Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I -- Introduction: On the Origins of Media Studies (and Media Scholars) -- 1 The Chicago School and the History of Mass Communication Research -- 2 The Roots of Modern Media Analysis: Lewis Mumford and Marshall McLuhan -- 3 Communications and Economics -- PART II -- Introduction: The Problem of Journalism History, 1996 -- 4 The Problem of Journalism History -- 5 "Putting the World at Peril": A Conversation with James W. Carey -- PART III -- Introduction: Famed Psychic's Head Explodes: James Carey on the Technology of Journalism -- 6 The Communications Revolution and the Professional Communicator -- 7 The Dark Continent of American Journalism -- PART IV -- Introduction: "We'll Have That Conversation": Journalism and Democracy in the Thought of James W. Carey -- 8 "A Republic, If You Can Keep It": Liberty and Public Life in the Age of Glasnost -- 9 The Press, Public Opinion, and Public Discourse: On the Edge of the Postmodern -- PART V -- Introduction: James Carey's Academy -- 10 Political Correctness and Cultural Studies -- 11 Salvation by Machines: Can Technology Save Education? -- Afterword: The Culture in Question -- Bibliography of Works by James W. Carey -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.