Susan Dente Ross

Joseph Russomanno

Robert Trager

Amy Reynolds

Law of Journalism and Mass Communication, Fourth Edition offers a clear and engaging introduction to media law. Authors Robert Trager, Joseph Russomanno, Susan Dente Ross, and Amy Reynolds present comprehensive coverage and analysis of this essential topic to future journalists and media professionals. The text offers an abundance of photos and feature boxes, as well as a marginal glossary of legal terms and concepts. Readers will explore real-world, landmark cases in context, as well as scenarios from significant cases, to help readers think critically about the concepts learned. Unlike many revisions that simply tack on new content—adding length and undermining clarity—the updates to the Fourth Edition are fully integrated, offering the current state of media law in one comprehensive and understandable discussion.

The Law of Journalism and Mass Communication

Caitlin Ring Carlson

Victoria Smith Ekstrand

Erin Coyle

Trager’s The Law of Journalism and Mass Communication provides a clear and engaging introduction to media law with comprehensive coverage and analysis for future journalists and media professionals. The Eighth Edition brings the law to life with cutting-edge research, the latest court and legislative rulings, and a wealth of new content.

Trager′s The Law of Journalism and Mass Communication

Paul Martin Lester

Explores how certain images in the media present oversimplified, negative, and frequently deceptive depictions of various groups of people, and discusses how media-promulgated stereotypes are created, viewed, and ingrained in the American culture.

Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media

Images that Injure

This clearly written and well-focused volume combines concise decisions of the primary areas of communication law with the foundational case decisions in those domains. Thus, in one volume, students of communication law, constitutional law, political science, and related fields find both the key rulings that define each area of law and a detailed summary of the legal concepts, doctrines, and policies so vital to understanding the rulings within their legal context. The text forgoes the tendency to provide encyclopedic treatment of all the relevant cases and focuses instead on the two or three cases most vital to an accurate and informed understanding of the current state of each field of communication law. The chapters provide readers with the most salient concepts and the necessary depth to understand the law while permitting most reading time to be directed to the law itself. Full-text rulings allow readers to immerse themselves in the law itself--to develop a feel for its complexity, its flexibility, and its language. Useful as a quick reference to the landmark rulings and the jurisprudence of communication law, this book also serves well as the primary text in related undergraduate courses or as a supplemental text in graduate classes in the field.

Key Cases in Context

Deciding Communication Law

Offers a critical view of media stereotypes of diverse cultural groups, including ethnic, racial, and gender-related imagery.

This expanded collection of new and fully revised explorations of media content identifies the ways we all have been negatively stereotyped and demonstrates how careful analysis of media portrayals can create more beneficial alternatives. * 33 distinguished authors as well as new voices in the field combine their extensive and varied expertise to explain the social effects of media stereotyping. * Includes historical and contemporary illustrations that range from editorial cartoons to the sinking of the Titanic * Richly illustrated with historical and up-to-date photographic illustrations * Every chapter's content is meticulously supported with numerous sources cited * A glossary defines key words mentioned in the chapters

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