Description
Book Synopsisaeo This book offers a wide--ranging overview of current theoretical work in media and communication studies, which is one of the most rapidly growing areas of the social sciences today. aeo The volume is interdisciplinary in character, and the authors show how communication theory intersects with social theory and cultural studies.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors.
Acknowlegements.
Communication in a Post-Mass Media World: David Crowley and David Mitchell.
Part I: Communication and the Mediation of Social Worlds:.
1. Social Theory and the Media: John B Thompson.
2. Medium Theory: Joshua Meyrowitz.
3. A Recursive Theory of Communication: Klaus Krippendorff.
Part II: Messages, Meanings, Discourse:.
4. Discourse and Cognition in Society: Teun A Van Dijk.
5. Risk Communication and Public Knowledge: William Leiss.
6.Talk, Text and History: Conversation Analysis and Communication Theory: Deidre Boden.
Part III: Contingency, Reflexivity, Post-Modernity:.
7. The Mode of Information and Postmodernity: Mark Poster.
8. In the Realm of Uncertainty: The Global Village and Capitalist Postmodernity: Ien Ang.
9. By Whose Authority? Accounting for Taste in Contemporary Popular Culture: James M Collins.
Part IV: Communication and Public Interests:.
10. Mass Communication and the Public Interest: Denis McQuail.
11. Electronic Networks, Social Relations and the Changing Structure of Knowledge: William Melody.
12. Communication and Development: Majid Tehranian.
Index.
