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urn:uuid:6fee5cdb-d564-4ea3-84d2-a7e1aa381dab 03 15 9781951399054 00 EB E101 10 10 02 28326202 01 02 Media Manifold Series 01 01 What Was Artificial Intelligence? 1 A01 Sue Curry Jansen 01 eng 00 42 03 10 COM004000 12 UYQ 10 COM079000 12 JFMG 12 PDR 10 SOC071000 01 06 03 00 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. 04 00 INTRODUCTION 1 Sue Curry Jansen WHAT WAS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? 11 Sue Curry Jansen mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press 04 01 20220401 02 WORLD 06 15 9781951399061 06 15 9781951399054 06 15 9781951399054 06 15 9781951399054 06 15 9781951399054 WORLD 09 mediastudies.press 20 01 urn:uuid:e5f2cfba-6fb4-45da-add1-a747a9d3a572 03 15 9781951399085 00 EB E101 10 10 02 30698847 01 02 Goffman in the Open Series 01 01 Communication Conduct in an Island Community 1 A01 Erving Goffman Canadian-born Erving Goffman (1922–1982) was among the most important sociologists of the twentieth century. 2 A24 Yves Winkin Yves Winkin is Distinguished Emeritus Professor at the University of Liège and Honorary Professor at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. 01 eng 00 238 03 12 JHB 10 SOC026000 12 GTC 10 SOC061000 12 JHMC 10 PSY031000 01 06 03 00 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. 04 00 The Cradle: Introduction to the mediastudies.press edition x Yves Winkin Introduction 4 Erving Goffman Part One: The Context Chapter I: Dixon 11 Erving Goffman Part Two: The Sociological Model Chapter II: Social Order and Social Interaction 23 Erving Goffman Part Three: On Information About One’s Self Chapter III: Linguistic Behavior 31 Erving Goffman Chapter IV: Expressive Behavior 35 Erving Goffman Chapter V: The Management of Information About Oneself 46 Erving Goffman Chapter VI: Indelicate Communication 56 Erving Goffman Chapter VII: Sign Situations 60 Erving Goffman Part Four: The Concrete Units of Conversational Communication Chapter VIII: Introduction 66 Erving Goffman Chapter IX: Social Occasion 77 Erving Goffman Chapter X: Accredited Participation and Interplay 83 Erving Goffman Chapter XI: Expression During Interplay 89 Erving Goffman Chapter XII: Interchange of Messages 98 Erving Goffman Chapter XIII: Polite Interchanges 105 Erving Goffman Chapter XIV: The Organization of Attention 114 Erving Goffman Chapter XV: Safe Supplies 119 Erving Goffman Chapter XVI: On Kinds of Exclusion from Participation 125 Erving Goffman Chapter XVII: Dual Participation 132 Erving Goffman Part Five: Conduct During Interplay Chapter XVIII: Introduction: Euphoric and Dysphoric Interplay 139 Erving Goffman Chapter XIX: Involvement 141 Erving Goffman Chapter XX: Faulty Persons 148 Erving Goffman Chapter XXI: Involvement Poise 156 Erving Goffman Chapter XXII: On Projected Selves 171 Erving Goffman Chapter XXIII: The Management of Projected Selves 190 Erving Goffman Interpretations and Conclusions 198 Erving Goffman Bibliography 210 mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press 04 01 20221207 02 WORLD 06 15 9781951399153 06 15 9781951399078 06 15 9781951399108 06 15 9781951399085 WORLD 09 mediastudies.press 20 01 urn:uuid:97de7f92-1284-438d-bdd3-e9781577db28 03 15 9781951399139 00 EB E101 10 10 02 27702480 01 02 Public Domain Series 01 01 Creativity: Process and Personality 1 A01 Larry Gross Larry Gross is Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. 01 eng 00 142 03 12 JMAN 10 PSY034000 12 JMS 10 PSY015000 12 PDX 10 PSY023000 01 06 03 00 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. 04 00 PREFACE TO THE MEDIASTUDIES.PRESS EDITION v Larry Gross PREFACE ix Larry Gross CHAPTER I: DEFINITION: CREATIVITY: PROCESS, PERSONALITY 2 Larry Gross CHAPTER II: STRUCTURE OF INVESTIGATION 10 Larry Gross CHAPTER III: HERBERT A. SIMON: HOW DO PEOPLE MAKE DECISIONS? 13 Larry Gross CHAPTER IV: MILTON ROKEACH: HOW DO PEOPLE BELIEVE? 