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critical stance, Baudrillard and like-minded poststructuralists play into the
hands of authoritarianism and despots, proving the aptness of Macpherson’s
warning for our present era.

NOTES

1. For example, O’Donnell claims that Jacques Derrida introduced deconstruc-
tion as a way of opening texts up to new understandings, not just to dominant inter-
pretations. Kevin O’Donnell, Poststructuralism (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2003), 56.
2. See chapter 8.
3. C. B. Macpherson, Property: Mainstream and Critical Positions (Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1978), 11–12.
4. See James W. Carey, “The Chicago School of Communication Research,” in
James Carey: A Critical Reader, ed. Eve Munson and Catherine Warren (Minneapo-
lis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), 14–33; Daniel Czitrom, Media and the
American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1982); Jesse Delia, “Communication Research: A History,” in Handbook of
Communication Science, ed. Charles R. Berger and Steven Chaffee (Newbury Park,
CA: SAGE Publications, 1987), 20–98; Hanno Hardt, Critical Communication Stud-
ies: Communication, History and Theory in America (London: Routledge, 1992);
Everett M. Rogers, A History of Communication Study: A Biographical Approach
(New York: The Free Press, 1994); Wilbur Schramm, The Beginnings of Communi-
cation Study in America: A Personal Memoir (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publica-
tions, 1997).
5. See John Durham Peters, “Introduction,” Mass Communication and American
Social Thought: Key Texts 1919–1968, ed. John Durham Peters and Peter Simonson
(Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004).
6. John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems (Chicago: Swallow Press, 1927), 98,
141.
7. Czitrom, Media and the American Mind, 112.
8. Stuart Ewen, PR! A Social History of Spin (New York: Basic Books, 1996),
111–13.
9. Charles A. Beard and Mary Beard, The Rise of American Civilization (New
York, Macmillan, 1930), 640.
10. James Beniger, The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins
of the Information Society (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986).
11. T. J. Jackson Lears, “From Salvation to Self-Realization: Advertising and the
Therapeutic Roots of the Consumer Culture 1880–1930,” in The Culture of Con-
sumption, ed. Richard Wightman Fox and T. J. Jackson Lears (New York: Pantheon,
1983), 21.
12. Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion (1922; reprint, New York: Free Press, 1965),
17.