'...a great book, exciting, and very clearly written' - Klaus Schà nbach, University of Amsterdam'This is an excellent book that provides students with a broad series of summary outlines of key thinkers on media and communication, without conflating the two terms' - Michael Pickering, University of Loughborough Magisterial in scope, Media and Communication traces the historical development of media and communication studies. Media Studies itself has a short history but many antecedents, and in this comprehensive and compelling book, Paddy Scannell sets out to describe and analysize its formulation in North American and Europe. Media and Communication:- Offers an accessible and comprehensive analysis of the development of media and communication theory - Includes a summary outline of all the key thinkers - Looks at the study of communication across a range of disciplines--history, literature, sociology, philosophy and linguistics- Challenges readers to engage with the central importance of communication.
Acknowledgements viiIntroduction 1The masses 7Mass communication: Lazarsfeld, Adorno, Merton, USA, 1930s and 1940s 9Mass culture: Horkheimer, Adorno, Brecht, Benjamin, Germany/USA, 1930s and 1940s 31The end of the masses: Merton, Lazarsfeld, Riesman, Katz, USA, 1940s and 1950s 63Everyday life 91Culture and communication: Leavis, Hoggart, Williams, England, 1930s-1950s 93Communication and technology: Innis, McLuhan, Canada, 1950s-1960s 123Communication as interaction: Goffman and Garfinkel, USA, 1950s-1970s 145Communicative rationality and irrationality 169Communication and language: Austin, Grice, Sacks, Levinson, UK/USA, 1950s-1970s 171Communication as ideology: Hall, UK, 1950s and 1970s 198Communication and Publicness: Habermas, Germany (USA/UK), 1950s-1990s 233Conclusion 260Index 294