Dictionary of Mass Communication & Media Research.Dictionary Of Mass Communication & Media Research David Demers Marquette Books 3107 East 62nd Avenue, Spokane, WA 99223 0922993254 $39.95 www.MarquetteBooks.org Also available in a hardcover edition (0922993351, $59.95), Dictionary Of Mass Communication & Media Research: A Guide For Students, Scholars, and Professionals by David Demers (Associate Professor of Communicaton, Washington State University Washington State University, at Pullman; land-grant and state supported; chartered 1890, opened 1892 as an agriculture college. From 1905 to 1959 it was the State College of Washington. ) offers comprehesnive, organized, "user friendly" definitions of more than 1,400 terms and concepts associated with modern communications in all of its aspects both theoretical and practical. From "absolutism absolutism Political doctrine and practice of unlimited, centralized authority and absolute sovereignty, especially as vested in a monarch. Its essence is that the ruling power is not subject to regular challenge or check by any judicial, legislative, religious, economic, or " and "access law" to "zines" and "zoom To change from a distant view to a more close-up view (zoom in) and vice versa (zoom out). An application may provide fixed or variable levels of zoom. A display adapter may also have built-in zoom capability. lens", terms defined include philosophical ideas, trade jargon jargon, pejorative term applied to speech or writing that is considered meaningless, unintelligible, or ugly. In one sense the term is applied to the special language of a profession, which may be unnecessarily complicated, e.g., "medical jargon. , techno-speak, and even some brief biographies of landmark media figures, or summaries of pivotal media-related court cases. An absolute "must-have" for journalism and communications students of all levels of study. |
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