Mass Communication And American Social Thought
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...
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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. This text is ideal for upper-level courses in mass communication and media theory, media and society, mass communication effects, and mass media history.
Introduction : mass communication and American social thought : key texts, 1919-196811The process of social change212The house of dreams253From Winesburg, Ohio304From the Introduction to the science of sociology315Nature, communication, and meaning356The disenchanted man367Criteria of Negro art428The results of papaganda479Manipulating public opinion : the why and the how5110From Middletown : a study in contemporary American culture5811Communication7412Conclusion9113The integration of communication9514Toward a critique of Negro music9815From technics and civilization10216The business nobody knows10617The influence of radio upon mental and social life11018Foreword11619Human interest stories and democracy11820From The fine art of propaganda (1939)12421A powerful, bold, and unmeasurable party?12822Democracy in reverse13423Needed research in communication24On borrowed experience : an analysis of listing to daytime sketches13925Art and mass culture15726Administrative and critical communications research16627The popular music industry17428From dialectic of enlightenment (1944)18029Nazi propaganda and violence18230Biographies in popular magazines18831The Negro press20632A social critique of radio music21033The social and cultural context21534The requirements21835Mass media22236The enormous radio22437Mass communication, popular taste, and organized social action23038Table from cummunication research and the social psychologist24239Information, language, and society24340Consensus and mass communication24941What 'missing the newspaper' means25442Industrialism and cultural values27543Emerging from magic28044Storytellers as tutors in technique29345Our next frontier ... transoceanic TV30946Communication in the Sovietized state, as demonstrated in Korea31047The consumer's stake in radio and television31848The unique perspective of television and its effect : a pilot study32849Technology and political change33850A theory of mass culture34351Sight, sound, and fury35352Between media and mass35853The theory of mass society : a critique36454Mass communication and para-social interaction : observations on intimacy at a distance37355The mass society38756FDR and the White House mail40157Notes on a natural history of fads40958Mass communication and socio-cultural integration41759Modernizing styles of life : a theory42660The social-anatomy of the romance-confession cover girl43461The state of communication research44062The state of communication research : comments44663What is mass communication?45464Social theory and mass media45765Television and the public interest46566The Kennedy assassination and the nature of political commitment47267TV overseas : the U.S. hard sell48068Aggressiveness in advanced industrial societies485Other readers and historical collections in American mass communication study and related subjects499The intellectual history of North American media studies, 1919-1968 : a selected bibliography (including works cited in interpretive essays)509
\ ChoiceSome of the work gathered in this remarkable collection of excerpts—from essays, books, journals, fiction, academic research, and popular writing—has long been out of print, and Peters and Simonson's intention was to make these works available to a broad readership. In their introductory chapter, the editors provide an informative, enthusiastic rationale for the project and their choices and also an overview of the evolution of writing and thought about mass communication. Peters and Simonson also provide lists of supplementary collections and of films that 'raise questions about the meaning of media for modern social life.' They close their valuable collection with a selected bibliography. Recommended.\ \ \ \ \ Communication Booknotes QuarterlyIncludes nearly 70 papers or excepts from important theorists and researchers over a half century period vital to the formation of an academic discipline. A very useful addition to the literature which should open links for new readers to important historical work.\ \
