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Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins
Call Number: 302.230973 J52c 2006 Main Collection
Publication Date: 2006
Media analyst Jenkins delves beneath the new media hype to uncover the important cultural transformations that are taking place as media converge. Jenkins explains the cultural shift as consumers fight for control across disparate channels, changing the way we do business, elect our leaders, and educate our children.
Media Intertextualities by Mie Hiramoto
Publication Date: 2012
This collection of critical essays, originally published in Pragmatics and Society 1:2 (2010), discusses how normative biases that shape our relation to the world are constructed through discursive practice in media discourse. The intertextual perspective it adopts is crucial for our understanding of how media representations of speakers and languages shape many of our preconceptions of others.
Media Ethics by Matthew Kieran
Publication Date: 1998
Concerns about the role and responsibilities of the media have become an increasingly important part of public debate. Media Ethics brings together philosophers, academics and media professionals to debate pressing ethical and moral issues.
Evil Media by Matthew Fuller; Andrew Goffey
Publication Date: 2012
A philosophical manual of media power for the network age.
Media Ethics by Clifford G. Christians; Mark Fackler; Kathy Richardson; Peggy Kreshel; Robert H. Woods
Publication Date: 2015
Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning uses original case studies and commentaries about real-life media experiences to challenge readers to think analytically about ethical situations in mass communication.
The Social Media Reader by Michael Mandiberg
Publication Date: 2012
The Social Media Reader is the first collection to address the collective transformation with pieces on social media, peer production, copyright politics, and other aspects of contemporary internet culture from all the major thinkers in the field.
American Girls by Nancy Jo Sales
Call Number: 305.2352 S163a 2016 Main Collection
Publication Date: 2016
Explores the changes in the way teenage girls are growing up in America, discussing the new norms, from extreme behaviors to lack of basic communication skills.

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Access World News
Comprehensive collection of reliable full-text newspapers, including most major, local and regional U.S. newspapers and thousands of international news sources; includes searchable news video clips.
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Alt-Press Watch
Full text coverage of alternative and independent magazines and newspapers. Full text coverage of alternative and independent magazines and newspapers.
Ethnic NewsWatch
News, culture, and history from publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press. News, culture, and history from publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press.
GenderWatch
Forty years of publications sensitive to gender issues including media portrayals of such. Forty years of publications sensitive to gender issues including media portrayals of such.
Academic Video Online Premium
A multidisciplinary collection of streaming videos with over 60,000 films across all disciplines including history, education, art, dance, anthropology, humanities, health, business, psychology, politics, theater, and science.

Communication and Media Studies Assocations

International Association for Media and Communication Research
IAMCR is the preeminent worldwide professional organization in the field of media and communication research. IAMCR aims to support and develop media and communication research throughout the world. It particularly encourages the participation of emerging scholars, women and those from economically disadvantaged regions.
American Communication Association
ACA was created to promote academic and professional research, criticism, teaching, practical use, and exchange of principles and theories of human communication.
International Communication Association
International association for scholars interested in all aspects of mediated communication. Organization began more than 50 years ago and now boasts a membership of over 3,500 members from 65 countries.
Association for Women in Communications
AWC is a professional organization that champions the advancement of women across all communications disciplines by recognizing excellence, promoting leadership and positioning its members at the forefront of the evolving communications era.
National Association of Black Journalists
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that provides innovative, quality programs and services to its members. The organization advocates on behalf of Black journalists and media professionals in the U.S. and worldwide.
National Association of Hispanic Journalists
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) is dedicated to the recognition and professional advancement of Hispanics in the news industry.
National Communication Association
The National Communication Association advances communication as the discipline that studies all forms, modes, media and consequences of communication through humanistic, social scientific and aesthetic inquiry.
Association for Media and Publishing
Association Media & Publishing (AM&P) is the only organization dedicated to the needs of print and digital publishers in nonprofit organizations. AM&P also serves association business operations executives, communication professionals, designers, editors, and content creators, and the media they create.

Communication & Media Studies Fields

IMDb
IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content.
New York Times Movie Reviews
The New York Times Movie Reviews by film critics.

Film Scripts Online
Full text of 1100 scripts by 1,062 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.
Film Literature Index
Contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Offers titles from Films for the Humanities and Sciences, ABC News, NBC News, BBC, National Geographic, PBS, Cambridge Education, and many more. The library owns a small number of titles.

American Film Institute Catalog
The AFI Catalog of Feature Films is a comprehensive chronicle of the first century of American cinema.
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AFI Catalog of Feature Films was the first-ever scholarly listing of American films, with academically vetted information about the existence, availability and sources of motion pictures already produced, spanning the entirety of the art form since 1893.
Journal of Popular Film and Television
The Journal of Popular Film and Television provides a representative cross section of critical-cultural perspectives and to broaden the existing literature to include the “public visions” of popular filmmakers and television showrunners, economic and industrial factors, and an emphasis on the complex role of audiences in the development of film and television as art forms and wide-reaching sociocultural forces.

National Newspapers
Full text of the Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, from the 1980s to the present.
Google News Archive
Index to digitized historical newspapers, worldwide with North American focus.
Access World News
Comprehensive collection of reliable full-text newspapers, including most major, local and regional U.S. newspapers and thousands of international news sources; includes searchable news video clips.

American Journalism Review
The American Journalism Review contains original reporting, commentary and smart aggregation on the news media.
Journalist's Resource: Knowledge-based Reporting
The Journalist’s Resource examine public policy news topics through a research lens. Their mission is to inform the news by bridging the communications gap between academia and journalism.
Pew Research Center Journalism & Media
Pew Research Center's studies and research conducted in the journalism and media field.
Poynter.
The Poynter Institute offers news, training and job opportunities for journalists.
Journalist's Toolbox
Journalist's Toolbox contains thousands of free (and some fee-based) resources organized by beats on more than 150 searchable pages.
Nieman Reports
Nieman Reports is a website and quarterly print publication covering thought leadership in journalism.

Journal of Advertising
The Journal of Advertising is the premier journal devoted to the development of advertising theory and its relationship to practice. Article topics include advertising effectiveness, advertising ethics, global advertising issues, and methodological issues, along with the economic, political, social, and environmental aspects of advertising.
Journal of Advertising Research
The mission of the Journal of Advertising Research (JAR) is to act as the research and development vehicle for professionals in all areas of marketing including media, research, advertising and communications. It provides a forum for sharing findings, applications, new technologies and methodologies, and avenues of solution.
AdForum
Platform that allows advertisers/companies to showcase and discover the best work from the creative industry in the largest global advertising agency directory and creative Gallery.

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
Published quarterly for the Broadcast Education Association, the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media presents timely research articles about new developments, trends, and innovations in electronic and digital communication to advance scholarly discoveries and real-world solutions.

Creator Academy
Free courses, tips and education for YouTube creators, provided by YouTube.
YouTube Space
Includes in-person and online resources for YouTube Creators. Online services include informative events and workshops.