PART ONE: THE MASSES Mass communication: Lazarsfeld, Adorno, Merton USA, 1930s and 1940s Mass culture: Horkheimer, Adorno, Brecht, Benjamin Germany/USA, 1930s and 1940s The end of the masses: Merton, Lazarsfeld, Riesman, Katz USA, 1940s and 1950s PART TWO: EVERYDAY LIFE Culture and communication: Leavis, Hoggart, Williams England, 1930s-1950s Communication and technology: Innis, McLuhan Canada, 1950s-1960s Communication as interaction: Goffman and Garfinkel USA, 1950s-1970 PART THREE: COMMUNICATIVE RATIONALITY AND IRRATIONALITY Communication and language: Austin, Grice, Sacks, Levinson UK/USA, 1950s-1970s Communication as ideology: Hall UK, 1960s and 1970s Communication and publicness: Habermas Germany (USA/UK), 1950s-1990s Conclusion
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