Bücher der Reihe Studies in Culture and Communication

This standard text has been fully updated to include the new developments in radio. Crisell has added a chapter on the increasingly popular 'talk-and-music' format,

How can we study communication? What are the main theories and methods of approach? This title presents an introduction to the main authorities in the field of communication studies. It outlines a range of methods of analysing examples of communication, and describes the theories underpinning them.

This study of the everyday components of daily life, as yet neglected by cultural theorists, argues that it is possibly through studying the mundane that we can learn the most about capitalist culture.