<p>ECHOES OF GABRIEL TARDE: WHAT WE KNOW BETTER OR DIFFERENT 100 YEARS LATER by Elihu Katz, Christopher Ali and Joohan Kim is based on Gabriel Tarde’s essay of 1898 "L' Opinion et la Conversation" or "Opinion and Conversation," analyzing the applicability of Tarde’s theories of communication some 100 years later. For communication scholars, it will become apparent immediately that Tarde may be read as an anticipation of contemporary concerns with issues such as agenda setting, public opinion formation, the diffusion of innovation, the two-step flow of communication, the role of the press in nation-building, new media technologies, the normative role of the press in a democracy, media events, and the public sphere. In Echoes of Gabriel Tarde we map these connections to demonstrate Tarde’s value for scholars of communication theory, political communication and deliberative democracy. As such, not only is this book an updating of Tarde’s work, but it is also a review of current academic thought regarding the role of media, conversation, opinion, and action in public space and deliberative democracy. Katz, Ali and Kim review current academic thought regarding the interaction of media, conversation, opinion, and action in public space and deliberative democracy. Exploring these themes in a "dialogue" with Tarde, the authors ask what we know better or different 100 years later. The aim is not only to reawaken attention to Tarde’s work, but to assess the progress of communications research in its light. The book offers a series of propositions — foreshadowing contemporary concerns with issues such as agenda setting, public opinion formation, the diffusion of innovation, the two-step flow of communication, the role of the press in nation-building, new media technologies, the normative role of media in a democracy, media events, and the like. The book includes the first full English translation of Tarde's essay. Long overlooked, "Opinion and Conversation" deserves to be canonized as foundational for theories that link mass and interpersonal communication, especially in the age of social media. Authors are Elihu Katz, Distinguished Trustee Professor of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, Christopher Ali, Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Virginia, and Joohan Kim, Professor of Communication at Yonsei University in South Korea. Louise Salmon of the Sorbonne (Paris 1) contributed the biographical note. Published by USC Annenberg Press.</p>

Echoes of Gabriel Tarde: What We Know Better or Different 100 Years Later

Politics & Social Sciences

Katz, Elihu

Ali, Christopher

Kim, Joohan

Social Sciences

USC Annenberg Press

<p>Have your IDs ready and your intolerance for incendiary pictures and controversial ideas checked at the door for it’s time to step into the head of the unabashedly liberal, award-winning cartoonist and writer Dwayne Booth (aka “Mr. Fish”), where inflammatory ideas meet deep insights and something like inspiring woe, discouraging indifference and gleeful nihilism are born! In this new book, "WARNING! Graphic Content," Mr. Fish examines the past, present and future of art as commentary, deciphering its substructure and translating its unique alphabet into a wholly accessible vocabulary. Through extensive interviews, numerous audio and video clips and more than 400 provocative images, he demonstrates unequivocally how uncensored art and weaponized jokes from cartoonists, satirists and fine artists through history provide humanity with its most thorough and revealing self-portraits. Find out what is right and wrong with the profession of political cartooning. Discover the truth about why our visual language is so much more adept than our verbal language at explaining and understanding the existential stuff and nonsense that elates and burdens us every day. Have you ever wondered: What’s the difference between art and craft? Why are artists so poorly paid? If Yoko Ono sat silently in the middle of a crowded auditorium in her underpants and everybody was there to see it, would she make any sense whatsoever? What is a "bogey ball" and does it really need to be made out of real snot to be impactful? Mr. Fish answers all these questions and more in this book! This is work that provokes thought and debate and great peels of laughter, but is NOT intended for the faint of heart.</p>

WARNING! Graphic Content: Political Cartoons, Comix and the Uncensored Artistic Mind

Fish, Mr.

Arts & Photography

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