| Introduction: Mass Communication and American Social Thought: Key Texts, 1919--1968 |
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Part I: From Hope to Disillusionment: Mass Communication Theory Coalesces, 1919--1933 |
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13 | (8) |
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``The Process of Social Change,'' from Political Science Quarterly (1897) |
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21 | (4) |
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``The House of Dreams,'' from The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets (1909) |
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25 | (5) |
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From Winesburg, Ohio (1919) |
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30 | (1) |
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From the Introduction to the Science of Sociology (1921) |
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31 | (4) |
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``Nature, Communication, and Meaning,'' from Experience and Nature (1925) |
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35 | (1) |
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``The Disenchanted Man,'' from The Phantom Public (1925) |
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36 | (6) |
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``Criteria of Negro Art,'' from Crisis Magazine (1926) |
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42 | (5) |
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``The Results of Propaganda,'' from Propaganda Technique in the World War (1927) |
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47 | (4) |
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``Manipulating Public Opinion: The Why and the How'' (1928) |
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51 | (7) |
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From Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) |
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58 | (16) |
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``Communication,'' from Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (1931) |
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74 | (17) |
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Part II: The World in Turmoil: Communications Research, 1933--1949 |
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79 | (12) |
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``Conclusion,'' from Movies and Conduct (1933) |
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91 | (4) |
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``The Integration of Communication,'' from Communication Agencies and Social Life (1933) |
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95 | (3) |
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``Toward a Critique of Negro Music,'' from Opportunity (1934) |
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98 | (4) |
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From Technics and Civilization (1934) |
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102 | (4) |
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``The Business Nobody Knows,'' from Our Master's Voice (1934) |
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106 | (4) |
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``The Influence of Radio upon Mental and Social Life,'' from The Psychology of Radio (1935) |
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110 | (6) |
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``Foreword,'' from Public Opinion Quarterly (1937) |
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116 | (2) |
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``Human Interest Stories and Democracy,'' from Public Opinion Quarterly (1937) |
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118 | (6) |
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From The Fine Art of Propaganda (1939) |
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124 | (4) |
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``A Powerful, Bold, and Unmeasurable Party?'' from The Pulse of Democracy (1940) |
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128 | (6) |
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``Democracy in Reverse,'' from Public Opinion Quarterly (1940) |
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134 | (2) |
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``Needed Research in Communication,'' from the Rockefeller Archives (1940) |
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136 | (3) |
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``On Borrowed Experience: An Analysis of Listening to Daytime Sketches,'' from Studies in Philosophy and Social Science (1941) |
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139 | (18) |
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``Art and Mass Culture,'' from Studies in Philosophy and Social Science (1941) |
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157 | (9) |
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``Administrative and Critical Communications Research,'' from Studies in Philosophy and Social Science (1941) |
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166 | (8) |
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``The Popular Music Industry,'' from Radio Research 1941 (1942) |
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174 | (6) |
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From Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) |
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180 | (2) |
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``Nazi Propaganda and Violence,'' from German Radio Propaganda (1944) |
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182 | (6) |
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``Biographies in Popular Magazines,'' from Radio Research 1942--1943 (1944) |
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188 | (18) |
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``The Negro Press,'' from An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944) |
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206 | (4) |
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``A Social Critique of Radio Music,'' from the Kenyon Review (1945) |
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210 | (5) |
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``The Social and Cultural Context,'' from Mass Persuasion (1946) |
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215 | (3) |
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``The Requirements,'' from A Free and Responsible Press (1947) |
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218 | (4) |
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``Mass Media,'' from UNESCO: Its Philosophy and Purpose (1947) |
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222 | (2) |
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``The Enormous Radio,'' from The Enormous Radio and Other Stories (1947) |
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224 | (6) |
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``Mass Communication, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action,'' from The Communication of Ideas (1948) |
