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Women in mass media

Here are entered works discussing the portrayal of women in the mass media. Works discussing women's employment in the mass media are entered under Women in the mass media industry. Works discussing all aspects of women's involvement in the mass media are entered under Mass media and women.

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• Mass media

• Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures (New York and London: New York University Press, c2011), ed. by Radha Sarma Hegde (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls (updated edition, c2010), by APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls (PDF at apa.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Stories in Between: Narratives and Mediums @ Play (text-only version; c2008), by Drew Davidson
  • PDF with commentary at CMU
  • PDF with commentary at Figshare
• Designing Media (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Bill Moggridge
  • multimedia with commentary at designing-media.com
  • PDF and audio files with commentary at MIT Press

• The Image of Africa in Ghana's Press: The Influence of Global News Organisations (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Michael Yao Wodui Serwornoo (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Arab Media Systems (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Carola Richter and Claudia Kozman (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Introducing Vigilant Audiences (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Daniel Trottier, Rashid Gabdulhakov, and Qian Huang (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Australia in the Information Age (ACSJC occasional paper #14; North Sydney, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, c1992), by Christina Spurgeon and Paul Chadwick (PDF in Australia)

• Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, by Noam Chomsky (HTML at zcomm.org)

• The Chinese Media: More Autonomous and Diverse, Within Limits (1997), by Todd Hazelbarth
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF with commentary at cia.gov
• Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China (2008), ed. by Monroe E. Price and Daniel Dayan (HTML at Michigan)
• Speak No Evil: Mass Media Control in Contemporary China, by Ashley Esarey (PDF at freedomhouse.org)

• Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), ed. by Michael Curtin and Kevin Sanson
  • multiple formats with commentary at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by Sasha Costanza-Chock, contrib. by Manuel Castells (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Liberated and Occupied Iraq: New Beginnings and Challenges for Press Freedom (2004), by Freedom House (U.S.) (PDF at unhcr.org)

• Media Law Handbook (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2013), by Jane E. Kirtley (PDF files at america.gov)

• Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), ed. by Walter Armbrust (HTML at UC Press)

• To Tell You the Truth: The Ethical Journalism Initiative (Brussels: International Federation of Journalists, c2008), by Aidan White (PDF at ethicaljournalisminitiative.org)

• Jonesboro: Were the Media Fair?, by Freedom Forum (PDF files at Wayback Machine)

• The Journal of e-Media Studies (2008-) (full serial archives)
• NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies (2012-) (full serial archives)
• Media and Communication (2013-) (full serial archives)

• The Media Archive (world edition, translator's cut; 1998), by Adilkno (HTML at networkcultures.org)

• The Media Archive (world edition, translator's cut; 1998), by Adilkno (HTML at networkcultures.org)
• Voices of Resistance: Communication and Social Change (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2012), by Mohan J. Dutta (PDF files with commentary at Purdue)
• Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, by Noam Chomsky (HTML at zcomm.org)
• The Strategy of Culture (1952), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Peculiar Portrayals: Mormons on the Page, Stage, and Screen (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2010), ed. by Mark T. Decker and Michael Austin, contrib. by Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Kevin Kolkmeyer, J. Aaron Sanders, John Charles Duffy, Juliette Wells, and Karen D. Austin
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• From Media Hype to Twitter Storm: News Explosions and Their Impact on Issues, Crises, and Public Opinion (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), ed. by P. Vasterman (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Media, Technology, and Society: Theories of Media Evolution (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), ed. by W. Russell Neuman (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• The Media Archive (world edition, translator's cut; 1998), by Adilkno (HTML at networkcultures.org)
• Worlds Apart: How the Distance Between Science and Journalism Threatens America's Future, by Jim Hartz and Rick Chappell (PDF at Freedom Forum)

• Media, Technology, and Society: Theories of Media Evolution (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), ed. by W. Russell Neuman (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Software Takes Command: Extending the Language of New Media (New York and London: Bloomsbury, c2013), by Lev Manovich (illustrated HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections)

• Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship, ed. by Michelle Ferrier and Elizabeth Mays (multiple formats with commentary at rebus.community)

• Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (New York: Penguin Press, 2004), by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at free-culture.cc)
• The Information Commons: A Public Policy Report (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2004), by Nancy C. Kranich (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by Sasha Costanza-Chock, contrib. by Manuel Castells (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Terrorism and Other Public Health Emergencies: A Reference Guide for Media (2005), by United States Department of Health and Human Services (PDF files with commentary at phe.gov)

• The U.S.S.R.'s AIDS Disinformation Campaign (1987), by United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)

• Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (New York: New York University Press, c2020), by André L. Brock
  • multiple formats with commentary at NYU Press
  • PDF and EPub with commentary at OAPEN

• Alternative and Mainstream Media: The Converging Spectrum (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2011), by Linda Jean Kenix (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)
• Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2016), by Nicholas Thoburn (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• YouTube War: Fighting in a World of Cameras in Every Cell Phone and Photoshop on Every Computer (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2009), by Cori Elizabeth Dauber
  • multiple formats at armywarcollege.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Fame Attack: The Inflation of Celebrity and Its Consequences (London: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), by Chris Rojek (HTML with commentary at bloomsburycollections.com)

• Communist Activity in Mass Communications: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee To Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Eighty-Fifth Congress, Second Session (3 parts; Washington: GPO, 1958-1959), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, contrib. by A. G. Mezerik, Albert Eugene Kahn, Jerome B. Caplin, Oakley C. Johnson, and Milton Meltzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television (New York, NY: American Business Consultants, 1950), by American Business Consultants (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Mediatization of the O. J. Simpson Case: From Reality Television to Filmic Adaptation (Media Studies v102; Bielefeld: Transcript, 12023), by Tatjana Neubauer (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• "Taking a Bite Out of Crime": The Impact of a Mass Media Crime Prevention Campaign (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 1984), by Garrett J. O'Keefe and Harold Mendelsohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• You're Dead, So What? Media, Police, and the Invisibility of Black Women as Victims of Homicide, by Cheryl L. Neely (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Cyborgs in Latin America (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, c2010), by J. Andrew Brown (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.