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WALTER LIPPMANN - SUE CURRY JANSEN GEBUNDEN

Walter Lippmann has been widely misrepresented in media and communication scholarship.
Classified as a utilitarian and characterized as an antidemocratic adversary of philosopher
John Dewey in a legendary debate in the 1920s about the role of the public in modern
democracies  Lippmann has been portrayed as the bête noir of the post-1980s revival of
pragmatism and humanistic studies within the field. Consequently  his formative contributions
to the field have not only been under-valued  but more importantly  the richness and continuing
relevance of his generative work to the challenges of the twenty-first century are largely
under-appreciated. There are  however  some recent signs of the beginnings of a Lippmann
renaissance. Focusing primarily on his early career when Lippmann directly addressed the
challenges posed to democracy by the emergence of new communication technologies  this book is
part of that renaissance. It presents a radical reconsideration of Lippmann¿s thought and
legacy and offers a broad-based introduction to his theories of mass communication. Arguing
that he was a political ally rather than an adversary of Dewey as well as a humanist and a
democrat  influenced by William James¿ pragmatism and George Santayanäs critical realism 
Jansen contends that Lippmann developed a fully formed social constructivism decades before
Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckman¿s seminal 1966 treatise  The Social Construction of Reality.
She boldly concludes that Lippmann deserves to be recognized as a founder of the field of media
and communication research.

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