Edition Contents

FORWARD by Debbi Hatton, Managing Editor

ARTICLES

An Alternative Construction of Identity: A Study of Place-based Identity and its Implications

By: Robyn C. Walker

Communities of Blogging: Extensions of our Identities

By: Ellen Taricani

Myth Making as a Human Communication Paradigm: The Case of Martin Luther King Jr. and The Civil Rights Movement

By: Kerry Owens

When Should a Political Candidates’ Religion Become a Campaign Issue? How Mitt Romney’s Mormonism Has Become a Factor in His Previous & Current Races

By: Reed Welch & Ric Jensen

Curved TV: The Impact of Televisual Images on Gay Youth  

By: Victor D. Evans                                                                                                                                                                               

BOOK REVIEWS

Krishnamurthy Sriramesh  and  Dejan Verčič (Ed.) –The Global Public Relations Handbook: Theory, Research, and Practice

Reviewed by: Gordon Alley – Young

Mary Lou Galician –  Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media:  Analysis and Criticism of Unrealistic Portrayals and Their Influence 

Reviewed by: Molly Swiger

Michael Banton –  The International Politics of Race

Reviewed by: Gordon Alley – Young