{"product_id":"media-and-communication-9781446297087","title":"Media and Communication","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedia and Communication\u003c\/strong\u003etraces the historical development of media and communication studies in the 20th century.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Paddy Scannell explores how the field formed and developed in both North America and in Europe, expertly introducing and explaining a host of essential media thinkers, ideas and concepts along the way.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Including a new chapter on media events, this second edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive yet personal  and always accessible  analysis of media and communication theory and history. It is an invaluable resource for students across media and communication studies, cultural studies, and sociology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a lucid, generous, and strikingly original account of the emergence of media and communication studies as a vibrant academic field. Moving across sociology, critical theory, and cultural studies, Scannell takes stock of the key concepts and questions that have come to define the field over the past six decades. In this expanded and revised edition, Scannell identifies what is distinctive about the media of the 20th century - the immense power of live broadcasting and unscripted talk in public in shaping both the eventful and the everyday across much of the world. The result is a milestone intellectual history of media and communication studies that sets the conceptual coordinates for our digital present and future. -- Aswin Punathambekar\u003cbr\u003eAnyone who wants to understand the intellectual roots of the present study of media and communication needs to read this book. Scannell’s achievement is quite unique: he puts the American, the European and the British traditions of inquiry into productive dialogue with each other and shows some surprising affinities between them as well as some prescient foresights. The breadth of his scholarship is invariably enlightening, lucid in its accounts and generous in its judgements. -- Martin Montgomery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I The masses 1. Mass communication: Lazarsfeld, Adorno, Merton, USA, 1930s and 1940s 2. Mass culture: Horkheimer, Adorno, Brecht, Benjamin, Germany\/USA, 1930s and 1940s 3. The end of the masses: Merton, Lazarsfeld, Riesman, Katz, USA, 1940s and 1950s Part II Everyday life 4. Culture and communication: Leavis, Hoggart, Williams, England, 1930s–1950s 5. Communication and technology: Innis, McLuhan, Canada, 1950s–1960s 6. Communication as interaction: Goffman and Garfinkel, USA, 1950s–1970s Part III Communicative rationality and irrationality 7. Communication and language: Austin, Grice, Sacks, Levinson, UK\/USA, 1950s–1970s 8. Communication as ideology: Hall, UK, 1960s and 1970s 9. Communication and Publicness: Habermas, Germany (USA\/UK), 1950s–1990s 10. Communication and celebration, Dayan (France) and Katz (Israel), 1990s Conclusion Afterword (2020) Index","brand":"Sage Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040029933911,"sku":"9781446297087","price":42.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781446297087.jpg?v=1750945564","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/media-and-communication-9781446297087","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}