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Questions the American tradition of focusing only on mass communication's function as a means of social and political control. This title makes a case for examining the content of a communication - the meaning of symbols, not only the motives that originate them or the purposes they serve.

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Questions the American tradition of focusing only on mass communication's function as a means of social and political control. This title makes a case for examining the content of a communication - the meaning of symbols, not only the motives that originate them or the purposes they serve.
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James W. Carey was born in 1934 in Providence, Rhode Island. He earned a first degree in Business at the University of Rhode Island before attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was awarded a doctorate in communications. He was appointed to the faculty at Illinois in 1963 and was director of its Institute for Communication Research from 1969-76. From 1976-79, Carey held the George H. Gallup Chair at the University of Iowa, but he returned to Illinois in 1979 to become Dean of the College of Communication, a position he held until 1992. He joined the faculty of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1992 and remained there until his death in May, 2006. In the course of a distinguished career as an administrator, teacher, original thinker and pioneer in the fields of communication and American cultural studies, Carey published approximately 170 essays, speeches, and reviews.