Mass Media Research Guide: Encyclopedias

Reference work in the field of new media, covering topics such as broadband, content filtering, cyberculture, cyberethics, digital divide, freenet, MP3, privacy, telemedicine, viruses, and wireless networks.

Explores how the rise of social media is altering politics both in the United States and in key moments, movements, and places around the world.

Examines the variety of formats and experiences that comprise social movement media. Thematic essays address selected issues such as human rights media, indigenous peoples' media, and environmentalist media, and on key concepts widely used in the field such as alternative media, citizens' media, and community media.

Provides an overview of traditional and electronic media's interaction with, and impact on, children and adolescents.

Explores the ways that editorial content--from journalism and scholarship to films and infomercials--is developed, presented, stored, analyzed, and regulated around the world.

Examines topics such as technological threats to privacy, sensationalism in media coverage of high-profile trials, cameras in the courtroom, use of confidential sources, national security concerns and the press, digital duplication and deception, rights of celebrities, plagiarism, and more.

Surveys the state of journalism at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century. The focus of the entries is on the gathering, editing, reporting, and distribution of news.