Communication Theory Today - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074561289X ISBN 13: 9780745612898

Publisher: Polity, 1994

Synopsis

Communication Theory Today is an important new textbook offering a wide–ranging overview of current theoretical work in media and communication studies. It shows how the key questions in communication theory and research intersect with central themes in social theory and critical cultural studies.

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Review:

" A sampling of recent theory work from twelve of the more interesting scholars concerned with communication in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia. . . . The book is consistently more sociological than most work in communication studies. . . . I know of no other book that would be more useful in graduate sociology courses to address the relation between communication and social order." -- "Contemporary Sociology"

"A sampling of recent theory work from twelve of the more interesting scholars concerned with communication in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia. . . . The book is consistently more sociological than most work in communication studies. . . . I know of no other book that would be more useful in graduate sociology courses to address the relation between communication and social order."--Contemporary Sociology

-A sampling of recent theory work from twelve of the more interesting scholars concerned with communication in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia. . . . The book is consistently more sociological than most work in communication studies. . . . I know of no other book that would be more useful in graduate sociology courses to address the relation between communication and social order.---Contemporary Sociology

From the Back Cover:

Communication Theory Today offers a wide–ranging overview of current theoretical work in media and communication studies. It provides the methods and the theoretical resources for understanding the dramatic changes which are taking place in the sphere of information and communication in the late twentieth century. At the same time, it shows how these changes are linked to broader developments – both at the level of global transformation and at the level of everyday interaction, where individuals negotiate matters of identity, knowledge and shared meaning.

Interdisciplinary in character, the contributions to this volume are concerned to show how the key questions in communication theory and research intersect with central themes in social theory and critical cultural studies.

The contributors, all of whom are internationally renowned in their respective fields, include Ien Ang, Deirdre Boden, James M. Collins, Klaus Krippendorff, William Leiss, Denis McQuail, William Melody, Joshua Meyrowitz, Mark Poster, Majid Tehranian, John B. Thompson and Tuen van Dijk.

About this edition

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 074561289X
• ISBN 13: 9780745612898
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Mitchell David, Crowley David