The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society

Editor: Merskin, Debra L.
Publication Year: 2020
Publisher: SAGE Publications

Single-User Purchase Price: $945.00
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $1417.50
ISBN: 978-1-4833-7553-3
Category: Social Sciences - Media & Communications
Image Count: 25
Book Status: Available
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The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society discusses media around the world in their varied forms - newspapers, magazines, radio, television, film, books, music, websites, social media, mobile media - and describe the role of each in both mirroring and shaping society.

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Table of Contents

    • Editorial Board
    • Reader's Guide
    • About the Editor
    • Contributors
    • Introduction
    • A
    • Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
    • Action for Children's Television
    • Adbusters
    • Addiction
    • Adelphi Charter
    • Advertising
    • Advertising Regulations
    • Advertising, History and Economics of
    • Advertising, Return on Investment
    • Advocacy
    • Afghanistan
    • African American Characters on Television and in the Movies
    • African American Magazines
    • African American Newspapers
    • African American Radio Programming
    • African American Television Programming
    • Agenda Setting
    • Al Jazeera
    • Albania
    • Alliance for Audited Media
    • Alterity
    • Amazon
    • American Civil Liberties Union
    • American Copy Editors Society
    • American Forces Network
    • American Press Institute
    • American Society of News Editors
    • Analog and Digital Communications
    • Angola
    • Animal Media Studies
    • Animation
    • Application Programming Interface
    • Apps
    • Argentina
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Asian American Magazines
    • Asian American Movies
    • Asian American Newspapers
    • Asian American Radio Programming
    • Asian American Television Programming
    • Associated Press
    • Association for Women in Communications
    • AT&T
    • Attention Span
    • Attitude Change Theory
    • Audiences
    • Audio Editing
    • Australia
    • Australian Associated Press
    • Austria
    • Auteur
    • Autonomous Moral Agent
    • Avatars
    • Azerbaijan
    • B
    • Backlist and Frontlist
    • Bahamas
    • Bahrain
    • Bangladesh
    • Barbados
    • Behaviorism and Cognitivism
    • Belarus
    • Belgium
    • Belize
    • Bertelsmann
    • Bhutan
    • BitTorrent
    • Blockbusters
    • Blogs and Bloggers
    • Blu-Ray Discs
    • Body Image in Mass Media
    • Bolivia
    • Bollywood
    • Book Publishing
    • Book Publishing, History and Economics of
    • Bookmarking
    • Bosnia and Herzegovina
    • Botswana
    • Branding
    • Brazil
    • British Broadcasting Corporation
    • British Cultural Theory
    • Broadcast Education Association
    • Broadsheet Newspapers
    • Brunei Darussalam
    • Bulgaria
    • Burundi
    • Business Wire
    • C
    • Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984
    • Cable Television
    • Cambodia
    • Cameroon
    • Canada
    • Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation
    • Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
    • Canadian Content Policy
    • Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
    • CAN-SPAM Act
    • Cape Verde
    • Capitalism
    • Cassette Tapes
    • Celebrities
    • Censorship
    • Center for Digital Democracy
    • Center for Media and Public Affairs
    • Center for the Book
    • Center on Media and Child Health
    • Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
    • Centre for Digital Cultures
    • Chicago Defender
    • Children
    • Children's Magazines
    • Children's Movies
    • Children's Television Act of 1990
    • Children's Television Programming
    • Chile
    • China
    • China Central Television
    • Citizen Journalism
    • Class Privilege in Mass Media
    • Class-Dominant Theory
    • CNN
    • Cognition and Information Processing
    • Cognitive Dissonance
    • Cognitive Processing, Disengagement, and Empathy
    • Collective Intelligence
    • Colombia
    • Comics
    • Commercial Speech
    • Commission on Freedom of the Press
    • Communications Act of 1934
    • Communications Research
    • Communitarianism
    • Compact Discs
    • Computer Networks
    • Computers, History and Economics of
    • Concentration of Media Ownership
    • Conceptual Metaphor Theory
    • Conglomerates
    • Congo, Democratic Republic of the
    • Constructivism
    • Consumer Behavior
    • Consumer Culture
    • Content Analysis
    • Content Communities
    • Content Farms
    • Content Marketing
    • Content Moderation
    • Copyright Alert System
    • Copyright Laws
    • Corporate Media Consolidation
    • Costa Rica
    • Côte d'Ivoire
    • Creative Commons
    • Critical Theory
    • Critical Viewing
    • Croatia
    • Cuba
    • Cultivation Theory
    • Culturalist Approach
    • Culture Industry
    • Culture Jamming
    • Cyberbullying
    • Cyberculture
    • Cyprus
    • Czech Republic
    • D
    • Data Journalism
    • Data Privacy
    • Daytime Television Programming
    • Deconstructionism
    • Defamation and Libel Laws
    • Demographics
    • Denmark
    • Desensitization
    • Diaries
    • Diasporic Communities and Social Media
    • Digital Media and Health
    • Digital Media Ethics
    • Digital Piracy
    • Digital Revolution
    • Digital Rights Management
    • Digital Television
    • Direct Effects
    • Disabilities in Media
    • Disaster Coverage
    • Discourse Analysis
    • Discovery, Inc.
