James Carey is a Professor of Journalism at Columbia University. He formerly held the George Gallup chair at the University of Iowa and was Dean and Director of the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois. Professor Carey's research on the history and politics of communications technology has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Freedom Forum, the Center for Advanced Study at Illinois and the Poynter Institute of Media Studies. He has published over 100 essays and reviews and two books including Communication as Culture (Routledge, 1989).