Overview

Media critics have long focused on the content and form of verbal and non-verbal communication, while for the most part neglecting what traditionally has been considered a technical issue - how messages are produced and formatted in the various media. This book shows how criticism changes when the medium of transmission is taken into account. The authors eschew the notion of communication technologies as neutral conduits, depicting them instead as active and creative determinants of meaning. Three specific technological cultures that historically have defined human communication are identified - the oral, the literate, and the electronic - and their structural features and social implications are examined. Highlighted throughout are ways that media criticism may serve as a basis for assessing, evaluating, and responding to the effects of communication technologies upon what we know and how we experience the world.

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An important interdisciplinary study which re-focuses the attention of media criticism on the message-generating power of communication technologies....Chesebro and Bertelsen extend this alternative study of technology messages in terms of a more expansive set of intellectual responsibilities, ferreting out the social responsibilities and pedagogical opportunities in their study . -- College Composition and Communication

An important interdisciplinary study which re-focuses the attention of media criticism on the message-generating power of communication technologies....Chesebro and Bertelsen extend this alternative study of technology messages in terms of a more expansive set of intellectual responsibilities, ferreting out the social responsibilities and pedagogical opportunities in their study. -- (10/03/1998)

An important interdisciplinary study which re-focuses the attention of media criticism on the message-generating power of communication technologies....Chesebro and Bertelsen extend this alternative study of technology messages in terms of a more expansive set of intellectual responsibilities, ferreting out the social responsibilities and pedagogical opportunities in their study.-- ""College Composition and Communication"" (10/3/1998 12:00:00 AM)

"An important interdisciplinary study which re-focuses the attention of media criticism on the message-generating power of communication technologies....Chesebro and Bertelsen extend this alternative study of technology messages in terms of a more expansive set of intellectual responsibilities, ferreting out the social responsibilities and pedagogical opportunities in their study.-- ""College Composition and Communication"" (10/3/1998 12:00:00 AM)"

An important interdisciplinary study which re-focuses the attention of media criticism on the message-generating power of communication technologies....Chesebro and Bertelsen extend this alternative study of technology messages in terms of a more expansive set of intellectual responsibilities, ferreting out the social responsibilities and pedagogical opportunities in their study.-- College Composition and Communication (10/3/1998 12:00:00 AM)

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James W. Chesebro, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Communication at Indiana State University, Terre Haute. A past President of the Speech Communication Association, he also has served as Director of Educational Services in the Association's National Office in Annandale, Virginia, as Chair of its Publications Board, and as a member of its Administrative Committee and Legislative Council. Widely published, he was the Editor of Communication Quarterly from 1985 through 1987, and his articles have appeared in such publications as the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication Monographs, Communication Education, Text and Performance Quarterly, and Critical Studies in Mass Communication. He has also received a number of awards, including the Speech Communication Association's Golden Anniversary Award for the outstanding monograph of the year, the Everett Lee Hunt Scholarship Award, and the Distinguished Service Award from the Eastern Communication Association.

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