James Carey: A Critical Reader

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
PART I......Page 22
Introduction: On the Origins of Media Studies (and Media Scholars)......Page 24
1 The Chicago School and the History of Mass Communication Research......Page 35
2 The Roots of Modern Media Analysis: Lewis Mumford and Marshall McLuhan......Page 55
3 Communications and Economics......Page 81
PART II......Page 98
Introduction: The Problem of Journalism History, 1996......Page 100
4 The Problem of Journalism History......Page 107
5 "Putting the World at Peril": A Conversation with James W. Carey......Page 116
PART III......Page 138
Introduction: Famed Psychic's Head Explodes: James Carey on the Technology of Journalism......Page 140
6 The Communications Revolution and the Professional Communicator......Page 149
7 The Dark Continent of American Journalism......Page 165
PART IV......Page 210
Introduction: "We'll Have That Conversation": Journalism and Democracy in the Thought of James W. Carey......Page 212
8 "A Republic, If You Can Keep It": Liberty and Public Life in the Age of Glasnost......Page 228
9 The Press, Public Opinion, and Public Discourse: On the Edge of the Postmodern......Page 249
PART V......Page 280
Introduction: James Carey's Academy......Page 282
10 Political Correctness and Cultural Studies......Page 291
11 Salvation by Machines: Can Technology Save Education?......Page 313
Afterword: The Culture in Question......Page 329
Bibliography of Works by James W. Carey......Page 362
Contributors......Page 368
C......Page 372
G......Page 373
M......Page 374
R......Page 375
W......Page 376