30 Larry Gross CHAPTER V: ABRAHAM H. MASLOW: THE MYSTERY OF HEALTH 52 Larry Gross CHAPTER VI: DAVID C. MCCLELLAND: THE NEED TO ACHIEVE 72 Larry Gross CHAPTER VII: JEROME S. BRUNER: THINKING, LEARNING, KNOWING 89 Larry Gross CHAPTER VIII: B. F. SKINNER: THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR 100 Larry Gross CHAPTER IX: CONCLUSION: A PLURALISTIC VIEW 111 Larry Gross mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press 04 01 20230115 02 WORLD 06 15 9781951399146 06 15 9781951399115 06 15 9781951399122 06 15 9781951399139 WORLD 09 mediastudies.press 20 01 urn:uuid:2d928244-b4c7-495d-8655-75138cef5754 03 15 9781951399429 00 EB E101 10 10 02 28326202 01 02 Media Manifold Series 01 01 Defund Culture A Radical Proposal 1 A01 Gary Hall Gary Hall is Professor of Media and Performing Arts and Executive Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University. His work sits at the intersection of critical theory, media philosophy, and cultural politics. He is the author of Culture in Bits (2002), Digitize This Book! (2008), and Pirate Philosophy (2016), and co‑founder of the open-access journal Culture Machine and Open Humanities Press. 01 eng 00 97 03 10 ART037000 10 POL028000 10 POL038000 01 06 03 00 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.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.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. 04 00 PART 1: WHY THE ARTS ARE SO WHITE, MALE, AND MIDDLE-CLASS Chapter One: The Culture Wars and Attack on the Arts Chapter Two: Culture Must Be ['Defended' Struck-Through] Defunded Chapter Three: Culture in Ruins: "Are We the Bad Guys?" PART 2: AND HERE’S SOME OF THE THINGS WE CAN DO ABOUT IT Chapter Four: Culture and the University as White, Male, Liberal Humanist Public Space Chapter Five: De-Liberalizing Culture and Theory Chapter Six: Coda References mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press 04 01 20260105 02 WORLD 06 15 9781951399436 06 15 9781951399405 06 15 9781951399412 06 15 9781951399429 WORLD 09 mediastudies.press 20 01 urn:uuid:31013990-a16b-40fe-a807-6debaf27dfb0 03 15 9781951399290 00 EB E101 10 10 02 27702480 01 02 Public Domain Series 01 01 Early Media Effects Theory & the Suggestion Doctrine Selected Readings, 1895–1935 1 A01 Patrick Parsons Patrick Parsons is professor emeritus at the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State. 01 eng 00 330 03 10 SOC052000 10 PSY031000 10 POL049000 01 06 03 00 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. 04 00 Introduction: An Overview of the Origins and Evolution of Suggestion Theory 1 Patrick Parsons Part Two: Foundations The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1896) 13 Gustave Le Bon The Laws of Imitation (1903) 23 Gabriel Tarde The Imitative Functions and Their Place in Human Nature (1894) 31 Josiah Royce Mental Development of the Child and the Race (1911) 43 James Mark Baldwin The Psychology of Suggestion (1898) 54 Boris Sidis Social Psychology: An Outline and Sourcebook (1908) 64 Edward Alsworth Ross A Sociological Definition of Suggestion (1921), Definition of Imitation (1921), & Attention, Interest, and Imitation (1921) 75 W. V. Bechterew, Charles Judd, and George Stout The Need for Social Psychology (1917) 90 John Dewey Part Three: Evolutions & Variations An Introduction to Social Psychology (1913) 101 William McDougall Instincts of the Herd in War and Peace (1917) 112 Wilfred Trotter The Original Nature of Man (1913) 122 Edward Lee Thorndike Social Psychology (1924) 128 Floyd Henry Allport Suggestion and Suggestibility (1919) 139 Robert H. Gault Suggestion and Suggestibility (1920) 147 Edmund Prideaux The Comparative Influence of Majority and Expert Opinion (1921) 159 Henry T. Moore The Psychology of Belief: A Study of Its Emotional, and Volitional Determinants (1925) 165 Frederick Lund Social Psychology (1925) & The Concept of Imitation (1926) 173 Knight Dunlap and Ellsworth Faris An Introduction to Social Psychology (1922) 185 Charles A. Ellwood An Introduction to Social Psychology (1926) 198 Luther Lee Bernard Principles of Sociology (1928) 213 Frederick Elmore Lumley Social Psychology (1931) 223 Ernest Théodore Krueger and Walter C. Reckless The Influence of Newspaper Presentations Upon the Growth of Crime and Other Anti-Social Activity (1910 & 1911) 234 Frances Fenton Part Four: Applications The Psychology of Persuasion (1920) 255 William Macpherson The Control of the Social Mind (1923) 268 Arland Deyett Weeks Control of Propaganda as a Psychological Problem (1922) 277 Edward Kellog Strong, Jr. The Theory of Political Propaganda (1927) 288 Harold D. Lasswell The Psychology of Advertising (1913) 295 Walter Dill Scott The Conditions of the Belief in Advertising (1923) 301 Albert T. Poffenberger The Psychology of the Audience (1935) 308 Harry L. Hollingworth mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press 04 01 20241228 02 WORLD 06 15 9781951399283 06 15 9781951399269 06 15 9781951399276 06 15 9781951399290 WORLD 09 mediastudies.press 20 01 urn:uuid:9eaad76e-89ff-4ba0-858f-f2276f69110d 03 15 9781951399214 00 EB E101 10 10 02 27702480 01 02 Public Domain Series 01 01 Franklin Ford Collection 1 A01 Dominique Trudel Dominique Trudel is associate professor of communication and culture at Audencia Business School. 2 B01 Juliette De Maeyer Juliette De Maeyer is professor of communication at the Université de Montréal. 01 eng 12 KNTJ 10 PHI020000 12 KNTT 10 LAN004000 12 HPS 10 LAN008000 01 06 03 00 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. 04 00 Contents 1. “He Has Ideas about Everything”: An Introduction to the Franklin Ford Collection Dominique Trudel & Juliette De Maeyer 2. Acknowledgments Dominique Trudel & Juliette De Maeyer 3. The Larger Life: A Poem Dedicated to Franklin Ford Sheridan Ford I. Reforming the News 4. Draft of Action Franklin Ford 5. A Newspaper Laboratory Franklin Ford 6. Banding Together the Leading Newspapers Franklin Ford 7. The Press of New York—Its Future Franklin Ford 8. Organization of Intelligence Requires an Organism John Dewey 9. In Search of Absolute News, Sensation, and Unity Corydon Ford & Franklin Ford 10. The News System: A Scientific Basis for Organizing the News Franklin Ford II. Interconnected Flows: Money, Information, and Transportation 11. Better Credit Reporting Franklin Ford 12. Traffic Associations Franklin Ford 13. The Country Check Franklin Ford 14. The Express Companies and the Bank Franklin Ford 15. The Mercantile Agencies and Credit Reporting Franklin Ford 16. Co-operative Credit Reporting Franklin Ford III. News is Government 17. City News Office Needed Franklin Ford 18. Municipal Reform: A Scientific Question Franklin Ford 19. Government is the Organization of Intelligence or News Franklin Ford 20. The Simple Idea of Government Franklin Ford 21. A New and Revolutionary Government Franklin Ford 22. News is the Master Element of Social Control mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press 04 01 20230715 02 WORLD 06 15 9781951399221 06 15 9781951399191 06 15 9781951399207 06 15 9781951399214 WORLD 09 mediastudies.press 20 01 urn:uuid:a34df90e-bb8e-4282-9cb3-3c0c6ac78170 03 15 9781951399450 00 EB E101 10 10 02 30698847 01 02 Goffman in the Open Series 01 01 From Erving to Goffman A Work in Performance? 1 A01 Yves Winkin Yves Winkin was trained in Communication at the University of Liège (Belgium) and at the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught in Belgium, France, and elsewhere in the world, from Africa to China. He has written extensively on the history of recent American social sciences with a focus on the life and work of Erving Goffman, whom he got to know from 1976 to 1982. Thanks to Goffman, he spent a semester observing monkeys at the Philadelphia zoo. 01 eng 00 101 03 10 SOC026040 10 SOC076000 10 SOC052000 01 06 03 00 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. 04 00 Prologue: Regal Goffman, Against all Odds Part One: Such a Short Life, Such a Powerful Body of Work Part Two: Goffman on Stage Part Three: The Lecture as Performance Epilogue: How (Not) to Complete a Biography? References Name Index mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press 04 01 20260215 02 WORLD 06 15 9781951399443 06 15 9781951399399 06 15 9781951399443 06 15 9781951399450 WORLD 09 mediastudies.press 20 01 urn:uuid:b578a74f-c2ca-4971-aa2c-6c43174d0ba8 03 15 9781951399498 00 EB E101 10 10 02 26376091 01 02 History of Media Studies Series 01 01 From the Chilean Laboratory to World-Communication Armand Mattelart’s Intellectual Journey 1 A01 Mariano Zarowsky Mariano Zarowsky is a researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and teaches at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). His research intersects the history of intellectuals, communication studies, and political culture in Argentina and Latin America. He is the author of Allende en la Argentina: intelectuales, prensa y edición entre lo local y lo global (1970–1976) (2023), Los estudios en comunicación en la Argentina: ideas, intelectuales, tradiciones político-culturales, 1956–1985 (2017). 