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"A sampling of recent theory work from twelve of the more interesting scholars concerned with communication in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia. . . . The book is consistently more sociological than most work in communication studies. . . . I know of no other book that would be more useful in graduate sociology courses to address the relation between communication and social order.”—Contemporary Sociology

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"A sampling of recent theory work from twelve of the more interesting scholars concerned with communication in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia. . . . The book is consistently more sociological than most work in communication studies. . . . I know of no other book that would be more useful in graduate sociology courses to address the relation between communication and social order.”—Contemporary Sociology

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Offers an overview of current theoretical work in media and communications studies. Essays show how the changes currently taking place in information and communication are linked to developments at the global level and the individual level of interaction. Covers issues such as the intersection of communication theory with central themes in social theory and critical cultural studies, and the geopolitics of information and theories of development. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780804723473
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Publication date: 5/1/1994
  • Edition description: 1
  • Pages: 324
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

David Crowley holds academic appointments in graduate studies at the University of Toronto's McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology and at McGill University's Graduate Program in Communications.

David Mitchell teaches in the Graduate Program in Communication Studies at the University of Calgary.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Communication in a Post-Mass Media World 1
2 Social Theory and the Media 27
3 Medium Theory 50
4 A Recursive Theory of Communication 78
5 Discourse and Cognition in Society 107
6 Risk Communication and Public Knowledge 127
7 Talk, Text and History: Conversation Analysis and Communication Theory 140
8 The Mode of Information and Postmodernity 173
9 In the Realm of Uncertainty: The Global Village and Capitalist Postmodernity 193
10 By Whose Authority? Accounting for Taste in Contemporary Popular Culture 214
11 Mass Communication and the Public Interest: Towards Social Theory for Media Structure and Performance 233
12 Electronic Networks, Social Relations and the Changing Structure of Knowledge 234
13 Communication and Development 274
Index 307

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