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& John Durham Peters, “Media and Communications.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology, edited by George Ritzer (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).
publications
2011
“Another Plea for the University Tradition: The Institutional Roots of Intellectual Compromise,” International Journal of Communication 5: 1442–1457. Shorter version published in Making the University Matter, edited by Barbie Zelizer (New York: Routledge, 2011).
“From Psychological Warfare to Social Justice: Shifts in Foundation Support for Communication Research.” In Media and Social Justice, edited by Sue Curry Jansen, Jeff Pooley, and Lora Taub-Pervizpour (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
& Sue Curry Jansen, Lora Taub-Pervizpour (eds.). Media and Social Justice. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). [AMAZON]
& Mark Solovey, “Somewhat Known But Not Known Well: Sociologist Harry Alpert’s Travels in American Social Science, 1930s-1960s,” Annals of Science 68.
[Book Review] The Public and Its Possibilities, by John D. Fairfield, Contemporary Sociology 40, no. 3 (2011): 302-4.
2010
& Mark Solovey, “Marginal to the Revolution: The Curious Relationship between Economics and the Behavioral Sciences Movement in Mid-20th Century America,” History of Political Economy 42S: 199-233.
“The Consuming Self: From Flappers to Facebook.” In Blowing Up the Brand: Critical Perspectives on Promotional Culture, edited by Melissa Aronczyk and Devon Powers, New York: Peter Lang, 2010.
“Mnemonic Multiples: The Case of the Columbia Panel Studies.” Timelines 15 (2010): 7-11.
2009
[Book Review] Caesarism, Charisma and Fate, by Peter Baehr, Canadian Journal of Sociology 34, no. 1 (2009): 165-68.
[Book Review] Media and Social Theory, edited by David Hesmondhalgh and Jason Toynbee, Contemporary Sociology 38, no. 5 (2009): 404-406.
2008
& David Park, (eds.) The History of Media and Communication Research: Contested Memories. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. [Reviews]
& David Park. “Introduction.” In The History of Media and Communication Research: Contested Memories, 1-15. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.
“The New History of Mass Communication Research.” In The History of Media and Communication Research: Contested Memories, 43-69. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.
& Elihu Katz. “Further Notes on Why American Sociology Abandoned Mass Communication Research.” Journal of Communication 58 (2008): 767-86.
2007
“Edward Shils’ Turn Against Karl Mannheim: The Central European Connection.” The American Sociologist 38, no. 4 (2007): 364-82.
“Straight By Day, Swingers By Night: Re-Reading Daniel Bell on Capitalism and Its Culture.” Review of Communication 7, no. 4 (2007): 401-10.
“Daniel Czitrom, James W. Carey, and the Chicago School.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 24, no. 5 (2007): 469-72.
2006
“Fifteen Pages That Shook the Field: Personal Influence, Edward Shils, and the Remembered History of Mass Communication Research.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 608, no. 1 (2006): 130-56.
An Accident of Memory: Edward Shils, Paul Lazarsfeld and the History of American Mass Communication Research. PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 2006.
2005
“[Book Review] Canonic Texts in Media Research: Are There Any? How About These?” The Journal of Communication 55, no. 1 (2005): 199-203.