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Rethinking media theory : signposts and new directions

Title
Rethinking media theory : signposts and new directions / Armand Mattelart + Michèle Mattelart ; translated by James A. Cohen and Marina Urquidi.
Author
Mattelart, Armand.
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1992.

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Additional Authors
Mattelart, Michèle.
Description
xii, 219 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Media & society ; 5
Uniform Title
  • Penser les médias. English
  • Media & society ; 5.
Alternative Title
Penser les médias.
Subject
  • Communication
  • Mass media
  • Communication > France
  • Mass media > France
  • mass media
  • Communication
  • Mass media
  • Massenmedien
  • Theorie
  • Massacommunicatie
  • France
Note
  • Translation of: Penser les médias.
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-209) and index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index.
Contents
On the difficulty of reflecting on communication -- The quest for transdisciplinarity -- The temptation of metaphor -- The theory of information-- Postlinearity -- Negotiated power -- The return of the subject -- The procedures of consumption -- Popular pleasure as a revelation -- Negative culture, affirmative culture -- The heavy and the light -- The state as macrosubject -- The logic of the industrial actor -- The cosmobiology of Homo Deregulatus -- The crisis of the paradigms -- Rediscovering popular cultures.
ISBN
  • 0816619085
  • 9780816619085
  • 0816619107
  • 9780816619108
LCCN
91035874
OCLC
  • ocm24626778
  • 24626778
  • SCSB-8812992
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library