1. Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
   Resource Type: Book
   
2. Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
   Resource Type: Book
   
3. Between the Lines
   How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1981
   
4. Bowling Alone
   The Collapse and Revival of American Community
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2000
   Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
   
5. 100 Wörter des Jahrhunderts
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1999
   
6. Hitler's Propaganda Machine
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1978
   
7. Manufacturing Consent
   The Political Economy of the Mass Media
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
8. Mass Culture
   The Popular Arts in America
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1957
   
9. Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1980
   An analysis of the media's prediliction for "politics of confrontation" in America in the late 60's. He focuses on how the media distorted the anti-war movement.
10. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
11. Only Connect
    On Culture and Communication
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    
12. Politics of Communication
    A Study in the Political Sociology of Language, Socialization, and Legitimation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
13. Radical Mass Media Criticism
    A Cultural Geneology
    Resource Type: Book
    Examines the thinkers who have reacted against the increasing media power. From the critiqes of the corrupt press during the First World War, an analysis of the relationship between public opinion and propaganda diring the Nazi years and the bias of the supposed objective news of today. Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Slavko Splichal, Joost van Loon and many other leaders in the international field.
14. The Sixties
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
    
15. The Uncertain Mirror
    Report of the Special Senate Commitee on Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    
16. Uncovering the Sixties
    Life and Times of the Undergound Press
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
17. The Uses of Literacy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1957
    In this partly autobiographical book Hoggart observes the loss of an authentic popular culture and denounces the imposition of mass culture by the culture industries.

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