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Book SynopsisPresents an inquiry into the history and the moral significance of mass communication as an idea and social form. Organized around narrative accounts of individuals and their communicative worlds, this title strives to refigure mass communication as a concept, and illuminate significant but overlooked rhetorical episodes in its history.
Trade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011.
"This book is particularly powerful because, like rhetoric itself, it is not limited to any one discipline. Simonson uses cultural studies and rhetoric as energizing points of departure for rehabilitating and reinforcing the idea and social form of mass communication."--Rosa A. Eberly, author of Citizen Critics: Literary Public Spheres
"This volume of original thinking should prompt the same in its readers. Highly recommended."--
Choice "An original and often intriguing way of defining mass communication over time."--
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