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urn:uuid:6fee5cdb-d564-4ea3-84d2-a7e1aa381dab 03 01 01 urn:uuid:6fee5cdb-d564-4ea3-84d2-a7e1aa381dab 15 9781951399054 06 10.32376/3f8575cb.0cc62523 DG 002 Media Manifold Series 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:6fee5cdb-d564-4ea3-84d2-a7e1aa381dab 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.32376/3f8575cb.0cc62523.pdf 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.32376/3f8575cb.0cc62523.epub 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://mediastudies.press/wwai 1 A01 Sue Curry Jansen 01 eng 00 42 03 10 COM004000 12 UYQ 93 UYQ 10 COM079000 93 JBFV5 12 JFMG 12 PDR 93 PDR 10 SOC071000 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>When it was originally published in 2002, Sue Curry Jansen’s “What Was Artificial Intelligence?” attracted little notice. The long essay was published as a chapter in Jansen’s Critical Communication Theory, a book whose wisdom and erudition failed to register across the many fields it addressed. One explanation for the neglect, ironic and telling, is that Jansen’s sheer scope as an intellectual had few competent readers in the communication studies discipline into which she published the book. “What Was Artificial Intelligence?” was buried treasure. In this mediastudies.press edition, Jansen’s prescient autopsy of AI self-selling—the rhetoric of the masculinist sublime—is reprinted with a new introduction. Now an open access book, “What Was Artificial Intelligence?” is a message in a bottle, addressed to Musk, Bezos, and the latest generation of AI myth-makers.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.mediastudies.press/10.32376/3f8575cb.0cc62523_frontcover.png mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press https://www.mediastudies.press/ Bethlehem, PA 04 20220401 2022 02 WORLD 13 15 9781951399061 06 15 9781951399054 06 15 9781951399054 06 15 9781951399054 06 15 9781951399054 mediastudies.press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:e5f2cfba-6fb4-45da-add1-a747a9d3a572 03 01 01 urn:uuid:e5f2cfba-6fb4-45da-add1-a747a9d3a572 15 9781951399078 06 10.32376/3f8575cb.baaa50af DG 002 Goffman in the Open Series 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:e5f2cfba-6fb4-45da-add1-a747a9d3a572 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.32376/3f8575cb.baaa50af.pdf 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.32376/3f8575cb.baaa50af.epub 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.mediastudies.press/communication-conduct-in-an-island-community 1 A01 Erving Goffman 2 A24 Yves Winkin 01 eng 00 238 03 93 JHB 12 JHB 10 SOC026000 93 GTC 12 GTC 10 SOC061000 12 JHMC 93 JHMC 10 PSY031000 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>Canadian-born Erving Goffman (1922–1982) was the twentieth century’s most important sociologist writing in English. His 1953 dissertation is published here for the first time, on the hundredth anniversary of his birth. The remarkable study, based on fieldwork on a remote Scottish island, presents in embryonic form the full spread of Goffman’s thought. Framed as a “report on a study of conversational interaction,” the dissertation lingers on the modest talk of island “crofters.” It is trademark Goffman: ambitious, unconventional in form, and brimmed with big-picture insight. The thesis is that social order is made and re-made in communication—the “interaction order” he re-visited in a famous and final talk before his 1982 death. The dissertation is, as Yves Winkin writes in a new introduction, the “Rosetta stone for his entire work.” It was here that Goffman revealed, quietly, his peerless sensitivity to the invisible wireframes of everyday life.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.mediastudies.press/10.32376/3f8575cb.baaa50af_frontcover.png mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press https://www.mediastudies.press/ Bethlehem, PA 04 20221207 2022 02 WORLD 13 15 9781951399153 06 15 9781951399078 06 15 9781951399108 06 15 9781951399085 mediastudies.press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:97de7f92-1284-438d-bdd3-e9781577db28 03 01 01 urn:uuid:97de7f92-1284-438d-bdd3-e9781577db28 15 9781951399115 06 10.32376/3f8575cb.60b97b6f DG 002 Public Domain Series 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:97de7f92-1284-438d-bdd3-e9781577db28 