E-Journals: New Issues This Week

New issues of the following journals are available online this week:

• Communication Research Reports
  
• Health Promotion Practice
  
• Howard Journal of Communication
  
• Journal of Advertising
  
• Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
  
• Journal of Public Relations Research

Click on a title to access the issue. (Login with your BC username and password is required for off-campus access.)

Web Site Spotlight:She Made It

She Made It: Women Creating Television and Radio

What impact have women made in the broadcasting industry?

This well-presented and content-rich Web site, part of a multiyear initiative from the Museum of Television & Radio, offers an in depth look at the achievements and legacy of 50 women writers, directors, producers, journalists, sportscasters, and executives, past and present, in broadcasting.

In addition to lengthy profiles of each of the women, there are brief audio and video clips for many of them. See, for instance, Lucille Ball talking about her little-known role as director of some of her shows (in an excerpt from a 1985 Museum seminar.) Or listen to a radio broadcast of Dorothy Thompson responding to Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939.

Other women profiled on the site include: Christiane Amanpour; Fanny Brice; Julia Child; Katie Couric; Joan Ganz Cooney; Ellen DeGeneres; Tina Fey; Phyllis George; Terri Gross; Sarah Jessica Parker; Cokie Roberts; Barbara Walters; Oprah Winfrey; and 35 more.

The site also presents video of She Made It panel discussions, including one on the evolution of the family sitcom and another on the women of National Public Radio. There are also online discussion forums (though these, unfortunately, are marred by lots of spam).

For more on the She Made It initiative, including the Web site and the Museum of Television & Radio's growing collection of programming created by women, see the Museum's press release.

Research Support from the Communication Librarian

(From Books & Bytes in Major Mail)
Welcome to the 2006-2007 Academic Year! Many of you know me from years past, but whether we've met or not, I'm here to help with papers, projects, coursework, and making the most of the incredible -- and sometimes bewildering -- array of research resources available to you as a communication student at Boston College.

Here are some of the ways I can help:

• Classroom Sessions: I'll be visiting many of your classes (about 15 lined up so far) for research instruction sessions specific to the needs of the course.
  
• Individual Consultations: I'm available for customized help on research questions large and small. E-mail, call, or drop by my office. (My contact info is on this page.)
  
• Books & Bytes in Major Mail: Watch Major Mail each week for news, tips, suggestions, and ideas about communication information resources available to you. [Books & Bytes infotips will be archived here on CommTopics.]
  
• CommTopics: The BC Communication Studies Blog: CommTopics highlights and reviews important, useful, or just plain interesting databases, books, Web sites, journal issues, and communication-related stories in the news.
  
• My Home Page: Visit my home page for links to key databases, course support pages, research guides, an RSS feed of new items from CommTopics, and more.

I look forward to working with you. Let me know how I can help.

E-Journals: New Issues This Week

New issues of the following journals are available online this week:

• Communication Research
  
• Communication Studies
  
• Information, Communication & Society
  
• Journal of Public Relations Research
  
• Media History
  
• Public Relations Review

Click on a title to access the issue. (Login with your BC username and password is required for off-campus access.)

The Making of an Icon: The Iwo Jima Photograph

Joe Rosenthal, whose World War II picture of the flag-raising at Iwo Jima became one of the most iconic photographs of all time, died yesterday in San Francisco at the age of 94.

Rosenthal's AP photo showed five marines and a Navy corpsman raising the flag on Mount Surabachi after the peak had been captured by the Marines in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. (The same scene was captured on film by Marine cameraman Bill Genaust, who was killed on Iwo Jima nine days later.)

It's been called "the most memorable image of American participation in [WWII]," "the single most reproduced photo ever," and "probably the most famous American photograph ever produced."

The image appeared in newspapers around the U.S. within days of the event. It was turned into a War Bond poster, a postage stamp, and, most famously, the giant statue of the Marine Corps War Memorial near Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

It was even echoed -- if a picture can be echoed -- in another iconic photo, that of three firefighters raising an American flag over the ruins of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. (That photo, too, has been turned into a statue.)

Scholars and others have had much to say about the flag-raising photo and its emergence and use as an icon of America and American values. The following are just a few examples:

• Rollins, Peter C. "Iwo Jima: the pains of memory." World and I 13 (6) (1998), 72(6).


• Linenthal, Edward T. "Shaping a heroic presence: Iwo Jima in American Memory." Reviews in American History 21 (1993), 8-12


• Spratt, Meg, April Peterson, and Taso Lagos. "Of photographs and flags: uses and perceptions of an iconic image before and after September 11, 2001." Popular Communication 3 (2) (2005), 117-136.


• Edwards, Janis L. and Carol K. Winkler. "Representative form and the visual ideograph: the Iwo Jima image in editorial cartoons." Quarterly Journal of Speech 83 93) (1997) 289+


• Thomey, Tedd. Immortal images : a personal history of two photographers and the flag raising on Iwo Jima. Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, 1996. (O’Neill Stacks D810.P4 T46 1996)


• Marling, Karal Ann and John Wetenhall. Iwo Jima : monuments, memories, and the American hero. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991 (O’Neill Stacks D767.99.I9 M28 1991 )


• Bradley, James with Ron Powers. Flags of our fathers. New York : Bantam Books, 2000. (O’Neill Stacks D767.99.I9 B73 2000)
  

New Communication Books at BC

The August edition of New Communication Books in the BC Libraries is now online.

This edition features 22 books added to the collection in recent weeks, including titles in such areas as: Advertising & Public Relations; New Media; Political Communication; and others.

Follow the links on the New Books page to view the catalog records for each of these titles and see if they are available. Links to past editions of New Communication Books are at the bottom of the page.

New Communication Books at BC

The May edition of New Communication Books in the BC Libraries is now online.

This edition features 33 books added to the collection in recent weeks, including titles in such areas as: Interpersonal Communication; Journalism & News Media; Television & Radio; and others.

Follow the links on the New Books page to view the catalog records for each of these titles and see if they are available. Links to past editions of New Communication Books are at the bottom of the page.