LSCI 106: ONLINE RESEARCH 1: INTRODUCTION TO ONLINE RESEARCH

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RESEARCH QUESTION:

How does the concentration of ownership in the mass media affect bias in news coverage?

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mass media

newspapers

television

news

journalism

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concentration

conglomerates

monopoly

mergers

consolidation

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bias

objectivity

impartiality

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Alter, Jonathan. "Big Media Gets Even Bigger" Newsweek 24 Jan. 2000: 42. InfoTrac OneFile. GaleGroup. Skyline College Library. 18 Mar. 2003. <http://infotrac.galegroup.com>.

Bagdikian, Ben H. The Media Monopoly. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000. NetLibrary/Peninsula Library System. 18 Feb. 2002. <http://www.netLibrary.com/ebook_info.asp?product_id=44270>.

Baker, Russ. "Breaking the News; Do Media Mergers Really Undermine America's Democracy?" Los Angeles Times 25 June 2000: Book Review:1.

"Big Media, Bad News." The Nation 7 Jan. 2002: 3. InfoTrac OneFile. GaleGroup. Skyline College Library. 1 Mar. 2002. <http://infotrac.galegroup.com/>.

"Electronic Empires." (audio file.) In the Pipeline. 1999. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 5 Mar. 2002. <http://abc.net.au/pipeline/audio/ip401.ram>

Epstein, Edward. "Congress Tries to Put Clamps on Media Mergers; Anger at FCC Ruling Brings Calls for Laws, but Satisfying Bush, Both Houses Difficult." San Francisco Chronicle 14 Oct. 2003: A6. InfoTrac Newspapers. GaleGroup. Skyline College Library. 21 Mar. 2004. <http://infotrac.galegroup.com>

FAIR -- Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting. 2002. Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting. 5 Mar. 2002. <http://www.fair.org>.

Gilens, Martin and Craig Hertzman. "Corporate Ownership and News Bias: Newspaper Coverage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act." Journal of Politics 62. 2 (May 2000): 369+. InfoTrac OneFile. GaleGroup. Skyline College Library. 1 Mar. 2002. <http://infotrac.galegroup.com>

Gunther, Mark. "All in the Family: Mergers May Affect Impartiality of News Journalism." American Journalism Review 17 (Oct. 1995): 36-41. AJR: American Journalism Review. 4 Mar. 2003. <http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=1360>.

Kick, Russ, ed. You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths. New York: The Disinformation Company, 2001.

Marks, Alexandra. "New Media Alliances Test Press Objectivity." Christian Science Monitor, 2 July1996: 1.

McChesney, Robert W. Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle against Corporate Media. New York: Seven Stories, 2002.

McChesney, Robert W. and John Nichols. "Media Democracy's Moment: Suddenly, There Are Widespread Discussions about the Dangers of Monopoly Power" The Nation 24 Feb. 2003: 16+. InfoTrac OneFile. GaleGroup. Skyline College Library. 21 Mar. 2003. <http://infotrac.galegroup.com>.

McManus, John H. "Merger Mania in the Media: Can We Still Get All the News We Need?" Issues in Ethics 7.1 (Winter 1996). Markkula Center for Applied Ethics/Santa Clara University. 5 Mar. 2002. <http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Centers/Ethics/publications/iie/v7n1/mediacon.html >.

Miller, Mark Crispin. "What's Wrong With This Picture?" The Nation 7 Jan. 2002: 18+. InfoTrac OneFile. GaleGroup. Skyline College Library. 1 Mar. 2002. <http://infotrac.galegroup.com>.

Moore, Aaron "Who Owns What." Columbia Journalism Review. Oct. 2001. Columbia Journalism Review. 5 Mar. 2002. <http://www.cjr.org/owners/ >.

Morales, Ed. "Media Merger Will Leave Hispanics No Choice." New Pittsburgh Courier. 6 Aug. 2003: A7. Ethnic Newswatch. Proquest. Skyline College Library. 14 Mar. 2004. <http://proquest.umi.com>.

Shah, Hemant. "Journalism in an Age of Mass Media Globalization." International Development Studies Network. 6 Nov. 2000. IDSNet. 5 Mar. 2002. <http://www.idsnet.org/Papers/Communications/HEMANT_SHAH.HTM> .

Solomon, Norman. "Corporate Versus Independent Media." The Humanist 60.4 (July/Aug. 2000): 3-4. InfoTrac OneFile. GaleGroup. Skyline College Library. 4 Mar. 2001. <http://infotrac.galegroup.com>

 

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