Media and Communication

By Paddy Scannell

Book Overview

Magisterial in scope, Media and Communication traces the historical development of media and communication studies. Media Studies itself has a short history but many antecedents, and in this comprehensive and compelling book, Paddy Scannell sets out to describe and analysize its formulation in North American and Europe.

Media and Communication

- Offers an accessible and comprehensive analysis of the development of media and communication theory

- Includes a summary outline of all the key thinkers

- Looks at the study of communication across a range of disciplines--history, literature, sociology, philosophy and linguistics.

- Challenges readers to engage with the central importance of communication.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 141290269X
• ISBN13: 9781412902694
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.1"