A different road taken : profiles in critical communication

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    • Lent, John A.

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A different road taken : profiles in critical communication

edited by John A. Lent

(Critical studies in communication and in the cultural industries)

Westview Press, 1995

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Contains interviews with Dallas Smythe, George Gerbner, Herbert Schiller, James Halloran, and Kaarle Nordenstreng, bibliographies of their works, as well as discussions of their importance and comments on critical communication in general by ten other specialists

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

A series of interviews with five scholars in the field of critical communication - Dallas Smythe, George Gerbner, Herbert Schiller, James Halloran and Kaarle Nordenstreng - and essays on their work. The book traces the different routes they have taken and the byways they have opened for others.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Dallas W. Smythe: profile
  • interview with Dallas W. Smythe, J.A. Lent
  • against the flow - the peculiar opportunity of social scientists, Robin Mansell
  • "critical" communication research - new directions, Manjunath Pendakur. Part 2 George Gerbner: profile
  • interview with George Gerbner, J.A. Lent
  • the critical contribution of George Gerbner, Michael Morgan
  • trying to mix oil with water - fund-raising, vocationalism and critical communication, Janet Wasko. Part 3 Herbert I. Schiller: profile
  • interview with Herbert I. Schiller, J.A. Lent
  • Herbert Schiller - clarion voice against cultural hegemony, Lai-si Tsui
  • continuity and change in critical communication - a generational analysis, Vincent Mosco. Part 4 James D. Halloran: profile
  • interview with James D. Halloran, J.A. Lent
  • James D. Halloran - a multi-perspective presentation, Tamas Szecsko
  • who is (not) "critical" now? - on engendering "critical scholarship" in international communication, Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi. Part 5 Kaarle Nordenstreng: profile
  • interview with Kaarle Nordenstreng, J.A. Lent
  • justice, equality and professional ethics in journalism, Kaarle Nordenstreng's actions and reflections, Wolfgang Kleinwaechter
  • political versus cultural in critical broadcasting research and policy - a re-evaluation of the Finnish radical experiment in broadcasting in the late 1960s, Taisto Hujanen.

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