John Dewey: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory eBook

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John Dewey
A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
John Dewey: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory reintroduces John Dewey to scholars in communication studies by presenting new material and interpretations from his works, lectures, and correspondence. Dewey has been credited as being one of the giants of American philosophy, a key figure in the development of pragmatism. Going beyond Dewey’s reputation in received histories in communication, this book documents his role beginning at the University of Michigan in 1884 until his death in 1952 in establishing a view of communication as the means by which associated life and adaptation to the environment is possible. Communication enables the production of collective knowledge generated through experience and reproduced across time and space, subject to change and correction as those truths are applied and yield consequences. It is also subject to manipulation and misuse. So integral is communication to his philosophy that Dewey is best seen as having a philosophy with communication, not of it. By reviewing Dewey’s history of work relevant to communication, technology, and culture, previous assumptions by communication scholars are challenged. A fresh history is presented of his relations to key figures and his significance to the development of speech, rhetoric, journalism, mass communication research, and public relations. Because of his concerns about power, participation, identity, and knowledge, his work remains relevant to contemporary scholars. This book is appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in theory, history, and philosophy of communication and is relevant to other disciplines with interests in pragmatism, feminist and race theory, technology, and cultural studies.

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9781433126307, 9781433167324, 9781433167348

John Dewey: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory 1st Edition is written by Lana F. Rakow and published by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for John Dewey are 9781433167331, 1433167336 and the print ISBNs are 9781433167317, 143316731X. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9781433126307, 9781433167324, 9781433167348.