Interactions : critical studies in communication, media, and journalism / Hanno Hardt.

Most chapters are essays, edited for this publication, which were previously published in various sources, 1972-1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contemplating Marxism--and other theoretical challenges -- Looking for the working class: class relations in communication studies -- Communication in the media age: an existential dilemma -- The decline of authenticity: modernity, communication, and critical theory -- Communication and economic thought: cultural imagination in German and American scholarship -- The making of the public sphere: class, culture, and media practices -- The world according to America: ideology and comparative media studies -- Alien culture, immigrant voices: the foreign-language press in journalism history --Against the rank and file: newsworkers, technology, and the construction of history -- The end of journalism: media and newswork at the close of the century.