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“The University of Chicago Committee on Communication, 1942, 1948–1959: The Life and Death of an Interdisciplinary Field” bibtex MediArXiv preprint
“The Struggle Over Project Troy’s Successor: Economists and Other Social Scientists in the Making of MIT’s Center for International Studies” bibtex SocArXiv preprint
“What Were the Behavioral Sciences?” bibtex SocArXiv preprint
“Masses Are Other People” bibtex MediArXiv preprint
“The Declining Significance of Disciplinary Memory: The Case of Communication Research” bibtex MediArXiv preprint
“The Remobilization of the Propaganda and Morale Network, 1947–1953” bibtex MediArXiv preprint
“The Book Review as Intellectual Craft: A Bibliophilic Tribute to Sue Curry Jansen” bibtex [in review]

2024

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& Michael Serazio, Edward Timke, “Key Concepts in Advertising: Authenticity” bibtex Advertising & Society Quarterly
“Academic Life Is About Humiliation and
Envy. This Novel Gets It.” 		bibtex Chronicle of Higher Education
“Large Language Publishing” bibtex Upstream

2023

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“La edición de textos científicos vigilada: las grandes editoriales y la monetización de la información de los autores” (English version) bibtex CICIMAR Oceánides
& Peter Simonson, David W. Park, “The History of Communication Studies across the Americas: A View from the United States” (Portuguese version) bibtex MATRIZes
& Sue Curry Jansen, “The Tiny, Grammar-Bound Island: Susanne K. Langer on the Limits of Language Modeling” bibtex The Hedgehog Review
“The Plasticity of Social Knowledge: Paul F. Lazarsfeld and U.S. Communication Research, 1937–1952” bibtex Journal for the History of Knowledge
“The Scholarly Fingerprinting Industry” bibtex Amerikastudien/American Studies
“Die abnehmende Bedeutung des disziplinären Gedächtnisses: Der Fall der Kommunikationsforschun” bibtex Handbuch kommunikationswissenschaftliche Erinnerungsforschung

2022

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“The APC Question Mark Hovering Over the OSTP Announcement” bibtex LSE Impact Blog
“The Case for PubPub” bibtex Elephant in the Lab
“Exclusions/Exclusiones: The Role for History in the Field’s Reckoning” bibtex History of Media Studies | español
“Surveillance Publishing” (Spanish version) bibtex Journal of Electronic Publishing
“Surveillance Publishing” bibtex Elephant in the Lab
“Writing onto the Clouds: John Durham Peters and Inscription Media” bibtex Media Theory
& Hynek Jerabek, “Introduction: Lazarsfeld’s Legacy” bibtex International Journal of Communication
Review of The Information Manifold bibtex Spontaneous Generations

2021

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“The Legacy of The American Soldier” bibtex The American Soldier in WW II
“History of Media Studies, in the Plural” bibtex History of Media Studies
& Sue Curry Jansen, “Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent” bibtex The b2o Review
Review of Cold War Social Science bibtex Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
“Collective Funding to Reclaim Scholarly Publishing” bibtex The Commonplace
“MIT and Harvard Have Sold Higher Education’s Future” bibtex Chronicle of Higher Education
“Preface: An Open Reader” & “Introduction: Performance and Authenticity” bibtex Social Media & the Self
& Sue Curry Jansen, “Blurring Genres and Violating Guild Norms: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: A Review of reviews” bibtex New Media & Society
“Suggestion Theory Across the Disciplines: The History of Communication Research Before Communication Research” bibtex Journalism & Communication Monographs
“Data Dependencies and Funding Prospects: A 1930s Cautionary Tale” bibtex HKS Misinformation Review
Book review of Communication: A Post-Discipline, by Silvio R. Waisbord bibtex Communications
& Philippe Fontaine, “Introduction: Whose Social Problems?” Society on the Edge: Social Science and Public Policy in the Postwar United States, edited by Philippe Fontaine & Jefferson Pooley (Cambridge University Press) bibtex Cambridge University Press
& Philippe Fontaine, eds., Society on the Edge: Social Science and Public Policy in the Postwar United States (Cambridge University Press) bibtex Cambridge University Press

