Echoes of Gabriel Tarde: What We Know Better or Different 100 Years Later

by Elihu Katz, Christopher Ali, Joohan Kim

Originally published in 1898, Gabriel Tarde's essay "Opinion and Conversation" can be read as a series of propositions about the interaction of press, conversation, opinion and action, anticipating today's "deliberative democracy." Exploring these themes in a hyper-text "dialogue" with Tarde, Elihu Katz, Christopher Ali, and Joohan Kim ask what we know better or different 100 years later in this book. The aim is not only to reawaken attention to Tarde's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625174225
• ISBN13: 9781625174222
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: USC Annenberg Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"