Canonic Texts in Media Research
Subtitle: Are There Any? Should There be Any? How about These?
Contributors: Elihu Katz (Editor); Tamar Liebes (Editor); Avril Orloff (Editor); John Durham Peters (Editor)
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: December 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780745629339
Subjects: Media Studies; Sociology; Cinema/Film: Book; Performing Arts; Research; Philosophy; Methodology; Social Science / Media Studies; General; Mass media
First sentence: To see "Mass Communication, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action" (Lazarsfeld and Merton, 1948) for what it is, we need to be clear about what it is not.