Boxing Plato's Shadow: An Introduction to the Study of Human Communication - Softcover

Dues, Michael; Brown, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072483903 ISBN 13: 9780072483901

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2003

Synopsis

Boxing Plato's Shadow Designed to introduce students to the academic discipline of Communication, this text describes the scope and methods of communication studies, and sketches its history from the work of the early sophists to contemporary research efforts. It explains why Communication continues to struggle for recognition of its legitimate place in the academy. Full description

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Synopsis:

Designed to introduce students to the academic discipline of Communication, this text describes the scope and methods of communication studies, and sketches its history from the work of the early sophists to contemporary research efforts. "Boxing Plato's Shadow" helps explain why, despite its long and venerable history of scholarly endeavor, Communication continues to struggle for recognition of its legitimate place in the academy. Throughout, the authors emphasize the field's durability over more than two millennia and the merits of multiple systematic approaches to the study of communication.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0072483903
• ISBN 13: 9780072483901
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128