scholarly journals Suggestion Theory Across the Disciplines: The History of Communication Research Before Communication Research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jefferson Pooley
Keyword(s):  
Media Effects ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
History Of

This is a solicited commentary on a forthcoming monograph by Patrick Parsons, "The Lost Doctrine: Suggestion Theory in Early Media Effects Research," to be published in Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs.

The Lost Doctrine: Suggestion Theory in Early Media Effects Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-138
Author(s):  
Patrick R. Parsons
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
World War ◽  
Opinion Change ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dominant Theory

This monograph examines the history of the “suggestion doctrine,” a theory of communicative influence that arose in social psychology at the turn of the 20th century and was applied to the study of media effects before World War II. During that period, suggestion theory was one of the foremost psychological explanations of opinion change and a dominant theory of media influence. Despite its long prominence in early social science and media studies, the doctrine has been largely ignored in contemporary histories of mass communication research. Although writers debate the origins and nature of early media effects scholarship, few of the contending parties address the role of the suggestion doctrine, and those who do offer but a passing reference. My purpose here, therefore, is to recover an important but forgotten part of the intellectual history of the field.

scholarly journals Oral History of Charles R. Wright (1927-2017)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jefferson Pooley
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Mass Communications ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
History Of ◽  
School Faculty ◽  
Annenberg School

A distinguished sociologist of mass communication, Charles (Charlie) Wright was noted for his functionalist analysis of media as codified in the 1959 book Mass Communication. Wright joined the Annenberg School faculty in 1969. Over the span of 45 years, and well after his formal retirement in 1996, Wright taught generations of Annenberg students--notably his signature graduate course, Sociology of Mass Communications. That course--and indeed Wright’s career-long project to instill a sociological sensibility into communication research--had its roots in his mid–1950s teaching as a Columbia University graduate student and instructor.

The Beginnings of Mass Communication: A Transnational History

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 513-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Simonson ◽  
Junya Morooka ◽  
Bingjuan Xiong ◽  
Nathan Bedsole
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Transnational History ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
World War ◽  
Power And Resistance ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
History Of ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract Mass communication was one of the central signs through which communication research constituted itself in the post-World War II era. An American term, it indexed and communicatively advanced the problematization of media that took shape from the 1920s onward. Recently, scholars have debated the term’s continued relevance, typically without awareness of its history or international contexts of use. To provide needed background and enrich efforts to globalize the field, we offer a transnational history of mass communication, illuminating the sociological, cultural, and geopolitical dynamics of its emergence, dissemination, and reception. Mapping locations of its adoption, adaption, and rejection across world regions, we offer a methodology and a historical narrative to shed light on the early globalization of the field and lines of power and resistance that shaped it. We show how the term carries a residue of postwar American hegemony, and argue for greater reflexive awareness of our vocabularies of inquiry.

scholarly journals Wilbur Schramm and the “Four Founders” History Of U.S. Communication Research

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jefferson Pooley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Origin Myth ◽  
Communication Study

In its postwar institutional infancy, American mass communication research badly needed a history. Communication study in the United States, jerry-rigged from journalism schools and speech departments in the years following World War II, has from the beginning suffered from a legitimacy deficit. This talk traces Wilbur Schramm’s self-conscious and successful effort to supply such a history in the form of an origin myth, complete with four putative founders.

Review of New models for mass communication research.

1975 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 431-432
Author(s):  
ANTHONY G. GREENWALD
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
New Models

Are Demographics Adequate Controls for Cell-Phone-Only Coverage Bias in Mass Communication Research?

2015 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 723-743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan R. Watson ◽  
Rodrigo Zamith ◽  
Sarah Cavanah ◽  
Seth C. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Coverage Bias
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