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.32376/3f8575cb.60b97b6f.pdf 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.32376/3f8575cb.60b97b6f.epub 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.mediastudies.press/creativity 1 A01 Larry Gross 01 eng 00 142 03 93 JMAN 12 JMAN 10 PSY034000 93 JMS 12 JMS 10 PSY015000 93 GTB 12 PDX 10 PSY023000 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>Before arriving in the field of communication, Larry Gross was a psychology student at Brandeis University; Creativity: Process and Personality was Gross’s undergraduate thesis at Brandeis, completed in 1964. This mediastudies.press edition is the initial publication of that undergraduate thesis, with a new preface by Gross himself. Creativity: Process and Personality finds Gross exploring the nature of creativity by interviewing some of the era’s most noteworthy experts in psychology, including Herbert Simon, Milton Rokeach, Abraham Maslow, David McClelland, Jerome Bruner, and B. F. Skinner. The result of Gross’s interviews is a nuanced and multi-perspectival set of interlocking chapters, each of which probes the psychological, social, and cultural aspects of creativity. Creativity: Process and Personality remains a provocative consideration of how creativity takes form, while also operating as a revealing snapshot of mid-twentieth century psychological thought.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.mediastudies.press/10.32376/3f8575cb.60b97b6f_frontcover.png mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press https://www.mediastudies.press/ Bethlehem, PA 04 20230115 2023 02 WORLD 13 15 9781951399146 06 15 9781951399115 06 15 9781951399122 06 15 9781951399139 mediastudies.press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:2d928244-b4c7-495d-8655-75138cef5754 03 01 01 urn:uuid:2d928244-b4c7-495d-8655-75138cef5754 15 9781951399405 06 10.64629/3f8575cb.67ab11w2 DG 002 Media Manifold Series 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:2d928244-b4c7-495d-8655-75138cef5754 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.mediastudies.press/defund-culture-a-radical-proposal 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.64629/3f8575cb.67ab11w2.pdf 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.64629/3f8575cb.67ab11w2.epub 1 A01 Gary Hall 01 eng 00 97 03 10 ART037000 93 JBCC8 93 JBCC 10 POL028000 93 JPQ 10 POL038000 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://constantvzw.org/wefts/cc4r.en.html 03 03 <p><p>Calls to expand public investment in the arts often treat the existing cultural and institutional landscape as a given. Defund Culture challenges this assumption, asking instead what kinds of culture are being supported, through which institutions, and to whose benefit.</p><p>In pursuing these questions, the book turns attention to the structural inequalities that shape Britain’s creative and intellectual life. Drawing on critical theory, political philosophy, and cultural policy, Gary Hall shows how the dominance of white, male, middle- and upper-class voices in the arts, media, and academy is sustained through longstanding funding arrangements and institutional hierarchies. Expanding access within this system—however well intentioned—will not, on its own, produce structural change.</p><p>Rather than offering a programme of reform, Defund Culture explores what it might mean to disinvest from cultural institutions as they currently operate. Taking cues from abolitionist calls to defund the police, Hall proposes redistributing resources away from elite institutions and toward more collective, commons-oriented, and radically relational alternatives grounded in redistribution, institutional transformation, and epistemic pluriversality.