News Photographs Research Guide, includes databases, award winners, magazine & newspaper photos, archives & collections, articles, books, videos about news photos and visual storytelling.
Multi-disciplinary database with full-text periodicals, trade publications and peer-reviewed journals. Includes monographs (books), reports, and conference proceedings.
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
Comprehensive resource of scholarly journals and other periodicals related to communications and mass media, most containing full-text articles. Good source of information on communication issues on a worldwide scale, from a variety of publishers, research institutions and information sources.
CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields.
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This is the online catalog of materials owned by Penn State Libraries. All formats (books, journals, audiovisuals, maps, recordings, etc.) are included. Circulation status for individual items is also provided. Coverage: Presently contains about 7 million records. Updates: Continuous up-to-the-minute as new records are added.
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This is the online catalog of materials owned by Penn State Libraries. All formats (books, journals, audiovisuals, maps, recordings, etc.) are included. Circulation status for individual items is also provided. Coverage: Presently contains about 7 million records. Updates: Continuous up-to-the-minute as new records are added.
Examines problematic stereotypes and prejudices in the media regarding ethnicity, race, or gender, also touching on the many laws to discourage discriminatory behavior.
Candid testimony and stunning photographs by the combat photographers who go into battle armed only with a camera to show warfare as it is and where it is. Includes incidents of horror, humor, bravery, and daring in locations from Vietnam to Haiti, Ramallah to Chechnya, El Salvador to Sarajevo, the World Trade Center to Afghanistan.
Comprehensive analysis of media coverage of the war in Iraq in 2003, including a broad range of interviews with journalists (both embedded and non-embedded), news editors, news heads, and with key planners at the Pentagon and the UK Ministry of Defense. In future, the authors argue, journalists need to understand their role in this public relations effort, and to ask questions not only when access is denied, but also when it is granted.
What compels us to look at shocking photographs or, alternatively, to look away? Should the media use disturbing images to inform, at the risk of offending? How is our sense of politics, morality, and culture affected when we are exposed to gruesome images of accidents and disasters, murder and execution, grief and death? A documentary of photography's cultural and political power, Body Horror analyzes the moral responsibility attached to publishing and bearing witness to photographs of violence, and the historical amnesia that arises when such imagery remains unseen.
Award-winning documentary about iconic war photographer James Nachtwey which addresses the broader scope surrounding war journalism, and the issues these journalists cover.