Includes bibliographical references (p. 585-597) and index.

v. 1. A-N -- v. 2. O-Z.

À la carte cable pricing -- Advertising and persuasion -- Al-Jazeera -- Alternative media in the United States -- Anonymous sources, leaks and national security -- Audience power to resist -- Bias and objectivity -- Blogospher: politics and internet journalism -- Body image -- Bollywood and the Indian diaspora -- Branding the globe -- Cable carriage disputes -- Celebrity worship and fandom -- Children and effects: from Sesame Street to Columbine -- Communication and knowledge labor -- Communication rights in a global context -- Conglomeration and media monopolies -- Cultural appropriation -- Cultural imperalism and hybridity -- Dating shows -- Digital divide -- Disabilities and the media -- The DVD: homw viewing of movies comes of age -- Embedding journalists: How close is too close? -- Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and queer representations on TV -- Global community media -- Google Book Search -- Government censorship and freedom of speech -- Hypercommercialism -- Independent cinema: the mythand necessity of distinction -- Innovation and imitation in commercial media -- Internet and its radical potential -- Islam and the media -- The iTunes effect -- Journalists in peril -- Media and citizenship -- Media and the crisis of values -- Media and electoral campaigns -- Media literacy: creating better citizens or better consumers? -- Media reform -- Media watch groups -- Minority media ownership -- Mobile media -- Narrative power and media influence -- National public radio -- Nationalism and the media -- Net neutrality -- News satire: comedy central and beyond -- Obscenity and indecency -- Online digital film and television -- Online publishing -- Paparazzi and photographic ethics -- Prachute journalism: international news reporting -- Pharmaceutical advertising -- Piracy and intellectual property -- Pirate radio -- Political documentary : Fahrenheit 9/11 and the 2004 election -- Political entertainment: from The West Wing to South Park -- Pornography -- Presidential stagecraft and militanment -- Product placement -- Propaganda model -- Public access television -- Public broadcasting service -- Public opinion: are polls democratic? -- Public sphere -- Ratings -- Reality television -- Regulating the airwaves: a toaster with pictures or a public service? -- Representations of class -- Representations of masculanity -- Representations of race -- Representations of women -- Runaway productions and the globalization of Hollywood -- Sensationalism, fear mongering and tabloid media -- Shock jocks: making over the airwaves -- Surveillance and privacy -- Television in schools -- TiVo: Timeshifting America -- Tourism and the selling of cutlrues -- Transmedia storytelling and media franchise -- User-created content and audience participation -- Video games -- Video news releases: a hidden epidemic of fake TV news -- Violence and media: from media effects to moral panics -- Women's magazines -- World cinema -- Youth and media use.