2 B06 William Quinn William Quinn is a translator based in Guadalajara, Mexico. He holds a master’s degree in the Communication of Science and Culture from ITESO, where he taught for over 25 years. His translations span topics from data science and Nietzsche to the World Wide Web and childrearing in Mazahua communities. 3 B06 Peter Simonson Peter Simonson is Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder and co-editor of the journal History of Media Studies. He has authored or edited five books, including The International History of Communication Study (2015, with David W. Park) and in recent years has been involved in various international projects on the history of communication studies across the Americas. 01 eng 00 300 03 10 SOC076000 10 SOC026040 10 POL042000 01 06 03 00 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.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.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. 04 00 Preface to the English Translation - Mariano Zarowsky xi Foreword to the English Translation - Peter Simonson xii Prologue - Héctor Schmucler xliii Introduction: The Intellectual Journey of a Multi-faceted Man 1 Chapter One: Armand Mattelart and Latin American Communication Studies 18 Chapter Two: The Chilean Laboratory: Configuration of an Intellectual Disposition 36 Chapter Three: The Years of Exile: From Popular Unity to the Unité de la Gauche 90 Chapter Four: The Connection-World, or the Cultural Networks of the Popular International of Communication 116 Chapter Five Between the Mitterrand (Dis)enchantment and the Institutionalization of Communication Science 142 Interlude: From the Itinerary to the Cognitive Map 167 Chapter Six: Class Analysis of Communication, or the Critique of its Political Economy 170 Chapter Seven: World-Communication: Knowledge and Power in the Web of Global Hegemony 200 Final Words 230 Bibliography 237 mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press 04 01 20251015 02 WORLD 06 15 9781951399504 06 15 9781951399474 06 15 9781951399481 06 15 9781951399498 WORLD 09 mediastudies.press 20 01 urn:uuid:44578f12-cab9-41e5-87d2-fb014511798d 03 15 9781951399252 00 EB E101 10 10 02 28326202 01 02 Media Manifold Series 01 01 Killer Fandom Fan Studies and the Celebrity Serial Killer 1 A01 Judith May Fathallah Judith May Fathallah is a Research and Outreach Associate at Lancaster University and a Research Fellow at Coventry University in the UK. She is author of Fanfiction and the Author: How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts (2017) and Emo: How Fans Studied a Subculture (2020). 01 eng 00 256 03 12 BTC 10 SOC022000 12 JFCA 10 SOC052000 12 JFD 10 TRU002010 01 06 03 00 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. 04 00 Contents List of Figures List of Tables Introduction 1. Fanlike Engagement before Fan Studies: Personators, Collectors, and Groupies 2. Textual Poaching to Discursive Formations: Serial Killers and Fannish Creation 3. Affect, Bonding, Boundaries: Is There Serial Killer Fan Community? 4. Killer Fandom and (Sub)Cultural Capital 5. Serial Killer Fandom as Digital Play References Acknowledgments mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press 04 01 20231106 02 WORLD 06 15 9781951399368 06 15 9781951399238 06 15 9781951399245 06 15 9781951399252 WORLD 09 mediastudies.press 20 01 urn:uuid:6763ec18-b4af-4767-976c-5b808a64e641 03 15 9781951399030 00 EB E107 10 10 02 27702480 01 02 Public Domain Series 01 01 Liberty and the News 1 A01 Walter Lippmann Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) was an American journalist and public philosopher. 