%0 Journal Article %1 pietila_perspectives_1994 %A Pietilä, Veikko %D 1994 %J Critical Studies in Mass Communication %K disciplinarity general historiography institutional intellectual internalist memory new-left sociology-of-science united-kingdom %P 346--361 %R 10.1080/15295039409366910 %T Perspectives on Our Past: Charting the Histories of Mass Communication Studies %V 11 %X There are by now several different outlines of the history of Anglo-American mass communication studies. This essays argues that most of them can be reduced to three: mass communication research (MCR), the New Left and the cultural version. The description of how these three versions (re)shaped the field's history is anchored in the view that besides being efforts to pursue the past, they represent a stand taken on the situations and constellations having prevailed within the field at each particular time. In other words, the field's history writing has been caught in complex ways in its inner developments and paradigmatic struggles.

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