[ecrea] New Book: Refiguring Mass Communication: A History

>Refiguring Mass Communication: A History
>Peter Simonson, University of Colorado at Boulder
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>An inquiry into the history and ongoing moral significance of mass
>communication organized around narrative accounts of individuals and their
>communicative worlds, Refiguring Mass Communication illuminates significant
>but overlooked rhetorical episodes in history to enable modern-day readers
>to rehabilitate and reinvigorate their own engagements with mass
>communication. Beginning from the coining of the term "mass communication"
>in the 1920s and its use in the public relations battles to legitimate
>American commercial broadcasting, it proceeds to consider alternate visions
>and social forms of mass communication articulated by Paul of Tarsus, Walt
>Whitman, Charles Horton Cooley, and Robert K. Merton. It attends to the
>geographical and social contexts from which these visions emerged and the
>religious and moral horizons against which they took shape, concluding with
>an account of a non-paradigmatic form of mass communication today, the
>American county fair.
>
>Table of Contents:
>http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/98dqh9ym9780252035173.html
>
>Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2010
>
>

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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