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Andrews, Kenneth T., and Michael Biggs, “The Dynamics of Protest Diffusion: Movement Organizations, Social Networks, and News Media in the 1960 Sit-Ins,” American Sociological Review, 71 (Oct. 2006), 752–77.

Conway, Mike, “The Birth of CBS-TV News,” Journalism History, 32 (Fall 2006), 128–37.

Janik, Erika, “Good Morning Homemakers!,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 90 (Autumn 2006), 4–15.

Kraszewski, Jon, “Adapting Scripts in the 1950s: The Economic and Political Incentives for Television Anthology Writers,” Journal of Film and Video, 58 (Fall 2006), 3–21.

Mason, Robert, “The Struggle for Free Time: Media Reform in the United States during the 1990s,” Media History (Abingdon), 12 (Dec. 2006), 313–28.

Morgan, Edward P., “Media Culture and the Public Memory of the Black Panther Party,” in In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement, ed. Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams, 324–73. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xii, 390 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3837-6. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3890-1.)

Slotten, Hugh Richard, “Universities, Public Service Experimentation, and the Origins of Radio Broadcasting in the United States, 1900–1920,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 26 (Oct. 2006), 485–504.

Slotten, Hugh Richard, “Universities, Public Service Radio, and the ‘American System’ of Commercial Broadcasting, 1921–40,” Media History (Abingdon), 12 (Dec. 2006), 253–72.

Unger, Nancy C., “The We Say What We Think Club,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 90 (Autumn 2006), 16–27.

 

Chavez, Raul S., “Childhood Indians: Television, Film, and Sustaining the White (Sub)conscience” (University of California, Riverside, 2005). Order No. DA3203999.

Frick, Caroline Jane, “Restoration Nation: Motion Picture Archives and ‘American’ Film” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3203510.

Nichols-Pethick, Jonathan, “Open Up: The American Television Police Drama, 1981–2000” (Indiana University, 2005). Order No. DA3198888.

Simpson, Kim Jefferson, “Hit Radio and the Formatting of America in the Early 1970s” (University of Texas, Austin, 2005). Order No. DA3204254.

Weight, Alden L., “Families are Forever: The Historical Continuity of Domestic Comedies through Ritual and Resonance” (University of Iowa, 2005). Order No. DA3202973.

 

Morrow, Robert W., Sesame Street and the Reform of Children’s Television. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xiv, 226 pp. $50.00, isbn 0-8018-8230-3.)

Poster, Mark, Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. x, 303 pp. Cloth, $79.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3801-7. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3839-0.)

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