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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 analysize its formulation in North America 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.
It will be an invaluable resource for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students of media and communication, cultural studies and sociology.
• 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.
It will be an invaluable resource for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students of media and communication, cultural studies and sociology.