This textbook offers a wide-ranging overview of current theoretical work in media and communication studies. It aims to provide the methods and the theoretical resources for understanding the dramatic changes which are taking place in the sphere of information and communication in the late 20th century. At the same time, it shows how these changes are linked to broader developments - both at the level of global transformation and at the level of everyday interaction, where individuals negotiate matters of identity, knowledge and shared meaning. Interdisciplinary in character, the contributions to this volume are concerned to show how the key questions in communication theory and research intersect with central themes in social theory and critical cultural studies. The contributors include Ien Ang, Deirdre Boden, James M. Collins, Klaus Krippendorff, William Leiss, Denis McQuail, William Melody, Joshua Meyrowitz, Mark Poster, Majid Tehranian, John B. Thompson and Tuen van Dijk.
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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
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.
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