The Editors: Jeremy Packer is Assistant Professor of Film/Video and Media Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is coeditor of Foucault, Cultural Studies and Governmentality (2003) and author of the Mobility Without Mayhem: Mass Mediating Safety and Automobility (forthcoming). He has written widely on media studies, safety, and mobility.Craig Robertson is Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies Department at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of numerous articles on media studies and cultural history.

• Contents: Jeremy Packer/Craig Robertson: Introduction – James Carey in Conversation with Lawrence Grossberg, Part 1: From New England to Illinois. The Invention of (American) Cultural Studies – James Hay: Between Cultural Materialism and Spatial Materialism: James Carey’s Writing about Communication – Chris Russill: For a Pragmatist Perspective on Publics: Advancing Carey’s Cultural Studies through John Dewey…and Michel Foucault?! – Jeremy Packer: Rethinking Dependency: New Relations of Transportation and Communication – Gretchen Soderlund: Communication Scholarship as Ritual: An Examination of James Carey’s Cultural Model of Communication – Jonathan Sterne: Transportation and Communication: Together as You’ve Always Wanted Them – John Durham Peters: Technology and Ideology: The Case of the Telegraph Revisited – John Nerone: The Public and the Party Period – Craig Robertson: A Ritual of Verification? The Nation, the State, and the U.S. Passport – James Carey in Conversation with Lawrence Grossberg, Part 2: Configurations of Culture, History, and Politics.