Communication as Culture, Revised Edition: Essays on Media and Society

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Taylor & Francis, 2008 M09 19 - 205 pages

James W. Carey maintains that communication is not merely the transmission of information; reminding the reader of the link between the words communication and community, he broadens his definition to include the drawing-together of a people that is culture. The revised edition of this classic textaincludes a new critical foreword by G. Stuart Adam that explains Carey's fundamental role in transforming the study of mass communication to include a cultural perspective and connects his classic essays with contemporary media issues and trends. This edition also adds a new, complete bibliography of all of Carey's writings."

About the author (2008)

James W. Carey was born in 1934 in Providence, Rhode Island. He earned a first degree in Business at the University of Rhode Island before attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was awarded a doctorate in communications. He was appointed to the faculty at Illinois in 1963 and was director of its Institute for Communication Research from 1969-76. From 1976-79, Carey held the George H. Gallup Chair at the University of Iowa, but he returned to Illinois in 1979 to become Dean of the College of Communication, a position he held until 1992. He joined the faculty of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1992 and remained there until his death in May, 2006. In the course of a distinguished career as an administrator, teacher, original thinker and pioneer in the fields of communication and American cultural studies, Carey published approximately 170 essays, speeches, and reviews.

Bibliographic information

TitleCommunication as Culture, Revised Edition: Essays on Media and Society
AuthorJames W. Carey
Edition2, revised
PublisherTaylor & Francis, 2008
ISBN0203928911, 9780203928912
Length205 pages
  
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