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Title Communication and law : multidisciplinary approaches to research / edited by Amy Reynolds, Brooke Barnett
Published Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 394 pages) : illustrations
Series LEA's communication series
LEA's communication series.
Contents Introduction: The benefits of a multidisciplinary approach in communication law / Amy Reynolds, Brooke Barnett -- I. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND APPROACHES -- Charting the future of interdisciplinary scholarship in communication and law / Jeremy Cohen, Timothy Gleason -- Method in our madness: legal methodology in communications law research / Fred H. Cate -- Social science research in judges' first amendment decisions / Anthony L. Fargo -- A new paradigm for legal research / David Pritchard -- The intersection of legal practice and social science on the issue of pretrial publicity / Jon Bruschke -- Pornographic knowledge, the law, and social science / Robert Jensen -- Creating meaning, creating citizens: the U.S. Supreme Court and the control of meaning in the public sphere / David S. Allen -- Information and socioeconomic class in U.S. Constitutional Law / Sandra Braman -- II. MULTIDISCIPLINARY METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES -- Merging legal research and the practices of social science: comparing state access laws / Bill F. Chamberlin [and others] -- Blacks in the news: television, modern racism, and cultural change / Robert M. Entman -- The effects of dehumanizing depictions of race in TV news stories / Glenn Leshner -- Word-picture juxtaposition, schemata, and defamation in television news / Tom Grimes, Robert Drechsel -- The stories they couldn't tell: how journalists use public record databases / Brooke Barnett -- The impact of Walker's Appeal on northen and southern conceptions of free speech in the nineteenth century / Amy Reynolds -- The people and the cable guy: federally empowered public interest standards / Constance Ledoux Book -- Utilizing mass media advertising for legal notice in class action lawsuits / Michael Hoefges, Kent Lancaster
Summary Talks both specifically and generally about the theoretical and methodological approaches one can use to study the First Amendment and general Communication Law issues. This book helps graduate students and scholars at various skill levels to think about new approaches to questions about Communication Law
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Mass media -- Law and legislation -- Research -- United States
Freedom of speech -- Research -- United States
Mass media -- Research -- United States
LAW -- Taxation.
Mass media -- Research
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Reynolds, Amy
Barnett, Brooke, 1972-
ISBN 1410617238
9781410617231
9780805849424
0805849424
9781135613228
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9781135613174
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9781135613211
1135613214
9780415646826
0415646820