A History of Communication Study: A Biographical Approach |
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Contents
Wilbur Schramm and the Founding | 1 |
Wilbur Schramm in about 1947 | 2 |
Charles Darwin and Evolutionary Theory | 41 |
Charles Darwin | 42 |
Intellectual Forebears and Descendants of Darwinian Theory | 48 |
Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalytic Theory | 65 |
Sigmund Freud at Age 70 | 70 |
Karl Marx and the Critical School | 102 |
Harold Lasswell and Propaganda Analysis | 203 |
Lasswell at Age 69 | 204 |
Paul F Lazarsfeld and Mass Communication Effects | 244 |
Paul F Lazarsfeld and Frank Stanton | 247 |
Adoption of Radio and Television in U S Households | 265 |
Kurt Lewin and Group Dynamics | 316 |
Kurt Lewin at the University of Iowa | 317 |
Carl Hovland and Persuasion Research | 356 |
Karl Marx in London at about 60 Years of Age | 103 |
Key Members of the Frankfurt School | 109 |
THE GROWTH OF COMMUNICATION | 127 |
The Chicago School | 137 |
Development in the United States of the Research University | 140 |
Intellectual Forebears and Descendants of the Chicago School | 151 |
John Dewey in about 1904 When He Left | 158 |
George Herbert Mead | 167 |
Robert E Park at the University of Chicago | 173 |
Hovland at Yale University | 357 |
Norbert Wiener and Cybernetics | 386 |
Norbert Wiener at MIT | 387 |
How Feedback Controls a System | 396 |
Claude E Shannons Information Theory | 411 |
The Shannon Model of Communication | 416 |
Wilbur Schramm and the Establishment | 445 |
Principal Figures in the History of Communication Study | 496 |
Index | 558 |