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Wilbur Schramm and the ‘Four Founders’ History of U.S. Communication Research
- Author(s):
- Jefferson Pooley (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- Cultural Studies
- Subject(s):
- Social sciences, History, Philosophy, Science--Philosophy, Technology--Philosophy, Science, Technology, Communication--Study and teaching, Mass media--Study and teaching, Historiography
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- History of sociology, History and philosophy of the human sciences, History and philosophy of science and technology, Communication studies, Media studies, History of media studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6Q859
- Abstract:
- 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 paper 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.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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