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1. Mediating the Message in the 21st Century

   A Media Sociology Perspective

   By Pamela J. Shoemaker, Stephen D. Reese

   Hailed as one of the "most significant books of the twentieth century" by Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Mediating the Message has long been an essential text for media effects scholars and students of media sociology. This new edition of the classic media sociology textbook now...

   To Be Published September 25th 2013 by Routledge
2. Communication Campaigns About Drugs

   Government, Media, and the Public

   Edited by Pamela J. Shoemaker

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
3. Gatekeeping Theory

   By Pamela J. Shoemaker, Timothy Vos

   Gatekeeping is one of the media’s central roles in public life: people rely on mediators to transform information about billions of events into a manageable number of media messages. This process determines not only which information is selected, but also what the content and nature of messages,...

   Published April 27th 2009 by Routledge
4. News Around the World

   Content, Practitioners, and the Public

   By Pamela J. Shoemaker, Akiba A. Cohen

   What's news? A front-page news story in the United States might not appear in a newspaper in China. Or a minor story on German television may be all over the airwaves in India. But News Around the World shows that the underlying nature of news is much the same the world over and that people--no...

   Published December 19th 2005 by Routledge