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Business & Money

Rorty, James

Marketing & Sales

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"Liberty and the News was published a century ago, the young Walter Lippmanns 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 books 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"--

Liberty and the News

Politics & Social Sciences

Lippmann, Walter

Politics & Government

Sue Curry Jansen's classic critique of AI rhetoric, republished open access with a new introduction by Jansen.

What Was Artificial Intelligence? (Media Manifold)

Computers & Technology

Jansen, Sue Curry

Computer Science

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, in 360 dense pages, that Goffman revealed, quietly, his peerless sensitivity to the invisible wireframes of everyday life.

Communication Conduct in an Island Community (Goffman in the Open Series)

Goffman, Erving

Social Sciences

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