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.mediastudies.press/10.64629/3f8575cb.67ab11w2_frontcover.jpg mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press https://www.mediastudies.press/ Bethlehem, PA 04 20260105 2026 02 WORLD 13 15 9781951399436 06 15 9781951399405 06 15 9781951399412 06 15 9781951399429 mediastudies.press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:31013990-a16b-40fe-a807-6debaf27dfb0 03 01 01 urn:uuid:31013990-a16b-40fe-a807-6debaf27dfb0 15 9781951399269 06 10.32376/3f8575cb.f1e0489e DG 002 Public Domain Series 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:31013990-a16b-40fe-a807-6debaf27dfb0 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.mediastudies.press/early-media-effects-theory-the-suggestion-doctrine 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.32376/3f8575cb.f1e0489e.pdf 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.32376/3f8575cb.f1e0489e.epub 1 B01 Patrick Parsons 01 eng 00 330 03 93 JMH 10 SOC052000 93 JMT 10 PSY031000 93 JBCT 10 POL049000 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (introduction, chapter introductions); https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/ (other materials) 03 03 <p><p>While much has been written on the history of media effects research in the United States, a casual review of the literature could reasonably lead one to believe that little if any such work was conducted until the 1940s. Early Media Effects Theory & the Suggestion Doctrine: Selected Readings, 1895–1935, consisting of over 30 public domain works originally publishing from the late 19th century to the mid-1930s, demonstrates the rich and varied study of media effects before mid-century—much of it centered on the concept of “suggestion.” What media scholars know today as “persuasion,” social psychologists of the early 1900s would have understood as the process of suggestion. The works collected in Early Media Effects Theory & the Suggestion Doctrine include the original statements on the subject from many of the leading social theorists of the age, among them figures such as Gabriel Tarde and Gustave Le Bon in France and James Baldwin, Edward Ross, and Floyd Allport in the United States.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.mediastudies.press/10.32376/3f8575cb.f1e0489e_frontcover.png mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press https://www.mediastudies.press/ Bethlehem, PA 04 20241228 2024 02 WORLD 13 15 9781951399283 06 15 9781951399269 06 15 9781951399276 06 15 9781951399290 mediastudies.press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:9eaad76e-89ff-4ba0-858f-f2276f69110d 03 01 01 urn:uuid:9eaad76e-89ff-4ba0-858f-f2276f69110d 15 9781951399191 06 10.32376/3f8575cb.80aee30a DG 002 Public Domain Series 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:9eaad76e-89ff-4ba0-858f-f2276f69110d 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.mediastudies.press/ford-collection 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.32376/3f8575cb.80aee30a.pdf 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.32376/3f8575cb.80aee30a.epub 1 B01 Dominique Trudel 01 ORCID 0000-0002-6540-006X 2 B01 Juliette De Maeyer 01 ORCID 0000-0002-6482-5365 01 eng 12 KNTJ 93 KNTP2 10 PHI020000 12 KNTT 93 KNTX 10 LAN004000 12 HPS 10 LAN008000 93 QDHR3 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>The American journalist Franklin Ford (1849–1918) is remembered for his ambitious (and stillborn) Thought News periodical, hatched with philosopher John Dewey. The Franklin Ford Collection, curated and introduced by Dominique Trudel and Juliette De Maeyer, takes in the full shambolic spread of Ford's thought, across news, politics, education, finance, and society at large. The collection includes nineteen documents—letters, leaflets, editorials, and treatises—with critical annotations from Trudel and De Maeyer. The works, many unpublished or rarely circulated, illustrate the core themes that animated Ford's career, including his sweeping program of press reform and his thoughts on the interconnected flows of money, transportation, and communication.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.mediastudies.press/10.32376/3f8575cb.80aee30a_frontcover.png mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press https://www.mediastudies.press/ Bethlehem, PA 04 20230715 2023 02 WORLD 13 15 9781951399221 06 15 9781951399191 06 15 9781951399207 06 15 9781951399214 mediastudies.press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:a34df90e-bb8e-4282-9cb3-3c0c6ac78170 03 01 01 urn:uuid:a34df90e-bb8e-4282-9cb3-3c0c6ac78170 15 9781951399399 06 10.64629/3f8575cb.e3d5966c DG 002 Goffman in the Open Series 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:a34df90e-bb8e-4282-9cb3-3c0c6ac78170 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.64629/3f8575cb.e3d5966c.pdf 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.64629/3f8575cb.e3d5966c.epub 