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Anisha Shankar and Charles Pavitt, Resource and Public Goods Dilemmas: A New Issue for Communication Research

Social dilemmas are situations in which each of a group of interdependent people faces a conflict between the maximization of personal gain and collective interest. In this essay, we emphasize two types of social dilemmas. Public goods dilemmas occur when individuals can choose whether to contribute to a common pool that benefits both contributors and non-contributors alike, as long as enough choose to contribute. Resource dilemmas occur when individuals can choose how much to withdraw for personal use from a common pool that will only be maintained if withdrawals are kept to a minimum. Past research has shown that the opportunity to communicate has a large impact on cooperation rates in these two types of social dilemmas. Here, we review research that provides possible explanations for this impact. However, the communication process through which cooperation is forged has received little attention, providing a research opportunity for communication scholars.
 

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Daniel J. Philippon, Nature on Screen

Derek Bousé. Wildlife Films. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. xv + 280 pages. Chronology, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).

Gregg Mitman. Reel Nature: America’s Romance with Wildlife on Film. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1999. viii + 263 pages. Notes and index. $29.95.

David Ingram. Green Screen: Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema. Exeter, England: University of Exeter Press, 2000. x + 182. Notes, filmography, bibliography, and index. $64.95.

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Kathi L. Groenendyk, Foregrounding Landscape in Questions of Identity

Wendy Joy Darby.  Landscape and Identity: Geographies of Nation and Class in England.  Oxford: Berg, 2000.  xx + 330 pages.  Appendix, Bibliography, Index.  $65.00 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).

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James A. Herrick, Correcting Our View of Aristotle

Alan G. Gross and Arthur E. Walzer, editors. Rereading Aristotle’s Rhetoric. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. xi +237 pages. Bibliography, index. $40.00.

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James A. Janack, The Past, Present, and Future of Russian Censorship

Frank Ellis. From Glasnost to the Internet: Russia’s New Infosphere. New York: St. Martin’s, 1999. xxiii + 259 pages. Notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95.

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Robert P. Newman, Hallucination or Deception? The Rhetoric of Star Wars

Gordon R. Mitchell. Strategic Deception: Rhetoric, Science, and Politics in Missile Defense Advocacy. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2000; xix + 399 pages. $24.95 (paper).

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Warren Bareiss, Pacifica Radio and the American Left

Jeff Land. Active Radio; Pacifica’s Brash Experiment. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. 179 pages. $16.95 (paper).

Matthew Lasar. Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000. 320 pages. $19.95 (paper).

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Anne-Julia Zwierlein, “Who bids abstain?”: On Boycott and Empowerment

Charlotte Sussman, Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender and British Slavery, 1713-1833, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000; distributed in the UK by Cambridge University Press. 268 pages. $49.50.

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Paul Soukup, Reading the Homeless: Communication Theory and Public Policy

Eungjun Min, editor. Reading the Homeless: The Media’s Image of Homeless Culture. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. xiii + 222 pages. $72.95.

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Diane Helene Miller, The Long and Winding Road

Patricia A. Cain. Rainbow Rights: The Role of Lawyers and Courts in the Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights Movement. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. 288 pages. Table of Cases, Bibliography, and Index. $30.00.

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Joan Hawkins, Gothic Revisited

Valdine Clemens. The Return of the Repressed: Gothic Horror from The Castle of Otranto to Alien. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1999. 274 pages. $59.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

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