Adapted from the Datelines that appear throughout The Media in Your Life, these web Datelines offer page references to sections in the text that discuss the topics highlighted. When you click on the hypertext, a box offering a brief explanation as well as the page reference will magically appear. Choose a chapter to begin.

  1. We the People--and the Mass Media
  2. How People Communicate: Uses and Structure
  3. Historical Development of Mass Communication
  4. Books
  5. Newspapers
  6. Magazines
  7. The Movies
  8. Radio
  9. Television
  10. Music and the Recording Industry
  11. Computers and the Information Highway
  12. Regulation
  13. Ethics
  14. Public Relations
  15. Advertising
  16. Mass Communication Research