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Reinventing Walter Lippmann: Communication and Cultural Studies

. Review of Communication, 13 (2): 108--126 (April 2013)
DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2013.789120

Abstract

In this essay I consider the unlikely proximity of Walter Lippmann and American cultural studies. I advance two arguments. First, I argue that the 1980s invention of Walter Lippmann as an anti-democrat played an important, constitutive role in the formulation and propagation of a communication-centric version of cultural studies. Second, I argue that the recent reinvention of Lippmann holds the potential to reanimate Carey's articulation of communication and cultural studies. For, as I demonstrate, Lippmann helps us rethink the articulation of expertise, democracy, and communication.

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