Social Theories of the Press: Constituents of Communication Research, 1840s to 1920s

by Hanno Hardt

Book Overview

Hanno Hardt has thoroughly revised and expanded his 'pre-history' of communication research in the United States. With the notable addition of Karl Marx's journalism-focused writings and a new foreword by James W. Carey, this edition covers intellectual contributions from several German theorists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as first-generation U.S. sociologists who were influenced by this scholarship. A new concluding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742511332
• ISBN13: 9780742511330
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 232 Pages