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Panic attacks : media manipulation and mass delusion / Robert E. Bartholomew, Hilary Evans.
Publication details: Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: Sutton, 2004.Description: xv, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0750937858 (hbk.) :
- 9780750937856 (hbk.):
Contents:
The great moon hoax of 1835: Tabloid journalism is born -- We're all going to die! -- The Halley's cometscare of 1910 -- The war of the worlds spooks a nation: how it happened -- How could it happen again? -- The remarkable legacy of the martian panic -- Media made monsters: Four tall tales and why people believed them -- Europe's mad cows and bad Coke: Terror at the dinner table -- The new American witch-hunts: Creating the sex abuse epidemic -- Terrorism scares -- The phantom of menace -- Primitive stereotyping: How the media created president Johnson Cult and the lost Tasaday tribe -- Protecting ourselves from media manipulation.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | HM 1206 .B37 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Copy Type:01 - Books | Available | 250489 |
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| HM1166 .E7413 2020 Surrounded by idiots : the four types of human behavior and how to effectively communicate with each in business (and in life) / | HM 1166 .H37 2010 Texture : human expression in the age of communications overload / | HM 1166 .S48 2004 Get them to see it your way, right away : how to persuade anyone of anything / | HM 1206 .B37 2004 Panic attacks : media manipulation and mass delusion / | HM 1206 .C6467 2007 Communication in the age of suspicion : trust and the media / | HM 1206 .C668 2009 Convergence media history / | HM 1206 .G46 2004 Gender in applied communication contexts / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-213) and index
The great moon hoax of 1835: Tabloid journalism is born -- We're all going to die! -- The Halley's cometscare of 1910 -- The war of the worlds spooks a nation: how it happened -- How could it happen again? -- The remarkable legacy of the martian panic -- Media made monsters: Four tall tales and why people believed them -- Europe's mad cows and bad Coke: Terror at the dinner table -- The new American witch-hunts: Creating the sex abuse epidemic -- Terrorism scares -- The phantom of menace -- Primitive stereotyping: How the media created president Johnson Cult and the lost Tasaday tribe -- Protecting ourselves from media manipulation.
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