OA special section on “History of Communication Studies across the Americas”

[Jeff Pooley]

History of Media Studies is pleased to announce an open access Special Section on “History of Communication Studies across the Americas,” which features six articles, each of which considers the history of communication studies within and across North and South America. 

History of Media Studies is a peer-reviewed, scholar-run, diamond OA journal dedicated to scholarship on the history of research, education, and reflective knowledge about media and communication.

Special Issue Contents:

• “The History of Communication Studies across the Americas: An Introduction,” by David W. Park, Jefferson Pooley, Peter Simonson, and Esperanza Herrero
• “Coloniality and Resistance: The Revolutionary Moment in Communication Study in the Anglophone Caribbean,”by Nova Gordon-Bell
• “Elizabeth Fox: Intellectual Biography and History of a Field of Study,” by Yamila Heram and Santiago Gándara
• “Borderline Cases: Crossing Borders in Canadian Communication Studies, 1960s-1980s,” by Michael Darroch
• “Notes for Historicizing the Disintegrated Internationalization of Communication Studies in Latin America,” by Raúl Fuentes-Navarro
• “‘Western Communication’: Eurocentrism and Modernity: Marks of the Predominant Theories in the Field,” by Erick R. Torrico Villanueva
• “Media, Intellectual, and Cultural Imperialism Today,” by Afonso Albuquerque

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