CoverTitle PageCopyrightTable of ContentsIntroduction: Working the Hyphen in Critical-Cultural ConversationsPart I: ContextsHistory: Looking for the Subject of Communication History.Education: Critical PedagogySpace: The Possibilities and Limits of the Conversation ModelReligion: Faith in Cultural StudiesCommunity: Community without PropinquityPart II: CultureCulture: James W. Carey and the Conversation of CulturePopular Culture: Asking the Right QuestionsOral Culture: Oral Culture as Antidote to Terror and EnnuiRitual: The Dark Continent of Journalistic RitualIdentity: The Politics of Identity WorkPart III: ConsequencesProfessionalism: Journalism Without Professional Journalists?Politics: Media Power, Status Politics, and PartisanshipEthics: Communication Ethics in Postnarrative TermsThe Public: Philosophical Foundations and Distortiaons in the Quest for CivitasTechnology: The Digital Sublimation of the Electrical SublimeGlobalization: Counterglobalization and Other Rituals Against EmpireEpiloge: How Scholarship MattersWorks CitedEditors and ContributorsIndex

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An essential reassessment of the central themes of critical cultural studies

About the Author

Linda Steiner is a professor of journalism at the University of Maryland and the coauthor of Women and Journalism. Clifford Christians is Sandage Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and coauthor of Normative Theories of the Media: Journalism in Democratic Societies.

Reviews

"An unusually full and rich--and sometimes passionate--conversation on communication and culture, this volume offers a selection of illuminating and provocative responses to the life's work of James W. Carey." Carolyn Kitch, author of Pages from the Past: History and Memory in American Magazines "A creative approach to connecting key elements in a sometimes abstract field. Recommended for students and scholars of critical and cultural studies." Lee Wilkins, co-editor of The Handbook of Mass Media Ethics