Communication and law : multidisciplinary approaches to research / edited by Amy Reynolds, Brooke Barnett. - Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, 2006. - xxvi, 394 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - LEA's communication series .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The benefits of a multidisciplinary approach in communication law / Charting the future of interdisciplinary scholarship in communication and law / Method in our madness: legal methodology in communications law research / Social science research in judges' first amendment decisions / A new paradigm for legal research / The intersection of legal practice and social science on the issue of pretrial publicity / Pornographic knowledge, the law, and social science / Creating meaning, creating citizens: the U.S. Supreme Court and the control of meaning in the public sphere / Information and socioeconomic class in U.S. Constitutional Law / Merging legal research and the practices of social science: comparing state access laws / Blacks in the news: television, modern racism, and cultural change / The effects of dehumanizing depictions of race in TV news stories / Word-picture juxtaposition, schemata, and defamation in television news / The stories they couldn't tell: how journalists use public record databases / The impact of Walker's Appeal on northen and southern conceptions of free speech in the nineteenth century / The people and the cable guy: federally empowered public interest standards / Utilizing mass media advertising for legal notice in class action lawsuits / Amy Reynolds, Brooke Barnett -- Jeremy Cohen, Timothy Gleason -- Fred H. Cate -- Anthony L. Fargo -- David Pritchard -- Jon Bruschke -- Robert Jensen -- David S. Allen -- Sandra Braman -- Bill F. Chamberlin ... [et al.] -- Robert M. Entman -- Glenn Leshner -- Tom Grimes, Robert Drechsel -- Brooke Barnett -- Amy Reynolds -- Constance Ledoux Book -- Michael Hoefges, Kent Lancaster. Introduction: I. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND APPROACHES -- II. MULTIDISCIPLINARY METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES --

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