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Communication
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Media Law,
First Amendment, and Regulations
Communication Institute for Online Scholarship
Comprehensive communication service including the Electronic Journal of Communication.
Communication Studies
Professor
Mike Kearl's (Trinity U., Sociology) annotated links to Communication Studies from the award winning Web site "A Sociological Tour through Cyberspace."
San Antonio Local
Media - This is a site from the San Antonio Public Library on local newspaper, radio
and TV media
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McLuhan Website
"This website is intended to be a supplement and aid to classroom curriculum designed to help educators to introduce their students to the ideas of the
late Marshall McLuhan."
Jump Cut
"...Publishes material on film, television, video and related media and
cultural analysis. Taking an
explicit political stand as a nonsectarian left, feminist, and
anti-imperialist publication, JUMP CUT is committed to
presenting and developing media criticism which recognizes: (1) media in a
social and political context; (2) the political and social needs and
perspectives of people struggling for liberation--workers, women, Blacks and
other oppressed minorities, Third World people, gays and lesbians; (3) the
interrelationship of class, race, and gender oppression; (4) new theoretical
and analytic perspectives."
Independent Media Center
Nicknamed Indymedia, this edgy venture in "open publishing" provides international Web pages where independent journalists and publications may post stories and media with global relevance. Regarding
accuracy, the site states, "you should look at all reports you read on the Indymedia site with a critical eye, just as you should look at all media before you in a discerning manner."
--Librarian's Index to the Internet
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Advertising Age
The online edition of Advertising Age featuring daily news and views about the world of advertising and the media. The
Data Center section has advertising
-related statistics. Site is archived and searchable.
--Librarian's Index to the Internet
See
Quest for library print holdings, and
Journals for online full-text access.
SRDS Media Planning & Buying Calculators
CPMs, CPPs, Ratings, Shares, and HUTs and PUTs. Click on "Support
Services."
SRDS Advertising & Marketing Links
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Click on
E-Circ for easy look-up of newspaper circulation rates. Search by
title, state or city, in the U.S. or Canada. Also offers
some information on magazine circulation.
Ad*Access
the Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database
information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene and World
War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University."
Knowthis.com Marketing Virtual Library
"The marketing specialty area of the World Wide Web Virtual Library...it is best browsed through a series of sections, including Advertising and Promotion, Education,
And Market Research. Each section includes a short paragraph explaining the scope of the information, as well as a description of the section coverage, which includes the types of resources as well as suggestions as to who will be interested in the sources."--Internet Scout Project
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Magazine Publishers of
America
The premier resource for information about consumer
magazines, "Magazine
Publishers of America (MPA) is the industry association for consumer
magazines. Established in 1919, the MPA represents more than 240 domestic
publishing companies with approximately 1,400
titles, more than 80 international companies and more than 100 associate
members."
American Business
Media
The key resource
for information about trade and professional magazines, "American Business
Media is the association for business-to-business information providers,
including producers of print publications, websites, trade shows and other
media."
Wooden Horse Publishing
The website posts up-to-date news and information about the
industry, lists resources and features a searchable Magazines Database with
more than 2,000 U. S. and Canadian consumer and trade magazines. The database
is for-pay, but it's possible to have 24-hour access for only $1.99.
MRI: MediaMark Research
& Intelligence
Media and consumer
research, including audience data for the U.S. consumer magazine industry.
As a student, you can register for a free account.
RSAP: Research Society for American Periodicals
An interdisciplinary organization of scholars interested in American
magazines and newspapers, the RSAP lists numerous magazine research
resources.
Course guide for Mass Media COMM 1301
A web guide to using the subscription databases at Trinity University to
research media moguls and company facts & connections.
Professional / Associations
Media Bistro Salary Surveys
NCA National Communication Association
American Communication Association
International Communication Association
Association for Women in Communication
Austin Chapter
FAIR, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
"Fair is a media watch group that "seek[s] to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press" and offers critical analysis and commentary on media bias and
censorship issues. FAIR's Website includes selected articles from Extra!. the magazine of FAIR; current
and archived broadcasts of CounterSpin, FAIR's weekly radio show; current and past editions of Media Beat, a weekly syndicated column on media and politics written by Norman Solomon; a section devoted to
Media Activism; and a section called Media Watch Desks, which scrutinizes media from various perspectives."
