In the late 1940s & early 1950s, economic historian Harold Innis (1894-1952), Canada's preeminent scholar of the 20th century, helped inaugurate media studies (a field now under media imperialism), yet his work remains obscure...
T. Heilmann. Media Transatlantic: Developments in Media and Communication Studies between North American and German-speaking Europe, Springer, New York, (2016)