CBQ Currents Topical Essays About Contemporary Issues

COMPATIBILITY STANDARDS, COMPETITION, AND INNOVATION IN THE BROADCASTING INDUSTRY by Stanley Besen and Leland Johnson (Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1986—$7.50, paper)

Museum of Broadcasting, a guide to their published program catalogs

1986 TELEVISION FINANCIAL REPORT, and 1986 RADIO FINANCIAL REPORT by Cynthia Stanley (Washington, DC: National Association of Broadcasters, 1986—price not given, but about $100 each, spiral bound)     

Broadcasting in General

Erik Barnouw's The Image Empires A History of Broadcasting in the United States From 1953 (Oxford University Press, $9.75)

Howard Koch's The Panic Broadcast (Little, Brown & Co., $4.95)

Howard W. Coleman's Caso Studios in Broadcast Management (Hastings House, $4.95)

Joe McGinniss' The Soiling of the President 1963 (Pocket Books, $1.25)

Alexander Kendrick's Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow (Avon, $1.65)

Nicholas Johnson's How To Talk Back to Your Television Set (Bantam, $1.25)

Herbert C. Kelman and Raphael S. Ezekiel's Cross-National Encounters (Jossoy-Bass (San Fransisco), $10.50)

Victor Gold's The Enemies He Has Made (Arlington House)

Bon Bagdikian's The Information Machine (Harper & Row)

Chester, Garrison, and Willis' Television and Radio (Appleton-Century-Crofts)     

Bibliographies of Interest

C. David Mortensen's Communication: The Study of Human Interaction (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972—$7.95)

Alex Groner and the editors of American Heritage and Business Week's The American Heritage History of American Business &; Industry (New York: American Heritage with distribution by McGraw-Hill, 1972—$17.95 to January 1st, then $20.00)

Herb Sanford's Tom and Jimmy: The Dorsey Years (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1972—$8.95)

Nicholas Johnson's Test Pattern For Living (New York: Bantam Books, 1972—$1.25, paper)     

Business of Broadcasting

Joseph S. Johnson and Kenneth K. Jones' Modern Radio Station Practices (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1972—$7.95)

Edd Routt (double letters in each name correct) The Business of Radio Broadcasting (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books, 1972— $12.95)

Giraud Chester, Garnet Garrison, and Edgar Willis' Television and Radio (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1971—$11.95)

Evelyn Sarson (ed.). Action for Children's Television (New York: Avon Discus Books, 1971— $1.25, paper)

The Fourth Network (New York: The Network Project, 102 Earl Hall, Columbia University, 1971—$3.00, paper)

William Kuhns' Exploring Television (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1971—$3.20, paper; with a Teacher's Guide available for $1.00, paper)

Wayne Green's (ed.), The Fascinating World of Radio Communications (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books, 1971—$6.95/3.95)

The Wit and Wisdom of Archie Bunker (New York: Popular Library, 1971—.95, paper)     

Law and Policy

NEW YORK TIMES v. SULLIVAN: THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS (March 1984, Handbook 250, 760 pp.)

CAMPAIGN '84: ADVERTISING AND PROGRAMMING OBLIGATIONS OF THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA (September 1983, Handbook 165, 512 pp.)

COMMUNICATIONS LAW 1983 (November 1983, Handbook 169, 1008 and 880 pp. in two volumes)

MEDIA ABUSES: RIGHTS AND REMEDIES—A GUIDE TO LEGAL REMEDIES edited by Timothy Brown. al. (The Media Institute, 3017 M St., N.W., Washir DC 20007---$25.00)

CHRONOLOGY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND CABLE TELEVISION REGULATION IN THE UNITED STATES (Harvard Program on Information Resources Policy, 200 Aiken, Harvard University; Cambridge, MA 02138---apply for price, paper)

AN ANALYSIS OF THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION'S GROUP OWNERSHIP RULES by Stanley M. Besen and Leland L. Johnson (Santa Monica, Calif.: Rand Note N-2097-MF, January 1984---price not given, paper)

