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Posts from the Communications Bibliographers at Ohio University Libraries

new titles in communications.

May 5th, 2008 by char booth

P93.7 .S24 2008.
The Sage sourcebook of advanced data analysis methods for communication
research.

Los Angeles : Sage Publications, c2008.

HQ784.T4 G56 2000x.
Global television programs for children.
Briarcliff Manor, NY : Benchmark Media ; New York, NY : Insight Media
[distributor], [200-?].

P94 .B66 2006x.
Book of imaginary media: Excavating the dream of the ultimate communication medium.
Rotterdam : NAI ; London : Art Data, c2006.

Lacey, Stephen, 1952-
Tony Garnett.
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : distributed exclusively in
the USA by Palgrave, 2007.

PN1992.8.C66 P48 2008.
Peterson, Russell Leslie.
Strange bedfellows : How late-night comedy turns democracy into a joke.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.

PN1995.9.M25 D38 2008.
Davis, Gretchen.
The makeup artist handbook : Techniques for film, television, photography, and
theatre.

Amsterdam ; Boston : Focal Press/Elsevier, c2008.

PN4874.T23 W45 2008.
Weinberg, Steve.
Taking on the trust : the epic battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller.
1st ed.
New York : W.W. Norton, c2008.

PN6725 .H33 2008.
Hajdu, David.
The ten-cent plague : the great comic-book scare and how it changed America.
1st ed.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

World Advertising Research Center (WARC)

April 23rd, 2008 by Diana Nichols

Are you familiar with the World Advertising Research Center (WARC) database? If not, then take a look! WARC is a full text database with over 12,000 case studies from major companies and advertising agencies, articles from leading advertising journals, and unpublished papers.

Examples of what you can find in WARC:

  • adspend statistics
  • demographic and economic data
  • global industry news
  • best practice papers
  • expert editorials on current industry trends

Read more about WARC and access it here

And please tell your colleagues and students about WARC! This is a subscription database provided by Alden Library for OU Athens Campus faculty, staff & students.

Faculty Meet & Greet Sessions for Library Candidates

April 23rd, 2008 by Diana Nichols

Alden Library is in the process of interviewing candidates for the position of Assistant Dean for Research & Education Services. Faculty are invited to meet the candidates at scheduled times in the Faculty Commons.

The first candidate, Nancy Courtney, is interviewing on Wednesday and Thursday of next week (April 30 - May 1st). The Faculty Meet & Greet is scheduled for May 1st at 9:30 AM.

Future Meet & Greet sessions for the other candidates are as follows:

Friday, May 9: 10:30 - 11:30 AM (Sherri Jones)
Tuesday, May 13: 9:00 - 10:00 AM (Kelly Broughton)

Each of these session are scheduled for the Faculty Commons Lounge; coffee and coffee cake will be served.
Read on for a summary of the position announcement >>>

Read the rest of this entry »

Award-winning films coming to Athens

April 16th, 2008 by Diana Nichols

In just little more that a week from now, the OU community will have a great chance to catch some award-winning documentary & feature films.  The Athens International Film & Video Festival begins April 25 and runs through May 1.  Take a look at the stellar lineup of Features and Competition films and start marking your calendars!

read the OU Outlook story here

new titles in communications.

April 15th, 2008 by char booth

E184.S75 M386 2008.
The mass media and Latino politics : studies of U.S. media content, campaign strategies and survey research : 1984-2004.
New York : Routledge, 2008.

HQ1391.U5 F35 2008.
Falk, Erika.
Women for president : media bias in eight campaigns.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.

HE8700.9.G7 B76 2007x.
Brown, Maggie.
A licence to be different : the story of Channel 4.
London : BFI, 2007.

GV1469.3 .E325 2008.
The ecology of games : connecting youth, games, and learning.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

HD59 .T474 2008.
Theaker, Alison.
The public relations handbook.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

HM1221 .M55 2008x.
Miller, David, 1964-
A century of spin : how public relations became the cutting edge of corporate
power.

London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto, 2008.

HD30.38 .D54 2007.
Digital identity management : perspectives on the technological, business and social implications.
Aldershot, England ; Burlingiton, VT : Gower, c2007.

HD30.4 .P75 2006.
Producing management knowledge : research as practice.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

HD30.4 .S23 2008.
The Sage dictionary of qualitative management research.
London : SAGE, 2008.

BL60 .B424 2007.
Between sacred and profane : researching religion and popular culture.
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, c2007.

HM851 .D543 2008.
Digital media, youth, and credibility.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

HQ799.2.I5 Y67 2008.
Youth, identity, and digital media.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

HQ799.2.P6 C58 2008.
Civic life online : learning how digital media can engage youth.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

TR820.5 .M3778 2007x.
McCullin, Don, 1935-
Don McCullin.
London : Thames & Hudson, 2007.

Complete Indexing to The Post is here!

April 9th, 2008 by Diana Nichols

Members of the Systems Dept and Reference Dept staffs at Alden Library have for some time been hard at work on an online database to articles from The Post, covering years for which there was previously no indexing available.

That database is now complete, so take a look:
Post Index (online) Fall 1985-Spring 1995

This resource will be a nice complement to the Archives on The Post website archives:

  • Browse: Fall 1995 to the present
  • Search: February 23, 2003 to the present
  • Earlier years of The Post (1939-1950 and 1961-June 1990) may be found in a print index

    NOTE: for Sept. 1997-present Lexis-Nexis may also be used

    Library Workshops for Spring 2008

    April 3rd, 2008 by Diana Nichols

    Spring library workshops begin tomorrow.  There are some new ones as well as old favorites.  Check out the library workshop schedule for complete information.  As always, workshops are FREE and always in Alden Library room 323 (near the Faculty Commons).