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.mediastudies.press/from-erving-to-goffman-a-work-in-performance 1 A01 Yves Winkin 01 eng 00 101 03 93 JHBA 10 SOC026040 93 QDTS 10 SOC076000 93 JBCC9 10 SOC052000 93 1KBB-US-N 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>Erving Goffman was among the most prominent sociologists of the twentieth century. An unmatched observer of everyday human interaction, he has only grown in influence in the 45 years since his untimely 1980 death. We know surprisingly little about his life. Yves Winkin’s biography, translated from the French (D’Erving à Goffman: Une œuvre performée?, 2022, MkF éditions), is an elegantly written and deeply informed account of the sociologist’s life, by one of the world’s leading Goffman scholars. From Erving to Goffman reads Goffman’s life through his performances on stage, at the lectern, before an audience. Winkin treats the lecture—Goffman’s own conference talks, his writings on the lecture form, and even a lecture on the lecture—as a reflexive device to draw out how the Canadian-born Erving became Goffman the American sociologist. We learn how Goffman, the quintessential observer of performance in everyday life, performed himself into professional existence. In talk after talk, he managed the impressions he gave off with often-eccentric care. From Erving to Goffman is a biography in miniature, with an account of the scholar’s life joined to a collection of conference-vignettes from his visits around the world. It is a story of a sociologist made in performance, with photographers banned and appearances—on and off-stage—orchestrated. It is fitting that, in a book about self-exemplifying self-making, Winkin concludes with an eloquent account of his own decades-long project to write a full biography, still retracing Goffman’s steps forty years on. From Erving to Goffman, the latest installment in the Goffman in the Open series, is an unusually perceptive portrait-in-fragments of the sociologist who became Goffman.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.mediastudies.press/10.64629/3f8575cb.e3d5966c_frontcover.jpg mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press https://www.mediastudies.press/ Bethlehem, PA 04 20260215 2026 02 WORLD 13 15 9781951399443 06 15 9781951399399 06 15 9781951399443 06 15 9781951399450 mediastudies.press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:b578a74f-c2ca-4971-aa2c-6c43174d0ba8 03 01 01 urn:uuid:b578a74f-c2ca-4971-aa2c-6c43174d0ba8 15 9781951399474 06 10.64629/3f8575cb.08e7ds72 DG 002 History of Media Studies Series 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:b578a74f-c2ca-4971-aa2c-6c43174d0ba8 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.64629/3f8575cb.08e7ds7.epub 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.64629/3f8575cb.08e7ds7.pdf 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.mediastudies.press/from-the-chilean-laboratory-to-world-communication-armand-mattelarts-intellectual-journey 1 A01 Mariano Zarowsky 2 B06 William Quinn 3 B06 Simonson Peter 01 eng 00 300 03 93 QDTS 10 SOC076000 93 JBCC9 10 SOC026040 93 JHBA 10 POL042000 93 JPFN 93 1KLSC 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>From the Chilean Laboratory to World-Communication follows Armand Mattelart’s intellectual trajectory through Cold War geopolitics and the rise of critical communication studies in Latin America and Europe. First published in Spanish, Mariano Zarowsky’s study traces Mattelart’s path from his early work in demography and law, through his political engagement in Salvador Allende’s Chile, to his later role in shaping debates in France and globally on media, cultural politics, and transnational communication.</p><p>The book offers a rich account of Mattelart’s life and work, and the shifting political, institutional, and epistemological contexts that shaped his thinking and progressive activism. Along the way, it illuminates his distinctive style of research in relation to Anglophone political economy and other strands of critical research. In doing so, Zarowsky positions Mattelart as a theorist whose work emerged from—and continues to speak to—global struggles over culture, knowledge, and power and relations between the Global North and South.