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Informationen zum Autor Jane Addams (1860-1935) was a notable American activist and figure in the history of social work and women’s suffrage. She was an advocate for world peace and was the first women to be awarded an honorary degree from Yale University. She co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and in 1931 became the first American woman to be award the Nobel Peace Prize. Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961) was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist. She became the central leader of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) for which she won the Novel Peace Prize in 1946. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 L...
