Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication
RICHARD CAMPBELL, director of the journalism program at Miami University, is the author of60 Minutes and the News: A Mythology for Middle America(1991) and coauthor ofCracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-Cocaine Crusade and the Reagan Legacy(1994). Campbell has written for numerous publications includingColumbia Journalism Review,Journal of Communication, andMedia Studies Journaland he is on the editorial board of Critical Studies in Mass Communication and Television Quarterly. As a writer and media critic, he is a frequent speaker on public radio and television. CHRISTOPHER R. MARTINis an associate professor of journalism at University of Northern Iowa and author ofFramed! Labor and the Corporate Media(2003). He has written articles and reviews on journalism, televised sports, the Internet, and labor for several publications includingCommunication Research,Journal of Communication,Journal of Communication Inquiry,Labor Studies Journal, andCulture, Sport, and Society. BETTINA FABOS, an award-winning video maker and former print reporter, is an assistant professor of Visual Communication and interactive media studies at University of Northern Iowa. She is the author ofWrong Turn on the Information Superhighway: Education and the Commercialized Internet(2003). Her areas of expertise include critical media literacy, Internet commercialization, the role of the internet in education, and media representations of popular culture.