A comprehensive introduction by Barbie Zelizer contextualizes these debates and makes a case for the importance of disciplinary engagement for teaching as well as research in media and cultural studies. Douglas, Anna McCarthy, Robert McChesney, John Nerone, David Paul Nord, John Durham Peters, Michael Schudson, Peter Stallybrass, Paul Starr. Elizabeth Bird, Richard Butsch, James Curran, Susan J. In so doing, it elaborates our understanding of what communication and history have to give each other, how they build off of each other’s strengths and often subvert each other’s weaknesses, and what we can expect from the future of disciplinary engagement. Driven by fundamental questions about disciplinary knowledge and boundary-marking, such as how communication and history change what the other notices about the world, how particular platforms encourage scholars to look beyond their disciplinary boundaries, and which cues encourage them to reject old paradigms and embrace new ones, the book both navigates the terrain connecting communication and history and raises meta-questions about its shaping. Through a critical collection of essays written by top scholars, the book addresses the engagement of communication and history as it applies to the study of technology, audiences and journalism. Asking how each discipline has enhanced and hindered our understanding of the other, the book considers what happens to what we know when disciplines engage. When and how do communication and history impact each other? How do disciplinary perspectives affect what we know? Explorations in Communication and History addresses the link between what we know and how we know it by tracking the intersection of communication and history. Explorations in Communication and History
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