    Those that might be of interest to Communications faculty, staff and students:

    Take out or Delivery - accessing print journal articles & other library resources from home

    No News is Bad News - finding newspaper articles

    Into to the Faculty Commons

    Primary Sources

    Step up your Googling: Google Scholar and Google Books

    Get Started with Blogging

    and many more … PLUS don’t forget about the Faculty Brownbag Lunchbag Series 

    New Faculty Lunchbag Series at the Library

    April 3rd, 2008 by Diana Nichols

    Alden Library and the Faculty Commons are co-sponsoring a series of brown bag workshops for faculty, beginning April 16.  The speakers look very interesting.  Bring your lunch and stop by!

    The Faculty Commons & Alden Library Lunchbag Series
    Exploring the Research Process: Faculty & Libraries
    Wednesday April 16, Thursday May 15, Wednesday May 28
    Alden Library Friends Room @ Noon
    Refreshments will be served, byo lunch

    Wednesday April 16
    Charles Smith, Head, Playwriting Program, School of Theatre
    From first draft to production, the making of Knock Me A Kiss

    Thursday May 15
    Patrick Barr-Melej, Associate Professor, History/Latin American Studies Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n Roll: Researching Counterculture in Latin America

    Wednesday, May 28
    Glen Jackson
    Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Case Report: Forensic Investigation of ‘The Mystery Stain’ at the Old Athens Asylum

    new communications books.

    March 3rd, 2008 by char booth

    These titles range across Communication Studies, Telecommunications, and Journalism.

    HD53 .I5775 2007.
    Intellectual capital revisited : paradoxes in the knowledge intensive
    organization.

    Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2007.

    HD57.7 .J332 2008x.
    Jackson, Brad, 1960-
    A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about studying leadership.
    Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2008.

    T58.5 .A54 2008.
    Alesso, H. P.
    Connections : patterns of discovery.
    Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2008.

    DA412 .M34 2007x.
    Mc Elligott, Jason, 1972-
    Royalism, print and censorship in revolutionary England.
    Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press 2007.

    HE8700.9.A65 S25 2007x.
    Sakr, Naomi.
    Arab television today.
    London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, c2007.

    HE8700.9.G7 H63 2008x.
    Hobson, Dorothy, 1942-
    Channel 4 : the early years and the Jeremy Isaacs legacy.
    London : I. B. Tauris, c2008.

    HF5821 .J64 2008.
    Johnson, Fern L.
    Imaging in advertising : verbal and visual codes of commerce.
    New York : Routledge, 2008.

    HM1206 .B69 2007x.
    Boyer, Dominic.
    Understanding media : a popular philosophy.
    Chicago, Ill. : Prickly Paradigm ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing
    [distributor], 2007.

    HV6570.4.E85 O36 2007x.
    O’Donnell, Ian.
    Child pornography : crime, computers and society.
    Cullompton, UK : Willan Publishing, c2007.

    KF2750.A7 M66 2008.
    Moore, Roy L.
    Media law and ethics.
    3rd ed.
    New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associatese, c2008.

    NC974.4.V63 V64 2007x.
    Vogue covers : on fashion’s front page.
    London : Little, Brown, 2007.

    PN1590.C45 O26 2008.
    O’Connor, Jane, 1972-
    The cultural significance of the child star.
    New York : Routledge, 2008.

    PN1992.3.G7 E97 2007x.
    Experimental British television.
    Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2007.

    PN1992.77.Q44 D38 2007x.
    Davis, Glyn, Dr.
    Queer as folk.
    London : BFI, 2007.

    PN1992.77.S4285 M67 2007x.
    Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962-
    Seinfeld.
    London : BFI, 2007.

    PN1995.9.D6 A97 2007x.
    Austin, Thomas, 1966-
    Watching the world : screen documentary and audiences.
    Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007.

    PN1995.9.E93 C43 2007x.
    The changing face of evil in film and television.
    Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.

    PN4784.W7 W66 2008.
    Women, men, and news : divided and disconnected in the news media landscape.
    New York : Routledge, 2008.

    PN4798 .H37 2007.
    Harris, Roy J., 1946-
    Pulitzer’s gold : behind the prize for public service journalism.
    Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2007.

    PN4888.E65 W97 2008.
    Wyss, Bob.
    Covering the environment : how journalists work the green beat.
    New York : Routledge, 2008.

    PN4888.F43 W45 2008.
    Weldon, Michele, 1958-
    Everyman news : the changing American front page.
    Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008.

    PN5124.W6 J44 2007x.
    Jeffries, Lesley, 1956-
    Textual construction of the female body : a critical discourse approach.
    Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

    KF4772 .L575 2008.
    Lipschultz, Jeremy Harris, 1958-
    Broadcast and internet indecency : defining free speech.
    New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2008.

    HD59.2 .G35 2008.
    Gaines-Ross, Leslie.
    Corporate reputation : 12 steps to safeguarding and recovering reputation.
    Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2008.

    PN4775 .E57 2007.
    Eisenhuth, Susie.
    The writer’s reader : understanding journalism and non-fiction.
    New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

    A Vision of Students Today

    February 29th, 2008 by Diana Nichols

    This video about today’s college student from Prof. Wesch and students at the University of Kansas is worth repeating, and if you’ve never seen it, its definitely worth the 4 min. run time. Also take a look at their earlier video, The Machine is Us/ing Us.