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COMMUNICATIO
http://www.unisa.ac.za/dept/press/
From the University of South Africa. This provides the full text of some articles published in this journal of communication theory.
PROJECT MCLUHAN
"The aim of Project McLuhan is to update and revitalize the work of the late Dr. McLuhan; to continue to scrutinize the interface between technology and culure; to 'project forward' using today's percepts; to analyze; to stimulate; to discuss; and to assist in the development of the science of media (process) analysis." A joint project of Toronto's Center for Media Sciences and the Marshall McLuhan Center for Global Communications.
Historic Debates- CSPAN
An educational site which offers video clips and study questions of past televised presidential debates. Includes: Nixon/Kennedy, Dukakis/Bush and Clinton/Bush/Perot.
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION
http://icahdq.org/
Formed in 1950 to bring "together academicians and other professionals whose interest focused on human communication".
CIOS
http://www.cios.org
Home page of the Communication institute for online scholarship. This site offfers a variety of communication studies related research and information. If you are a current CSULB faculty, staff or student and have configured your computer for home access or are using a computer on campus then you can access even more members only information on this site!
NATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION
http://www.natcom.org/
"A not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote study, criticism, research, teaching, and application of the artistic, humanistic, and scientific principles of communication." The NCA changed its name in early September 1997 from Speech Communication Association.
MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS STUDIES
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Functions/mcs.html
Provides links to Web resources useful in the academic study of media and communication. The site is organized into sixteen areas, including film studies, media influence, textual analysis, and gender, class, ethnicity.
Communication Theory: A first look.
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Functions/mcs.html
Provides the full text of chapters dealing with communication theory.
Nonverbal Behavior/Noverbal Communication Links
http://www3.usal.es/~nonverbal/introduction.htm
Provides links to Web resources useful in the academic study of nonverbal communication.
COMMUNICATION ABSTRACTS
REF P87.C67
WHO'S WHO IN MASS COMMUNICATION
REF P92.5.A1W45 1990
WOMEN IN COMMUNCIATION: A BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCEBOOK
REF P94.5.W65W667 1996
COMMUNICATION AND THE MASS MEDIA : A GUIDE TO THE REFERENCE LITERATURE
REF P90.B54 1991
COMMUNICATION RESEARCH : STRATEGIES AND SOURCES
REF P91.3.R83 1996
INTERNATIONAL AFRO MASS MEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE
REF P94.5.B55I57 1996
MASS MEDIA BIBLIOGRAPHY : AN ANNOTATED GUIDE TO BOOKS AND JOURNALS FOR RESEARCH AND REFERENCE
REF P90.B55 1990
ABC-CLIO COMPANION TO THE MEDIA IN AMERICA
REF P92.U5H58 1995
DICTIONARY OF COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES
REF P87.5.W38 1993
NTC'S MASS MEDIA DICTIONARY
REF P87.E45 1991
WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD DICTIONARY OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
REF P87.5.W45 1990
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