</p><p>As the first English edition of Zarowsky’s landmark study, From the Chilean Laboratory to World-Communication, will appeal to scholars of critical communication studies, Latin American and transnational cultural theory, and those working on the history of the social sciences across global contexts.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.mediastudies.press/10.64629/3f8575cb.08e7ds7_frontcover.jpg mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press https://www.mediastudies.press/ Bethlehem, PA 04 20251015 2025 02 WORLD 13 15 9781951399504 06 15 9781951399474 06 15 9781951399481 06 15 9781951399498 mediastudies.press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:44578f12-cab9-41e5-87d2-fb014511798d 03 01 01 urn:uuid:44578f12-cab9-41e5-87d2-fb014511798d 15 9781951399238 06 10.32376/3f8575cb.c2702120 DG 002 Media Manifold Series 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:44578f12-cab9-41e5-87d2-fb014511798d 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.32376/3f8575cb.c2702120.pdf 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://github.com/mediastudiespress/singles/releases/download/killer1.0/fathallah-killer-fandom-2023.epub https://github.com/mediastudiespress/singles/releases/download/killer1.0/fathallah-killer-fandom-2023.epub 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.mediastudies.press/killer-fandom 1 A01 Judith May Fathallah 01 ORCID 0000-0003-0202-5749 01 eng 00 256 03 12 BTC 93 JBCC1 10 SOC022000 93 DNXC3 12 JFCA 10 SOC052000 93 JBCT1 12 JFD 10 TRU002010 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>Killer Fandom is the first long-form treatment of serial killer fandom. Fan studies have mostly ignored this most moralized form of fandom, as a stigmatized Bad Other in implicit tension with the field’s successful campaign to recuperate the broader fan category. Yet serial killer fandom, as Judith May Fathallah shows in the book, can be usefully studied with many of the field’s leading analytic frameworks. After tracing the pre-digital history of fans, mediated celebrity, and killers, Fathallah examines contemporary fandom through the lens of textual poaching, affective community, subcultural capital, and play. With close readings of fan posts, comments, and mashups on Tumblr, TikTok, and YouTube, alongside documentaries, podcasts, and a thriving “murderabilia” industry, Killer Fandom argues that this fan culture is, in many ways, hard to distinguish from more “mainstream” fandoms. Fan creations around Aileen Wuornos, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and Richard Ramirez, among others, demonstrate a complex and shifting stance toward their objects—marked by parodic humor and irony in many cases. Killer Fandom ultimately questions—given our crime-and violence-saturated media culture—whether it makes sense to set Dahmer and Wuornos “fans” apart from the rest of us.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.mediastudies.press/10.32376/3f8575cb.c2702120_frontcover.png mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press https://www.mediastudies.press/ Bethlehem, PA 04 20231106 2023 02 WORLD 13 15 9781951399368 06 15 9781951399238 06 15 9781951399245 06 15 9781951399252 mediastudies.press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:6763ec18-b4af-4767-976c-5b808a64e641 03 01 01 urn:uuid:6763ec18-b4af-4767-976c-5b808a64e641 15 9781951399030 06 10.32376/3f8575cb.2e69e142 DG 002 Public Domain Series 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:6763ec18-b4af-4767-976c-5b808a64e641 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.32376/3f8575cb.2e69e142.pdf 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.mediastudies.press/liberty-and-the-news 1 A01 Walter Lippmann 2 A24 Sue Curry Jansen 01 eng 00 55 03 12 KNTJ 10 LAN008000 12 JPHV 10 POL007000 12 JFD 10 SOC052000 12 GTC 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>Liberty and the News was published a century ago, the young Walter Lippmann’s fifth book. The slim volume merits a fresh read in our post-truth moment. “In an exact, sense,” Lippmann writes, “the present crisis of western democracy is a crisis in journalism.” For Lippmann, liberty constitutes a method, not a series of prohibitions and permissions. The book’s aim is to identify and examine potential reforms to boost the reliability of news—a project as relevant today as it is unfinished. Liberty and the News is republished in this mediastudies.press edition with a new introduction by Sue Curry Jansen.