Mass Communication and American Social Thought: Key Texts, 1919-1968 (Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture) by Daniel Bell, R. Richard Wohl, Lewis Mumford, Saul Rae, Raymond A. Bauer, Julian Huxley, Sherwood Anderson, Hans Speier, John Cheever, Hadley Cantril, Rolf Meyersohn, Robert Ezra Park, Helen M. Lynd, Herta Herzog, Daniel Lerner, Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Duncan MacDougald, Bernard R. Berelson, Dallas Smythe, Kurt Lang, Herbert Marcuse, Wilbur L. Schramm, Leo Löwenthal, Marshall McLuhan, Robert Staughton Lynd, Nathan Glazer, Ernst Kris, Gordon W. Allport, Donald Horton, Ernest Watson Burgess, Leila A. Sussmann, Helen MacGill Hughes, Harold D. Lasswell, George Gallup, Peter Simonson, Walter Lippman, Newton Minow, Warren Breed, Reuel Denny, Herbert Blumer, Charles Horton Cooley, C. Wright Mills, Malcolm Willey, Jane Addams, Norbert Wiener, Robert K. Merton, John Durham Peters, Alfred McLung Lee, John W. Riley, Hortense Powdermaker, Edward L. Bernays, Max Horkheimer, Stuart A. Rice, David Riesman, George Gerbner, James Rorty, Thelma McCormack, Theodor W. Adorno, Sidney Verba, Harold Innis, John Dewey, Charles Wright, Alain LeRoy Locke, Galdys Engel Lang, Louis Wirth, Edward Sapir, Elizabeth Briant Lee, Dwight Macdonald, Herbert Schiller, Gunnar Myrdal, Elihu Katz, David Sarnoff

552 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

informative medium-paced

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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 co...

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