard J. Bennington (Washington, DC: National Research Council, 1989—price not given, one volume main report, plus two appendices issued separately, ISBN not given, 219 pp. + 94 pp.+ 50 pp.)

GROWING VULNERABILITY OF THE PUBLIC SWITCHED NETWORKS: IMPLICATIONS FOR NATIONAL SECURITY EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS (Washington, DC: National Research Council, 1989 price not given, paper, ISBN not given, 119 pp.)

PERSPECTIVES ON THE TELEPHONE INDUSTRY: THE CHALLENGE FOR THE FUTURE by James H. Alleman and Richard D. Emmerson (New York: Harper &; Row/Ballinger, 1989—price not given, ISBN 0-88730-376-5, 324 pp.)

TELECOMMUNICA TIONS SYSTEMS AND SER VICES DIRECTORY edited by John Krol and Julie Winklepleck (Gale Research, Book Tower, Detroit, Ml 48226—price not given, ISBN 0-8103-2241-2,1,238 pp.)

NEWTON'S TELECOM DICTIONARY: THE OFFICIAL GLOSSARY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS A CRONY MS, TERMS AND JARGON by Harry Newton (New York: Telecom Library, 1989—price not given, paper, no ISBN given, 650 pp.)

DATA AND COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS: TERMS, DEFINITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS by Gilbert Held (New York: John Wiley, 1989 $39.95, ISBN 0-4710-92066-5, 254 pp.)

E-MAIL by Stephen A. Caswell (Boston: Artech House, 1988—$48.00, ISBN 0-89006-303-6,250 pp.) deals with (as the cover says in its design)

UNDERSTANDING TELECOMMUNICATIONS by Ronald R. Thomas (Blue Ridge Summit, PA: TAB Books, 1989—$24.95/17.95, ISBN 0-8306-9229-0 hard and 0-8306-3229-b soft, 243 pp.)

CONSUMER INFORMATION IN TELEPHONE PRICING by Robert C. Rowe (December 1989,70 pp.)

THE INTEREXCHANGE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY: SHOULD REGULATION DEPEND ON THE A BSENCE OF COMPETITION? by Roger D. Colton (December 1989, 50 pp.)

IDENTIFYING CONSUMER CHARACTERISTICS WHICH ARE IMPORTANT TO DETERMINING THE EXISTENCE OF WORKABLE COMPETITION IN THE INTEREXCHANGE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY by Roger D. Colton (December 1989,96 pp.)

FUNDAMENTALS AND DISCRETION: A FIXING ALLOCATOR SEPARATIONS MODEL by Jay L. Silberberg (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Program on Information Resources Policy, November 1989—price not given, paper, ISBN not given, 187 pp.)

FACTORS AFFECTING THE DEFINITION OF THE LOCAL CALLING AREA—AN ASSESSMENT OF TRENDS by Raymond Lawton and John Borrows (Columbus, OH: National Regulatory Research Institute, February 1990 price not given, paper, no ISBN given, 121 pp.)

SECRETS OF INSTALLING A TELEPHONE SYSTEM: HOW TO AVOID THE PITFALLS AND LESSEN THE PAIN by Neil Sachnoff (New York: Telecom Library, 1989 $22.95, paper, no ISBN given, 149 pp.)

GMP: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION, MAPPING AND POSITIONING NEWSLETTER (International Resource Development Inc., PO Box 1716, New Canaan, CT 06840 $325 per year, monthly, ISSN 1045-6732)

VOICE PROCESSING MAGAZINE (PO Box 42382, Houston, TX 77242—$24.00, periodicity not indicated, ISSN 1042-0460)

NRRI QUARTERLY BULLETIN(Columbus: National Regulatory Research Institute—$120, quarterly, ISSN 8756-632X)

NEWBOOKS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS FROMARTECH HOUSE (ArtechHouse, 685 Canton St., Norwood, MA 02062 free on request)

CATALOG OF BOOKS 1990 (Telecom Library, 12 West 21st St., New York 10010 free on request).     

British commonwealth

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA: MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS OF OPERA edited by Jeremy Tambling (1994—$28.00, paper, ISBN 0–86196–466–7, 310 pp.)

RADIO & AUDIENCE ATTITUDES by Andrea Millwood Hargrave (1994—$20.00, paper, ISBN 0–86196–481–0, ISSN 0960–3999, 104 pp.)

DOING BUSINESS WITH OFTEL: A GUIDE FOR SUPPLIERS AND LARGE USERS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES TO HOW THE REGULATORY PROCESS WORKS AND HOW TO MAKE THE BEST OF IT (no date but 1994—£10.00, paper, 60 pp.)

