Rethinking communication

This collection holds that open exchange between communication scholars with sharply different political, theoretical and epistemological outlooks can sharpen the field's core debates and help shape communication as an academic discipline. The opening chapters, by leading thinkers including Anthony Giddens and Stuart Hall, each set out what they regard as the most pressing challenges for the field and where they stand on them. Twenty-five established scholars then respond with commentaries, drawn from a wide spread of commitments, backgrounds and theoretical and political leanings. The book does not aim to offer concrete answers to the problems it examines.