2020

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“James Rorty’s Voice: Introduction to the mediastudies.press edition” bibtex Our Master’s Voice
“Read-and-Publish Open Access Deals Are Heightening Global Inequalities in Access to Publication” bibtex LSE Impact Blog

2019

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“The Library Solution: How Academic Libraries Could End the APC Scourge” bibtex Items
& Brooke Erin Duffy, “Idols of Promotion: The Triumph of Self-Branding in an Age of Precarity” bibtex Journal of Communication
“Edward Shils and the Intellectuals” bibtex Manchester University Press

2018

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& Michael Socolow, "When Historians Traffic in Fake News: Unraveling the Myth of ‘War of the Worlds,’” Washington Post, October 30 bibtex Washington Post
"The Trials of Media Research,” Culture Digitally, July 31 bibtex Culture Digitally
"The Post-Program Era: The Rise of Internet & Society Centers—and a New Interdiscipline,” Culture Digitally, March 5 bibtex Culture Digitally
“Wilbur Schramm and the ‘Four Founders’ History of U.S. Communication Research," Communications. Media. Design, 2, no. 4 bibtex Communications. Media. Design
“Metrics Mania: The Case Against Academia.edu,” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 7 bibtex Chronicle of Higher Education

2017

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“The Commons, by Apple,” Jacobin, December 20 bibtex Jacobin
“Wilbur Schramm: ‘Evangelist of Communication Research,’” Communications. Media. Design, 2, no. 2: 77–83 bibtex Communication. Media. Design
“Scholarly Communications Shouldn’t Just Be Open, but Non-Profit Too,” LSE Impact Blog, August 15 bibtex LSE Impact Blog
& Dwayne Winseck, “A Curious Tale of Economics and Common Carriage (Net Neutrality) at the FCC: A Reply to Faulhaber, Singer, and Urschel,” International Journal of Communication, 11: 2702–2733 bibtex International Journal of Communication
& Dwayne Winseck, “Information Laundering, Economists and Ajit Pai’s Race to Roll-Back the Obama-era FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules,” Benton Foundation, July 12 bibtex Benton Foundation
& Brooke Erin Duffy, “‘Facebook for Academics’: The Convergence of Self-Branding and Social Media Logic on Academia.edu,” Social Media + Society, 3, no. 1 bibtex Social Media + Society
& Christian Schwarzenegger, “Faulty Reception: The Institutional Roots of U.S. Communication Research’s Neglect of Public Sphere Scholarship,” Kommunikationswissenschaft im internationalen Vergleich, edited by Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz (Springer VS) bibtex Springer VS
“As Goes the Media, So Goes Scholarly Publishing,” Cyborgology, February 15 bibtex Cyborgology
& Meredith Salisbury, “The #nofilter Self: The Contest for Authenticity among Social Networking Sites, 2002–2016,” Social Sciences, 6, no. 1: 10–34 bibtex Social Sciences
“The Impact Platform,” Parameters, January 25 bibtex Parameters

2016

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James W. Carey and Communication Research: Reputation at the University’s Margins (Peter Lang) bibtex Peter Lang
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“How to Become a Famous Media Scholar: The Case of Marshall McLuhan,” Los Angeles Review of Books, December 20 bibtex Los Angeles Review of Books
“Why We Can’t Know Whether Facebook Is to Blame for Trump’s Election,” Slate, November 11 bibtex Slate
James W. Carey and Communication Research: Reputation at the University’s Margins (Peter Lang) bibtex Peter Lang
“Open Media Scholarship: The Case for Open Access in Media Studies,” International Journal of Communication, 10: 6164–6168 bibtex International Journal of Communication
"The Field, Fermented: Prestige and the Vocational Bind in Communication Research,” International Communication Gazette, 78: 621–626 bibtex International Communication Gazette
"Communication Theory and the Disciplines,” International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy bibtex Wiley-Blackwell
“Apple Watch pivots to fitness—and focuses on a different style of self-help,” The Conversation, September 8 bibtex The Conversation
"A ‘Not Particularly Felicitous’ Phrase: A History of the ‘Behavioral Sciences’ Label,” Serendipities, 1, no 1: 38–81 bibtex Serendipities
"The Four Cultures: Media Studies at the Crossroads,” Social Media + Society, 2, no. 1: 1–4 bibtex Social Media + Society
"The Four Cultures: Media Studies at the Crossroads,” Culture Digitally, March 9 bibtex Culture Digitally [republication]
"Lazarsfeld, Paul F.,” International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy bibtex Wiley-Blackwell
"Sociology of Knowledge,” International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy bibtex Wiley-Blackwell

