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Vol 3 (2009)

Table of Contents

Articles

The Importance of Interpersonal Discussion and Self-Efficacy in Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Models	Abstract PDF
Joyee S. Chatterjee, Anurudra Bhanot, Lauren B. Frank, Sheila T. Murphy, Gerry Power	pp.28

Transmedia Storytelling: Implicit Consumers, Narrative Worlds, and Branding in Contemporary Media Production	Abstract PDF
Carlos Alberto Scolari	pp.21

Reflections on the Academic Milieu of Media Studies	Abstract PDF
Bob Hanke	pp.27

Color Revolutions in Colored Lenses: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. and Russian Press Coverage of Political Movements in Ukraine, Belarus and Uzbekistan	Abstract PDF
Juyan Zhang, Shahira Fahmy	pp.23

Global Crises in the News: Staging New Wars, Disasters and Climate Change	Abstract PDF
Simon Cottle	pp.24

Multiple Meanings, Identities, and Resistances: Egyptian Rural Women’s Readings of Televised Family Planning Campaigns	Abstract PDF
Sahar Khamis	pp.48

Jester, Fake Journalist, or the New Walter Lippmann? Recognition Processes of Jon Stewart by the U.S. Journalistic Community	Abstract PDF
Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt	pp.24

Some Theoretical Foundations of Critical Media Studies: Reflections on Karl Marx and the Media	Abstract PDF
Christian Fuchs	pp.34

Global and Molecular Equity as Predictors of Comforting Communication in Romantic Relationships	Abstract PDF
David Dryden Henningsen, Mary Claire Morr Serewicz, Christopher Carpenter	pp.18

Book Reviews

Michael Schudson: Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press	PDF
Reviewed by Nikki Usher	pp.5

Monroe E. Price & Daniel Dayan (Eds.): Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China	PDF
Reviewed by Jeroen de Kloet	pp.6

Barbie Zelizer: Exporations in Communication and History	PDF
Reviewed by David W. Park	pp.6

Zoë Druick: Projecting Canada: Government Policy and Documentary Film at the National Film Board	PDF
Reviewed by Michelle Kelley	pp.4

Lynn Spigel: TV By Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television	PDF
Reviewed by Nadja Millner-Larsen	pp.4

Susan Wise Bauer: The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America	PDF
Reviewed by Zohar Kampf	pp.5

John Hartley: Television Truths: Forms of Knowledge in Popular Culture	PDF
Reviewed by Milly Buonanno	pp.5

Hsin-I Cheng: Culturing Interface: Identity, Communication, and Chinese Transnationalism	PDF
Reviewed by Joseph Tse-Hei Lee	pp.3

Eva Illouz: Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help	PDF
Reviewed by Louise Woodstock	pp.3

Features

How to Find Out How to Do Qualitative Research	Abstract PDF
Howard S. Becker	pp.9

Bling Was a Bubble	PDF
Christopher Holmes Smith	pp.3

From Fermentation to Maturity? Reflections on Media and Communication Studies. An Interview with Todd Gitlin, Jostein Gripsrud & Michael Schudson	Abstract PDF
Helle Sjøvaag, Hallvard Moe	pp.10

Vol 2 (2008)

Table of Contents

Articles

Socrates Back on the Street: Wikipedia's Citing of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy	Abstract PDF
John Willinsky	pp.20

RED is the New Black: Brand Culture, Consumer Citizenship and Political Possibility	Abstract PDF
Sarah Banet-Weiser, Charlotte Lapsansky	pp.21

The Rise of China’s Media Supermarket: An Appraisal of Cultural Imperialism's Relevance to the Chinese TV Industry	Abstract PDF
Yu Shi	pp.27

The Informationalization of Race: Communication Technologies and the Human Genome in the Digital Age	Abstract PDF
Peter A. Chow-White	pp.27

Book Reviews

David D. Perlmutter: Picturing China in the American Press	PDF
Reviewed by Wenxiang Gong	pp.4

Marjorie Harness Goodwin: The Hidden Life of Girls: Games of Stance, Status, and Exclusion	PDF
Reviewed by Tamar Katriel	pp.4

Changes in China’s Media and Internet Technology: A Review Essay	PDF
Reviewed by Joseph Tse-Hei Lee	pp.5

Rita Watson & Menahem Blondheim (Eds.): The Toronto School of Communication Theory: Interpretations, Extensions, Applications	PDF
Reviewed by Bob Hanke	pp.8

Features

How Public Perceptions of How Media and NGOs Contribute to Civil Society	Abstract PDF
Maureen Taylor, Philip M. Napoli	pp.22

The Changing Context of News Work: Liquid Journalism for a Monitorial Citizenry	PDF
Mark Deuze	pp.18

[Special Section on Academic Research and Communications Policy] Trying to Intervene: British media research and the framing of policy debate	PDF
Georgina Born	pp.8

[Fernando Henrique Cardoso on Globalization] A Surprising World	PDF
Fernando Henrique Cardoso	pp.43