| Title | Author | Call# | Book Cover |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Social History of the Media : From Gutenberg to the Internet | Briggs, Asa | P 90 .B695 2005 |  |
| Communication History in Canada | Robinson, Daniel | P 92 .C3C57 2009 |  |
| Mass Communication in Canada | Lorimer, Rowland | P 92 .C3L67 2007 |  |
| The Media Gaze : Representations of Diversities in Canada | Fleras, Augie | P 94.5 .M552C2385 2011 |  |
| Representing Race : Racisms, Ethinicities and Media | Downing, John | P 94.5 .M55D69 2005 |  |
| Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks | Gigi, Meenakshi | P 94.6 .M424 2001 |  |
| Crime and the Media : Headlines Versus Reality | Muraskin, Roslyn. | P 96 .C742U66 2007 |  |
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Messages, Signs, and Meanings : A Basic Textbook in Semiotics and Communication
Danesi, Marcel. 2004
Mildorf, Jarmila & Bronwen Thomas. 2017
Crystalizing Public Opinion : Original Classic Edition
Bernays, Edward & Mitch Horowitz. 2019
The Politics of Persuasion : Economic Policy and Media Bias in the Modern Era
Dimaggio, Anthony R. 2017
Mediatization of Communication
Lundby, Knut. 2014
Speaking Power to Truth : Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual
Hawkins, Richard & Michael Keren. 2015
Applied Social Sciences : Communication Studies
Clitan, Gheorghe & Georgeta Rata & Patricia-Luciana Runcan. 2013
These handbooks provide easy to digest information about topics covered within Communications.
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communications (2000) by Marcel Danesi
The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communications is a dictionary designed to help students and genral readers understand the terminology and jargon in the fields of Semiotics, Media Studies, and Communication Studies.
The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality (2014) by Mark Grimshaw
The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality contains clost to 50 essays about virtuality and online communication.
Keywords for Media Studies (2017) by Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray
Keywords for Media Studies introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies.
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Understanding Media and Culture : An Introduction to Mass Communication.
Understanding Media and Culture is introductory mass communication text that covers major mass communication terms and concepts including “digital culture.”
Media, Society, Culture and You by Mark Poepsel
Media, Society, Culture and You is a survey of the basic topics of chemistry.
The Media and Communications Study Skills Student Guide by Doug Specht
The Media and Communications Study Skills Student Guide covers a range of general and generic skills that the author relates specifically towards media and communications studies..
DisinfoWatch defines itself as “a Canadian foreign disinformation monitoring and debunking platform” whose goal it is to increase public understanding and awareness about misinformation.
Media Digital History Library – Dedicated to digitizing historic books and magazines about film, broadcasting, and recorded sound for broad public access.
Pew Research Center – Journalism and Media – Data from various Pew Centers on topics such as media, the news, and public opinion.
Assignments written for Commerce courses use the APA (or American Psychiatric Association) rules for formatting. APA handbooks are available for your reference in the library or at the Writing and Learning Centre. Online WLC guides can be found here. You can also book an appointment with the Writing and Learning Centre for workshops and one-on-one citation help.
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