Edition Contents

FORWARD by Debbi Hatton, Managing Editor

ARTICLES

Harry Potter and Children’s Perceptions of the News Media

By: Amanda Sturgill, Jessica Winney and Tina Libhart

 

“I Am Not an American”: The ACLU’s Scrapbook for Freedom campaign

By:  Heidi Hamilton

 

Exploring the Gender Divide on YouTube: An Analysis of the Creation and Reception of Vlogs

By:  Heather Molyneaux, Susan O’Donnell, Kerri Gibson and Janice Singer

 

Visualizing the Rhetorical Situation of Hurricane Katrina: Photography, Popular Culture, and Meaning in Images

By:  Paul Booth and Amber Davisson

Limited or Limitless?  Nokia’s Mobile Regulation of Everyday Life

By:  Jonathan J. Lillie

 

Where Can Elmo Learn More? Sesame Street’s Elmo as Collector of Information

By:  Ronald Bishop

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Jay Heinrichs – Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach us About the Art of Persuasion

Reviewed by: Gordon Alley – Young

John Vivian- The Media of Mass Communication (9^th ed.)

Reviewed by: Daren C.  Brabham

Gëzim Alpion – Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity?

Reviewed by: Marvin Williams