Lexington Books
Pages: 300
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-7391-2368-3 • Hardback • April 2015 • $147.00 • (£113.00)
978-0-7391-2369-0 • Paperback • November 2016 • $64.99 • (£50.00)
978-1-4985-0682-3 • eBook • April 2015 • $61.50 • (£47.00)
Robert E. Babe is professor of information and media studies at the University of Western Ontario.
I: Introducing Harold Innis
1 Foundations
2 Staples Thesis and Medium Theory
3 Time, Space, and Medium Theory
4 Political Economy, Medium Theory, and Existentialism
5 Media and Scholarship
6 Media and Public Opinion
II: Wilbur Schramm Meets Innis
7 Beginnings
8 Media Process and Effects
9 Media History, Education, Free Press, Democracy
III: Chomsky and Innis Meet
10 Meet Noam Chomsky
11 Visions and Strategies
12 Propaganda and Democracy
IV: Conclusion
13 Innis and the Network Society
Babe shows his scholarship especially as an Innis expert.
— Communication Research Trends
"An original, insightful and thought provoking book on the roots of communications studies by an established scholar. The linking of Noam Chomsky and Harold Innis is a fascinating and rewarding book within a book."
— Mel Watkins, University of Toronto
"Lucid and perceptive."
— Mary Innis Cates, Daughter of Harold Innis
“Robert Babe's latest book is a tour de force; it provides a complex, original, and highly readable comparison of three giants of communication in North America. Babe makes a powerful case that Innis has been insufficiently understood or appreciated, and that his work provides indispensable resources for understanding the digital revolution. This is mandatory reading for communication students and scholars."
— Robert McChesney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign