James Carey: A Critical Reader - Hardcover

Munson, Eve Stryker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816627029 ISBN 13: 9780816627028

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1997

Synopsis

James Carey - scholar, media critic, and teacher of journalists - established the importance of defining a cultural perpective when analyzing communications. Interspersing Carey's major essays with articles exploring his central themes and their importance, this collection provides a critical introduction to the work of this significant figure.

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James Carey - scholar, media critic, and teacher of journalists - almost single-handedly established the importance of defining a cultural perspective when analyzing communications. Interspersing Carey's major essays with articles exploring his central themes and their importance, this collection provides a critical introduction to the work of this significant figure. In James Carey: A Critical Reader, sever scholars who have been influenced by him consider his work and how it has affected the development of media studies. Carey has examined the roles the media and the academy have played in creating and maintaining a public sphere, as well as the ways technology helps or hinders that project. Carey's themes range from the strains on democracy and drawbacks of technology to the critique of journalism and the politics of academe.

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0816627029
• ISBN 13: 9780816627028
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376