‘A useful resource for people in critical cultural studies, media studies, semiotics, and communication… Recommended.’ - W. Alvarez (Choice Magazine; vol 50:03:2012) <p>‘This book tackles a challenging issue of tracing the communication models from the beginning of the field of communication to the present… This is an intriguing and important book.’</p> - Emile McAnany (Communication Research Trends vol 34:01:2015) <p>‘This text provides intriguing contextualization of the seminal communication models and points the reader down further argumentative paths.’</p> - Aaron Tucker (University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015)

Covering major developments from post-war cybernetics and telegraphy to the Internet and our networked society, Remodelling Communication explores the critical literature from across disciplines and eras on the models used for studying communications and culture.

Proceeding model-by-model, Genosko provides detailed explanations of mathematical, semiotic, and reception theory's encoding/decoding models, as well as Baudrillard's critique of models and general models that bring together a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Providing a dynamic, forward-looking reorientation towards a new universe of reference, Remodelling Communication makes a significant, productive contribution to communication theory.

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Providing a dynamic, forward-looking reorientation towards a new universe of reference, Remodelling Communication makes a significant, productive contribution to communication theory.

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction
1 Regaining Weaver and Shannon
2 Encoding and Decoding Stuart Hall
3 Roman Jakobson and the Primacy of the Poetic
4 All Models are Simulations: Jean Baudrillard's Critique of Communication
5 Phatic (Dys)functions
6 Umberto Eco and Guerrilla Decoding
7 From General Modelling to Metamodelling
Conclusion

Notes
Index

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781442615830
Publisert
2013-05-02
Utgiver
University of Toronto Press
Vekt
300 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
11 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
172

Forfatter

Biografisk notat

Gary Genosko is Canada Research Chair in Technoculture and a professor in the Department of Sociology at Lakehead University.