JOURNAL OF PUBLIC POLICY AND MARKETING, edited by Thomas C. Kinnear (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, 1983---price not given, paper)

BROADCASTING AND GOVERNMENT (National Association of Broadcasters, 1771 N St., N.W., Washington, DC 20036---$49.95-make checks payable to TARPEC)     

Telecommunications

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ALTERNATIVES FOR FEDERAL USERS: MARKET TRENDS AND DECISIONMAKING CRITERIA by Leland Johnson et al. (Santa Monica, CA: Rand, R-3355-NSF, 1985—$20.00)

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SELECTED RAND PUBLICATIONS (titles as follows—free on request, paper) include SB-1020 on communication satellites (19 pp.)

Rand publications, three recent titles

THE COMPUTER SECURITY HANDBOOK by Richard H. Baker (Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Tab Professional and Reference Books, 1985—$25.00)

BUSINESS DATA COMMUNICATIONS by David A. Stamper (Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin/Cummings Publishing, 1986—price not given)

BEHIND THE TELEPHONE DEBATES 5: INTEGRATED SERVICES DIGITAL NETWORKS (ISDN): CONCEPTS AND ISSUES IN THE U.S. AND JAPAN by Masanao Tanase (Program on Information Resourcews Policy, 200 Aiken, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138—price not given, paper)     

International Communication

TRACING NEW ORBITS: COOPERATION AND COMPETITION IN GLOBAL SATELLITE DEVELOPMENT edited by Donna A. Demac (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986—$35.00)

ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS: GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF COMSAT by Leland L. Johnson (Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corp., 1987—price not given, paper)

TECHNOLOGICAL FRONTIERS AND FOREIGN RELATIONS edited by Anne G. Keatley (1985—$19.95, paper, 306 pp.)

THE COMPETITIVE STATUS OF THE U.S. ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY: A STUDY OF THE INFLUENCES OF TECHNOLOGY IN DETERMINING INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE (1984—$10.95, 126 pp.)

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER edited by John R. McIntyre and Daniel S. Papp (Westport, CT: Quorum Books/Greenwood Press, 1986—$45.00)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE USA by Albert Teich and Jill Pace (Detroit: Gale Research, 1986—$95)     

IN THE KINGDOM OF THE BLIND: SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTING INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE SHERPA PARTNERSHIP EXPERIENCE

This paper takes an overview of the work of the Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access (SHERPA) team and the SHERPA Partnership institutions in the area of developing, populating and maintaining institutional open access repositories. Crucial to this work has been the development of a mutually supporting and enabling Partnership community, something that has now been recognised as needed by institutions that lie outside it. To this end, SHERPA is involved in efforts to support the individuals and institutions across the United Kingdom and Europe who are engaging with the open access agenda on a practical level; through setting up community networks and disseminating experience. Key in the experience of the SHERPA Partnership has been the role of advocacy of open access and institutional repositories to the research community. Whilst this experience has been unique to each institution, there are many shared lessons and best practice that the Partnership has recently reflected on and that are articulated within this paper. Finally, brief coverage on some of the vital community tools developed and maintained by SHERPA, and reflections on the evolving direction of open access in the United Kingdom, are made.     

“The Facebook Election: New Media and the 2008 Election Campaign” Special Symposium

This study examines influences on the degree to which news organizations attend to everyday readers through online feedback, or conversely via advertising and marketing data. Factors at the community level, the market level, and the organizational level are examined as predictors of editors’ exposure and attention to audiences. Results of a national survey indicate that most editors tend to pay attention to both online reader feedback and marketing data. Factors at the organizational level, such as organizational size and public ownership, were more influential than community-level factors in explaining level of attention. Community structural pluralism was not a strong predictor of attention to feedback via marketing data or online. These findings suggest a business motive in editors’ communication and reinforce previous research pointing to the importance of organizational and peer-level factors in shaping journalists’ response to audiences.