THE UK TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY: MARKET INFORMATION (February 1995—£10.00, paper, 31 pp.)

A FRAMEWORK FOR EFFECTIVE COMPETITION: A CONSULTATIVE DOCUMENT ON THE FUTURE OF INTERCONNECTION AND RELATED ISSUES (December 1994—no price given, paper, 71 pp.)

ANNUAL REPORT 1994 (1995—£14.10, paper, 150 pp.)

IDENTIFICATION, GENDER AND GENRE IN FILM: THE CASE OF SHAME by Stephen Crofts (Melbourne: Australian Film Institute, 1993).

SITES OF DIFFERENCE: CINEMATIC REPRESENTATIONS OF ABORIGINALITY AND GENDER by Karen Jennings (Melbourne: Australian Film Institute, 1993)

THE GOLDEN AGE OF AUSTRALIAN RADIO DRAMA, 1923–1960 by Richard Lane (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1994—A$49.95, ISBN 0–552–84556–8, 397 pp.)     

History

THE BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE: THE GOLDEN YEARS OF RADIO AND TELEVISION by Pat Weaver with Thomas M. Coffey (New York: Knopf, 1994—524.00, ISBN 0–679–40835–5, 276 pp.)

TELEVISION'S GREATEST YEAR: 1954 by R.D. Heldenfels (New York: Continuum, 1994— $24.95, 238 pp.)

TELECOM HISTORY (Telephone History Institute, Box 2818, Dublin, CA 94568–0818— $25.00 for first year, two issues, no ISSN given, 116 pp.)

THE TELEGRAPH: A HISTORY OF MORSE'S INVENTION AND ITS PREDECESSORS IN THE UNITED STATES by Lewis Coe (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1994—$25.95, ISBN 0–89950–736–0, 184 pp.)

BYLINES IN DESPAIR: HERBERT HOOVER, THE GREAT DEPRESSION, AND THE U.S. NEWS MEDIA by Louis W. Liebovich (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994—552.95, ISBN 0–275–94843–9, 256 pp.)     

Popular culture—Part two

READING FOOTBALL: HOW THE POPULAR PRESS CREATED AN AMERICAN SPECTACLE by Michael Oriard (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994—$29.95, ISBN 0–8078–2083–0, 319 pp.)

BASEBALL ARCHAEOLOGY: ARTIFACTS FROM THE GREAT AMERICAN PASTIME by Gwen Aldridge (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993—$29.95/ 18.95, ISBN 0–8118–0365–1 hard, ISBN 0–8118–0290–6, soft, 112 pp.)

MAN AS ART by Malcolm Kirk (photographs) and Andrew Strathern (essay) (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993—$22.95, paper, ISBN 0–8118–0478‐X, 144 pp.)

NEW YORK HOT: EAST COAST JAZZ OF THE 50S & 60S, THE ALBUM COVER ART by Graham Marsh and Glynn Cunningham (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993—$24.95, paper, ISBN0–8118–0416‐X, 111 pp.)

ITALIAN ART DECO: GRAPHIC DESIGN BETWEEN THE WARS by Steven Heller and Louise Hill (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993—$16.95, paper, ISBN 0–8118–0287–6,132 pp.)

HEROES WITHOUT LEGACY: AMERICAN AIRWOMEN, 1912–1944 by Dean Jaros (Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1993— $24.95, ISBN 0–87081–312–9, 282 pp.)

COWGIRLS OF THE RODEO: PIONEER PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES by Mary Lou Compte (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993—$22.50, ISBN 0–252–02029–4, 252 pp.)

UNBEARABLE WEIGHT: FEMINISM, WESTERN CULTURE, AND THE BODY by Susan Bordo (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993—$25.00, ISBN 0–520–07979–5, hard, 361 pp.)

SANDOW THE MAGNIFICENT: EUGENESANDOW AND THE BEGINNINGS OF BODYBUILDING by David L. Chapman (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994—$26.95, ISBN 0–252–02033–2, 229 pp.)

THE CHANGING FICTIONS OF MASCULINITY by David Rosen (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993—$29.95/14.95, ISBN 0‐ 252–02004–9, hard, 0–252–06309–0, paper, 234 pp.)

LAND OF IDOLS: POLITICAL MYTHOLOGY IN AMERICA by Michael Parenti (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994—price not given—ISBN 0–312–09497–3, hard, 0–312–09841–3 paper, 208 pp.)