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
"The Association of alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) is a diverse group of 116 non-daily free-circulation papers that are distributed in all of the major metropolitan areas of North America. Each paper has a distinct, local identity that sets it apart from the mainstream press in its market."
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Click on
E-Circ for easy look-up of newspaper circulation rates. Search by
title, state or city, in the U.S. or Canada. Also
offers some information on magazine circulation.
The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
"The Center is an independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues. We are the best known for regular national surveys that measure public attentiveness to major news stories, and for our polling that charts trends in values
and fundamental political and social attitudes. Formerly, the Times
Mirror Center for the People & the Press (1990-1995), we are now sponsored by The Pew Charitable Trusts."
The Newseum
The museum of news located in Arlington VA.
Site includes the
daily front pages of 575 newspapers from around the world,
including a
daily analysis and
archived pages for specific events.
The
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Based
at Vanderbilt University: contains over 30,000 individual network
evening news broadcasts and more than 9,000 hours of special
news-related programming.
Alexa-- Monitors and
ranks the world's websites on the basis of the traffic they receive.
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
The Berkman Center is a research program founded to
explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its
development. We represent a network of faculty, students, fellows,
entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and
engage with the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace.
Center for Democracy and Technology --
Working to promote democratic values
and constitutional liberties in the digital age.
Center for Digital Democracy—“The
Center for Digital Democracy is committed to preserving the openness
and diversity of the Internet in the broadband era, and to realizing
the full potential of digital communications through the development
and encouragement of noncommercial, public interest programming.”
Guide to internet and web statistics - New Media Studies--
Links to global Internet stats.
Interface on the Internet
-- The electronic journal of the Berglund Center for Internet
Studies (BCIS) intended to facilitate both theoretical discussion and
practical action relating to the impact of the Internet upon
individuals and their communities worldwide.
The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC)
is
a web-based, peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Its focus is social
science research on computer-mediated communication via the Internet,
the World Wide Web, and wireless technologies.
The Journal of New Media and Culture—“…publishes
peer-reviewed papers and audiovisual pieces that contextualize
encoding/decoding environments and the discourses, ideologies, and
human experiences/uses of new media apparatuses.”
The Journal of Online Behavior--
"Concerned with the empirical study of human behavior in the online
environment, and with the impact of evolving communication and
information technology upon individuals, groups, organizations, and
society."
Public Knowledge-- A
Washington D.C.-based advocacy group working to defend our rights in
the emerging digital culture.
Poynter New Media Bibliography
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies--
The RCCS is an online,
not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, teach,
support and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture.
Vectors-- A journal of
communication and technology put out by USC's
Annenberg Center for
Communication.
NPR Online National Public Radio home page
Writing for Radio
Radio Days
Internet Resources for Film
Wide variety of internet resources related to all aspects of film.
Tv.com
A comprehensive database of cast, broadcast dates, trivia and episodes
for television programs.
NBC
ABC
Al Jazeera
CBS
Fox Network
PBS
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
A&E
CNN
Trinity University Tiger TV
Media Center at New York Law School
An internet guide to media law online, with listings of
U.S. media laws and
U.S. cases.
First Amendment: An Overview
From the LII, includes an overview, related materials,
and selected links.
Firstamendmentcenter.org]
From Vanderbilt University, "comprehensive
research coverage of key First Amendment issues and topics, daily First
Amendment news, a unique First Amendment Library and guest analyses by
respected legal specialists."
New First Amendment Cases
From the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Solender Institute in Free Speech and Mass Media Law
From Southern Methodist University, a page of helpful online resources.
Telecommunications Act of 1996 - part of
Federal Communications Commission site.
Federal Communication Law Journal.
Electronic journal published by Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington.
Center for Intellectual Property
FindLaw's
page for Intellectual Property sites and info - for Legal Professions
Copyright Information--from the Coates Library Circulation
department
Please send comments to
David Wilson
library liaison for Communication.
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