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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788114603321

Autore

Babe Robert E.

Titolo

Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky meet Harold Innis : media, power, and democracy / / Robert E. Babe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Lexington Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-7391-2369-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Critical Media Studies

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Mass media - Social aspects

Economics - Sociological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Introducing Harold Innis; Chapter One: Foundations; Chapter Two: Staples Thesis and Medium Theory; Chapter Three: Time, Space, and Medium Theory; Chapter Four: Political Economy, Medium Theory, and Existentialism; Chapter Five: Media and Scholarship; Chapter Six: Media and Public Opinion; II: Wilbur Schramm Meets Innis; Chapter Seven: Beginnings; Chapter Eight: Media Process and Effects; Chapter Nine: Media History, Education, Free Press, Democracy; III: Chomsky and Innis Meet; Chapter Ten: Meet Noam Chomsky; Chapter Eleven: Visions and Strategies

Chapter Twelve: Propaganda and DemocracyIV: Conclusion; Chapter Thirteen: Innis and the Network Society; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>By comparing the scholarship of both Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky with that of Harold Innis, and by making detailed use of Innis's neglected writings, including particularly </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Political Economy in the Modern State,</span><span> Innis's media and communication scholarship is unfolded in new, startling, critical, yet ultimately appreciative ways. </span></span>