Table of Contents

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Chapter 1:    A new approach to media in your life

Chapter 2:    Growing up in a mediated world

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Chapter 3:    How we acquire language: communication and community

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Chapter 4:    The brain and the birth of writing

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Chapter 5:     Printing, the mass public, and the mass private

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Chapter 6:     Newspapers in a digital media world

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Chapter 7:     Magazines and the construction of the story

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Chapter 8:     The global world: the telegraph

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Chapter 9:      Radio, music, and the soundtrack of our lives

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Chapter 10:    Photography: writing images and movement

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Chapter 11:    Movies and the dream factory

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Chapter 12:    TV: Broadcasting and narrowcasting

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Chapter 13:    Advertising

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Chapter 14:    Public Relations

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Chapter 15:    Media and journalism, law and ethics

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Chapter 16:    Media and agenda setting in the political sphere

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Chapter 17:     The new media explosion

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Chapter 18:     In the midst of a revolution, imagining the future