Walter Lippmann: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory

by Sue Curry Jansen

Book Overview

Walter Lippmann has been widely misrepresented in media and communication scholarship. Classified as a utilitarian and characterized as an antidemocratic adversary of philosopher John Dewey in a legendary debate in the 1920s about the role of the public in modern democracies, Lippmann has been portrayed as the b te noir of the post-1980s revival of pragmatism and humanistic studies within the field. Consequently, his formative contributions to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433111365
• ISBN13: 9781433111365
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"