Establishing Shot 2
Society exists not only by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.
John Dewey (Carey, 1989/2008, p. 11)
What we got here is a failure to communicate.
Luke, Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Communication and media studies is not a unified field of study. Scholarship on media comes from disciplinary traditions as diverse as psychology, journalism, anthropology, art history, law, documentary production, sociology, English, political theory, science and technology studies, political economy, and philosophy. This introduction synthesizes some of the most influential ideas from these disciplinary frameworks in order to offer a range of ways ...
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