James W. Carey

James W. Carey was a distinguished and respected communications theorist latterly at Columbia University. He died in 2006 at age 71.

Early career

He attended the University of Rhode Island, where he graduated in marketing and advertising. He gained a doctorate at the University of Illinois, on the economics of communications. Subsequently he taught at the University of Illinois College of Communications, rising to dean. Subsequently in 1992 he joined the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University

Major areas of work

Books

• Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society ISBN 041590725X
• James Carey: A Critical Reader] by Eve Stryker Munson(Editor), Catherine A. Warren (Editor) ISBN 0816627037
• Thinking With James Carey: Essays on Communications, Transportation, History] by Jeremy Packer (Editor), Craig Robertson (Editor) ISBN 0820474053

Articles by James W. Carey

• The Struggle Against Forgetting an essay based on his September 1995 opening day speech at Columbia.

Books and articles concerning his ideas

Books

• Contemporary consumption rituals: A research anthology., Otnes, C. C., & Lowrey, T. M. (Eds.). (2004). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. ISBN-13 978-0805847796

Journals

• The Journey of Ritual Communication, Studies in Communication Sciences 7/1 (2007) 117–138 Zohar Kadmon Sella
• Wedding as text: Communicating cultural identities through ritual. Leeds-Hurwitz, W. (2002). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Ritual communication: From everyday conversation to mediated ceremony. Rothenbuhler, E. W. (1998). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Ritual and irony: Observations about the discourse of political change in two Germanies. Quarterly Journal of Speech, Knuf, J. (1994). 80, 174-194.
• "Ritual" in organizational culture theory: Some theoretical reflections and a plea for greater terminilogical rigor. Knuf, J. (1993). In S. A. Deetz (Ed.), Communication yearbook 16 (pp. 61-103). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
• "Spit first and then say what you want!" Concerning the use of language and ancillary codes in ritualized communication, Knuf, J. (1992). Quarterly journal of speech, 78, 466-482.
• The role of rituals and fantasy themes in teachers' bargaining. Putnam, L. L., Van Hoeven, S. A., & Bullis, C. A. (1991). Western Journal of Speech Communication, 55, 85-103.
• Reconsidering James Carey: How many rituals does it take to make an artifact?" Marvin, C. (1990, Fall). American Journalism History, 7(4), 216-226.

External links

• The New York Times: Obituary (May 26, 2006)
• Carey Archive from conference held in October 2007
• Speech given by James Carey at Middle Tennesse State University about Where journalism education went wrong

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