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230 | (12) |
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Table from ``Communication Research and the Social Psychologist,'' from Current Trends in Social Psychology (1948) |
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242 | (1) |
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``Information, Language, and Society,'' from Cybernetics: Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948) |
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243 | (6) |
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``Consensus and Mass Communication,'' from American Sociological Review (1948) |
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249 | (5) |
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``What `Missing the Newspaper' Means,'' from Communications Research (1949) |
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254 | (21) |
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Part III: The American Dream and Its Discontents: Mass Communication Theory, 1949--1968 |
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263 | (12) |
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``Industrialism and Cultural Values,'' from The Bias of Communication (1950) |
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275 | (5) |
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``Emerging from Magic,'' from Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1950) |
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280 | (13) |
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``Storytellers as Tutors in Technique,'' from The Lonely Crowd (1950) |
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293 | (16) |
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``Our Next Frontier . . . Transoceanic TV,'' from Look (1950) |
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309 | (1) |
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``Communication in the Sovietized State, as Demonstrated in Korea,'' from Public Opinion Quarterly (1951) |
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310 | (8) |
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``The Consumer's Stake in Radio and Television,'' from Quarterly of Film, Radio and Television (1951) |
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318 | (10) |
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``The Unique Perspective of Television and Its Effect: A Pilot Study,'' from American Sociological Review (1952) |
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328 | (10) |
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``Technology and Political Change,'' from International Journal (1952) |
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338 | (5) |
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``A Theory of Mass Culture,'' from Diogenes (1953) |
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343 | (10) |
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``Sight, Sound, and Fury,'' from Commonweal (1954) |
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353 | (5) |
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``Between Media and Mass,'' from Personal Influence (1955) |
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358 | (6) |
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``The Theory of Mass Society: A Critique,'' from Commentary (1956) |
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364 | (9) |
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``Mass Communication and Para-Social Interaction: Observations on Intimacy at a Distance,'' from Psychiatry (1956) |
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373 | (14) |
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``The Mass Society,'' from The Power Elite (1956) |
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387 | (14) |
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``FDR and the White House Mail,'' from Public Opinion Quarterly (1956) |
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401 | (8) |
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``Notes on a Natural History of Fads,'' from American Journal of Sociology (1957) |
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409 | (8) |
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``Mass Communication and Socio-cultural Integration,'' from Social Forces (1958) |
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417 | (9) |
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``Modernizing Styles of Life: A Theory,'' from The Passing of Traditional Society (1958) |
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426 | (8) |
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``The Social-Anatomy of the Romance-Confession Cover Girl,'' from Journalism Quarterly (1959) |
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434 | (6) |
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``The State of Communication Research,'' from Public Opinion Quarterly (1959) |
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440 | (6) |
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``The State of Communication Research: Comments,'' from Public Opinion Quarterly (1959) |
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446 | (8) |
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``What Is Mass Communication?'' from Mass Communication: A Sociological Perspective (1959) |
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454 | (3) |
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``Social Theory and Mass Media,'' from Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science (1961) |
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457 | (8) |
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``Television and the Public Interest'' (1961) |
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465 | (7) |
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``The Kennedy Assassination and the Nature of Political Commitment,'' from The Kennedy Assassination and the American Public (1965) |
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472 | (8) |
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``TV Overseas: The U.S. Hard Sell,'' from The Nation (1966) |
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480 | (5) |
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``Aggressiveness in Advanced Industrial Societies,'' from Negations (1968) |
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485 | (10) |
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| Afterword and Acknowledgments |
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495 | (4) |
| Other Readers and Historical Collections in American Mass Communication Study and Related Subjects |
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499 | (2) |
| Suggested Films |
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501 | (4) |
| Select Supplementary Reading List |
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505 | (4) |
| The Intellectual History of North American Media Studies, 1919--1968: A Selected Bibliography (Including Works Cited in Interpretive Essays) |
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509 | (10) |
| Credits |
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519 | (6) |
| Index |
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525 | (6) |
| About the Editors |
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