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Electronic Media Forms | |
The Significance of Electronic Media | |
A Rationale for Study | |
A Matter of Terms | |
Ownership of Media Devices | |
Use of Electronic Media | |
The Functions of Media | |
a Presenting Entertainment | |
b Disseminating News and Information | |
c Aiding Commerce | |
d Transmitting Culture and Customs | |
e Acting as a Watchdog | |
f Providing Relaxation and Companionship | |
g Connecting People to Each Other | |
The Democratization of Media | |
Convergence, Proliferation, and Resilience | |
Issues and the Future | |
Summary | |
Suggested Websites | |
Notes | |
The Internet, Portable Devices, and Video Games | |
Origins of the Internet | |
Standardizing the Internet Design | |
The Beginning of Email | |
The World Wide Web | |
Politicians Boost the Internet | |
Refining the Internet | |
a Browsers | |
b Internet Service Providers | |
c Search Engines | |
Internet Growth and Temporary Downfall | |
Radio on the Internet | |
Napster and its Aftermath | |
Voice Over the Internet | |
Video on the Net | |
Enter YouTube | |
Social Networking | |
Internet Abuses | |
Portables Devices | |
a Cell Phones | |
b Personal Digital Assistants | |
c Pods | |
Video Games | |
a The Early Days of Video Games | |
b Down and Out--And Up Again | |
c Games Take on a Variety of Forms | |
d Console Wars | |
e Games for the Internet and Beyond | |
Issues and the Future | |
Summary | |
Suggested Web Sites | |
Notes | |
Early Television | |
Early Experiments | |
The Emergence of Broadcast Television | |
The Freeze | |
Early TV Programming | |
Blacklisting | |
The Live Era | |
Color TV Approval | |
Broadcast-Cable Clashes | |
Prerecorded Programming | |
The Quiz Scandals | |
UHF and Cable TV Problems | |
Early Cable TV Programming | |
Reflections of Upheaval | |
A Vast Wasteland? | |
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 | |
Government Actions | |
Corporate Video | |
HBO's Influence | |
Summary | |
Suggested Websites | |
Notes | |
Modern Television | |
Growth of Cable TV Programming Services | |
Cable TV's Gold Rush | |
The Beginnings of Satellite TV | |
Home Video | |
Broadcast TV in the 1980s | |
Broadcast and Cable Legal Issues | |
Growth of Hispanic Television | |
Satellite TV Revived | |
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 | |
Telephone Company Entry | |
Digital Videodiscs | |
Enter TiVo | |
Programming Changes | |
New and Revised Networks | |
Digital TV and HDTV | |
Issues and the Future | |
Summary | |
Suggested Websites | |
Notes | |
Radio | |
Early Inventions | |
The Sinking of the Titanic | |
World War I | |
The Founding of RCA | |
Early Radio Stations | |
The Rise of Advertising | |
The Formation of Networks | |
Chaos and Government Action | |
The Golden Era of Radio | |
The Press-Radio War | |
World War II | |
Postwar Radio | |
FM Radio Development | |
The Restructuring of Public Radio | |
College Radio | |
The Changing Structure of Commercial Radio | |
Satellite and HD Radio | |
Issues and the Future | |
Summary | |
Suggested Websites | |
Notes | |
Movies | |
Early Developments | |
The First Movies | |
Studio Beginnings | |
Griffith and His Contemporaries | |
World War I Developments | |
Hollywood during the Roaring Twenties | |
Sound | |
The "Golden Years" of Moviemaking | |
Hitchcock and Welles | |
Color | |
Hard Times | |
The Road Back | |
Mythmakers Lucas and Spielberg | |
Moviemaking Today | |
Issues and the Future | |
Summary | |
Suggested Websites | |
Notes | |
Electronic Media Functions | |
Careers in Electronic Media | |
Desirable Traits for Electronic Media Practitioners | |
College Preparation | |
Outside Activities | |
Internships | |
Networking | |
Resumes and Reels | |
Finding the First Job | |
Interviewing | |
Diversity | |
Unions and Agents | |
Compensation | |
Types of Job Possibilities | |
a Production | |
b News | |
c Programming | |
d Engineering | |
e Sales | |
f Administration | |
Issues and the Future | |
Summary | |
Suggested Websites | |
Notes | |
Programming | |
Sources of Programs | |
a Self-Produced | |
b Related and Non-Related Media | |
c Majors and Independents | |
d Syndicators | |
e Others | |
Development | |
The News Process | |
a News Gathering | |
b News Compilation | |
Formats | |
Scheduling | |
a Scheduling Factors | |
b Scheduling Strategies | |
Drama | |
Comedy | |
Reality | |
Games | |
Music | |
News | |
Sports | |
Talk Shows | |
Documentaries and Information | |
Religion | |
Children's Programming | |
Issues and the Future | |
Summary | |
Suggested Websites | |
Notes | |
Sales and Advertising | |
Media to Customer Sales | |
Media to Media Sales | |
The Nature of Advertising | |
The Role of Advertising Agencies | |
Traditional Advertising | |
Product Placement | |
Interactive Internet Advertising | |
Underwriting | |
Advertising Cost Factors | |
Advertising Practices | |
Advertisement Production | |
Advertising to Children | |
Other Controversial Advertising | |
Issues and the Future | |
Summary | |
Suggested Websites | |
Notes | |
Promotion and Audience Feedback | |
Promotion | |
Forms of Audience Feedback | |
Audience Research Companies | |
Sampling | |
Collecting Data | |
Analyzing Quantitative Data | |
Qualitative Research | |
Pretesting | |
Other Forms of Research | |
Reporting Results | |
How Audience Measurement Is Used | |
Issues and the Future | |
Summary | |
Suggested Websites | |
Notes | |
Laws and Regulations | |
The Federal Communications Commission | |
The Executive Branch | |
The Legislative Branch | |
The Judicial Branch | |
The First Amendment | |
Profanity, Indecency, and Obscenity | |
Libel, Slander, and Invasion of Privacy | |
Copyright | |
Access to the Courts | |
Licensing | |
Ownership | |
Equal Time | |
The Fairness Doctrine | |
Other Regulations | |
Issues and the Future | |
Summary | |
Suggested Websites | |
Notes | |
Ethics and Effects | |
Ethical Guidelines | |
Ethical Considerations | |
Effects of Media | |
Organizations That Consider Effects | |
a Citizen Groups | |
b Academic Institutions | |
High-Profile Effects | |
a Violence | |
b Children and Media | |
c News | |
d Women and Minorities | |
e Sex | |
Issues and the Future | |
Summary | |
Suggested Websites | |
Notes | |
Technical Underpinnings | |
The Digital Process | |
Audio Production Equipment | |
Video Production Equipment | |
The Electromagnetic Spectrum | |
Terrestrial Radio Broadcasting | |
Terrestrial Television Broadcasting | |
Satellites | |
Other Wireless Distribution | |
Wire Transmission | |
Pick Up and Carry | |
Motion Picture Exhibition | |
Radio Receivers | |
TV Sets and Computer Monitors | |
Issues and the Future | |
Summary | |
Suggested Websites | |
Notes | |
The International Scene | |
Early Film | |
Early Radio | |
The Colonial Era | |
World War II and Its Aftermath | |
Early Television | |
Broadcasting's Development | |
The Concerns of Developing Nations | |
The Coming of Satellites | |
Privatization | |
The VCR | |
The Collapse of Communism | |
Indigenous Programming | |
The Digital Age | |
Issues and the Future | |
Summary | |
Suggested Websites | |
Notes | |
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