The History of Media and Communication Research: Contested Memories/A Journalism of Humanity: A Candid History of the World's First Journalism School

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* Park, David and Jefferson Pooley, eds. (2008). The History of Media and Communication Research: Contested Memories. New York: Peter Lang. pp. 390.

* Weinberg, Steve. (2008). A Journalism of Humanity: A Candid History of the World's First Journalism School. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press. pp. 238.

In a foreword to the first of these important and useful studies, media theorist Hanno Hardt declares that "the field of communication studies has come of age, and with this new maturity comes the need to construct a genealogy of practices in a manner that explains and connects the various strands of fact and fiction, validates memory, and confirms intellectual …