Remodelling Communication

Gary Genosko is Canada Research Chair in Technoculture and a professor in the Department of Sociology at Lakehead University.

‘A useful resource for people in critical cultural studies, media studies, semiotics, and communication… Recommended.’ - W. Alvarez (Choice Magazine; vol 50:03:2012) ‘This book tackles a challenging issue of tracing the communication models from the beginning of the field of communication to the present… This is an intriguing and important book.’- Emile McAnany (Communication Research Trends vol 34:01:2015) ‘This text provides intriguing contextualization of the seminal communication models and points the reader down further argumentative paths.’- Aaron Tucker (University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015)

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Regaining Weaver and Shannon 2 Encoding and Decoding Stuart Hall 3 Roman Jakobson and the Primacy of the Poetic 4 All Models are Simulations: Jean Baudrillard's Critique of Communication 5 Phatic (Dys)functions 6 Umberto Eco and Guerrilla Decoding 7 From General Modelling to Metamodelling Conclusion Notes Index