    • Disinformation
    • Disinhibitory and Inhibitory Effects
    • Djibouti
    • Documentary Media
    • Dominican Republic
    • Drone Journalism
    • Dubbing
    • DVDs
    • E
    • East Timor
    • e-Books
    • e-Commerce
    • Ecuador
    • Educational Radio
    • Educational Technology
    • Educational Television
    • Effects Theory
    • Egypt
    • El Salvador
    • Election Campaigns
    • Email
    • Embodiment
    • Emergency Notification Systems
    • Emoticons and Emojis
    • Encoding/Decoding Model
    • Environmental Communication
    • Eritrea
    • e-Sports
    • Estonia
    • Ethics
    • Ethics of Care
    • Ethics of Justice
    • Ethics of Representation
    • Ethiopia
    • Ethnography
    • European Alliance of News Agencies
    • European Media Lobbies and Governance
    • European Union Culture Preservation Initiative
    • F
    • Facebook
    • Fairness Doctrine
    • Fake News
    • Fans and Fandom
    • Federal Communications Commission, U.S.
    • Federal Trade Commission, U.S.
    • Feedback
    • Female Characters on Television and in the Movies
    • Feminist Analyses of Media
    • Field Theory
    • Fiji
    • Film Production
    • Finland
    • First Amendment
    • Focus Groups
    • Food Advertising and Marketing
    • Foursquare
    • Framing
    • France
    • France Télévisions
    • Frankfurt School
    • Free Newspapers
    • Freedom of Information
    • Freedom of Information Act
    • Freeware
    • Functionalist Theory
    • G
    • Gambia, The
    • Gaze Theory
    • Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
    • Genre Theory
    • Georgia
    • Germany
    • Ghana
    • Global Digital Divide
    • Global Media Ethics
    • Global Village
    • Globalization of Mass Media
    • Globe and Mail, The
    • Google
    • Graphic Design
    • Graphic Novels
    • Grassroots Campaigns
    • Greece
    • Grenada
    • Grounded Theory
    • Grupo Globo
    • Guardian, The
    • Guatemala
    • Guinea-Bissau
    • Guyana
    • H
    • Hacking
    • Hacktivism
    • Haiti
    • Hegemony
    • Hicklin Rule
    • Hispanic Movies
    • Hispanic Newspapers
    • Hispanic Radio Programming
    • Hispanic Television Programming
    • Honduras
    • Hot and Cool Media Theory
    • House Band
    • HTML and CSS
    • Humor
    • Hungary
    • Hutchins Commission
    • Hypertext and Hypermedia
    • Hypodermic Needle Theory
    • I
    • Iceland
    • Ideology
    • iHeartMedia
    • Impartiality
    • India
    • Indonesia
    • Information Society
    • Information Theory
    • Instagram
    • Institute of Communication and Media Studies
    • Integrated Circuit
    • Intellectual Property
    • Interactive Media
    • Intercultural Communication
    • Intergroup Communication
    • International Association of Business Communicators
    • International Federation of Journalists
    • International Women's Media Foundation
    • Internet Association
    • Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
    • Internet Protocol Television
    • Internet Security
    • Internet Society
    • Internet, History and Economics of
    • Interpersonal Communication
    • Intersectionality
    • Intertextuality
    • Interviewing
    • Iran
    • Iraq
    • Ireland
    • Island Communicative Ecology
    • Israel
    • Italy
    • J
    • Jamaica
    • Japan
    • Jordan
    • Journalism, History and Economics of
    • K
    • Kazakhstan
    • Kenya
    • Kiribati
    • Klout
    • Kosovo
    • Kuwait
    • Kuwait News Agency
    • Kyrgyzstan
    • L
    • Labelling Theory
    • Laos
    • Late-Night Television Programming
    • Latvia
    • Lebanon
    • LGBTQ Characters on Television and in the Movies
    • LGBTQ Magazines
    • LGBTQ Newspapers
    • LGBTQ Radio Programming
    • LGBTQ Television Programming
    • Libel Tourism
    • Liberia
    • Libya
    • Limited Effects Theory
    • Linguistics
    • LinkedIn
    • Listening
    • Literary Property
    • Lithuania
    • Litigation Public Relations
    • Los Angeles Times
    • Lurking
    • Luxembourg
    • M
    • MacBride Report
    • Magazine Journalism
    • Magazine Websites
    • Magazines Canada
    • Magazines, History of
    • Magic Bullet Theory
    • Mainstream Media
