New for Journalism and Mass Communications

Macmillan / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
This second edition (2008), consisting of nine volumes, is the major revision of the first edition of this title and its predecessor. It specializes in coverage of "scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition," containing "nearly 3,000 entirely new articles... contributed by thousands of scholars (including several Nobel prize winners)." You may view the table of contents here.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here

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This brief article in yesterday's online Chronicle of Higher Education (available to W&L readers here) concerns a new PBS documentary on the student newspaper at Penn State University.

The film's distributor, First Run/Icarus Films, wants $398 (plus shipping) for a DVD of the film. Thus, I think it unlikely that the library will order a copy unless there is significant interest from the Journalism department.

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Media Psychology
Available online.
"This study identifies the prospective predictors of exposure to television’s sexual content with a particular emphasis on the contributions of teenagers’ sexual readiness versus household television policies. Though believing that one’s friends approve of sex and having greater noncoital sexual experience predicted heavier viewing of sexual content in the subsequent year, household restrictions had a nearly equal and opposite effect."
Accessible through the Communication and Mass Media Complete database.

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Privacy International.
Available online.
"This report reviews the laws and practices in nations relating to protection of journalists’
sources around the world. The situations in over 150 countries were examined in the process
of gathering the information."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page

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