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Subject Guide - Communication Technology

Compiled by Paul Jackson, Communication Technology Librarian Liaison. Updated 2011.

 

Selected Web Resources

Aims Community College, Academics: Communication Media
Colorado Press Association
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Investigative Reporters and Editors
MCA-I, Media Communications Association—International
Media Education Foundation
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Screenwriters Federation of America
Society of Broadcast Engineers                               
Society of Professional Journalists
Student Press

 

Selected Statistical Resources

Center for Screen-Time Awareness
NationMaster.com: Media Statistics>Radio Broadcast Stations (Most Recent) by Country
NationMaster.com: Media Statistics>Television Broadcast Stations (Most Recent) by Country
Newspaper Circulation in Top Markets
Newspaper Readership in Top 25 Markets

 

Selected Online Images and Other Media

APImages
Best of Photojournalism 2011
CNN Video
ePHOTOzine
Hulu
Old Time Radio
RadioTower.com
Television History--The First 75 Years
Today’s Front Pages
Vimeo Film School-Filmmaking Cinemacuteo

 

Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Article Databases or Online Periodicals

Academic Search Premier  |   Off-Campus
LexisNexis   |   Off-Campus
NewsBank Access World News   |   Off-Campus
Newspaper Source   |   Off-Campus
Proquest   |   Off-Campus
Broadcasting & Cable
Global Media Journal
HDTV Magazine
International Journal of Communication
The News Media and the Law

 

Print Magazines in Kiefer Library

American Photo
Art in America
The Artists Magazine
ARTnews
CGW: Computer Graphics World
Communication Arts
Linux Pro Magazine
Popular Photography
Technology Review
Wired

The Library’s subscriptions to magazines that are of interest to our Communication Technology students are primarily in electronic format. Full-text articles are available in electronic formats through online databases. (see below)

 

Full-Text Electronic Books Online

NetLibrary
This database includes access to titles such as Writing for Broadcast Journalists, Writing Your Screenplay, Sports Writing Handbook, An Economic History of Film, Technical Film and TV for Nontechnical People, Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis, Media Access: Social and Psychological Dimensions of New Technology Use, and The Murdoch Mission: The Digital Transformation of a Media Empire .

Broadcast Engineer’s Handbook
Disc Jockey 101
Film Industry in the United States: A Brief Historical Overview
Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive
Short Course Book: The Textbook of Digital Photography

 

Searching the Library Catalog

The titles below are just a few of the resources available for you. The Kiefer Library Catalog, http://tlc.aims.edu, provides access to resources available at Aims Community College. Use the following subjects (Library of Congress) and keywords to search in the library catalog:

Media, radio broadcasting, television journalism, journalists, mass media, television shows, news writing, reporters, editing, and broadcasting industry.

 

Selected Books

PN4815.2 .K68 2010       Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload
TR15 .G88 2009 Camera : A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital
PN1992.8.S4 C85 2010 Cult TV Book: From Star Trek to Dexter, New Approaches to TV Outside the Box
PN1995.9.D6 J58 2006 Documentary Film Makers Handbook
PS3515.E37 Z75457 2009  Ernest Hemingway: A Writer's Life
PN1999.W27 T45 2008 Mouse Machine: Disney and Technology
HM851 .N4765 2008  Networked Publics
TK6680.5 .B68 2009 Web Video: Making It Great, Getting It Noticed
PN4738 .B37 2007  When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina
HQ1391.U5 F35 2008 Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns


Other Library Materials

Video/DVD

Z 642 .C62 1999 VHS              Copyright in the New Millennium

HQ799.2.I5 G76 2008             Growing Up Online

 

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