List of illustrations.  Preface. Part One - A Critique of Communication  1. Introduction: Communication - The Very Idea  2. Erro, Ergo Sum - Communication and Pragmatism in the History of Ideas  3. Differences that Make a Difference - The Art and Science of Media and Communication Research Part Two - Media of Three Degrees  4. Media Matters - The Material Conditions of Communication  5. Media Meanings - The Discourses, Genres, and Modalities of Communication  6. Media Institutions - Between Agency and Structure Part Three - The Double Hermeneutics of Media and Communication Research  7. Media of Science - Doing Communication Research  8. The Future of Communication - Pragmatism between Modernism and Postmodernism.  References.  Index