Media, Knowledge and Power

1: Communications Across the World; 1: Introduction; 1.1: Many Voices, One World; 1.2: Human Communication and its History; 2: Communications and Social Power; 2: Introduction; 2.1: The Study of the Media: Theoretical Approaches; 2.2: Processes of Media Effects; 2.3: Down to Cases; 2.4: The Glasgow Dustcart Drivers' Strike; 2.5: Semiological Analysis; 2.6: Canada: Nation-building Threatened by the US-Dominated Media; 2.7: The Infrastructure of the ‘Information Society'; 3: Media ‘Forms' and Their Effects; 3: Introduction; 3.1: A Schema for the Study of Graphic Language; 3.2: Learning through Experience and Learning through Media; 3.3: The Use of Visual Media in the Service of Enriching Mental Thought Processes; 3.4: The Forms of Television: Effects on Children's Attention Comprehension and social Behavior; 4: Media Education; 4: Introduction; 4.1: Socialization and Television; 4.2: Improving the Educational Effectiveness of Television Case-Studies and Documentaries; 4.3: Computers and Writing; 4.4: Computer Models in the Teaching a of Biology; 4.5: Software through Prestel: the Case of Inverkeithing High School; 4.6: Television, Film and Media Education; 5: Information, Dissemination and Innovation; 5: Introduction; 5.1: Trends and Issues in Information Science – a General Survey; 5.2: Scientific Communication: Five Sociological Themes; 5.3: The Supply and Demand for Information about Education; 5.4: Artistry and Teaching: The Teacher as Focus of Research and Development; 5.5: The Rhetoric of School-Centred Innovation