"Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan have received much recognition as communications theorists, but Judith Stamps argues that the scope and value of their work extends far beyond this. She demonstrates that Innis and McLuhan used their studies of media to develop a critique of We…
"Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan have received much recognition as communications theorists, but Judith Stamps argues that the scope and value of their work extends far beyond this. She demonstrates that Innis and McLuhan used their studies of media to develop a critique of We…
Nicholas Garnham argues against the advocates of post-modernity and the Information Society that we are not entering new historical era, but that underlying debates about the media are a set of old cultural and political questions.
"The book argues that the media are important because they raise a set of questions that have been central to social and political theory since the Enlightenment. In a series of probes into different sets of questions raised by the media, the argument of the book focuses on the …
Detailing the eroding line between "real" and "media" events, Fiske explores the media's treatment of the O.J. Simpson arrest and pretrial hearings, the L.A. uprisings, the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings, and the "family values" debate between Dan Quayle and Murphy Brown. H…
Measuring psychological responses to media messages
by Lang, Annie
fromLEA's communication series