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Research Guide for Communication Studies
Last update: Nov 18th, 2009
URL: http://libguides.usc.edu/communication
Print Guide
The Content Analysis Reader - Krippendorff, Klaus.
Call Number: Doheny Library: P93.C65 2009
ISBN/ISSN: 9781412949651
The Content Analysis Reader presents a collection of studies that exemplify what content analysts do and how they solve problems in applying this methodology to answer a variety of research questions. The assembly of historical and current studies from a variety of disciplines, allows readers to learn the process of conducting content analysis research. It can be used as a companion to Krippendorff’s Content Analysis text, as a supplemental text for content analysis courses, or as an introduction to content analysis by examples.
Signs and Symbols (Communicating with Pattern) - Hampshire, Mark
Call Number: Doheny Library: P99.4 2008
ISBN/ISSN: 2940361908
The latest in the highly collectable Communicating with Pattern series, Signs and Symbols showcases stunning examples of designs that incorporate all manner of signs, symbols, and glyphs, explaining how they can be used in contemporary design to communicate a variety of messages and influences. Signs and Symbols explores the meaning and origin of these familiar forms, starting with the earliest graphics known to man: cave paintings and hieroglyphics. Corporate logos, club motifs, coats of arms, political insignia, and religions symbols represent authority and membership. They are also an essential part of daily life, in the form of wayfinding tools such as road signs, alphabets, icons, and signage.
American radio networks - Cox, Jim
Call Number: Doheny Library: PN1991.3.U6 C63 2009
ISBN/ISSN: 0786441925
This book is a history of commercial broadcast radio networks in the United States from the 1920s to the present. It covers the four transcontinental webs that operated during the pre-television Golden Age, plus local and regional hookups, and the developments that have occurred in the decades since, including the impact of television, rise of the disc jockey, the rise of talk radio and other specialized formats, implications of satellite technology and consolidation of networks and local stations.
Eva Leitolf: Deutsche Bilder Eine Spurensuche 1992-2008 - Leitolf, Eva
Call Number: Doheny Library: TR820.5 .L458 2008
ISBN/ISSN: 3936859906
This full-color, large-format book of apparently bucolic scenes is, in fact, an indictment of the persistence of racism and xenophobia in today's Germany. Opposite each lovely photo of an ancient, half-timbered building, a verdant lawn or a neatly manicured plaza, Eva Leitolf tells the true story of a racist incident that took place there. On the beach in Heringsdorf, in 2004, a group of men and women assaulted teenagers from Berlin, one of whom was dark-skinned and called a negro slut during the attack. In a plaza in Wriezen in 2004, a mentally disabled man of Arab ancestry was verbally attacked and then stabbed with a sharp object. The contrast between the peaceful settings, empty of people, and the hateful scenes that took place there makes for a thought provoking and challenging discourse regarding race and discriminaion.
Before Elvis there was nothing - Lutzen, Andre
Call Number: Doheny Library: E169.Z83 L88 2008
ISBN/ISSN: 3868280065
Fifty years after Robert Frank's The Americans, the German photographer André Lützen sets off on his own odyssey through everyday life in America. His road trip takes us from Colorado to Mississippi. The series radiates Lützen's own singular style: documentary photography that derives its vitality from atmosphere and movement while also evoking aspects of self-imposed solitude. The mood here is a strange mix of poetic tranquility and aimless restlessness. Focusing on commonplace things, these images unflinchingly expose the depths and shallows of the American dream.André Lützen's work has received several awards and has been shown at numerous international festivals.
Pieces of Sound: German Experimental Radio - Gilfillan, Daniel
Call Number: Doheny Library: PN1991.8.E94 G55 2009
ISBN/ISSN: 0816647720
Since the rise of film and television, radio has continued to evolve, with satellite radio and podcasts as its latest incarnations. Any understanding of the development of radio, like its visual counterparts, depends on closely examining the artistic ventures that preceded commercial acceptance. In Pieces of Sound, Daniel Gilfillan offers a cultural history that explores these major aspects of the medium by focusing on German radio broadcasting, providing a context that sees beyond programming to consider regulations, cultural politics, and social standardization. Gilfillan showcases the work of radio pioneers and artists over the past century, including Brecht’s work with the form, and how radio was employed before and after World War II. He traces how German radio broadcasters experimented with networked media not only to expand the artistic and communicative possibilities of radio, but also to inform perceptions about the advantages and direction of newer telecommunications media like Internet broadcasting and pirate radio, which artists are using today to engage with a medium that is increasingly coming under corporate control. Gilfillan astutely observes how claims made for the Internet today echo those made for radio in its infancy and puts forth a broad and incisive historical analysis of German cultural broadcasting.
Avril Cunningham
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