American Communication Research
Subtitle: The Remembered History (Lea's Communication Series)
Contributors: Everette E. Dennis (Editor); Ellen Ann Wartella (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Published: March 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780805817430
Subjects: Media studies; Other prose: from c 1900 -; Sociology; History; Science/Mathematics; USA; United States; Communication; General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication; Research
Description: This book captures the essence of a never-to-be-repeated glimpse at the history of media research. It offers a unique examination of the origins, meaning, and impact of media and communication research in America, with links to European antecedents. Based on a high-level seminar series at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University, the book features work by leading scholars, researchers, and media executives.

Participants in the series have called the program "heroic and unprecedented." The book encompasses essays, commentaries, and reports by such leading figures as William McGuire, Elihu Katz, and Leo Bogart, plus posthumous reports by Wilbur Schramm, Hugh Malcolm Beville, and Hilde Himmelweit. It also contains original insights on the collaboration of Frank Stanton, Paul Lazarsfeld, and Robert K. Merton.