tial to the functioning of a democratic society. We also know that what
moves these conversations from the realm of chatting and griping to that of
effective public discourse is media education--the systematic study of
media and their operation in our political and economic system, as well as
their contribution to the development and maintenance of the culture that
binds us together and defines us. W

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p>About the Author
                      BARAN EARNED HIS IN COMMUNICA-
                                                         PH.D.
     TION research at the University of Massachusetts
after taking his M.A. in journalism at Pennsylvania State
University. He taught for 4 years at Cleveland State Uni-
versity, eventually moving to the University of Texas. He
led the Department of Radio-TV-Film's graduate pro-
gram for 6 of his 9 years in Austin and won numerous
teaching awards there, including the AMOCO Teaching
Excellence Award as the best instructor on that 40,000
student campus, the College of Communication's Teach-
ing Excellence Award as that college's outstanding pro-
fessor, and Utmost Magazine's Student Poll for best
instructor. Dr. Baran moved to San Jose State Univer-
sity in 1987 and served 9 years as chair of the Department of Television,
Radio, Film, and Theatre. At SJSU he was named President's Scholar as the
university's outstanding researcher. Now, he teaches at Bryant University,
where he is the founding chairman of that school's Communication Depart-
ment. Among the other experiences that helped shape this book are his serv-
ice as a judge for the Fulbright Scholar Awards and his many years of pro-
fessional activity in audience research, writing for radio, and producing for
television. Dr. Baran has published 10 books and scores of scholarly arti-
cles, and he sits or has sat on the editorial boards of five journals. His work
has been translated into half a dozen languages. He is a skilled sailor and
plays tenor sax in the Wakefield, Rhode Island, Civic Band. He is

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