Category Archives: communication

March 5, 2013

Q & A with Advertising at War author Inger Stole

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Inger L. Stole is an associate professor of communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  She answered our questions about her book Advertising at War: Business, Consumers, and Government in the 1940s. Q: What is the Wheeler-Lea Amendment that was … Continue reading →

January 14, 2013

The New York Times reviews Media Capital

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The January 13, 2013, edition of The New York Times includes a review of Aurora Wallace’s new University of Illinois book Media Capital: Architecture and Communications in New York City. “News buffs and urban planners alike will appreciate . . . Media … Continue reading →

November 27, 2012

Advertising at War

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The UIUC News Bureau profiles Inger Stole’s new University of Illinois Press book Advertising at War: Business, Consumers, and Government in the 1940s. “While it might be hard to imagine in the midst of the ad-soaked holiday season, there was … Continue reading →

October 1, 2012

Television and the Civil Rights Movement

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Henry Jenkins’s Confessions of an Aca-Fan blog features a multi-segment Q&A with Aniko Bodroghkozy, author of Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement. From Part Three: One of the surprising discoveries you made was that while the networks did cover … Continue reading →

August 13, 2012

Radio Utopia wins Tankard Book Award

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The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) has awarded Matthew C. Ehrlich’s Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest the annual Tankard Book Award, which honors well-written and groundbreaking first-edition scholarly monographs relevant to journalism and … Continue reading →

February 17, 2012

Good Times for Equal Time

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Finished copies of Aniko Bodroghkozy’s book Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement just arrived from the printer and will be officially published on March 12, 2012.  Equal Time explores the crucial role of network television in reconfiguring new … Continue reading →

November 3, 2011

Q&A with Matt Carlson, author of On the Condition of Anonymity

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On May 2, 2011, we published Matt Carlson’s On the Condition of Anonymity: Unnamed Sources and the Battle for Journalism, which illustrates how unattributed information can be both an effective tool in uncovering necessary information about vital institutions and a means for damaging the credibility of journalists and news … Continue reading →