Paul Lazarsfeld and the Origins of Communications Research

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Taylor & Francis, 14 juil. 2017 - 160 pages

The manuscript discusses the early days of communication research, explicitly the first works of Paul Lazarsfeld’s radio and media research in Vienna, Newark, NJ, Princeton and New York during the years between the early 1930s, and the end of the 1940s. Lazarsfeld’s Viennese radio research, especially the world’s first extensive audience research – RAVAG study (1931) – is entirely new information for English speaking scholars. The book shows the details of Lazarsfeld’s methodological reasoning in his projects in the field of communication. The book also presents the research institutes that Lazarsfeld founded in Vienna in 1931, from Newark Center in New Jersey (1935) to Princeton Office of Radio Research in 1937, and up to the foundation of Lazarsfeld’s famous BASR at Columbia University in New York in the 1940s. The monograph shows how important Lazarsfeld’s first studies were for the future development of communication.

 

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Chapter 1 The context of Lazarsfelds communication studies
1
Chapter 2 Lazarsfelds first communication studies
25
Chapter 3 The Princeton years of radio research
39
Chapter 4 The radio research yearbooks during World War 2
56
Chapter 5 Two major studies by Paul Lazarsfelds colleagues
81
Chapter 6 Representative studies of radio listeners
101
Chapter 7 The birth of communication research
113
Chapter 8 Lazarsfelds communication research
130
Summary
135
References
137
Index
144
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Hynek Jeřábek is a professor of sociology at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

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