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Introduction: Mass Communication and American Social Thought: Key Texts, 1919-1968 | |
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From Hope to Disillusionment: Mass Communication Theory Coalesces, 1919-1933 | |
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Introduction | |
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"The Process of Social Change," from Political Science Quarterly (1897) | |
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"The House of Dreams," from The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets (1909) | |
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From Winesburg, Ohio (1919) | |
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From the Introduction to the Science of Sociology (1921) | |
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"Nature, Communication, and Meaning," from Experience and Nature (1925) | |
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"The Disenchanted Man," from The Phantom Public (1925) | |
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"Criteria of Negro Art," from Crisis Magazine (1926) | |
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"The Results of Propaganda," from Propaganda Technique in the World War (1927) | |
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"Manipulating Public Opinion: The Why and the How" (1928) | |
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From Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) | |
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"Communication," from Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (1931) | |
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The World in Turmoil: Communications Research, 1933-1949 | |
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Introduction | |
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"Conclusion," from Movies and Conduct (1933) | |
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"The Integration of Communication," from Communication Agencies and Social Life (1933) | |
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"Toward a Critique of Negro Music," from Opportunity (1934) | |
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From Technics and Civilization (1934) | |
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"The Business Nobody Knows," from Our Master's Voice (1934) | |
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"The Influence of Radio upon Mental and Social Life," from The Psychology of Radio (1935) | |
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"Foreword," from Public Opinion Quarterly (1937) | |
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"Human Interest Stories and Democracy," from Public Opinion Quarterly (1937) | |
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From The Fine Art of Propaganda (1939) | |
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"A Powerful, Bold, and Unmeasurable Party?" from The Pulse of Democracy (1940) | |
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"Democracy in Reverse," from Public Opinion Quarterly (1940) | |
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"Needed Research in Communication," from the Rockefeller Archives (1940) | |
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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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"Art and Mass Culture," from Studies in Philosophy and Social Science (1941) | |
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"Administrative and Critical Communications Research," from Studies in Philosophy and Social Science (1941) | |
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"The Popular Music Industry," from Radio Research 1941 (1942) | |
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From Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) | |
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"Nazi Propaganda and Violence," from German Radio Propaganda (1944) | |
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"Biographies in Popular Magazines," from Radio Research 1942-1943 (1944) | |
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"The Negro Press," from An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944) | |
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"A Social Critique of Radio Music," from the Kenyon Review (1945) | |
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"The Social and Cultural Context," from Mass Persuasion (1946) | |
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"The Requirements," from A Free and Responsible Press (1947) | |
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"Mass Media," from UNESCO: Its Philosophy and Purpose (1947) | |
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"The Enormous Radio," from The Enormous Radio and Other Stories (1947) | |
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"Mass Communication, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action," from The Communication of Ideas (1948) | |
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Table from "Communication Research and the Social Psychologist," from Current Trends in Social Psychology (1948) | |
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"Information, Language, and Society," from Cybernetics: Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948) | |
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"Consensus and Mass Communication," from American Sociological Review (1948) | |
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"What 'Missing the Newspaper' Means," from Communications Research (1949) | |
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The American Dream and Its Discontents: Mass Communication Theory, 1949-1968 | |
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Introduction | |
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"Industrialism and Cultural Values," from The Bias of Communication (1950) | |
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"Emerging from Magic," from Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1950) | |
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"Storytellers as Tutors in Technique," from The Lonely Crowd (1950) | |
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"Our Next Frontier...Transoceanic TV," from Look (1950) | |
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"Communication in the Sovietized State, as Demonstrated in Korea," from Public Opinion Quarterly (1951) | |
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"The Consumer's Stake in Radio and Television," from Quarterly of Film, Radio and Television (1951) | |
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"The Unique Perspective of Television and Its Effect: A Pilot Study," from American Sociological Review (1952) | |
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"Technology and Political Change," from International Journal (1952) | |
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"A Theory of Mass Culture," from Diogenes (1953) | |
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"Sight, Sound, and Fury," from Commonweal (1954) | |
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"Between Media and Mass," from Personal Influence (1955) | |
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"The Theory of Mass Society: A Critique," from Commentary (1956) | |
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"Mass Communication and Para-Social Interaction: Observations on Intimacy at a Distance," from Psychiatry (1956) | |
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"The Mass Society," from The Power Elite (1956) | |
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"FDR and the White House Mail," from Public Opinion Quarterly (1956) | |
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"Notes on a Natural History of Fads," from American Journal of Sociology (1957) | |
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"Mass Communication and Socio-cultural Integration," from Social Forces (1958) | |
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"Modernizing Styles of Life: A Theory," from The Passing of Traditional Society (1958) | |
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"The Social-Anatomy of the Romance-Confession Cover Girl," from Journalism Quarterly (1959) | |
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"The State of Communication Research," from Public Opinion Quarterly (1959) | |
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"The State of Communication Research: Comments," from Public Opinion Quarterly (1959) | |
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"What Is Mass Communication?" from Mass Communication: A Sociological Perspective (1959) | |
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"Social Theory and Mass Media," from Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science (1961) | |
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"Television and the Public Interest" (1961) | |
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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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"TV Overseas: The U.S. Hard Sell," from The Nation (1966) | |
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"Aggressiveness in Advanced Industrial Societies," from Negations (1968) | |
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Afterword and Acknowledgments | |
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Other Readers and Historical Collections in American Mass Communication Study and Related Subjects | |
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Suggested Films | |
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Select Supplementary Reading List | |
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The Intellectual History of North American Media Studies, 1919-1968: A Selected Bibliography (Including Works Cited in Interpretive Essays) | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |