Book List
Basic Assumptions/General Framework
Curran, James, David Morley, and Valerie Walkerdine, eds. Cultural Studies and
Communications. London: Arnold/Hodder Headline Group. 1996.
Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Society. Translated from the French by John
Wilkinson. New York: Vintage Books, 1964.
Innis, H.A. The Bias of Communication. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1951.
---. Empire and Communication. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972.
Laszio, Ervin. The Systems View of the World: The Natural Philosophy of the New
Developments in the Sciences. New York: George Braziller, 1972.
McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York: Mentor
Books, 1964.
Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization, Revised Edition. New York: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, 1963.
O’Sullivan, T., J. Hartley, D. Saunders, M. Montgomery, and J. Fiske. Key Concepts in
Communication and Cultural Studies. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 1994.
Postman, Neil. “The Information Environment.” Teaching as a Conserving Activity. New
York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1979. 33-48.
---. “Social Science as Moral Theology.” Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble
About Language, Technology, and Education. New York: Alfred\ Knopf, Inc., 1988. 3-19
White, Jr., Lynn. Medieval Technology and Social Change. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1962.
Symbols, Texts, Contexts, and Meaning
Aristotle, Poetics and The Rhetoric.
Bakhtin, M.M. The Dialogic Imagination. Four Essays by M.M. Bakhtin. Trans. C
Emerson and M. Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981.
Barthes, Roland. Image-Music-Text. London: Fontana, 1977.
Berger, Peter L., and Thomas Luckman. The Social Construction of reality. New York:
Anchor Books, 1967.
Blumer, Herbert. Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method. Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969.
Broadhurst, Allan R., and Donald K. Darnell. “An Introduction to Cybernetics and
Information Theory.” Quarterly Journal of Speech, Vol. 51 (1965): 442-453.
Bruner, Jerome. Actual Minds, Possible Worlds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press,1986.
---Acts of Meaning. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Burke, Kenneth. A Grammar of Motives. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1945.
Campbell, Jeremy. Grammatical man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life. New
York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1982.
Chomsky, Noam. Language and Mind. Enl. Ed. New york: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1972.
D’Andrade, Roy, and Claudia Strauss, eds. Human Motives and Cultural Models.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minneapolis: University Of
Minnesota Press, 1983.
Ellul, Jacques. The Humiliation of the Word. Michigan: W.B. Eerdmans Publishing
Company, 1985.
Gardner, Howard. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. New York:
Basic Books, 1985.
Geertz, Clifford. Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology. New
York: Basic books, Inc., 1983.
Goffman, Erving. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Anchor Boks,
1959.
---. Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings. New
York: New York Press, 1963.
---. Strategic Interaction. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1969.
Hall, Edward T. The Silent Language. New York: Anchor Press, 1981.
Hayakawa, S.I. Language in Thought and Action. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovice,
1972.
Ittleson, William H., and Hadley Cantril. “Perception: A Transactional Approach.” The
Human Dialogue: Perspectives on Communication. Ed. Floyd W. Matson and Ashley
Montagu. New York: Free Press, 1967. 207-213.
Jaynes, Julian. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976.
Johnson, Wendell. People in quandaries: The Semantics of Personal Adjustment. New
York: Harper & Brothers, 1946.
Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 2nd Ed. Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press, 1970.
Langer, Susanne K. Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason,
Rite, and Art. 3rd Ed. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1979.
Lash, Scott, and Jonathan Friedman (eds.). Modernity and Identity. Oxford, UK:
Blackwell, 1992.
Mead, George Herbert. Mind, Self, and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social
Behaviorist. Ed. Charles W. Morris. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1934.
Postman, Neil. Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk. New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc. 1976.
Richards, I.A. Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment. New York : Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich, 1929.
Scribner, Sylvia, and Michael Cole. The Psychology of Literacy. Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press, 1981.
Steiner, George. After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1975.
Wertsch, James V. Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1985.
Wiener, Norbert. The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society. New
York: Da Capo press, Inc., 1954
Whorff, Benjamin Lee. Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings. Ed. John B.
Carroll. Cambridge, MA: Technology Press of MIT, 1956.
Winnicott, Donald W. Playing and Reality. London: Tavistock Publications, Ltd.,
1971/1990.
Communication and Culture
Alexander, Jeffrey C. and Steven Seidman. Culture and Society: Contemporary Debates.
Cambridge, Uk: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Barnouw, Erik. Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television, Revised Edition.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Beniger, James R. The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins Of the
Information Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986.
Bolter, J. David. Turing’s Man: Western Culture in the computer Age. Chapel Hill: The
University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1949.
Carey, James W. Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society. Boston:
Unwin Hyman, 1989.
Dines, Gail, and Jean M. Humez (eds.). Gender, race and Class in Media. Thousand
Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 1995.
Dreyfus, Hubert L., and Stuart E. Mind over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition
and expertise in the Era of the Computer. New York: Macmillan Free Press, 1986.
Drummand, Phillip, and Richard Paterson (eds.). Television & Its Audience: International
Research Perspectives. London: British Film Institute Publishing, 1986.
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and
Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe. 2 volumes. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1979.
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Fiske, John. Television Culture. Routledge: London, 1987.
---. Media Maters: Everyday Culture and Political Change. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota press, 1994.
Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1973.
Gelb, I.J. A Study of Writing, Revised Edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press, 1963.
Gillespie, Marie. Television, Ethnicity, and Cultural Change. London:
Comedia/Routledge, 1995.
Goodenough, W. Culture, Language, and Society. 2nd edition. Menlo Park, CA:
Benjamin Cummings Publishing Co., 1981.
Gould, Stephen Jay. The Mismeasure of Man. New York: W.W. Norton & Company,
1981.
Gray, Herman. Watching Race: Television and the Struggle for “Blackness.”
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
Grossberg, Lawrence. We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Popular Conservatism And
Postmodern Culture. London: Routledge, 1992.
Hall, Stuart. Culture, Media, Language. Working papers in cultural studies, 1972-79, the
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.,
1980.
Havelock, Eric. Preface to Plato. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963.
---. Origins of Western Literacy. Toronto: The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education,
1976.
Hebdige, Dick. Subculture: the Meaning of Style. London: Methuen, 1979.
Leakey, Richard E., and Roger Lewin. People of the Lake: Mankind and its Beginnings.
New York: Avon Books, 1978.
Lewis, Lisa A. Gender Politics and MTV: Voicing the Difference. Philadelphia: Temple
Univesity Press, 1990.
Liebes, Tamar, and E. Katz. The Export of Meaning: Cross Cultural Readings of Dallas.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Lipsitz, George. Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1990.
Lull, James. Inside Family Viewing: Ethnographic Research on Television’s Audiences.
London: Comedia/Routledge, 1990.
---. Media, Communication, Culture: A Global Approach. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1995.
Marvin, Carolyn. When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking about Electric
Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press,
1988.
McLuhan, Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographical Man.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962.
McRobbie, Angela. Postmodernism and Popular Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.
Morley, David. Television, Audiences, and Cultural Studies. London: Routledge, 1992.
---. The Nationwide Audience: Structure and Decoding. London: British Film Institute,
1980a.
---. Family Television: Cultural Power and Domestic Leisure. London: Comedia &
Routledge, 1986; 1988.
Mukerji, Chandra, and Michael Schudson (eds.). Rethinking Popular Culture
Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies.
Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. New York:
Methuen, 1982.
Papert, Seymour. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas. New York:
Basic Books, 1980.
Postman, Neil. The Disappearance of Childhood. New York: Delacorte Press, 1982.
---. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. New
York: Penguin Books, 1985.
---. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
Inc, 1992.
Press, Andrea L. Women Watching Television: Gender, Class, and Generation in the
American Television
Experience. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
1991.
Radway, Janice. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature.
