mass media

Does the public have a right to know? Discusses factors that may interfere with that right and limit public knowledge, using examples from current events which dramatize the complex issues of media censorship.

Explores the relationship between media and politics in the United States, discussing how the two fields influence one another.

Presents an overview of careers in communications and media on a broad range of branches and divisions within these industries, with information in each on the sphere of the work, work environment, occupation interest, duties and responsibilities, and required education.

Examines the nature and notion of "celebrity" throughout history and today of the United States, exploring how celebrities arise from and contribute to popular culture and mass media.

Examines how new technologies like computer networks, cable television and satellite systems, cellular transmission, and fiber-optic phone lines may merge into one enterprise in the future, and explores how this merger will affect all of us.

The horror of mass shootings leads, inevitably, to renewed debate over the causes of such violence particularly in the context of youth. Studies on the effects of violent media on young people have had mixed results.