The history of media and communication research
Subtitle: contested memories
By: edited by David W. Park, Jefferson Pooley.
Contributors: Park, David W., 1971-; Pooley, Jefferson.
Publisher: P. Lang; Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780820488295; 9781433102400
Subjects: Mass media -- Research -- History; Communication -- Research -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Remembering the straw man / Deborah Lubken; title: The new history of mass communication research / Jeff Pooley; title: Media research, 1900-1945 / James Anderson and Janet W. Colvin; title: Feminist historiography and the field / Lana Rakow; title: Institutional opportunities for intellectual history in communication studies / John Durham Peters; title: Communication / J. Michael Sproule; title: Opportunity structures and the creation of knowledge / David Morrison; title: From Park to Cressey / William J. Buxton; title: How does a discipline become institutionalized? / Veikko Pietila; title: Institutional networking / Kaarle Nordenstreng; title: Walter lippmann, straw man of communication research / Sue Curry Jansen; title: The two-step flow vs. the lonely crowd / David W. Park; title: Making sense of social change / Wendy Worrall Redal; title: Writing figures into the field / Peter Simonson.