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.mediastudies.press/10.32376/3f8575cb.2e69e142_frontcover.png mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press https://www.mediastudies.press/ Bethlehem, PA 04 20201115 2020 02 WORLD 13 15 9781951399023 06 15 9781951399030 06 15 9781951399030 06 15 9781951399030 06 15 9781951399030 mediastudies.press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:f59b5d59-c70a-4843-bb5b-a4a8676ed407 03 01 01 urn:uuid:f59b5d59-c70a-4843-bb5b-a4a8676ed407 15 9781951399344 06 10.64629/3f8575cb.dwb73w6d DG 002 Goffman in the Open Series 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:f59b5d59-c70a-4843-bb5b-a4a8676ed407 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.64629/3f8575cb.dwb73w6d.pdf 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.mediastudies.press/mapping-goffman 1 A01 Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz 01 ORCID 0000-0002-7773-2010 01 eng 00 479 03 93 JMHC 10 SOC076000 93 CFB 10 SOC026000 93 PDX 10 SOC002010 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>Erving Goffman is often remembered as a solitary thinker—famously private, and never a co-author. This book offers a counterpoint by tracing Goffman’s connections to a network of colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania between 1968 and 1982, including Dell Hymes, William Labov, John Szwed, Ray Birdwhistell, and Sol Worth. It follows five major collaborations that emerged in that setting, along with others that never quite came together. The analysis also considers Goffman’s earlier work at institutions including the University of Chicago, the National Institute of Mental Health, the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University, alongside related initiatives at Indiana University and the University of Texas.</p><p>Beyond documenting Goffman’s intellectual network, the book uses his connections as a case study to examine interdisciplinarity, invisible colleges, and disciplinary history. By examining both the productive and faltering collaborations in Goffman’s orbit, the book sheds light on the complex, often unpredictable pathways through which academic ideas take shape. This work will appeal to scholars across disciplines seeking to understand the collaborative foundations of academic life.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.mediastudies.press/10.64629/3f8575cb.dwb73w6d_frontcover.jpg mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press https://www.mediastudies.press/ Bethlehem, PA 04 20250815 2025 02 WORLD 13 15 9781951399382 06 15 9781951399344 06 15 9781951399351 06 15 9781951399375 mediastudies.press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD urn:uuid:3162a992-05dd-4b74-9fe0-0f16879ce6de 03 01 01 urn:uuid:3162a992-05dd-4b74-9fe0-0f16879ce6de 15 9781951399016 06 10.21428/3f8575cb.dbba9917 DG 002 Public Domain Series 01 Thoth WorkID urn:uuid:3162a992-05dd-4b74-9fe0-0f16879ce6de 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.mediastudies.press/masters-voice 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.mediastudies.press/10.21428/3f8575cb.dbba9917.pdf 1 A01 James Rorty 2 A24 Jefferson Pooley 01 ORCID 0000-0002-3674-1930 01 eng 00 318 03 12 JFDV 10 SOC052000 12 GTC 10 LAN004000 10 BUS002000 12 KJSA 01 06 47 Open access - no commercial use 46 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 03 03 <p><p>“I was an ad-man once,” James Rorty writes in this classic dissection of the advertising industry. Steeped in Rorty’s leftist politics, <italic>Our Master’s Voice</italic> presents advertising as the linchpin of a capitalist economy that it also helps justify. The book set off tremors when it was published in 1934, perhaps because its author so decisively repudiated his former profession. But Rorty and his spirited takedown of publicity were all but forgotten a decade later. The book is a neglected masterpiece, republished in this mediastudies.press edition with a new introduction by Jefferson Pooley.</p></p> 04 01 https://books.mediastudies.press/10.21428/3f8575cb.dbba9917_frontcover.png mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press https://www.mediastudies.press/ Bethlehem, PA 04 20201015 2020 02 WORLD 13 15 9781951399009 06 15 9781951399016 06 15 9781951399016 06 15 9781951399016 06 15 9781951399016 mediastudies.press 09 99 R Open access 01 0.01 USD