Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER ONE Education and Propaganda: The Propaganda Debate Between the Wars; CHAPTER TWO Communications Research Comes of Age; CHAPTER THREE The Social Ideas of American Mass Communications Experts; CHAPTER FOUR Paul F. Lazarsfeld and the Bureau of Applied Social Research; CHAPTER FIVE Wilbur Schramm and the Founding of Communication Study; CHAPTER SIX The Universe of Discourse in Which We Grew Up; CHAPTER SEVEN Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary
In this critical examination of the beginnings of mass communications research in the United States, written from the perspective of an educational historian, Timothy Glander uses archival materials that have not been widely studied to document, contextua