Mass Communication & Mass Society - Bibliography

George Herbert Mead, Mind, Self and Society U Chicago P, 1934) "The Social Foundations and Functions of Thought and Communication"

Herbert Blumer, Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method (Prentice-Hall, 1969)

Fukuyama, Francis. "Are We at the End of History?" Fortune, 15 January 1990, 75-76, 78.

Held, David, Alex Callinicos, and Anthony Giddens, Symposium on "Liberalism, Marxism, and Democracy," Theory and Society 22 (1993): 249-304.

"Liberalism Defined: The Perils of Complacency," The Economist (21 December 1996), 17-19.

Leon Bramson, “The American Critique of the Theory of Mass Society: Research in Mass Communication,” in The Political Context of Sociology (Princeton, 1961)

Todd Gitlin, "Media Sociology: The Dominant Paradigm," Theory and Society 6(2) (September 1978): 205-253

Carl Hovland, Irving Janis & Harold Kelley, Communication and Persuasion: Psychological Studies of Opinion Change (Yale UP, 1953)

Harold Lasswell, "The Structure and Function of Communication in Society," in Lyman Bryson, ed., The Communication of Ideas (Harper & Bros., 1948)

Werrett Wallace Charters, Motion Pictures and Youth: A Summary (Macmillan, 1933), pp. v-vii, 1-66

Garth Jowett, "Social Science as Weapon: Origins of Payne Studies," Communication 13 (3) (1992): 211-25

Willard Rowland, Jr., The Politics of TV Violence (Sage, 1983)

J. Michael Sproule, "Progressive Propaganda Critics and the Magic Bullet Myth," Critical Studies in Mass Communication (6) (3) (September 1989): 225-246

Paul Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson & Hazel Gaudet, The People's Choice: How the Voter Makes Up His Mind in a Presidential Campaign (Columbia UP, 1968)

Elihu Katz & Paul Lazarsfeld, Personal Influence (Free Press, 1955)

Joseph Klapper, The Effects of Mass Communication (Free Press, 1960)

James D. Halloran, ed., The Effects of Television (Panther, 1970)

Robert M. Liebert and Joyce Spratkin, The Early Window: Effects of Television on Children and Youth 3rd ed. (Pergamon)

George Gerbner, Larry Gross, Michael Morgan and Nancy Signorelli, "Charting the Mainstream: Television's Contributions to Political Orientations," Journal of Communication 32(2): 441-464

Denis McQuail, "With the Benefit of Hindsight: Reflections on Uses and Gratifications Research," in Michael Gurevitch and Mark R. Levy, eds., Mass Communication Review Yearbook Vol. 5 (Sage, 1984)

Maxwell E. McCombs and Donald L. Shaw, "The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media," Public Opinion Quarterly (36) (2) (Summer 1972): 176-187

Goran Therborn, "Critical Theory and the Legacy of Twentieth.Century Marxism," Ch. 2 in Bryan Turner, ed., Social Theory

Martin Jay, "The Genesis of Critical Theory," The Dialectical Imagination (Little, Brown & Co., 1973).

Max Horkheimer, "Traditional and Critical Theory," from his Critical Theory: Selected Essays (1992/1968).

Max Horkheimer, "Means and Ends," from his Eclipse of Reason (NY: Continuum, 1974/1947).

Thomas McCarthy, "The Idea of a Critical Theory and Its Relation to Philosophy," in On Max Horkheimer: New Perspectives, edited by Seyla Benhabib, Wolfgang Bon¢ and John McCole (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993).

Benjamin, W. (1968) ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, pp. 217-251 in H. Arendt (ed), Illuminations. New York: Schocken. (Original work published in 1936)

Theodor Adorno, "On the Fetish-Character in Music and the Regression of Listening," in Arato & Gebhardt, eds. The Essential Frankfurt School Reader (NY: Continuum, 1982).

Herbert Marcuse, “The Closing of the Universe of Discourse,” pp. 84-120 in One-Dimensional Man (Beacon Press, 1964)

David McLellan, "The Frankfurt School," in his Marxism After Marx (NY: Harper & Row, 1979).

Paul Lazarsfeld, "Remarks on Administrative and Critical Communications Research," Studies in Philosophy and Social Science (9)(1941): 2-16

Morrison, David E. (1978). Kultur and Culture: The Case of Theodor W. Adorno and Paul F. Lazarsfeld. Social Research 45(2), 331-355.

Peter U. Hohendahl, "The displaced intellectual? Adorno's American years revisited," New German Critique, Spring-Summer 1992.

