Media and Communication Book

Acknowledgements     vii
Introduction     1
The masses     7
Mass communication: Lazarsfeld, Adorno, Merton, USA, 1930s and 1940s     9
Mass culture: Horkheimer, Adorno, Brecht, Benjamin, Germany/USA, 1930s and 1940s     31
The end of the masses: Merton, Lazarsfeld, Riesman, Katz, USA, 1940s and 1950s     63
Everyday life     91
Culture and communication: Leavis, Hoggart, Williams, England, 1930s-1950s     93
Communication and technology: Innis, McLuhan, Canada, 1950s-1960s     123
Communication as interaction: Goffman and Garfinkel, USA, 1950s-1970s     145
Communicative rationality and irrationality     169
Communication and language: Austin, Grice, Sacks, Levinson, UK/USA, 1950s-1970s     171
Communication as ideology: Hall, UK, 1950s and 1970s     198
Communication and Publicness: Habermas, Germany (USA/UK), 1950s-1990s     233
Conclusion     260
Index     294