    • Malaysia
    • Maldives
    • Mali
    • Malta
    • Māori Television
    • Marshall Islands
    • Marxist and Neo-Marxist Theories
    • Mass Psychology
    • Mass Society Theory of Media Influence
    • Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming
    • Mauritania
    • Mauritius
    • Media Activism
    • Media and Children's Rights
    • Media and Human Rights
    • Media and Philanthropy
    • Media and Poverty
    • Media Bias
    • Media Dependency
    • Media Diplomacy
    • Media Echo Chamber
    • Media Ecology
    • Media Entrepreneurship
    • Media Ethics
    • Media Events
    • Media Literacy
    • Media Management
    • Media Spectacle
    • Mediated Culture
    • Mediated Scandal
    • Mediatization
    • Medium
    • Meme
    • Men's Magazines
    • Mexico
    • Miller Test
    • Mobile Media
    • Models of Communication
    • Modernism
    • Moldova
    • Mongolia
    • Montenegro
    • MOOCs
    • Moral Relativity
    • Motion Picture Association of America
    • Movie Theaters, History and Economics of
    • Movies, History and Economics of
    • MP3 Players
    • Multimedia
    • Music Industry, History and Economics of
    • Music Videos
    • Myanmar
    • Myspace
    • N
    • Narcotizing Dysfunction
    • Naspers
    • National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
    • National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications
    • National Association of Black Journalists
    • National Endowment for the Arts
    • National Film Board of Canada
    • National Press Photographers Association
    • National Press Photographers Association Code of Ethics
    • National Public Radio
    • National Union of Journalists
    • Native Advertising
    • Native American Movies
    • Native American Newspapers
    • Native American Radio Programming
    • Native American Television Programming
    • Nauru
    • NDTV
    • Nepal
    • Nerd Culture
    • Netflix
    • Netherlands
    • Neurodiverse Websites
    • New York Times v. Sullivan
    • New York Times, The
    • New Zealand
    • News Agencies
    • News Corporation
    • News Lab
    • News Themes
    • NewsGuild
    • Newspaper Journalism
    • Newspaper Publishing
    • Newspaper Websites
    • Newspapers, History and Economics of
    • Newspapers, Print
    • Nicaragua
    • Niger
    • Nigeria
    • Nihilism
    • NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists
    • Nollywood
    • Norms
    • Norms
    • North Korea
    • North Macedonia
    • Norway
    • O
    • Objectivity
    • Obscene Publications Acts
    • Observational Research
    • Obstinate Audience Theory
    • Oman
    • One Laptop per Child
    • One-Step Flow Theory
    • Online News Sites
    • Online Predators
    • Online Speech, Restrictions on
    • Opinion Leaders and Followers
    • Outdoor Advertising
    • P
    • Pakistan
    • Pakistan Television Corporation
    • Palau
    • Palestine
    • Paley Center for Media
    • Panama
    • Pandora
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Paradigm Shift
    • Paraguay
    • Parasocial Interaction
    • Participatory Action Research
    • Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
    • Peer-to-Peer Payment Systems
    • People's Daily
    • Perception
    • Peru
    • Philippines
    • Photography
    • Pirate Radio
    • Podcasting
    • Poland
    • Political Communication
    • Political Economy of Communication
    • Political Mass Media
    • Pornography
    • Portugal
    • Posthumanism
    • Postmodernism
    • Prasar Bharati
    • Pravda
    • Press Trust of India
    • Prime-Time Programming
    • Priming
    • Printing Press
    • Prior Restraint
    • Private Media Group
    • Problematic Interactive Media Use
    • Product Placement
    • Propaganda
    • Propaganda, Theories of
    • Psychoanalytic Theory
    • Psychographics
    • Public Affairs Radio Programming
    • Public Affairs Television Programming
    • Public Broadcasting Service
    • Public Diplomacy
    • Public Relations
    • Public Relations Society of America
    • Public Relations Society of America Code of Ethics
    • R
    • Radio Act of 1912
    • Radio Act of 1927
    • Radio, Broadcast
    • Radio, History and Economics of