Jurgen Habermas, "The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article," New German Critique, Fall 1974.

Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge, "The proletarian public sphere," in Communication and Class Struggle, vol. 2, eds. Armand Mattelart & Seth Sieglaub (NY: International General, 1983).

Joan Landes, "The Public and the Private Sphere: A Feminist Reconsideration," in Feminists Read Habermas (Routledge, 1995).

John B. Thompson, "The theory of the public sphere," Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 10, 1993.

Jurgen Habermas, "Further Reflections on the Public Sphere," in Calhoun, ed., Habermas and the Public Sphere (MIT Press, 1992).

Antonio Gramsci, "Journalism," Selections from Cultural Writings (Harvard UP, 1985), pp.386-425.

Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks (International Publishers, 1971):

Anne Showstack Sassoon, "Gramsci's concept of the party and politics in the prison notebooks," in Gramsci's Politics (St. Martin's Press, 1980), pp. 109-146.

Jorge Larrain, "Marx's Theory of Ideology," in his The Concept of Ideology, pp. 35-67.

Raymond Williams, Problems in Materialism and Culture (London: Verso, 1980):

Raymond Williams, "'You're a Marxist, Aren't You?'" in his Resources of Hope (Verso, 1989).

Alexis de Tocqueville, "The unlimited power of the majority in the United States, and its consequences," from his Democracy in America, vol. 1.

Patrick Brantlinger, Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay (Cornell UP, 1983)

F.R. Leavis, Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture (St. John's College, 1930)

C. Wright Mills, People, Power, Politics (Oxford UP, 1956)

C. Wright Mills, "The Mass Society," from The Power Elite (OUP, 1956).

David Riesman, "Storytellers as Tutors in Technique: Changes in the Agents of Character Formation," in his The Lonely Crowd (Yale UP, 1950).

Leo Lowenthal, Literature and Mass Culture (Transaction Books, 1984)

Paul Lazarsfeld & Robert Merton, "Mass Communication, Popular Taste and Organized Social Action," in Rosenberg & White, eds., Mass Culture (1957)

Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception," in Dialectic of Enlightenment (Continuum, 1987)

Dwight MacDonald, "A Theory of Mass Culture," in B. Rosenberg & D.M. White, eds., Mass Culture (Free Press, 1957)

Edward Shils, "Mass Society and Its Culture," Daedalus (89) (1960): 288-314

Jean Baudrillard, "Requiem for the Media," in his For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign (Telos Press, 1981).

Fredric Jameson, "Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture," in Signatures of the Visible (Routledge, 1992)

Ferdinand de Saussure, “The nature of the linguistic sign” and “The immutability and mutability of the sign,” in his Course in General Linguistics (McGraw-Hill, 1959).

Jonathan Culler, “Saussure’s Theory of Language,” in Ferdinand de Saussure (Penguin, 1976).

Terry Eagleton, “Structuralism,” in Literary Theory (University of Minnesota, 1996)

Kaja Silverman, “From Sign to Subject,” in The Subject of Semiotics (Oxford, 1983).

Perry Anderson, “Structure and Subject,” in In the Tracks of Historical Materialism (University of Chicago, 1984)

Roland Barthes, “Myth Today,” in Mythologies (Hill & Wang, 1957)

Roland Barthes, “Signifier and signified,” in his Elements of semiology (Hill and Wang, 1967).

Fredric Jameson, ""The Linguistic Model," in The Prison-House of Language (Princeton UP, 1972)

Claude Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind (U Chicago P, 1966)

Umberto Eco, “Towards a Semioligical Guerilla Warfare (1967),” in his Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1986).

Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," in Lenin and Philosophy (Monthly Review P, 1971)

John Fiske & John Hartley, Reading Television (Metheun, 1978)

First published in 1958, Small Town in Mass Society set community studies on a new course by placing the small town within the framework of large-scale, bureaucratic mass society. - http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s00/vidich.html

In his book A Humane Economy (1960, chapter 2), Ropke gives a thorough analysis of mass society. From his analyses of its origin and consequences we can learn that the diagnosis as well as the therapy is difficult. He is of the opinion that the crisis has even become worse during the third quarter of the twentieth century. - http://www.thbookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=C5057

Alexander, Jeffrey C. and Ronald N. Jacobs, 1998. "Mass Communication, Ritual, and Civil Society," in Media, Ritual, and Identity, ed. T. Liebes and J. Curran. London: Routledge, pp. 23-41.

Robert McChesney, Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy, New York: Seven Stories Press, 1997.

