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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Cultural Constructions of Communication -- 2 The Gaze of the Artist: American Newspapers in an Urban Setting -- 3 Revolutionary Reportage: Constructing the New Soviet Journalism -- 4 Negotiated Images: The Rise of Photojournalism in Weimar Germany -- 5 Radio and Kultur: On the Social Uses of German Broadcasting -- 6 Fictional Journalists: News Work in American Novels -- 7 Billboards of the Dream: Walker Evans on 1930s U.S. Advertising -- 8 Wireless Pleasure: Locating Radio in the American Home -- 9 Pierced Memories: On the Rhetoric of a Bayoneted Photograph -- References -- Index.

The development of communication studies has been a lively process of adoption and integration of theoretical constructs from Pragmatism, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Critical Communication Studies describes the intellectual and professional forces that have shaped research interests and formed alliances in the pursuit of particular goals. Hanno Hardt reflects on the need to come to terms with the role of history in academic work and locates the intellectual history within the context of competing social theories. The book provides a substantive foundation for understanding the field

Hanno Hardt has thoroughly revised and expanded his 'pre-history' of communication research in the United States. With the notable addition of Karl Marx's journalism-focused writings and a new foreword by James W. Carey, this edition covers intellectual contributions from several German theorists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as first-generation U.S. sociologists who were influenced by this scholarship. A new concluding chapter explores the continuing influence of German social thought and the contemporary shift of paradigms in U.S. communication research, inclu