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'…a great book, exciting, and very clearly written' - Klaus Schönbach, University of Amsterdam. 'This is an excellent book that provides students with a broad series of summary outlines of key thinkers on media and communication, without conflating the two terms' - Michael Pickering, University of Loughborough. Magisterial in scope, Media and Communication traces the historical development of media and communication studies. Media Studies itself has a short history but many antecedents, and in this comprehensive and compelling book, Paddy Scannell sets out to describe and analyze its formulation in North American and Europe. Media and Communication offers an accessible and comprehensive analysis of the development of media and communication theory: Includes a summary outline of all the key thinkers; Looks at the study of communication across a range of disciplines—history, literature, sociology, philosophy and linguistics; Challenges readers to engage with the central importance of communication.
Communication and Publicness
Communication and Publicness
Habermas, Germany (USA/UK), 1950s-1990s
Introduction
Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit by Jurgen Habermas was published in Germany in 1962. In 1989, it was translated into English as The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, hereafter referred to as STPS. The book is about changing historical forms of public life in Europe from pre-modern times to the present. It is essentially concerned with the emerging role of public opinion and the media in modern, democratic politics. It also raises wider political and philosophical issues to do with modernity, Enlightenment and the rational basis of public discussion. STPS was Habermas's Habilitation thesis and his first major publication in Germany, where it had an immediate impact. When it appeared in English, it prompted considerable debate in the ...
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