This distinctive volume offers a thorough examination of the ways in which meaning comes to be shaped. Editors Stephen Reese, Oscar Gandy, and August Grant employ an interdisciplinary approach to the study of conceptualizing and examining media. They illustrate how texts and those who provide them powerfully shape, or "frame," our social worlds and thus affect our public life. Embracing qualitative and quantitative, visual and verbal, and psychological and sociological perspectives, this book helps media consumers develop a multi-faceted understanding of media power, especially in the realm...

Spoken Words This astonishing association of poets has redefined the Spoken Word community. Men who stroll perpendicular to a particular vision of life. Men who "Spit With A Purpose" from prison on stages comprised of pages. Their metaphors, wit and lyrical prowess will provoke emotions and unravel minds as you journey through their struggles, passions and triumphs. I recommend this book to anyone who dares to be inspired. These are men of vision. Men of growth. Men of Accomplishment. This is their, "OutCreye"