Mediating the Message: Theories of Influence on Mass Media Content

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Pamela Shoemaker and Stephen Reese, (New York: Longman, 1991).(2nd edition, 1996). Translated into Spanish and Korean.

This book, currently being revised by the authors, provides a conceptual
framework for exploring the shaping of media content. The model
incorporates influences at the individual, routines, organizational,
extra-media, and ideological levels of analysis.

Framing Public Life: Perspectives on Media and our Understanding of the Social World (sample chapter)

Stephen Reese, Oscar Gandy, and August Grant (editors).
(Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001).

"Korean translation edition"

This volume offers a thorough inter-disciplinary examination of the ways in which meaning comes to be shaped.  The editors and contributors illustrate how media texts and those who provide them powerfully shape of "frame" our social worlds and thus affect our public life.  It includes detailed theoretical discussion as well as illustrative empirical case studies.

Stephen Reese, “Theorizing a globalized journalism,” in M. Loeffelholz & D. Weaver (eds.), Global journalism research: Theories, methods, findings, future. London: Blackwell (expected 2006).

Stephen Reese, “Militarized journalism: Framing dissent in the Persian Gulf wars,” in Stuart Allan and Barbie Zelizer (eds) Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime (London and New York: Routledge, 2004).

Stephen Reese, “Framing Public Life,” Major synthesis review chapter in Stephen Reese, Oscar Gandy, and August Grant (Eds.) Framing Public Life: Perspectives on Media and our Understanding of the Social World,, pp. 7-32, (Mahwah, N.J. Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001).

Stephen Reese, “The News Paradigm and the Ideology of Objectivity: A Socialist at the Wall Street Journal,” reprinted in Dan Berkowitz (ed.) Social Context of News: A Text- Reader (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1996).

Stephen Reese, “Setting the Media's Agenda: A Power Balance Perspective,” pp. 309-340, invited full-length review essay in James Anderson (ed.) Communication Yearbook 14 (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1991).

Stephen Reese and Lucig Danielian, “Inter-Media Influence and the Drug Issue: Converging on Cocaine,” in Pamela Shoemaker (ed.) Communication Campaigns About Drugs: Government, Media and the Public, pp. 29-45. (Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, 1989). Also, anthology chapter in Max McCombs and David Protess (eds.) Agenda-Setting: Readings on Media, Public Opinion and Policy Making (Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, 1991).

Lucig Danielian and Stephen Reese, “A Closer Look at Inter-Media Influences on the Agenda-Setting Process: The Cocaine Issue of 1986,” in Pamela Shoemaker (ed.) Communication Campaigns About Drugs: Government, Media and the Public (Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, 1989).

Stephen Reese, “Relations of Occupations to Uses of Information Technologies,” chapter in Frederick Williams (ed.) Measuring the Information Society: The Texas Studies (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1988).