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Describes and explores the origins, growth, and cultural impact of the true crime genre in American popular culture. This book examines the various genres of true crime using examples. It is suitable for those who read and enjoy true crime, and wish to learn more about it.

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An interdisciplinary collection of essays on telepistemologythe study of knowledge acquired at a distance.

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Offers key historical and interpretative texts on the development and role of "the screen" in communications and the social sphere.

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Offers key historical and interpretative texts on the development and role of "the screen" in communications and the social sphere.

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This concentrated focus upon colonial attitudes and thoughts toward the press covers the period of colonial settlement from the 1500s through 1765.

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This critical expose of American media presents a narrative about the men and women who gave us the story of the century, from the first coverage of the murders to the final days of the trial.

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This critical expose of American media presents a narrative about the men and women who gave us the story of the century, from the first coverage of the murders to the final days of the trial.

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This book presents comprehensive summaries and clearly focused analyses of virtually all U.S. Supreme Court decisions on libel and privacy since 1964. He presents each case in a broad based yet comprehensive summary allowing the reader to review and understand not just isolated and disjunctive points of law, but the case in its entirety.

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This book presents comprehensive summaries and clearly focused analyses of virtually all U.S. Supreme Court decisions on libel and privacy since 1964. He presents each case in a broad based yet comprehensive summary allowing the reader to review and understand not just isolated and disjunctive points of law, but the case in its entirety.

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The Television Studies Book is a stimulating and challenging collection which analyses how the study of television has developed and points to new approaches dealing with rapidly changing technologies and formats.

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A prescient and deeply empathetic work based on seven years of reporting on the fault lines of the culture wars that continue to divide America.

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This text analyses the stereotypes and misconceptions that Americans have of Arabs and Arab-Americans and discusses the far-reaching impact that the United States has had on the Middle East. Specialists provide perspectives about cross-cultural and political communication.

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This insightful analysis argues that the media should have done a better job of performing its traditional role of skeptic and watchdog, and it examines what went wrong.

There are, of course, many people whose support for going to war in Iraq was not contingent on the existence of WMD or a connection to al-Qaeda.

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How memetic mediaaggregate texts that are collectively created, circulated, and transformedbecome a part of public conversations that shape broader cultural debates.

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Issues of power, form and subjectivity are at the centre of all attempts to understand the media better. This book highlights both what we know and what we need to know, using regular examples to make its points. -- .

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Using contemporary as well as archival sources, this text explores a series of questions: why has the Titanic disaster affected the way we think about ourselves; how has the media made it into a morality play and what impact has the story had on 20th-century communications

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Part of the "Technologies: Studies in Culture and Theory" series. Through a critical analysis of the widely accepted notion that technology speeds everything up, this book argues that there are only ever differences in speed. The question for us is how can such differences be represented