Mass communication and American social thought
Subtitle: key texts, 1919-1968
By: edited by John Durham Peters and Peter Simonson.
Contributors: Peters, John Durham.; Simonson, Peter.
Series: Critical media studies
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 530
Subjects: Mass media -- Social aspects; Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States; Communication -- Social aspects -- United States; Mass media and culture -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I: From hope to disillusionment: mass communication theory coalesces, 1919-1933; title: II: The world in turmoil: communications, research, 1933-1949; title: III: The American dream and its discontents: mass communication theory, 1949-1968.