Abstract: | RESHAPING THE MEDIA: MASS COMMUNICATION IN AN INFORMATION AGE by Everette E. Dennis (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1989—$35.00/16.95, ISBN 0-8039-3660-5 hard, 0-8039-3661-3 paper, 205 pp.) MACROMEDIA: MISSION, MESSAGE AND MORALITY by Ralph L. Lowenstein and John C. Merrill (White Plains, NY: Longman, 1990—price not given, paper, ISBN 0-8013-0471-7, 309 pp.) MEDIA USA: PROCESS AND EFFECT edited by Arthur Asa Berger (White Plains, NY: Longman, 1991—price not given, paper, ISBN 0-8013-0452-0, 461 pp.) THE MEDIA READER edited by Manuel Alvarado and John 0. Thompson (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990-$45.00/19.95, ISBN 0-85170-258-9 hard, 0-85170-259-7 paper, 360 pp.; published in London by British Film Institute) MEDIA ETHICS: CASES & MORAL REASONING by Clifford G. Christians, Kim B. Rotzoll, and Mark Fackler (White Plains, NY: Longman, 1991—price not given, paper, ISBN 0-8013-0650-7, 445 pp.) COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE: LANGUAGE, PERFORMANCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDIA edited by Sari Thomas and William A. Evans (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1990—price not given, ISBN 0-89391-497-5,375 pp.) INSIDE THE MEDIA by Conrad C. Fink (White Plains, NY: Longman, 1990—price not given, paper, ISBN 0-8013-0257-9, 398 pp.) MEDIA IMPACT by Shirley Biagi (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1990 price not given, paper, ISBN 0-534-12660-X, 411 pp.) MASS MEDIA VI: AN INTRODUCTION TO MODERN COMMUNICATION by Ray Eldon Hiebert, Donald F. Ungurait, and Thomas W. Bohn (White Plains, NY: Longman, 1991—price not given, paper, ISBN 0-8013-0453-9, 666 pp.) THE MEDIA MATRIX: DEEPENING THE CONTEXT OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES by Scott Eastham (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1990—$8.75, paper, ISBN 0-8191-7715-6, 127 pp.) MODERN MASS MEDIA by John C. Merrill, John Lee, and Edward Jay Friedlander (New York: Harper & Row now HarperCollins], 1990—price not given, ISBN 0-06-044470-3, 608 pp.) |