Media, entertainment, information and communication industries

Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur, and a daring risk taker who piloted his own jets and skied mountains accessible only by helicopter.

Is the Internet erasing national borders?

Donald Ritchie offers a vibrant chronicle of news coverage in our nation's capital, from the early days of radio and print reporting and the heyday of the wire services to the brave new world of the Internet.

An engaging study of authorship, ethics, and book publishing in 18th- and 19th-century America, The Grand Chorus of Complaint considers the uneasy relationship between art and commerce with readings of correspondence, newspaper articles, and works by Thomas Paine, Herman Melville, and Fanny Fern.

Fox News, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Rush Limbaugh Show, National Public Radio--with so many options, where do people turn for news?

William Randolph Hearst was one of the most colorful and important figures of turn-of-the-century America, a man who changed the face of American journalism and whose influence extends to the present day.

William Randolph Hearst was a figure of Shakespearean proportions, a man of huge ambition, inflexible will, and inexhaustible energy.

Fox News, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Rush Limbaugh Show, National Public Radio--with so many options, where do people turn for news?

Federal broadband policy has largely ignored urban areas, where most Americans live.

While the newspaper op-ed page, the Sunday morning political talk shows on television, and the evening cable-news television lineup have an obvious and growing influence in American politics and political communication, social scientists and media scholars tend to be broadly critical of the rise of organized punditry during the 20th century without ever providing a close empirical analysis.

Venetian music print culture of the mid-sixteenth century is presented here through a study of the Scotto press, one of the foremost dynastic music publishers of the Renaissance.

Based on the classic History of Broadcasting in the United States, Tube of Plenty represents the fruit of several decades' labor.

In 1889 uniformed post-boys were discovered moonlighting in a West End brothel frequented by men of the upper classes.

A new breed of journalists came to the fore in post-revolutionary America--fiercely partisan, highly ideological, and possessed of a bold sense of vocation and purpose as they entered the fray of political debate.

In Losing the News, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex S.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Joseph Cappella-two of the nation's foremost experts on politics and media-offers a searching analysis of the conservative media establishment, from talk radio to Fox News to the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal.

In this much anticipated sequel to the legal bestseller, The Future of Law, Susskind lays down a challenge to all lawyers to ask themselves, with their hands on their hearts, what elements of their current workload could be undertaken differently - more quickly, cheaply, efficiently, or to a higher quality - using alternative methods of working.

A vital instrument of power, telecommunications is and has always been a political technology.

A new breed of journalists came to the fore in post-revolutionary America--fiercely partisan, highly ideological, and possessed of a bold sense of vocation and purpose as they entered the fray of political debate.

In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J.

In Losing the News, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex S.

The concentration of private power over media has been the subject of intense public debate around the world.

Write Like a Chemist is a unique guide to chemistry-specific writing.

Political blogs have grown astronomically in the last half-decade.

William Randolph Hearst was a figure of Shakespearean proportions, a man of huge ambition, inflexible will, and inexhaustible energy.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Joseph Cappella-two of the nation's foremost experts on politics and media-offers a searching analysis of the conservative media establishment, from talk radio to Fox News to the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal.

Since the introduction of radio and television news, journalism has gone through multiple transformations, but each time it has been sustained by a commitment to basic values and best practices.

In The History of Music Production, Richard James Burgess draws on his experience as a producer, musician, and author.

A Divinity for All Persuasions uncovers the religious signifiance of early America's most ubiquitous popular genre.

A generation ago, "e;cyberspace"e; was just a term from science fiction, used to describe the nascent network of computers linking a few university labs.

The Art of Music Production is the first book to comprehensively analyze and describe the role of the music producer in creating successful music recordings.

Digital Dilemmas looks at the dynamics of power and resistance surrounding the internet.

In The History of Music Production, Richard James Burgess draws on his experience as a producer, musician, and author.

The dream of capturing and organizing knowledge is as old as history.

Why are some civic associations better than others at getting--and keeping--people involved in activism?

Unruly Media argues that we are the crest of a new international style in which sonic and visual parameters become heightened and accelerated.

Has the virtual invaded the realm of the real, or has the real expanded its definition to include what once was characterized as virtual?

As a field, computer science occupies a unique scientific space, in that its subject matter can exist in both physical and abstract realms.

As a field, computer science occupies a unique scientific space, in that its subject matter can exist in both physical and abstract realms.

For twenty years an acclaimed correspondent on PBS's The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and the winner of two Emmys and two Peabody Awards (the latter two for her coverage of Africa), Charlayne Hunter-Gault was until recently the Johannesburg Bureau Chief for CNN.

This is the official text for the National Association of Science Writers.

In the twenty-first century, mass media corporations are often seen as profit-hungry money machines.

The Digital Hand, Volume 2, is a historical survey of how computers and telecommunications have been deployed in over a dozen industries in the financial, telecommunications, media and entertainment sectors over the past half century.

Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur, and a daring risk taker who piloted his own jets and skied mountains accessible only by helicopter.

Is the Internet erasing national borders?

According to virtually every business writer, we are in the midst of a new "e;information age,"e; one that will revolutionize how workers work, how companies compete, perhaps even how thinkers think.

In 1895, a 27-year-old journalist named William Allen White returned to his home town of Emporia, Kansas, to edit a little down-at-the-heels newspaper he had just purchased for $3,000.

This volume focuses on developments in the music business in the twentieth century, including vaudeville, music boxes, the relationship of Hollywood to the music business, the "e;fall and rise"e; of the record business in the 1930s, new technology (TV, FM, and the LP record) after World War II, the dominance of rock-and-roll and the huge increase in the music business during the 1950s and 1960s, and finally the changing music business scene from 1967 to the present, especially regarding government regulations, music licensing, and the record business.

Vietnam was America's most divisive and unsuccessful foreign war.