Robert E. Babe is professor of information and media studies at the University of Western Ontario.

I: Introducing Harold Innis
1 Foundations
2 Staples Thesis and Medium Theory
3 Time, Space, and Medium Theory
4 Political Economy, Medium Theory, and Existentialism
5 Media and Scholarship
6 Media and Public Opinion
II: Wilbur Schramm Meets Innis
7 Beginnings
8 Media Process and Effects
9 Media History, Education, Free Press, Democracy
III: Chomsky and Innis Meet
10 Meet Noam Chomsky
11 Visions and Strategies
12 Propaganda and Democracy
IV: Conclusion
13 Innis and the Network Society

By comparing the scholarship of both Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky with that of Harold Innis, and by making detailed use of Innis's neglected writings, including particularly Political Economy in the Modern State, Innis's media and communication scholarship is unfolded in new, startling, critical, yet ultimately appreciative ways.