MediaMaking: Mass Media in a Popular Culture, edited by Lawrence Grossberg, Ellen Wartella, and D. Charles Whitney (Sage, 1998).

Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy by Robert McChesney (Seven Stories Press, 1997)

Gloria Steinem, "Sex, Lies, and Advertising," from Joan Gorham (ed.), Mass Media Annual Editions 99/00, Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, pp. 139173-181; originally published in Ms. Magazine, July/August 1990, pp. 18-28.

Ellen Seiter, "Semiotics and Television," from Robert C. Allen (ed.), Channels of Discourse, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987, pp. 17-41.

Todd Gitlin, "The Problem of Knowing," pp. 19-30, and "By the Numbers," pp. 47-55, from Inside Prime Time (New York: Pantheon, 1983).

Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., "Tracking the Audience," from John Downing, Ali Mohammadi, and Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi (eds.), Questioning the Media: A Critical Introduction, Newbury Park: Sage, 1990, pp. 166-179.

Warren St. John, "Dating a Blogger, Reading All About It," The New York Times, May 18, 2003.

Bertolt Brecht, "Radio as a Means of Communication," (a talk delivered in Germany in 1930), from Mattelart and Mattelart, Communication and Class Struggle Vol 2, (New York International General, 1985 pp. 169-171; http://www.uvm.edu/bhreserves/soc/brechtts043.

Raymond Williams, "The Social History of the Uses of Television Technology," from Television: Technology and Cultural Form, pp. 19-31.

"Expert Opinion: How to Shoot a Nude Scene [and other insider advice]," New York Times Sunday Magazine, 11/3/2002, pp. 28-32; http://www.uvm.edu/bhreserves/soc/verhoevents043.pdf .

Josh Rottenburg, "The Insider's Indie: how a low-budget flick by a no-name director became a major studio's Christmas release," New York Times Sunday Magazine, 11/3/2002, pp. 22-24;http://www.uvm.edu/bhreserves/soc/rottenbergts043.pdf

CHRIS BALLARD, "How to Write a Catchy Beer Ad," New York Times, January 26, 2003.

Doug Underwood, "Assembly-line Journalism," Columbia Journalism Review, July/August 1998, pp. 42-44 http://www.cjr.org/year/98/4/assembly.asp.

Katharine Q. Seelye, "TV Drama, Pentagon-Style: A Fictional Terror Tribunal," New York Times, March 31, 2002

Katherine Rosman, "JonBenet, Inc." Brill's Content, February 2000, pp. 96-107, 128.

Peter Maass, "Good Kills," New York Times Sunday Magazine, April 20, 2003: http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/readings/Good_Kills.html

"Synergizing Private Lynch," New York Times, June 15, 2003.

JIM RUTENBERG, "To Interview Former P.O.W., CBS Dangles Stardom," New York Times, June 16, 2003.

Paul Farhi, "Mega Hurts: Clear Channel's Big Radio Ways Are Getting a Lot of Static These Days," Washington Post, Wednesday, May 29, 2002; Page C01, http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/readings/Farhi_Mega_Hurts.txt.

Matt Witt, "We Rarely See Those Who Labor: Newspapers and broadcasters favor corporate views, ignoring those of people who do America's work," 8-26-99: http://www.ibew1613.org/library/those_who_labor.html.

ROB WALKER, "The Marketing of No Marketing," New York Times, June 22, 2003.

Amy Harmon, "Star Wars' Fan Films Come Tumbling Back to Earth," New York Times, April 28, 2002

Marshall Sella, "The Remote Controllers," New York Times, October 20, 2002.

Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, "TV Addiction," Scientific American, February, 2002.

Jim Edwards, "Wrong Turns," Brill's Content, January 2001, pp. 113-169; http://www.uvm.edu/bhreserves/soc/edwardsts043.pdf

"Race Against Prime Time" (video, California Newsreel): available in the Bailey-Howe library media center, or online: click here for part 1, and here for part 2. (Requires Quicktime.)

Sharyn Wizda, "Parachute Journalism," American Journalism Review, July/August 1997, pp. 40-44. http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/readings/Parachute_Journ.txt

Jim Edwards, "Wrong Turns," Brill's Content, January 2001, pp. 113-169; http://www.uvm.edu/bhreserves/soc/edwardsts043.pdf

"Race Against Prime Time" (video, California Newsreel): available in the Bailey-Howe library media center, or online: click here for part 1, and here for part 2. (Requires Quicktime.)

Sharyn Wizda, "Parachute Journalism," American Journalism Review, July/August 1997, pp. 40-44. uvm.edu/~tstreete/readings/Parachute_Journ.txt