Mass Communication
See also the suggested reading for particular
assignments.
- Abercrombie, Nicholas (1996)
Television and Society. Cambridge: Polity Press
- Ashe, Diane D & Lynn E. McCutcheon (2001) 'Shyness, Loneliness, and Attitude Toward Celebrities',
Current Research in Social Psychology
[WWW document] URL
http://www.uiowa.edu/~grpproc/crisp/crisp.6.9.htm
- Burnett, Ann & Rhea Reinhardt Beto (2000)
'Reading Romance Novels: An Application of Parasocial Relationship Theory',
North Dakota Journal of Speech and Theatre 13
[WWW document] URL
http://www.sendit.nodak.edu/ndsta/beto.htm
- Chandler, Daniel & Merris Griffiths (2004)
'Who is the fairest of them all? Gendered readings of Big Brother 2 (UK)'. In Ernest Mathijs &
Janet Jones (Eds.) (2004): Big Brother International: Format, Critics and Publics. London: Wallflower Press,
pp. 40-61
- *Chandler, Daniel (2007)
Semiotics: The Basics. London: Routledge
- Chandler, Daniel and Rod Munday (2011)
Dictionary of Media and Communication. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Corner, John (1999)
Critical Ideas in Television Studies. Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Deacon, David, Michael Pickering, Peter Golding & Graham Murdock (2007)
Researching Communications: A Practical Guide to Methods in Media and Cultural Analysis. London: Arnold
- DeFleur, Melvin L. & Sandra Ball-Rokeach (1989)
Theories of Mass Communication (5th edn.). White Plains, NY: Longman
- Dyer, Gillian (1982)
Advertising as Communication. London: Routledge
- Fiske, John (1987)
Television Culture. London: Routledge
- *Fiske, John (1990)
Introduction to Communication Studies. London: Routledge.
- Fiske, John & John Hartley (1978)
Reading Television. London: Methuen
- Handelman, Don (2003): 'Towards the Virtual Encounter: Horton's and
Wohl's "Mass communication and Para-Social interaction"'.
In Elihu Katz, John Durham Peters, Tamar Liebes & Avril Orloff (Eds) (2002)
Canonic Texts in Media Research. Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 137-151
- Hartley, John (1982)
Understanding News. London: Routledge
- Horton, Donald and R. Richard Wohl (1956)
'Mass Communication and Para-social Interaction: Observations on Intimacy at a Distance',
Psychiatry 19: 215-29; online extract [WWW document] URL
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/media/Documents/short/horton_and_wohl_1956.html
- Livingstone, Sonia (1994)
Talk on Television: Audience Participation and Public Debate. London: Routledge
- Livingstone, Sonia (1998)
Making Sense of Television. London: Routledge
- McCourt, Andrea & Jacki Fitzpatrick (2001)
'The role of Personal Characteristics and Romantic Characteristics in Parasocial
Relationships: A Pilot Study', Journal of Mundane Behavior 2(1)
[WWW document] URL
http://www.mundanebehavior.org/issues/v2n1/mccourt_fitzpatrick.htm
- McQuail, Denis (2005)
McQuail's Mass Communication Theory. London: Sage
- Meyrowitz, Joshua (1985)
No Sense of Place. New York: Oxford University Press
- Moores, Shaun (1997) 'Broadcasting and Its Audiences'. In Hugh Mackay (Ed)
Consumption and Everyday Life. London: Sage
- Morley, David (1992)
Television Audiences and Cultural Studies. London: Routledge
- Noble, Grant (1975)
Children in Front of the Small Screen. London: Constable
- O'Sullivan, Patrick B. and Cynthia Hoffner (1998)
'Across the Great Divide: Melding Mass and Interpersonal Theory Through Mediated Relationships'
[WWW document] URL
http://www.ilstu.edu/~posull/OS&H1998.htm
- Watson, James (2003)
Media Communication: An Introduction to Theory and Process. London: Palgrave
- Zhao, Shanyang (2001?) 'Toward A Taxonomy of Copresence',
[WWW document] URL
http://nimbus.ocis.temple.edu/~mlombard/P2001/Zhao.pdf [Requires Adobe Acrobat]