TY - BOOK AU - Dennis,Everette E. AU - Wartella,Ellen AU - Lang,Kurt AU - Carey,James W. AU - McGuire,William J. AU - Katz,Elihu AU - Himmelweit,Hilde AU - Peterson,Theodore AU - Beville,Hugh Malcolm AU - Sills,David L. AU - Bartos,Rene AU - Schramm,Wilbur AU - Bogart,Leo AU - Cater,Douglass AU - Robinson,Gertrude J. AU - Wartella,Ellen TI - American communication research: the remembered history SN - 0805817433 (cloth) PY - 1996/// CY - Mahwah, N.J. PB - Erlbaum KW - Communication KW - Research KW - United States KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; The European roots / Kurt Lang -- The Chicago School and mass communication research / James W. Carey -- The Yale communication and attitude-change program in the 1950s / William J. McGuire -- Diffusion research at Columbia / Elihu Katz -- Children and television / Hilde Himmelweit -- The press as a social institution / Theodore Peterson; Fashioning audience ratings - from radio to cable / Hugh Malcolm Beville -- Stanton, Lazarsfeld, and Merton-Pioneers in communication research / David L. Sills -- A conversation with Frank Stanton / Rene Bartos -- The master teachers / Wilbur Schramm -- Research as an instrument of power / Leo Bogart -- Addressing public policy / Douglass Cater; Constructing a historiography for North American communication studies / Gertrude J. Robinson -- The history reconsidered / Ellen Wartella ER -