THE TRAGEDY OF ABUNDANCE: MYTH RESTORATION IN AMERICAN CULTURE by Jerome O. Steffen (Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1993—16.95, ISBN 0–87081–272–6, 129 pp.)

COMIC BOOKS AND COMIC STRIPS IN THE UNITED STATES: AN INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY ($85.00, ISBN 0–313–28211–0, 624 pp.)

COMIC ART OF EUROPE: AN INTENTIONAL, COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY ($95.00, ISBN 0–313–28212–9, 688 pp.)     

B. BBC General History

AUSTRALIAN CONTENT ON PAY TV: INVESTIGATION (REPORT TO THE MINISTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS) by the Australian Broadcasting Authority (Canberra: Australian Broadcasting Authority, 1997—A$10.00, paper, ISBN 0–642–27036–8, 219 pp.)

RESEARCH IN COMMUNICATION ECONOMICS IN AUSTRALIA: BULLETIN 3 by the Bureau of Transport and Communication Economics (Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1996—free on request, paper, ISSN 1036–0344, 130 pp.)

YOUTH, CRIME AND THE MEDIA edited by Judith Bessant and Richard Hill (Hobart, Tasmania: National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies, 1997—A$35.00, ISBN 1–875236–38–4, 234 pp.)

THE BUSINESS OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING by John Colette and Meredith Quinn (St. Leonard's, Queensland: Allen &; Unwin, 1997—A$35.00, ISBN 0–6422–7093–7, 244 pp.)

THE MEDIA IN AUSTRALIA: INDUSTRIES, TEXTS, AUDIENCES edited by Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner (St. Leonards, NSW: Allen &; Unwin, 1997 [2nd ed.]—A$35.00, paper, ISBN 1–86448–273–7, 490 pp., tables, charts, references, index)

THE MEDIA'S AUSTRALIA edited by Hilary Ericksen (Melbourne: The Australia Centre of the University of Melbourne, 1996—A$15.00, ISBN 0–7325–0824‐X, 119 pp.)

ETHICS IN JOURNALISM: REPORT OF THE ETHICS REVIEW COMMITTEE, MEDIA, ENTERTAINMENT AND ARTS ALLIANCE (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1997—A$19.95, paper, ISBN 0–52284814–1, 170 pp.)

THE WIRED NATION CONTINENT: THE COMMUNICATION REVOLUTION AND FEDERATING AUSTRALIA by K. T. Livingston (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996—A$55.00, ISBN 0–19–553633–9, 218 pp.)

YOUTH AND MUSIC IN AUSTRALIA: A REVIEW by Juliet London and Jenny Hearder (Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Authority, Australia Council, and the Australian Record Industry Association “Australian Broadcasting Authority Monograph, No. 8,”; 1997—no price given, ISBN 0–642–27042–2, 88 pp.)

REVIVING THE FOURTH ESTATE: DEMOCRACY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND THE MEDIA by Julianne Schultz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press “Reshaping Australian Institutions,”; 1998—$64.95/24.95, ISBN 0–521–62042–2 hard, 0–521–62970–5 paper, 304 pp., tables, appendix, references, index)

TELEVISION, AIDS AND RISK: A CULTURAL STUDIES APPROACH TO HEALTH COMMUNICATION by John Tulloch and Deborah Lupton (St. Leonards, Queensland: Allen &; Unwin “Australian Cultural Studies,”; 1997— A$29.95, ISBN 1–8644–8224–9, 236 pp.)

TALKING BACK KIT by Young Media Australia and the Federal Bureau of Consumer Affairs (Young Media Australia, 69 Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide SA 5000—A$49.00 for full kit, no ISBN provided)     

6. TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION

COMUNICÁO: TRAMA DE DESEJOS E ESPELHOS: OS METALURGICOS, A TELENOVELA E A COMUNICACÁO DO SINDICATO / COMMUNICATION: A PLOT OF HOPES AND DESIRES: METAL WORKERS, SOAP OPERAS, AND UNION COMMUNICATION by Maria Luiza Cardinale Baptista (Canoas, Brazil: Universidade Luterana do Brasil “Colecao Mundo Midia, No. 3,”; 1996—no price available, ISBN 85–85692–17–0, 180 pp., tables)

LAS OTRAS RADIOS / THE OTHER RADIOS by Alfredo Bouissa, Eduardo Curuchet, and Oscar Orcajo (Montevideo, Uruguay: Editorial Nordan‐Comunidad “Coleccion Tierra Amiga, No. 3,”; 1998—no price available, ISBN 9974–42–052–5, 268 pp., appendices)

AS HISTÓRIAS EM QUADRINHOS NO BRÁSIL: TEORIA E PRATICA / A HISTORY OF COMICS IN BRAZIL: THEORY AND PRACTICE edited by Flávio Mário de Alcântara Calazans (São Paulo: INTERCOM “Colecao GT's da INTERCOM, No. 7,”; 1997—price not given, ISBN 85–900400–1‐1, 174 pp.)

