ISBN:
9780742511347
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (230 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Theories of the Press : Constituents of Communication Research, 1840s to 1920s
DDC:
302.2
Keywords:
History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Hanno Hardt has thoroughly revised and expanded his 'pre-history' of communication research in the United States. With the notable addition of Karl Marx's journalism-focused writings and a new foreword by James W. Carey, this edition covers intellectual contributions from several German theorists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as first-generation U.S. sociologists who were influenced by this scholarship. A new concluding chapter explores the continuing influence of German social thought and the contemporary shift of paradigms in U.S. communication research, inclu
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1: Mass Communication Research and Society: An Introduction; 2: Communication and Change: Karl Marx on Press Freedom; 3: The Nerves of Society: Albert Schäffle on Symbolic Communication; 4: The News of Society: Karl Knies on Communication and Transportation; 5: The Linkages of Society: Karl Bücher on Commerce and the Press; 6: The Mirrors of Society: Ferdinand Tönnies on the Press and Public Opinion; 7: The Conscience of Society: Max Weber on Journalism and Responsibility
Description / Table of Contents:
8: The ""American Science"" of Society: Albion Small, Edward Ross, and William Sumner on Communication and the Press9: Communication and Social Thought: Decentering the Discourse of Mass Communication Research; Notes and References; Index; About the Author
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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