The Communication Crisis in America, and How to Fix it (Paperback)

.Forward Michael X, Delli Carpini.- .Introduction Lewis A. Friedland and Mark Lloyd.- .Section 1 New Approaches to Solving the Communications Challenge.- .1 America's critical community information needs Lewis Friedland.- .2 Understanding our new communications economy: Implications for contemporary journalism Phillip Napoli.- .3 Researching community information needs Katherine Ognyanova.- .Section 2 Communication Challenges in a Changing America.- .4 All Lives Matter: Critical communications and American diversity Jorge R. Schement and Jason Llorenz.- .5 Feminist perspectives on critical information needs Carolyn Byerly and Alisa Valentin.- .6 Ethnic media and the social incorporation of new Americans Matthew Matsuganis and Vikki Katz.- .7 Do Spanish-language broadcast media serve a changing America? Federico Subervi.- .8 The whole community communication infrastructure: The case of Los Angeles Minhee Son and Sandra Ball-Rokeach.- .Section 3 Government Capture and Market Failure.- .9 Confronting market failure: Past lessons toward public policy interventions Victor Pickard.- .9 Tripartite regulation in the public's interest: The overlapping roles of the DOJ, FCC, and FTC in consolidation of the communications industry Allen S. Hammond IV.- .11 Same ole, same ole: Service agreements and local television news Danilo Yanich.- .12 Bridging the content gap in low-income communities James Hamilton and Fiona Morgan.- .13 The online participation divide Eszter Hargittai and Kaitlin Jennrich.- .14 Media deserts: Monitoring the changing media ecosystem Michelle Ferrier, Gaurav Sinha, and Michael Outrich.- .Section 4 Net neutrality is Not Enough.- .15 The constitutional case for addressing critical information needs Mark Lloyd and Michael Park.- .16 A provocation on behalf of the excluded Ernest J. Wilson III, Sasha Costanza-Chock, and Michelle Forelle.- .17 "A public trust" unrealized: The unresolved constraints on U.S. public media Wick Rowland.- .18 Addressing the information needs of crisis-affected communities: The interplay of legacy media and social media in a rural disaster Dharma Dailey and Kate Starbird.- .Conclusion Lewis Friedland and Mark Lloyd.