CALANDRA: O SUFOCO DA IMPRENSA NOS ANOS DE CHUMBO /CALENDER: THE SUFFOCATION OF THE PRESS IN THE YEARS OF DICTATORSHIP by Pery Cotta (Rio de Janeiro: BCD União de editoras, Bertrand Brasil, 1997—no price available, ISBN 85–286–0610–4, 238 pp.)

CINE Y MEMORIA DEL SIGLO XX CINE EN CHILE: CINE EN EL MUNDO: HISTORIA SOCIAL Y CULTURAL DE CHILE: HISTORIA SOCIAL Y CULTURAL MUNDIAL CUADROS SINOPTICOS (1895–1995) / FILM AND MEMORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY: FILM IN CHILE, FILM IN THE WORLD, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF CHILE, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD, 1895–1995 by Jacqueline Mouesca and Carlos Orellana (Santiago de Chile: LOM Ediciones “Coleccion Sin Norte,”; 1998—no price available, ISBN 956–282–077–7, 417 pp., photographs)

CUENTO DE CINE / FILM STORIES edited by Sergio Renan (Buenos Aires: Extra Alfaguara, 1996—no price available, ISBN 950–511–259–9, 294 pp.)     

Foreign/International Communication

NEWSPAPER POWER: THE NEW NATIONAL PRESS IN BRITAIN by Jeremy Tunstall (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996—£13.99, paper, ISBN 0–19–871133–6, 441 pp.)

UNGLUED EMPIRE: THE SOVIET EXPERIENCE WITH COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES by Gladys D. Ganley (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1996—$54.95/24.95, ISBN 1–56750–197–4 hard, 1–56750–198–2, soft, 234 pp.)

COMMUNICATION TRADITIONS IN 20TH CENTURY AUSTRALIA by Graeme Osborne and Glen Lewis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995—$22.00, paper, ISBN 0–19–553511–1,195 pp.)

MEDIA USE AS SOCIAL ACTION: A EUROPEAN APPROACH TO AUDIENCE STUDIES edited by Karsten Renckstorf, et al. (London: John Libbey, 1996—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–86196–485–3, ISSN 0956–9057, 200 pp.)

INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC RELATIONS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS edited by Hugh M. Culbertson and Ni Chen (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996— $79.95/36.00, ISBN 0–8058–1684–4 hard, 0–8058–1685–2 soft, 454 pp.)

THE KNOWLEDGE‐CREATING COMPANY: HOW JAPANESE COMPANIES CREATE THE DYNAMICS OF INNOVATION by Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995—$25.00, ISBN 0–19–509269–4, 284 pp.)

JAHRESBIBLIORAPHIE MASSENKOMMUNICATION 1994 by Wilbert Ubbens (Berlin: Wissenschaftsverlag Volker Spiess, 1996—price not given, paper, ISBN 3–89166–189–4, 433 pp.)     

Electronic Media

THE REMOTE CONTROL IN THE NEW AGE OF TELEVISION edited by James R. Walkerand Robert V. Bellamy, Jr. (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993—$55.00, ISBN 0–275–94396–8 288 pp.)

ENLIGHTENED RACISM: THE COSBY SHOW. AUDIENCES, AND THE MYTH OF THE AMERICAN DREAM by Sut Jhally and Justin Lewis (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993—$15.95, paper, ISBN 0–8133–1419–4,152 pp.)

TELEVISION NETWORK WEEKEND PROGRAMMING 1959–1990 by Mitchell E. Shapiro (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1992— $42.50, ISBN 0–89950–682–8, 464 pp.)

BROADCASTING IN AMERICA: A SURVEY OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA by Sydney W. Head, Christopher H. Sterling, and Lemuel B. Schofield (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994—price not given, ISBN 0–395–63682–5,675 pp.)

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY UPDATE: 1993–1994 edited by August Grant and Kenton Wilkinson (Technology Futures Inc., 500 N. Capital of Texas Highway, Suite 2–100, Austin, TX 78746—price not given, paper, ISBN not given, 352 pp.)

AMERICAN RADIO—SPRING 1993 by James Duncan (Duncan's American Radio, PO Box 90284—$84, paper, ca 275 pp.)