BOOKS  (Newly published books posted here)

Click on a category below, which will take you to a list of books I recommend for the teaching of media literacy.
Another good source is:  Silman James Press

Advertising  Advertising Books, Recommended by UT
Advertising Books, Recommended by UF
BOOKS FOR SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA CENTERS
Exploring Media Literacy With Young Adults
Motion Pictures/Films     Film Study Guides
News
Propaganda
Television Broadcasting

Other Recommended Media Texts

Recommended books: Media Awareness Network
Media Studies Working Group's List Media & Society
Mass Communications Bibliography of Print Resources
Theatre Books' Media Lit Recommendations
Media Studies Books
Ed Resources in Media Literacy/Studies
Media Literacy & Citizenship
Media Literacy/Media Democracy Recommendations
Media Literacy Readings Bibliography
Media Literacy: A Bibliography
Books For Parents
Visual Literacy & Picture Books        
MediaStudy Recommendations
Great Britain Curriculum Texts: Nelson Thorne    Palgrave-McMillan


Other Favorites

ANNUAL EDITIONS: Mass Media 06/07, Thirteenth Edition
13th Edition

A collection of some of the best articles dealing with issues in the media. Normally used in college courses, this text can also be helpful in discussions with students about media issues.
Click on the book for table of contents.


40 selections on enduring intellectual value--classic articles, book excerpts, and research studies--that have shaped the study of mass media and our contemporary understanding of it. Included are carefully edited selections from the works of the most distinguished observers of the mass media, past and present, from Harold D. Lasswell, Hadley Cantril, and Neil Postman to Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Michael Eric Dyson, and Annette Kuhn.

TAKING SIDES: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Mass Media and Society, Eighth Edition
8th Edition

This text is designed to cover two sides of an issue, with articles pro and con on issues. Click on the book for table of contents.


Media Ethics
Issues & Cases (4th Ed)

Media Ethics combines real-life and hypothetical cases with a succinct introduction to relevant ethical theory, helping students prepare for the ethical situations they will encounter in the media professions. Ideal as the main text in a media ethics course or as a supplemental text in any course in journalism.