Chapel Hill, NC:
University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
Seiter, Ellen, H. Borchers, G. Kreutzner and E. Warth (eds). Remote Control: Television,
Audiences, and
Cultural Power. London: Routledge, 1989.
Silverstone, Roger. Televistion and Everyday Life. London: Routledge, 1994.
Simpson, Phillip (ed.). Parents Talking Television: Television in the Home. London:
Comedia Publishing
Group, 1987.
Taylor, Ella. Prime Time Families: Television culture in Postwar America. Berkeley:
University of California
Press, 1989.
Turkle, Sherry. The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1984.
Weizenbaum, Joseph. Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to
Calculation. New York: W.H.
Freeman and Company, 1976.
Williams, Raymond. Television: Technology and Cultural Form. New York: Schocken
Books, 1974.
Wuthrow, Robert, James D. Hunter, Albett Bergessen and Edith Kurzweil. Cultural
Analysis: The Works of
Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault and Jurgen
Habermas. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,
1987.
Mass Media and Society
Allen, Richard C. (ed.). Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and
Contemporary Criticism.
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Bagdikian, Ben H. The Information Machines. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.
---. The Media Monopoly. Third Edition. Boston: Beacon Press, 1990.
Boorstin, Daniel J. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, 25th Anniversary
Edition, 1987. New
York: Atheneum, 1961.
Boyum, Joy Gould. Double Exposure: Fiction into Film. New York: Mentor, 1985.
Cantril, Hadley. The Invasion from Mars: A Study in teh Psychology of Panic. Revised
edition. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1966.
Czitrom, Daniel J. Media and The American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan. Chapel
Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1982.
Davis, Dennis K., And Stanley J. Baran. Mass Communication in Everyday Life: A
Perspective on Theory and
Effects. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1980.
DeFleur, Melvin L., and Sandra Ball-Rokeach. Theories of Mass Communication 5th
edition. New York: David
McKay Company, Inc, 1975.
Diamond Edwin, and Stephen Bates. The Spot: The Rise of Political Advertising on
Television, Revised
Edition. Cambridge, MA; The MIT Press, 1988.
Douglas, Susan. Where the Girls Are: Growing up Female with the Mass Media. New
York: Times
Books/Random House, 1994.
Dowling, John (ed.) Questioning the Media. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publication,
1990.
Ellul, Jacques. Propaganda: the Formation of Men's Attitudes. Trans. Konrad Kellen and
Jean Lerner. New
York: Vintage Books, 1965.
Epstein, Edward Jay. News from Nowhere: The Television and the News. New York:
Vintage Books, 1973.
Ewen, Stuart, and Elizabeth. Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of
American
Consciousness. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1982.
---. Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer
Culture. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1976.
---. All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture. New York:
Basic Books, 1988.
Fornatele, Peter, and Joshua Mills. Radio in the Television Age. Woodstock, NY:
Overlook Press, 1980.
Gans, Herbert J. Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly
News, Newsweek, and Time. New York: Vintage Books, 1979.
Gitlin, Todd. Inside Prime Time. New York: Pantheon Books, 1983.
Gumpert, Gary. Talking Tombstones and Other Tales of the Media Age. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1987.
Klapper, James T. The Effects of Mass Communication. New York: The Free Press,
1960.
Knight, Arthur. The Liveliest Art: A Panoramic History of the Movies. Revised edition.
New York: Mentor, 1979.
Lazere, Donald (ed.). American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives. Berkeley,
CA: University of California Press, 1987.
Leiss, William, Stephen Kline and Sut Jhally. Social Communication in Advertising:
Persons,Products and Images of Well-Being. New York: Methuen, 1986.
Lippmann, Walter. Public Opinion. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922.
McGinniss, Joe. The Selling of the President, Revised edition. New York: Penguin
Books, 1988.
Moran, Terence P. "Propaganda as Pseudocommunication" Et Cetera, Vol. 36, No.2
(1979): 181-197.
Newcomb, Horace. Television: The Critical View. New York: Oxford University Press,
1987.
