New for Journalism and Mass Communications

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation / American Anthropological Association.
Available online.
Released at the AAA's annual meeting, "results from the most extensive U.S. study on teens and their use of digital media show that America’s youth are developing important social and technical skills online – often in ways adults do not understand or value."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

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Kaiser Family Foundation / Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Available online.
"Study of how the U.S. news media covered health issues over an 18-month period from January 2007 through June 2008," finding that "news about health and health care made up less than four percent (3.6%) of all news content from January 2007 through June 2008."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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Cline Center for Democracy, University of Illinois.
Available online.
Study finds the ephemeral nature of documents presented online in the White House Web site. The authors "are the first to show a pattern of changes in documents over time, but note that others have, on previous occasions, pointed to suspicious changes to archived documents on the White House Web site."

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Greenwood.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Two-volume set (2007) contains chronologically-arranged accounts of about 35 trials of the past century, beginning with the Black Sox scandal (1919) and continuing to the 21st-century Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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Public Library of Science.
Available online.
"In an age of increasing globalization and discussion of the possibility of global pandemics, increasing rates of reporting of these events may influence public perception of risk. The present studies investigate the impact of high levels of media reporting on the perceptions of disease."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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