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Interactions : critical studies in communication, media, and journalism

This is collection of essays on the theory and practice of critical studies in communication, media, and journalism. It is grounded in a critical theory of the media that addresses the potential of liberating individuals by challenging their roles in the hegemonic relationship of media and society.
Print Book, English, 1998
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md., 1998
xvii, 253 pages
9780847688876, 9780847688883, 0847688879, 0847688887
1131239167
Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: Historical Considerations Chapter 3 Contemplating Marxism—and Other Theoretical Challenges Chapter 4 Looking for the Working Class: Class Relations in Communication Studies Chapter 5 Communication in the Media Age: An Existential Dilemma Chapter 6 The Decline of Authenticity: Modernity, Communication, and Critical Theory Chapter 7 Communication and Economic Thought: Cultural Imagination in German and American Scholarship Part 8 Part II: Critical Applications Chapter 9 The Making of the Public Sphere: Class, Culture, and Media Practices Chapter 10 The World According to America: Ideology and Comparative Media Studies Chapter 11 Alien Culture, Immigrant Voices: The Foreign-Language Press in Journalism History Chapter 12 Against the Rank and File: Newsworkers,Technology, and the Construction of History Chapter 13 The End of Journalism: Media and Newswork at the Close of the Century
"Most chapters are essays, edited for this publication, which were previously published in various sources, 1972-1996"--Verso de la page de titre