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A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory

Editors: David W. Park


The study of the media has led scholars to apply a humbling array of theories in their efforts to analyze messages, media systems, audiences and media themselves. One of the strengths of media studies has been its flexibility as it incorporates humanist and social scientific ideas in our work.
This series is focused on theories, methods, schools of thought, domains of intellectual struggle, and individual thinkers whose importance to the study of the media can be reconfigured, reinvented, and refocused. Each of the specially commissioned books in the series shares a concern for the heritage of thought in the field of communication. These books provide sophisticated discussions of the relevance of particular theorists or theories, with an emphasis on reinventing communication and media studies, whether by incorporating ideas thought by some to be 'outside' the field, or by providing fresh analyses of ideas that have long been considered central to media studies. Though theoretical in focus, the books are at all times concerned with the applicability of theory to empirical research and experience, and are designed to be accessible, yet critical, for students -undergraduates and postgraduates - and scholars.

Titles

  • Title: Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud

    A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
    Volume 13
    by Debra L. Merskin (Author) 2024
    ©2024 Textbook 184 Pages
  • Title: The Inclusive Vision

    The Inclusive Vision

    Essays in Honor of Larry Gross
    Volume 12
    by Paul Messaris (Volume editor) David W. Park (Volume editor) 2018
    ©2018 Textbook 274 Pages
  • Title: John Dewey

    John Dewey

    A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
    Volume 11
    by Lana F. Rakow (Author) 2019
    ©2019 Textbook 214 Pages
  • Title: Amazing Ourselves to Death

    Amazing Ourselves to Death

    Neil Postman’s Brave New World Revisited
    Volume 10
    by Lance Strate (Author) 2013
    ©2014 Textbook 170 Pages
  • Title: bell hooks

    bell hooks

    A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
    Volume 8
    by Catherine R. Squires (Author) 2013
    ©2013 Textbook 129 Pages
  • Title: Walter Lippmann

    Walter Lippmann

    A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
    Volume 5
    by Sue Curry Jansen (Author)
    ©2012 Textbook 169 Pages
  • Title: Erving Goffman

    Erving Goffman

    A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
    Volume 4
    by Yves Winkin (Author) Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz (Author) 2013
    ©2013 Textbook 178 Pages
  • Title: George Gerbner

    George Gerbner

    A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
    Volume 3
    by Michael Morgan (Author)
    ©2012 Textbook 178 Pages
  • Title: Pierre Bourdieu

    Pierre Bourdieu

    A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
    Volume 2
    by David W. Park (Author) 2010
    ©2014 Monographs 172 Pages