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"The essays in this volume were first published in the journal Critial studies in mass communication, from 1984 to 1989 ..."--P. 3.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reflections on uses and gratifications research / Dennis McQuail -- Communications and the progressives / James W. Carey -- The new validation of popular culture: sense and sentimentality in academia / Michael Schudson -- On the dialogic aspects of mass communication / Horace M. Newcomb -- Signification, representation, ideology: althusser and the post-structuralist debates / Stuart Hall -- Feminism and cultural studies / Elizabeth Long -- Strategies of Marxist cultural interpretation / Lawrence Grossberg.

For whom the bell tolls: causes and consequences of the AT&T divestiture / Robert Britt Horwitz -- Investigative journalism and the moral order / Theodore L. Glasser, James S. Ettema -- An ethics of vision for journalism / Douglas Birkhead -- Hill Street Blues as narrative / Caren J. Deming -- Securing the middle ground: reporter formulas in 60 Minutes / Richard Campbell -- Television, black Americans, and the American dream / Herman Gray -- Out of work and on the air: television news of unemployment / Steve M. Barkin, Michael Gurevitch -- Oppositional decoding as an act of resistance / Linda Steiner -- Television: polysemy and popularity / John Fiske -- The rhetorical limits of polysemy / Celeste Michelle Condit -- The domestic economy of television viewing in postwar America / Lynn Spigel.