Full Description
The International History of Communication Study maps the growth of media and communication studies around the world. Drawing out transnational flows of ideas, institutions, publications, and people, it offers the most comprehensive picture to date of the global history of communication research and education.
This volume reaches into national and regional areas that have not received much attention in the scholarship until now, including Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East alongside Europe and North America. It also covers communication study outside of academic settings: in international organizations like UNESCO, and among commercial and civic groups. It moves beyond the traditional canon to cover work by forgotten figures, including women scholars in the field and those outside of the United States and Europe, and it situates them all within the broader geopolitical, institutional, and intellectual landscapes that have shaped communication study globally.
Intended for scholars and graduate students in communication, media studies, and journalism, this volume pushes the history of communication study in new directions by taking an aggressively international and comparative perspective on the historiography of the field. Methodologically and conceptually, the volume breaks new ground in bringing comparative, transnational, and global frames to bear, and puts under the spotlight what has heretofore only lingered in the penumbra of the history of communication study.
Contents
Introduction: On the History of Communication Study—Peter Simonson and David W. Park
New Theories
The Transnational Flow of Ideas and Histoire Croisée with Attention to the Cases of France and Germany--Maria Löblich, Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz
Gender, Work, and the History of Communication Research: Figures, Formations, and Flows--Karen Lee Ashcraft and Peter Simonson
Transnational Organizations
Locating UNESCO in the Historical Study of Communication--Ira Wagman
The IAMCR Story: Communication and Media Research in a Global Perspective—Michael Meyen
Europe
Practical Orientation as a Survival Strategy: The Development of Publizistikwissenschaft by Walter Hagemann—Thomas Wiedemann
Female Academics in Communication Science and the Post-War-Reconstruction Generation in Austria and Germany—Martina Thiele
Communication Studies on the Iberian Peninsula: A Comparative Analysis of the Field's Development in Portugal and Spain—Nelson Ribeiro
Early Nordic Media Research and the special case of Norway (1930 - 1965)--Tore Slaatta
UK Communication Study and the Challenges of Institutionalization—Phillip Lodge
The field of communication in Croatia: toward a comparative history of communication studies in Central and Eastern Europe--Zrinjka Peruško and Dina Vozab
North America
Crossing the Borders: Herta Herzog's Work in Communication and Marketing Research--Elisabeth Klaus and Josef Seethaler
Charles Siepmann's Forgotten Legacy for Communication Research and Media Policy--Victor Pickard
The Toronto School: Cross-Border Encounters, Interdisciplinary Entanglements--Michael Darroch
International Vectors in Graduate Education in Communication--David W. Park and Meghan Grosse
Latin America
Institutionalization and Internationalization of the Field of Communication Studies in Mexico and Latin America--Raúl Fuentes Navarro
History of Communication Study in Brazil: The Institutionalization of an Interdisciplinary Field--Maria Immacolata Vassalo de Lopes and Richard Romancini
Asia
Building the Nation-State: Journalism and Communication Studies in China--Hu Zhengrong, Ji Deqiang, and Zhang Lei
The "Great Uncle of Dissemination": Wilbur Schramm and Communication Study in China--Chunfeng Lin and John Nerone
A History of Rhetorical Studies and Practices in Modern Japan--Junya Morooka
Observations on Journalism and Communication Education in India--Pradip Thomas
Africa and the Middle East
Trajectories of communication studies in Sub-Saharan Africa--Terje Skjerdal and Keyan Tomaselli
Communication Studies in the Arab World--Mohammad I. Ayish
The Story of the Communication Field in Israel: Nation Building, Personal Transfer, and Growth: Anat First and Hanna Adoni
