Communication Booknotes Quarterly
(ISSN 1094-8007; online ISSN 1532-6896)

For nearly 40 years, Booknotes has been recording and reviewing the growing number of books (and now online resources as well) concerning mass media, telecommunications, and the information industry.Edited by Christopher H. Sterling, this review journal provides brief and cogent early reviews of publications and websites. We cover several hundred items every year.

CBQ is published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, from which subscriptions are available for both print and on-line versions

CBQ issues usually open with a review essay (and sometimes more than one), pulling together a substantial annotated bibliography of reference material on a given topic.

CBQ reviews are the product of an editorial board of active contributors, many of whom focus on a specific subject.

CBQ is indexed annually, by author and title, by assistant editor James K. Bracken in the final issue of each volume.

CBQ's background goes back to its first mimeograph appearance in 1969.

What is now CBQ began nearly four decades ago, back in November 1969, as a four-page mimeographed experiment called Broadcasting Bibliophile's Booknotes (BBB) when founding editor Chris Sterling (who clearly liked aliteration!) was a newly-minted Ph.D, teaching at the University of Utah. Already a book collector, he figured there might be other academic colleagues out there who shared his interest in new books, sources for older ones, and early reviews of new titles (as scholarly journals often took years to get reviews in print). BBB's first volume included seven issues before the editor departed for Temple University in Philadelphia.

Through the 1970s, the publication changed, eventually morphing from BBB to Mass Media Booknotes (MMB) to better reflect it's broader coverage. The tone got a bit more formal and standardized, others began to contribute reviews, and we experimented with different formats, through retaining the monthly publication schedule. For many years, the August issue was devoted to the past year's U.S. federal documents, while December focused on the growing flood of film books.

With the editor's shift to Washington DC in mid-1980, MMB took a brief five-month break in publication (the only time this has happened). It reappeared with January 1981's Communication Booknotes (CB), which title would remain for more than 15 years. In 1983, the publication won a "Broadcast Preceptor" award from San Francisco State University. Monthly publication (with the same special issues noted above) soon became bi-monthly---the same amount of content, but saving on the printing and mailing hassle. For several years in the early 1990s, Ohio State University's Center for the Advanced Study of Telecommunications (CAST) published CB in a quarterly booklet-style version, but the publication returned to the editor at George Washington University in 1996.

The agreement with Lawrence Erlbaum Associates to take over publication and handle subscriptions of what was now to be called CBQ, again in a quarterly format, became effective with Volume 29 in 1998. CBQ was designed by Hinge Incorporated.

These are the people who make CBQ possible. If you'd like to become a CBQ contributor, please contact the editor at chriss@gwu.edu. We are always interested in adding new reviewers to our existing list.

Editor . . .
Christopher H. Sterling, George Washington University

Assistant Editor . . .
James K. Bracken, Ohio State University

Contributing Editors . . .
Bruce Austin, Rochester Institute of Technology
Diane L. Borden, San Diego State University
Eleanor S. Block, Ohio State University
Mark Feldstein, George Washington University
Robert Huesca, Trinity University (San Antonio, TX)
Wolfgang Ratzek, University of Applied Sciences (Stuttgart)

Contributors . . .
Michael Cornfield, George Washington University
Sheila Devaney, University of Georgia
Susan Tyler Eastman, Indiana University
Gary R. Edgerton, Old Dominion University
Adrian Ho, University of Houston
Eliot Kanter, University of California (San Diego)
Michael C. Keith, Boston College
John Michael Kittross, Seattle, WA
Linda Krikos,  Ohio State University
John A. Lent, Temple University
Kenneth Liss, Boston College
Cheryl J. Mason-Middleton, Ohio State University
Media International Australia, Griffith University
Sherry Engle Moeller, Ohio State University
Megan G. Mullen, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Robert Musburger, Seattle, WA
Cheryl Riley, Central Missouri State University
Lisa Romero, University of Illinois
Heidi Senior, University of Portland
Hongmei Shen, University of Maryland
Dan Steinbock, New York City
Diane Trap, University of Georgia
Marcia Zorn, Bethesda, MD

CBQ Review Essays: 1998-Present

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