[This book] brings together 40 selections of enduring intellectual value - classic articles, book excerpts, and research studies - that have shaped the study of mass media and our contemporary understanding of it. [The book] provides the opportunity for readers to encounter many of the greatest thinkers in mass media at first hand. The book includes ... selections from the works of the most distinguished observers of the mass media, past and present, from Harold D. Lasswell, Hadley Cantril, and Neil Postman to Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Michael Eric Dyson, and Annette Kuhn. -Back cover.
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- PublisherDushkin Pub Group
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 1561347647
- ISBN 13 9781561347643
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages396