Mass Communication and American Social Thought

Key Texts, 1919-1968
Herausgeber: Peters, John Durham; Simonson, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the Frankfurt school, and mass society theory. Where possible, articles are reproduced in their entirety to preserve the historical flavor and texture of the original works. Topics include popular theater, yellow journalism, cinema, books, public relations, political and military propaganda, advertising, opinion polling, photography, the avant-garde, popular magazines, comics, the urban press, radio drama, soap opera, popular music, and television drama and news. This text is ideal for upper-level courses in mass communication and media theory, media and society, mass communication effects, and mass media history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 548
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1018g
• ISBN-13: 9780742528390
• ISBN-10: 0742528391
• Artikelnr.: 21484587

Autorenporträt

Edited by John Durham Peters and Peter Simonson - Contributions by Jane Addams; Theodor Adorno; Gordon Allport; Sherwood Anderson; Raymond Bauer; Daniel Bell; Bernard Berelson; Edward Bernays; Herbert Blumer; Warren Breed; Ernest W. Burgess; Hadley Cantri

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Mass Communication and American Social Thought: Key
Texts, 1919-1968 Part 2 Part I From Hope to Disillusionment: Mass
Communication Theory Coalesces, 1919-1933 Chapter 3 1 "The Process of
Social Change," from Political Science Quarterly (1897) Chapter 4 2 "The
House of Dreams," from The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets (1909)
Chapter 5 3 From Winesburg, Ohio (1919) Chapter 6 4 From Introduction to
the Science of Sociology (1921) Chapter 7 5 "Nature, Communication, and
Meaning," from Experience and Nature (1925) Chapter 8 6 "The Disenchanted
Man," from The Phantom Public (1925) Chapter 9 7 "Criteria of Negro Art,"
from Crisis Magazine (1926) Chapter 10 8 "The Results of Propaganda," from
Propaganda Technique in the World War (1927) Chapter 11 9 "Manipulating
Public Opinion: The Why and the How" (1928) Chapter 12 10 From Middletown:
A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) Chapter 13 11
"Communication," from Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (1931) Part 14
Part II The World in Turmoil: Communications Research, 1933-1949 Chapter 15
12 "Conclusion," from Movies and Conduct (1933) Chapter 16 13 "The
Integration of Communication," from Communication Agencies and Social Life
(1933) Chapter 17 14 "Toward a Critique of Negro Music," from Opportunity
(1934) Chapter 18 15 From Technics and Civilization (1934) Chapter 19 16
"The Business Nobody Knows," from Our Master's Voice (1934) Chapter 20 17
"The Influence of Radio upon Mental and Social Life," from The Psychology
of Radio (1935) Chapter 21 18 "Foreword," from Public Opinion Quarterly
(1937) Chapter 22 19 "Human Interest Stories and Democracy," from Public
Opinion Quarterly (1937) Chapter 23 20 From The Fine Art of Propaganda
(1939) Chapter 24 21 "A Powerful, Bold, and Unmeasurable Party?" from The
Pulse of Democracy (1940) Chapter 25 22 "Democracy in Reverse," from Public
Opinion Quarterly (1940) Chapter 26 23 "Needed Research in Communication,"
from the Rockefeller Archives (1940) Chapter 27 24 "On Borrowed Experience:
An Analysis of Listening to Daytime Sketches," from Studies in Philosophy
and Social Science (1941) Chapter 28 25 "Art and Mass Culture," from
Studies in Philosophy and Social Science (1941) Chapter 29 26
"Administrative and Critical Communications Research," from Studies in
Philosophy and Social Science (1941) Chapter 30 27 "The Popular Music
Industry," from Radio Research 1941 (1942) Chapter 31 28 From Dialectic of
Enlightenment (1944) Chapter 32 29 "Nazi Propaganda and Violence," from
German Radio Propaganda (1944) Chapter 33 30 "Biographies in Popular
Magazines," from Radio Research 1942-1943 (1944) Chapter 34 31 "The Negro
Press," from An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
(1944) Chapter 35 32 "A Social Critique of Radio Music," from the Kenyon
Review (1945) Chapter 36 33 "The Social and Cultural Context," from Mass
Persuasion (1946) Chapter 37 34 "The Requirements," from A Free and
Responsible Press (1947) Chapter 38 35 "Mass Media," from UNESCO: Its
Philosophy and Purpose (1947) Chapter 39 36 "The Enormous Radio," from The
Enormous Radio and Other Stories (1947) Chapter 40 37 "Mass Communication,
Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action," from The Communication of
Ideas (1948) Chapter 41 38 Table from "Communication Research and the
Social Psychologist," from Current Trends in Social Psychology (1948)
Chapter 42 39 "Information, Language, and Society," from Cybernetics:
Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948) Chapter 43
40 "Consensus and Mass Communication," from American Sociological Review
(1948) Chapter 44 41 "What 'Missing the Newspaper' Means," from
Communications Research (1949) Part 45 Part III The American Dream and Its
Discontents: Mass Communication Theory, 1949-1968 Chapter 46 42
"Industrialism and Cultural Values," from The Bias of Communication (1950)
Chapter 47 43 "Emerging from Magic," from Hollywood: The Dream Factory
(1950) Chapter 48 44 "Storytellers as Tutors in technique," from The Lonely
Crowd (1950) Chapter 49 45 "Our Next Frontier. . .Transoceanic TV," from
Look (1950) Chapter 50 46 "Communication in the Sovietized State, as
Demonstrated in Korea," from Public Opinion Quarterly (1951) Chapter 51 47
"The Consumer's Stake in Radio and Television," from Quarterly of Film,
Radio and Television (1951) Chapter 52 48 "The Unique Perspective of
Television and Its Effect," from American Sociological Review (1952)
Chapter 53 49 "Technology and Political Change," from International Journal
(1952) Chapter 54 50 "A Theory of Mass Culture," from Diogenes (1953)
Chapter 55 51 "Sight, Sound, and Fury," from Commonweal (1954) Chapter 56
52 "Between Media and Mass," from Personal Influence (1955) Chapter 57 53
"The Theory of Mass Society: A Critique," from Commentary (1956) Chapter 58
54 "Mass Communication and Para-Social Interaction: Observations on
Intimacy at a Distance," from Psychiatry (1956) Chapter 59 55 "The Mass
Society," from The Power Elite (1956) Chapter 60 56 "FDR and the White
House Mail," Public Opinion Quarterly (1956) Chapter 61 57 "Notes on a
Natural History of Fads," from American Journal of Sociology (1957) Chapter
62 58 "Mass Communication and Socio-cultural Integration," from Social
Forces (1958) Chapter 63 59 "Modernizing Styles of Life: A Theory," from
The Passing of Traditional Society (1958) Chapter 64 60 "The Social-Anatomy
of the Romance-Confession Cover Girl," from Journalism Quarterly (1959)
Chapter 65 61 "The State of Communication Research," from Public Opinion
Quarterly (1959) Chapter 66 62 "The State of Communication Research:
Comments," from Public Opinion Quarterly (1959) Chapter 67 63 "What is Mass
Communication?" from Mass Communication: A Sociological Perspective (1959)
Chapter 68 64 "Social Theory and Mass Media," from Canadian Journal of
Economics and Political Science (1961) Chapter 69 65 "Television and Public
Interest" (1961) Chapter 70 66 "The Kennedy Assassination and the Nature of
Political Commitment," from The Kennedy Assassination and the American
Public (1965) Chapter 71 67 "TV Overseas:The U.S. Hard Sell," from The
Nation (1966) Chapter 72 68 "Aggressiveness in Advanced Industrial
Societies," from Negations (1968) Chapter 73 Afterword and Acknowledgements
Chapter 74 Other Readers and Historical Collections in American Mass
Communication Study and Related Subjects Chapter 75 Suggested Films Chapter
76 Select Supplementary Reading List Chapter 77 The Intellectual History of
North American Media Studies, 1919-1968: A Selected Bibliography