Enriched by critical theory and the insights of cultural studies, and rooted in the power of historical explanation, this collection of classic and new essays contributes to ...

A book which concentrates on the reflections of early American sociologists and their German colleagues or teachers who have contributed to the development of communication and ...

What most of us know about media history begins and ends with Citizen Kane. The exploits of media moguls and visionary business leaders - these are the tales that fill media ...

The book samples the richness of the cultural discourse in the United States, Weimar Germany, and the Soviet Union and suggests the need for a decentered media history that ...

Looking at issues of globalization, science, politics, gender, etc. this book advocates a new agenda not only for communication research, but also for the writing that comes ...

This interdisciplinary overview of communication research by foremost scholars explores new directions in the light of profound social, economic, and technological change.

This book offers the first detailed intellectual history of communication study, from its beginnings in late nineteenth-century critiques of corporate capitalism and the ...

«Strictly speaking, James Carey wrote, «there is no history of mass communication research. This volume is a long-overdue response to Carey's comment about the field's ...