Mass Communication And American Social Thought

Author : John Durham Peters
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742528390
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mass Communication and American Social Thought written by John Durham Peters and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the Frankfurt school, and mass society theory. Where possible, articles are reproduced in their entirety to preserve the historical flavor and texture of the original works. Topics include popular theater, yellow journalism, cinema, books, public relations, political and military propaganda, advertising, opinion polling, photography, the avant-garde, popular magazines, comics, the urban press, radio drama, soap opera, popular music, and television drama and news. This text is ideal for upper-level courses in mass communication and media theory, media and society, mass communication effects, and mass media history.

Author : Peter Simonson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252077059
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refiguring Mass Communication written by Peter Simonson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique inquiry into the history and the ongoing moral significance of mass communication as an idea and social form.

Author : Paddy Scannell
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1849208301
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media and Communication written by Paddy Scannell and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009-09-26 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An excellent book providing students with a historical understanding of mass media and communication. Theories, concepts and models are intertwined throughout the chapters challenging students to critically understand and evaluate the role of mass media in society." - Stephanie Goodwin, University of Central Lancashire "In a field whose boundaries are porous and where there is no consensus as to the core concepts, theories and thinkers, Scannell brings certainty to his effort to identify key moments in the history of the study of the media and communication... Essential reading for anyone interested in the historical development of the study of the media in the US and the UK." - Times Higher Education "His account of these major writers and movements is both comprehensive and clearly written, and will be appreciated by students and academics alike... It is the detail of the historical contexts that makes his writing a refreshing look at the history of media and communication in the twentieth century." - Media International Australia Magisterial in scope, Media and Communication traces the historical development of media and communication studies. Media Studies itself has a short history but many antecedents, and in this comprehensive and compelling book, Paddy Scannell sets out to describe and analysize its formulation in North America and Europe. Media and Communication: Offers an accessible and comprehensive analysis of the development of media and communication theory. Includes a summary outline of all the key thinkers. Looks at the study of communication across a range of disciplines - history, literature, sociology, philosophy and linguistics. Challenges readers to engage with the central importance of communication. It will be an invaluable resource for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students of media and communication, cultural studies and sociology.

Author : James Rorty
Publisher : mediastudies.press
ISBN 13 : 1951399013
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Master's Voice written by James Rorty and published by mediastudies.press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was an ad-man once," James Rorty writes in this classic dissection of the advertising industry. Steeped in Rorty’s leftist politics, Our Master’s Voice presents advertising as the linchpin of a capitalist economy that it also helps justify. The book set off tremors when it was published in 1934, perhaps because its author so decisively repudiated his former profession. But Rorty and his spirited takedown of publicity were all but forgotten a decade later. The book is a neglected masterpiece, republished in this mediastudies.press edition with a new introduction by Jefferson Pooley.

Author : Hanno Hardt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742511340
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Theories of the Press written by Hanno Hardt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword / James W. Carey Preface 1 Mass Communication Research and Society: An Introduction 1 2 Communication and Change: Karl Marx on Press Freedom 19 3 The Nerves of Society: Albert Schaffle on Symbolic Communication 43 4 The News of Society: Karl Knies on Communication and Transportation 67 5 The Linkages of Society: Karl Bucher on Commerce and the Press 85 6 The Mirrors of Society: Ferdinand Tonnies on the Press and Public Opinion 107 7 The Conscience of Society: Max Weber on Journalism and Responsibility 127 8 The "American Science" of Society: Albion Small, Edward Ross, and William Sumner on Communication and the Press 143 9 Communication and Social Thought: Decentering the Discourse of Mass Communication Research 169 Notes and References 185 Index 203 About the Author 211.

Author : Peyton Paxson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441108955
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mass Communications and Media Studies written by Peyton Paxson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Peyton Paxson succinctly describes the forces deconstructing the establishment media while providing a grounded introduction to mass communication." Bick Treut Communication Studies, Raritan Valley Community College, New Jersey Mass Communications and Media Studies: An Introduction serves as a primary text for media studies courses at two-year colleges. It briefly surveys the history of mass communication media, discusses the current state of each medium, and anticipates the future of mass media. Its focus is a study of the mass media industry and the role it plays in society, which distinguishes it from books that focus solely on communications theory. The book's presentation addresses the needs of both students and faculty members. It includes helpful pedagogical features at the end of each chapter, containing discussion questions and links to additional online resources. The format of the book allows it to be used in courses that analyze the mass media through social and cultural criticism as well as in courses that emphasize the economic structure of the mass media industry. Mass Communications and Media Studies: An Introduction is comprehensive yet concise. Divided into twelve chapters, it can be used in either 16-week semesters or 12-week terms. Focused in its approach and comprehensive in its coverage, this is the textbook of choice for mass communication and media studies students.

Author : Daniel J. Czitrom
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807899208
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media and the American Mind written by Daniel J. Czitrom and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-02-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fascinating and comprehensive intellectual history of modern communication in America, Daniel Czitrom examines the continuing contradictions between the progressive possibilities that new communications technologies offer and their use as instruments of domination and exploitation.

Author : Hanno Hardt
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Theories of the Press written by Hanno Hardt and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1979-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 mass communication in the US and elsewhere. It suggests that the intellectual history of the field may yield theoretical insights on the relationship between communication and advancement of society, which may in turn have consequences for the development of communication and mass communication research today. 'This is one of the more important bits of historical digging in some time...it helps to create a larger theoretical basis for historical studies in communication development.' -- Mass Media Booknotes, September 1979

Author : Merle Eugene Curti
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412837101
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Growth of the American Thought written by Merle Eugene Curti and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a pioneer achievement upon its original publi-cation and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1944, The Growth of American Thought has won appreciative reviews and earned the highest regard among historians of the national experience. With his elaboration of the complex interrelationships between the growth of American thought and the whole American social milieu, Curti creates not only an intellectual history, but a social history of American thought.

Author : Tom Standage
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620402858
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing on the Wall written by Tom Standage and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles social media over two millennia, from papyrus letters that Cicero used to exchange news across the Empire to today, reminding us how modern behavior echoes that of prior centuries and encouraging debate and discussion about how we'll communicate in the future.