2 A24 Sue Curry Jansen Sue Curry Jansen is professor emeritus of media and communication at Muhlenberg College. 01 eng 00 55 03 12 KNTJ 10 LAN008000 12 JPHV 10 POL007000 12 JFD 10 SOC052000 12 GTC 01 06 03 00 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. 04 00 THE TWIN CRISES OF DEMOCRACY AND JOURNALISM: Introduction to the mediastudies.press edition vii Sue Curry Jansen CHAPTER 1 JOURNALISM AND THE HIGHER LAW 1 Walter Lippmann CHAPTER 2 WHAT MODERN LIBERTY MEANS 7 Walter Lippmann CHAPTER 3 LIBERTY AND THE NEWS 23 Walter Lippmann mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press 04 01 20201115 02 WORLD 06 15 9781951399023 06 15 9781951399030 06 15 9781951399030 06 15 9781951399030 06 15 9781951399030 WORLD 09 mediastudies.press 20 01 urn:uuid:f59b5d59-c70a-4843-bb5b-a4a8676ed407 03 15 9781951399375 00 EB E101 10 10 02 30698847 01 02 Goffman in the Open Series 01 01 Mapping Goffman’s Invisible College 1 A01 Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz is Director of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Professor Emerita of Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. Her previous books include Erving Goffman: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory (2011) and Rolling in Ditches with Shamans: Jaime de Angulo and the Professionalization of American Anthropology (2004). 01 eng 00 479 03 10 SOC076000 10 SOC026000 10 SOC002010 01 06 03 00 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.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. 04 00 Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiii List of Tables and Figures xvii Chapter One: Introduction 1 Chapter Two: Before Penn 15 Chapter Three: People at Penn 50 Chapter Four: Major Projects at Penn 125 Chapter Five: Minor Projects at Penn 190 Chapter Six: Penn Adjacent 231 Chapter Seven: Beyond Penn 323 Chapter Eight: Conclusion 333 Appendix: Peripheral Colleagues at Penn 366 References 396 Index 438 mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press 04 01 20250815 02 WORLD 06 15 9781951399382 06 15 9781951399344 06 15 9781951399351 06 15 9781951399375 WORLD 09 mediastudies.press 20 01 urn:uuid:3162a992-05dd-4b74-9fe0-0f16879ce6de 03 15 9781951399016 00 EB E107 10 10 02 27702480 01 02 Public Domain Series 01 01 Our Master’s Voice Advertising 1 A01 James Rorty James Rorty (1890–1973) was an American poet, journalist, and sometime advertising copywriter. 2 A24 Jefferson Pooley Jefferson Pooley is professor of media and communication at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. 01 eng 00 318 03 12 JFDV 10 SOC052000 12 GTC 10 LAN004000 10 BUS002000 12 KJSA 01 06 03 00 “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. 04 00 FOREWORD ix James Rorty PREFACE to the mediastudies.press edition xi Jefferson Pooley JAMES RORTY’S VOICE: Introduction to the mediastudies.press edition xiv Jefferson Pooley PREFACE: I Was an Ad-man Once 3 James Rorty CHAPTER 1 THE BUSINESS NOBODY KNOWS 11 James Rorty CHAPTER 2 THE APPARATUS OF ADVERTISING James Rorty CHAPTER 3 HOW IT WORKS 27 James Rorty CHAPTER 4 PRIMROSE CHEESE: An Advertising Accouchement 35 James Rorty CHAPTER 5 AS ADVERTISED: The Product of Advertising 50 James Rorty CHAPTER 6 THE MAGAZINES 56 James Rorty CHAPTER 7 THE NATURAL HISTORY OF ADVERTISING 100 James Rorty CHAPTER 8 THE THREE GRACES: Advertising, Propaganda, Education 108 James Rorty CHAPTER 9 TRUTH IN ADVERTISING 129 James Rorty CHAPTER 10 CHAIN MUSIC: The Truth About the Shavers James Rorty CHAPTER 11 BEAUTY AND THE AD-MAN 148 James Rorty CHAPTER 12 SACRED AND PROFANE LOVE 162 James Rorty CHAPTER 13 SCIENCE SAYS: Come up and see me some time James Rorty CHAPTER 14 WHOSE SOCIAL SCIENTIST ARE YOU? James Rorty CHAPTER 15 PSYCHOLOGY ASKS: How am I doing? 178 James Rorty CHAPTER 16 THE MOVIES 186 James Rorty CHAPTER 17 RULE BY RADIO 195 James Rorty CHAPTER 18 RELIGION AND THE AD-MAN 205 James Rorty mediastudies.press 01 mediastudies.press 04 01 20201015 02 WORLD 06 15 9781951399009 06 15 9781951399016 06 15 9781951399016 06 15 9781951399016 06 15 9781951399016 WORLD 09 mediastudies.press 20 01