Chapter 1: Mass Communication
Advertising and the End of the World
Beyond the Frame
Chapter 2: The Internet
Epic 2015
Chapter 3: Sound Recording
Thomas Edison
Emile Berliner
Enrico Caruso
Living Stereo
A Revolutionary New Triumph in Tape!
Money for Nothing
Chapter 4: Popular Radio
Radio Network Broadcasting
How Telegraphs Function
Underground Telephone Cable
"Hindenburg Disaster" Radio Broadcast
"War of the Worlds" Radio Broadcast
Empires of the Air
LPFM: The People's Choice
Chapter 5: Television
The Story of Television
Television Tomorrow
Television Remote Control
1950s Commercials:
Speedway 79
Budweiser Beer
Kool cigarettes
The Crisis of the Cultural Environment
Chapter 6: Cable
First Satellite Launched!
The Big Bounce
Kennedy on TelStar
Berkeley Public Access Television
Mergers and Monopolies
Chapter 7: Movies
Eadweard Muybridge
Thomas Edison Films:
Edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze
Annie Oakley
Sandow
Three Acrobats
The Kiss
Trapeze Disrobing Act
Life of the American Fireman
Let's Go to the Movies
Behind the Screens
Chapter 8: Newspapers
Yellow Journalism
Women in Journalism
City Newsroom
Photojournalism
Chapter 9: Magazines
Theodore Roosevelt
Consumers Want to Know
Primedia: The Targeted Media Specialists
Chapter 10: Books
Printing Press
Diversity in Publishing
Book Scanning Robot
Chapter 11: Advertising
Early Print Advertisements
Deadly Persuasion
Captive Audience
No Logo
Chapter 12: Public Relations
Buffalo Bill
P.T. Barnum and Jumbo the Elephant
Toxic Sludge is Good For You
Video News Release
Chapter 13: Media Economics
The Electronic Storyteller
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
NBC's News Consolidation in LA
Chapter 14: The Culture of Journalism
The Myth of the Liberal Media
Constructing Public Opinion
Beyond Good & Evil
A Cold Day in DC: The Counter Inaugural
Independent World Television News
Free Press
Chapter 15: Media Effects
Perversion for Profit
Social Learning Theory
The Killing Screens
Slim Hopes
Tough Guise
Game Over
Mickey Mouse Monopoly
Chapter 16: Legal Controls
Despotism
A Welcome Guest in the House
Definition of Obscenity
Copyright Criminals: This is a Sampling Sport