Sponsored by the American Sociological Association Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS), Creating Culture Through Me

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Carey's seminal work joins central issues in the field and redefines them. It will force the reader to think in new and fruitful ways about such dichotomies as

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