Mass Media Revolution

J. Charles Sterin is an award- winning documentary filmmaker, investigative television journalist and screenwriter. Over the course of his 40-year career, Sterin has produced over 60 hours of television documentaries, including episodes of A&E Network’s prime- time series Investigative Reports and Ancient Mysteries, and documentary specials aired on PBS. Sterin co- produced a national media project with 10 of the world’s leading humanist thinkers (including anthropologist Margaret Mead, psychologist Carl Rogers and anthropologist Ashley Montagu) and was selected by the Poynter Institute to produce its seminal PBS documentary series NewsLeaders. Tameka Winston is the Department Chair and an award-winning Professor in the Department of Communications at Tennessee State University (TSU). She is also an author and Sirius XM radio host. Winston has been working at the collegiate level for 15 years, and is a popular and respected professor and student mentor at TSU. She was recently awarded the prestigious "2017 Woman of Achievement Award" by the Nashville Business Journal. She was also among the finalists for the 2016 Nashville’s Emerging Leaders Award sponsored by the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and YP Nashville.

Table of Contents

Section I-Paving the Way to Today’s Mass Media






Introduction to the Mass Media Revolution



Mass Media: A Brief Historical Narrative



Media Technologies and the Dynamics of change
Section II-The Evolution of Media Content and Platforms




Print Media



Music and Radio



Film and Television



New Media
Section III-Media Business Economics




Advertising and Public Relations



Media Industry



Media Bias



Mass Media Law and Ethics
Section IV-The Media Experience, Culture and You




The Power of Photography in Mass Media



Journalism in the Digital Millennium



Media Impact on the Global Stage



Stories of Diversity in American Media



Working in the Mass Media in the Digital Age

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Credits