Defining media studies : reflections on the future of the field

Author(s)

• Levy, Mark R.
• Gurevitch, Michael

Bibliographic Information

Defining media studies : reflections on the future of the field

edited by Mark R. Levy and Michael Gurevitch

Oxford University Press, c1994

• : hbk
• : pbk. : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographies

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780195087871

Description

The last two issues of the 1993 Journal of Communication featured a discipline-wide self-analysis, collecting over fifty essays by giants in the field as well as many up-and-coming scholars. Now available in a single volume for courses in communications theory and practice, this collective reconnaissance of scholarship and research in the field makes a fundamental contribution to understanding the very essence of media studies. Representing a wide range of intellectual perspectives, Defining Media Studies incorporates the growing presence and significance of such technological media as the computer Net, virtual reality, and fiber optic telecommunication. Maintaining that such leaps in communication now help to define the parameters of media reality, the editors argue that these phenomena must draw the scholarly attention of media studies. The resulting volume of essays emphasizes this shift in the field, presenting insight into interfaces, telecommunications, the Information Society, media economics, "imagined communities", and many other issues, both old and new, familiar and not so familiar.

Volume

: pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780195087888

Description

Communication studies has never been recognized fully by universities as an academic discipline, but fascinating scholarship continues unabated from people working in the field-with sometimes trenchant results. Defining Media Studies is a collection of essays culled from two special issues of the Journal of Communication, the leading journal in the field, and represents a collective reconnaissance of what is currently happening in this vigorous and vibrant new area.

Table of Contents

Audiences and Institutions Sonia M. Livingstone: The Rise and Fall of Audience Research: An Old Story With a New Ending David Morley: Active Audience Theory: Pendulums and Pitfalls Klaus Bruhn Jensen: Problems and Potentials of Historical Reception Studies Herbert J. Gans: Reopening the Black Box: Toward a Limited Effects Theory Gaye Tuchman: Realism and Romance: The Study of Media Effects Seth Geiger and John Newhagen: Revealing the Black Box: Information Processing and Media Effects Robert M. Entman: Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm Frank Biocca: Communication Research in the Design of Communication Interfaces and Systems Ito Youichi: The Future of Political Communication Research: A Japanese Perspective Barbie Zelizer: Has Communication Explained Journalism? Rethinking the Critical Tradition Lawrence Grossberg: Can Cultural Studies Find True Happiness in Communication? Robert W. McChesney: Critical Communication Research at the Crossroads Eileen R. Meehan, Vincent Mosco, and Janet Wasko: Rethinking Political Economy: Change and Continuity Dan Schiller: Back to the Future: Prospects for Study of Communication as a Social Force The Search for a Usable History Everett M. Rogers and Steven H. Chafee: The Past and the Future of Communication Study: Convergence or Divergence? An exchange John Durham Peters: Genealogical Notes on "The Field" Susan Herbst: History, Philosophy, and Public Opinion Research The Academic Wars Pamela J. Shoemaker: Communication in Crisis: Theory, Curricula, and Power Lana F. Rakow: The Curriculum Is the Future David Swanson: Fragmentation, the Field, and the Future Anandam P. Kavoori and Michael Gurevitch: The Purebred and the Platypus: Disciplinarity and Site in Mass Communication Research Jose Marques de Melo: Communication Research: New Challenges of the Latin American School Acknowledgement Index

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Details

• NCID: BA23534347
• ISBN:
  • 0195087879
  • 0195087887
• LCCN: 93006066
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York ; Tokyo
• Pages/Volumes: 446 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 361.45
  • LCC : P91.3
  • DC20 : 302.2/072
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Communication -- Research