Published Books and Research Articles
Here's My Book:

• When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988; paperback, 1990); Quando le Vecchie Technologie erano Nuove (Turin: VTET-Libreria, 1995)

I'm Working on Another One:

• Capturing the Flag: The Symbolic Structure of Nationalism

Here Are Some Recent Articles:

• "Cheap But Not Easy: Democracy and Information Abundance," Communication Review 1(1) (1996) (in press).
• "Fresh Blood, Public Meat: Rituals of Totem Regeneration in the 1992 Presidential Race," in Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Steven Chaffee, eds., special issue of Communication Research: Campaign '92: Communication and the Political Process 21(3), June, 1994, pp. 264-292.
• "The Body of the Text: Literacy's Corporeal Constant," Quarterly Journal of Speech 80(2), May, 1994, pp. 129-149.
• "The Forum: Bodies, Texts, and the Social Order: Response to Bielefeldt," Quarterly Journal of Speech, Feb., 1995, pp. 103-107.
• "Theorizing the Flagbody: Symbolic Dimensions of the Flag Desecration Debate, or, Why the Bill of Rights Does Not Fly in the Ballpark," Critical Studies in Mass Communication 8(2), June, 1991, pp. 119-138.

This One's About Teaching:

• "Bad Attitudes, Unnatural Acts," Free Speech Yearbook 28 (1990), pp. 1- 7.

A Few Other Things on Technology:

• "Reconsidering James Carey: How Many Rituals Does it Take to Make an Artifact?" American Journalism History 7(4) (Fall, 1990), pp. 216-226.
• "Experts, Black Boxes and Artifacts: New Categories in the Social History of Electric Media," in Brenda Dervin, Larry Grossberg, Barbara J. O'Keefe, and Ellen Wartella, eds. Rethinking Communication Vol. 2: Paradigm Issues: Exemplars. (New York: Sage Publications, 1989), pp. 188-198.
• "Dazzling the Multitude: Imagining the Electric Light as a Communications Medium," in Joseph J. Corn, ed., Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology, and the American Future, (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1986), pp. 202-17. Reprinted in Mass Communication Review Yearbook, Vol. 6 (Beverly Hills, Ca.: Sage, 1987).
• "Fables for the Information Age: The Fisherman's Wishes," Illinois Issues 8 (September, 1982), pp. 17-24.

Here's Some Stuff on Literacy:

• "Attributes of Authority: Literacy Tests and the Logic of Strategic Conduct," Communications 11 (1988), pp. 63-82.
• "Literacy," essay for The International Encyclopedia of Communications (Philadephia: Oxford/University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988), pp. 337- 41.
• "Constructed and Reconstructed Discourse: Inscription and Talk in the History of Literacy," Communications Research 11 (October, 1984), pp. 563-94.