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Communication Review
Volume 12(2), 2009

 
CONTENTS
 
Hoerl, Kristen Commemorating the Kent State tragedy through victims' trauma in television news coverage, 1990-2000. 107-131
 
  On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd at Kent State University and killed four students 
 
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higher education
television
news
theory
 
 
Orgad, Shani The survivor in contemporary culture and public discourse: A genealogy. 132-161
 
  This article sketches a genealogy examining the production of the concept of 'the survivor' in contemporary culture and public discourse across five discursive sites in mainly western (particularly Anglo-American) cultures: the Holocaust, psychotherapy, feminist discourses of childhood and sexual abuse, reality TV, and discourses of health and illness 
 
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sexuality
intercultural
history
race and ethnicity
World War II
mental health
gender
children
television
 
 
Martinez-Ramos, Dora E. On rational madness: Love and reason in Socrates and Lacan (winner of the Taylor & Francis ICA Philosophy of Communication Division Best Paper Award 2008). 162-175
 
  Drawing on a close reading of Lacan's Seminar XX: Encore, regarding the idea of love's centrality in every human intersubjective experience, this article explores the artificially constructed division between Eros and Logos that since the Enlightenment pervades most of the cultural renditions of western images of love, and argues that this separation forecloses an overarching unity, put forth by Lacan trough the concept Y a l'Un (there is One) 
 
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emotion
classical rhetoric
history
 
 
Wright, Paul J. An evaluation of the Federal Communications Commission's 2007 report on TV violence. 174-186
 
  At the behest of 39 members of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce, in 2007 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a report that addressed the effects of violent television on children, the constitutionality of various strategies for regulating children's exposure to violent television content, and the viability and benefit of a congressionally developed definition of excessively violent television programming 
 
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broadcasting and media
television
politics and government
children
conflict