Communication as Culture, Revised Edition: Essays on Media and Society

by James W. Carey

Book Overview

A collection of essays aiming to provide new ways of understanding and studying modern communications media. The essays examine communication and culture and the effects of technology on culture. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041590725X
• ISBN13: 9780415907255
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

This is the bible of communication studies/cultural studies.

If you are going to read one book on communication studies or cultural studies, read this. It presents a theory of what culture is (or in other words, a theory of how communication works). The book is must reading for anyone interested in anthropology, psychotherapy, literature, journalism, foreign affairs....