Book Reviews.

Book reviews: Deacon, D., M. Pickering, P. Golding and G. Murdock, Researching Communications: A Practical Guide to Methods in Media and Cultural Analysis (reviewed by Mike Richards); Tamar Liebes and James Curran (eds), Media, Ritual and Identity (reviewed by Erik W. Rothenbuhler); Erik W. Rothenbuhler, Ritual Communication: From Everyday Conversation to Mediated Ceremony (reviewed by John Smith); Fenton, N., D. Bryman, D. Deacon with P. Birmingham, Mediating Social Science (reviewed by Martyn Hammersley); Thussu, D. K. (ed.), Electronic Empires: Global Media and Local Resistance (reviewed by Olga Guedes); Jaap van Ginneken, Understanding Global News: A Critical Introduction (reviewed by Edward A. Comor); Carlsson, U., The Issue of a New World Information and Communication Order(NWICO): A Study in International Media Politics (reviewed by Jan Ekecrantz); Gavin, Neil T. (ed.), The Economy, Media and Public Knowledge (reviewed by Mine Gencel Bek); Hart, A. (ed.), Teaching the Media: International Perspectives (reviewed by Robert Ferguson); Herbst, S., Reading Public Opinion: How Political Actors View the Democratic Process (reviewed by Maggie Scammell); Edward A. Comor, Communication, Commerce and Power: The Political Economy of America and the Direct Broadcast Satellite, 1960-2000 (reviewed by Philip M. Taylor); Boyd-Barrett, Oliver and Terhi Rantanen (eds), The Globalization of News (reviewed by Luke Goode); McChesney, Robert W., Ellen Meiksins Wood and John Bellamy Foster (eds), Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution (reviewed by Edward A. Comor); Livingstone, S., Making Sense of Television: The Psychology of Audience Interpretations (reviewed by Liesbet van Zoonen); Barker, M. and K. Brooks, Knowing Audiences: Judge Dredd: Its Friends, Fans and Foes (reviewed by Chris Watson); Brants, K., J. Hermes and L. van Zoonen, The Media in Question-Popular Cultures and Public Interests (reviewed by Knut He... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]