Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Mass Media and Society - Softcover

Alexander, Alison; Hanson, Jarice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0073515027 ISBN 13: 9780073515021

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2006

Synopsis

TAKING SIDES: CLASHING VIEWS IN MASS MEDIA presents current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. An instructor’s manual with testing material is available for each volume. USING TAKING SIDES IN THE CLASSROOM is also an excellent instructor resource with practical suggestions on incorporating this effective approach in the classroom. Each TAKING SIDES reader features an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites and is supported by our student website, www.dushkin.com/online.

About this title

About the Authors

Alison Alexander is a Professor of Telecommunications and Senior Associate Dean at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She is the past Editor of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, and past President of the Association for Communication Administration and the Eastern Communication Association. She received her PhD in communication from Ohio State University. She is widely published in the area of media and family, audience research, and media economics.

Jarice Hanson is Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her research focuses on the impact of new technology. She formerly held the Verizon Chair in Telecommunications at Temple University, and was the founding Dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University. She received her MA and PhD at Northwestern Universitys Department of Radio-TV-Film. She is the author or editor of numerous books and articles, including The Economic Encyclopedia of Social Media: Friending, Following, Texting, and Connecting (Greenwood, 2016) and 24/7: How Cell Phones and the Internet Change the Way We Live, Work and Play (Praeger, 2007), Constructing Americas War Culture: Iraq, Media, and Images at Home (coedited with Thomas Conroy) (Lexington Books, 2007), and The Unconnected: Participation, Engagement, and Social Justice in the Information Society (coedited with Paul M. A. Baker and Jeremy Hunsinger) (Peter Lang, 2013).

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0073515027
• ISBN 13: 9780073515021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408