Postman, Neil, and Steve Powers. How to Watch TV News. New York: Penguin Books,
1992.
Riordon, William L. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very
PracticalPolitics. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1963.
Sabato, Larry J. The Rise of Political Consultants: New Ways of Winning Elections.
NewYork: Basic Books, Inc, 1981.
Schiller, Herbert I. Culture, Inc.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Schramm, Wilbur, and William E. Porter. Men, Women, Messages and Media. New
York: Harper & Row, 1982.
Schudson, Michael. Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers.
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1978
---. Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion: Its Dubious Impact on American Society. New
York: Basic Books, Inc., 1984.
Smith, Anthony. Goodbye Gutenberg: The Newspaper Revolution of the 1980's. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
---. The Geopolitics of Information: How Western Culture Dominates the World. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Sontag, Susan. On Photography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979.
Spigel, Lynn. Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Stephens, Mitchell. A History of News: From the Drum to the Satellite. New York:
Viking, 1988.
Tuchman, Gaye, A.K. Daniels and J. Benet (eds.). Hearth and Home: Images of Women
in theMass Media. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Weinberg, Nathan. Computers in the Information Society, Boulder, Colorado: Westview
Press, 1990.
Young People, Media, and Education
Alvarado, Manuel, and Oliver Boyd-Barrett (eds.). Media Education. London: British
Film Institute/The Open University, 1992.
Blumer, Herbert. Movies and Conduct. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933.
Buckingham, David. Watching Media Learning: Making Sense of Media Education.
London: the Falmer Press, 1990.
---. Reading Audiences: Young People and the Media. Manchester, UK: Manchester
University Press, 1993.
---(ed.)..Children Talking Television: The Making of Television Literacy. London:
The Falmer Press, 1993.
---. Cultural Studies Goes to School. London: Taylor and Francis Ltd. 1994.
Dewey, John. Experience and Education. New York: Collier Books/Macmillan.
1938/1963.
Dorr, Aimee. Television and Children. A Special Medium for a Special Audience.
Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1986.
Dyson, Anne Haas. Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary
School. New York: Teachers College Press, 1993.
---. Multiple Worlds of Child Writers: Friends Learning to Write. New York: Teachers
College Press, 1989.
Frith, Simon. Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure, and Music. New York: Pantheon Books,
1981.
Gardner, Howard. The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should
Teach. New York: Basic Books, 1991.
Giroux, Henry A., and R. I. Simon. Popular Culture, Schooling and Everyday Life.
Granby, MA: Bergin and Garvey Publishers, Inc., 1989.
Heath, Shirley Brice. Ways With Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and
Classrooms. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Hodge, Robert, and David Tripp. Children and Television: A Semiotic Approach.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986.
Kelly, Hope, and Howard Gerdner (eds.). Viewing Children Through Television. San
Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1981.
Kinder, Marsha. Playing with Power in Movies, TV and Video Games. Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press, 1991.
Lusted, David. The Media Studies Book: A Guide for Teachers. London: Comedia/
Routledge, 1991.
Masterman, Len. Teaching the Media. London: Routeledge, 1990.
Moss, Gemma. Un/Popular Fictions. London: Virago, 1989.
Palmer, Patricia. The Lively Audience. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1986.
Provenzeo, E. F., Jr. Video Kids: Making Sence of Nintendo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
U. Press, 1991.
Willis, Paul. Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs.
Farnborough: Saxon House, 1977.
---. Common Culture: Symbolic Work at Play in the Everyday Cultures of the Young.
Westview Press: Boulder, CO, 1990.
Some Relevant Scholarly Journals
Camera Obscura
Commuication Abstracts
Communication Quarterly
Critical Studies in Mass Communication
Etc., A Review of General Semantics
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
Human Communication Research
Journal of Advertising
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
Journal of Communications
Journal of Current Social Issues
Journal of Popular Culture
Journalism Quarterly
Media, Culture and Society
Media Studies Journal
The Communication Review