    • Radio, Online
    • RAI
    • Rakuten
    • Reading, History of
    • Reality Television
    • Really Simple Syndication
    • Recording Industry Association of America
    • Reddit
    • Religious Radio Programming
    • Religious Television Programming
    • Reporters Without Borders
    • Representation
    • Reuters
    • RFID Chip
    • Rhetorical Analysis
    • RIA Novosti
    • Ritual View
    • Rogers Communications
    • Romania
    • Roth v. United States
    • RSS Reader
    • RTÉ
    • RTL Group
    • RTP
    • Russia
    • Rwanda
    • S
    • SAG-AFTRA
    • Samoa
    • San Marino
    • Saudi Arabia
    • Science Communication
    • Screenwriting, Film
    • Scribd
    • Search Engine Optimization
    • Search Engines
    • Second Life
    • Selective Exposure, Perception, and Retention
    • Self-Regulation
    • Semiotic Theory
    • Senegal
    • Senior Citizens and the Internet
    • Serbia
    • Sexting
    • Sexual Harassment Online
    • Shield Laws
    • Shopping Websites
    • Shortwave Radio
    • Sierra Leone
    • Silicon Alley
    • Silicon Valley
    • Simulacrum
    • Singapore
    • Sky News
    • Sky UK
    • SlideShare
    • Slovakia
    • Slovenia
    • SMCR Model
    • Social Authority Building
    • Social Cognitive Theory
    • Social Construction of Reality
    • Social Inclusion Through Technology
    • Social Justice
    • Social Media
    • Social Media Monitoring
    • Social Network Analysis
    • Social Networking Site
    • Social News Sites
    • Society of Environmental Journalists
    • Society of Professional Journalists
    • Software
    • Solomon Islands
    • Solutions Journalism
    • Somalia
    • Sound Effects
    • South Africa
    • South African Broadcasting Corporation
    • South Korea
    • South Sudan
    • Spain
    • Special Effects
    • Spiral of Silence
    • Sports in Newspapers and Magazines
    • Sports Radio Programming
    • Sports Television Programming
    • Spotify
    • Sri Lanka
    • Star India
    • Storyboard
    • Strategic Communication
    • Streaming Media
    • Structuralism
    • Studio System
    • Subjectivity
    • Sudan
    • Survey Research
    • Swaziland
    • Sweden
    • Switzerland
    • Syria
    • T
    • Tablet Computers
    • Tag Cloud
    • Taiwan
    • Tajikistan
    • Talk Radio
    • Talk Shows, Television
    • Tape Recorders
    • Target Marketing
    • Technology Development, Influence on Mass Media
    • Teen and Tween Audiences
    • Telecommunications Act of 1993, Canada
    • Telecommunications Act of 1996, U.S.
    • Telefe
    • Telefilm Canada
    • teleSUR
    • Television Production
    • Television, History and Economics of
    • Tencent
    • Terrorism, Media Depictions Of
    • Thai TV Global Network
    • Thailand
    • Time Magazine
    • Time Warner
    • Times of India, The
    • Times, The and The Sunday Times
    • Time-Shifting
    • Timor-Leste
    • TiVo
    • TNT
    • Tonga
    • Transmission View
    • Transnational Media Corporations
    • Trinidad and Tobago
    • Tunisia
    • Turkey
    • Turkmenistan
    • Tuvalu
    • Twitter
    • Two-Step Flow Theory
    • U
    • Uganda
    • Ukraine
    • Unfair Trade Practices
    • United Arab Emirates
    • United Press International
    • Uruguay
    • USA Today
    • User-Generated Content
    • User-Generated Media
    • Uses and Gratifications Theory
    • Uzbekistan
    • V
    • Vanuatu
    • Vatican City
    • Vatican Radio
    • Venezuela
    • Vertical Integration
    • Video Editing
    • Video Games
    • Video News Release
    • Videography
    • Vietnam
    • Viral Marketing
    • Virtual Communities
    • Vlog
    • Voice of America
    • W
    • Wall Street Journal, The
    • Walt Disney Company
    • War Coverage and Wartime Mass Media
    • Warner Media
    • Washington Post, The
    • Weather Forecasting
    • Web Browsers
    • Wedding Media
    • Whistleblowing
    • WikiLeaks
    • Wikipedia
    • Wikis
    • Women's Magazines
    • Women's Television Programming
    • World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers
    • Worlds of Journalism Study
    • X
    • Xinhua News Agency
    • Y
    • Yahoo
    • YouTube
    • Z
    • Zambia
    • Zimbabwe
    • Zines