Edited
by Yorgo Passadeos & Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou
ISBN:
978-960-6672-14-9,
400 pages, Hardback
 
Table of Contents
|   | ||
| List
  of Contributors | i | |
| 1. | International Approaches to the Study of Mass
  Media: An
  IntroductionPasadeos,Y. & Dimitrakopoulou,
  D. | 1 | 
| Part 1: Persuasive Communication | ||
| 2. | The Development of the Image of Europe in Political Advertising in  Capdevila, A., Gomez, L. & Aubia, L. | 9 | 
| 3. | Political
  Leadership and Persuasion Skills: An Example Study on Erdogan
  and Baykal Doruk, E.K. & Guresci, M. | 21 | 
| 4. | The Contingency Theory
  of Accommodation in Public Relations and its Applicability to the Telecommunication Sector in  El Bakry, R.H. | 33 | 
| 5. | The Relationship between Advertising and Cross-Culture: A Content Analysis of Turkish and Arabic Advertising Karagoz, E. & Cilizoglu, Y.G. | 47 | 
| 6. | How Oprah Winfrey and General Motors Used a $7
  Million Product Placement on the Oprah Winfrey Show to Gain Television
  Publicity across the  King, J.M. & Lynch, A. | 59 | 
| 7. | Social Campaigns Supporting Education as a Public
  Relations Tool: Characteristics of Web Sites Ozturk, M.C.
  & Ozkocak, L. | 69 | 
| 8. | Celebrity Endorsement Advertising: A Prevailing
  Tendency in Fashion Brands Quintas Froufe, N.
  & Quintas Froufe, E. | 79 | 
| 9. | Negative Aspects of the Affirmed Messages: Advertorial Journalism Uydaci, M., Odyakmaz, N. & Caglar,
  S. | 89 | 
| 10. | Persuasive
  Claims on Turkish Television Commercials Yilmaz, R.A. | 101 | 
| 11. | The Global
  Fight Against Obesity: A Comparative Analysis of Media-Related
  Causes and Prevention Efforts Werder, O.H. | 111 | 
| Part 2: Media Portrayals | ||
| 12. | Breast Cancer
  Portrayals in Entertainment MediaHuang, J. 
  & Gula J. | 123 | 
| 13. | Crisis Communication on News Portals:  Onur Air  Karsak, B. & Yilmaz,
  E. | 133 | 
| 14. | Food
  Science: Media Coverage of Genetically Modified Foods in the  Murphy, P. 
  & Vilceanu, O. | 141 | 
| 15. | Whose Stereotypes and Prejudices are we Talking
  about? One Soap Opera and Two Nations  Orhon, E.N. | 153 | 
| 16. | A Comparative Study of Events Argued in Local/ National
  Turkish Media:
  Analysis of Coverage of Children in a  Ozan, R. | 161 | 
| 17. | State, Agency and Power in Contemporary Film and
  Television  Price, S. | 173 | 
| 18. | Symbolic
  Annihilation of Women in the Turkish Daily Press Tanriover, H.U.
  & Yuce, O.D. | 183 | 
| 19. | From “Coons”
  to “Croons” to Would-Be “Bloods” and “Crips”: Representations and the Social Construction
  of Black Identity in the  Williams-Witherspoon, K.L.H. | 193 | 
| Part 3: Broadcasting
  & Film Studies | ||
| 20. | Habits of Listening to the Radio:  A Case of  Ataman, E.O. | 207 | 
| 21. | Short Film TypesCan, A. | 221 | 
| 22. | From ‘Us’ Versus ‘Them’ to ‘Just Us (Yet Still
  Them)’: The Revised
  Representational Significance of KS Lesions in 1990s  Hart, K.P. | 229 | 
| 23. | Cultural and
  Media Imperialism in  Karuchit, W. | 235 | 
| 24. | Perceptions of American Serials by the Turkish AudienceOzmen, S. | 245 | 
| 25. | The Experience of Entertainment in an Interactive
  Television Show Sperring, S. & Strandvall, T. | 255 | 
| Part 4:
  Visual Communication Issues | ||
| 26. | Eroded Meanings:
  Art, Reality, and Photographic Images of Torn Posters Cross, J.M. | 269 | 
| 27. | The Money Talks: 
  Currency Notes as Communication Media Dahanukar, R. | 277 | 
| 28. | Global Implications of Visual CommunicationPeterson,
  V.V. | 287 | 
| Part 5: Miscellaneous
  Communication Studies | ||
| 29. | History,
  Orientations, and Future Directions of Media Ecology Anton, C. | 299 | 
| 30. | The Role of Rumor in Creating a Post 9/11/01 War
  Psyche Cox, E.S. &
  Goodman, S. | 309 | 
| 31. | Will Eisner’s Development of the Comic Book Splash
  Page Duncan, R. | 319 | 
| 32. | Critical Thinking or
  Prejudice? Critical Thinking of the Students in the Faculties of
  Communication in  Kocak, A., Kaya, A.Y.
  & Arun, O. | 327 | 
| 33. | Media Concentration and the Evolution of the
  Canadian Identity Kierans, K. | 339 | 
| 34. | Press
  Concentration, Convergence and Innovation:  Lichtenberg, L. | 351 | 
| 35. | New Media, New Society?Vanobberghen, W. | 363 | 
| 36. | Judging the Success of the  Zaharopoulos, T. | 373 |