La critique des médias est à la mode (journalistes aux ordres, information spectacle, etc.) et pourtant, les lecteurs et les téléspectateurs ne modifient pas leurs modes de consommation. A partir d'exemples tirés de l'actualité, un reporter et un philosophe analysent ce surprena…
"We hear constantly about our current "information revolution." Twenty-four-hour news channels and dizzying Internet technologies bombard us with facts and pictures from around the globe. But what kind of a "revolution" is this? How has information really changed from what it wa…
Holding On to Reality is a brilliant history of information, from its inception in the natural world to its role in the transformation of culture to the current Internet mania and is attendant assets and liabilities. Drawing on the history of ideas, the details of information te…
"We hear constantly about our current "information revolution." Twenty-four-hour news channels and dizzying Internet technologies bombard us with facts and pictures from around the globe. But what kind of a "revolution" is this? How has information really changed from what it wa…
by Cobley, Paul, Schulz, Peter
fromHandbooks of Communication Science
"This unique volume offers an overview of the diversity of perspectives on communication: including analyses in terms of biology, sociality, economics, norms and human development. The scope of the contributions is global, and the volume is relevant to both the empirical and the…
by Cobley, Paul, Schulz, Peter
fromHandbooks of Communication Science
This unique volume offers an overview of the diversity of perspectives on communication: including analyses in terms of biology, sociality, economics, norms and human development. The scope of the contributions is global, and the volume is relevant to both the empirical and the …
"On the occasion of Habermas's 80th birthday, the German publisher Suhrkamp brought out five volumes of Habermas's papers that spanned the full range of his philosophical thought, from the theory of rationality to the critique of metaphysics. For each of these volumes, Habermas …
by Goffman, Erving, Bateson, Gregory, Birdwhistell, Ray L.
fromPoints
"In Communication as ... : Perspectives on Theory, editors Gregory J. Shepherd, Jeffrey St. John, and Ted Striphas bring together a collection of 27 essays that explores the wide range of theorizing about communication, cutting across all lines of traditional divisions in the fi…
"What does it mean to argue that communication is organizing? Or ritual? Or failure? What is at stake in choosing one metaphor or stance over another? What is gained and what is lost - for the field, for the theories themselves, and especially for humans communicating in everyda…
"What does it mean to argue that communication is organizing? Or ritual? Or failure? What is at stake in choosing one metaphor or stance over another? What is gained and what is lost - for the field, for the theories themselves, and especially for humans communicating in everyda…