2015

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“Social Media’s Charts and Metrics Turn Us Into Quantified Digital Versions of Ourselves,” The Conversation, May 29. bibtex The Conversation
“Media Scholarship Needs Updating: Iterative Article ‘Editions’ for a Sped-Up World,” Culture Digitally, May 28. bibtex Culture Digitally / Spanish-language version
“Sinking the Flagship: Why Communication Studies Is Better Off Without One,” International Journal of Communication, 9: 1247–1255. bibtex International Journal of Communication
“U.S. Communication History and the Discipline’s Digital Euphoria,” Aviso no. 60: 7–8. bibtex Aviso
"Mnemonic Multiples: The Case of the Columbia Panel Studies,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 51, no. 1 (2015): 10–30. bibtex Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

2014

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"Sociology and the Socially Mediated Self.” In Media Sociology, edited by Silvio Waisbord (New York: Polity, 2014). bibtex Polity
[Book Review] Cultures of Mediatization, by Andreas Hepp, International Journal of Communication 8 (2014): 2778–82. bibtex International Journal of Communication

2013

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& Michael Socolow, “The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic,” Slate, October 28, 2013. bibtex Slate
& Michael Socolow, “Checking Up on The Invasion from Mars: Hadley Cantril, Paul Lazarsfeld, and the Making of a Misremembered Classic,” International Journal of Communication 7: 1920–1948. bibtex International Journal of Communication
& Michael Socolow, “War of the Words: The Invasion from Mars and Its Legacy for Mass Communication Scholarship.” In War of the Worlds to Social Media: Mediated Communication in Times of Crisis, edited by Joy Hayes, Kathleen Battles, & Wendy Hilton-Morrow (New York: Peter Lang, 2013). bibtex Peter Lang
"Digital Rights Management: Downloads, Downers and a Call for PDF Publishing.” Guardian Higher Education Network, February 26, 2013. bibtex The Guardian

2012

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& David Park, “History of Communication Research.” In The Handbook of Communication History, edited by Peter Simonson, Janice Peck, Robert T. Craig, and John P. Jackson (New York: Routledge, 2012). bibtex Routledge
& John Durham Peters, “Media and Communications.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology, edited by George Ritzer (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). bibtex Wiley-Blackwell

2011

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“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). bibtex International Journal of Communication
"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). bibtex Palgrave Macmillan
& Sue Curry Jansen, Lora Taub-Pervizpour (eds.). Media and Social Justice. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). bibtex Palgrave Macmillan
& Mark Solovey, “The Price of Success: Sociologist Harry Alpert, the NSF’s First Social Science Policy Architect,” Annals of Science 68. bibtex Annals of Science
[Book Review] The Public and Its Possibilities, by John D. Fairfield, Contemporary Sociology 40, no. 3 (2011): 302–4. bibtex Contemporary Sociology

2010

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& Mark Solovey, “Marginal to the Revolution: The Curious Relationship between Economics and the Behavioral Sciences Movement in Mid-Twentieth-Century America,” History of Political Economy 42S: 199–233. bibtex History of Political Economy
"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. bibtex Peter Lang

2009

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[Book Review] Caesarism, Charisma and Fate, by Peter Baehr, Canadian Journal of Sociology 34, no. 1 (2009): 165–68. bibtex Canadian Journal of Sociology
[Book Review] Media and Social Theory, edited by David Hesmondhalgh and Jason Toynbee, Contemporary Sociology 38, no. 5 (2009): 404–406. bibtex Contemporary Sociology

2008

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& David Park, (eds.) The History of Media and Communication Research: Contested Memories. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. [Reviews] bibtex Peter Lang
& David Park. “Introduction.” In The History of Media and Communication Research: Contested Memories, 1–15. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. bibtex Peter Lang
"The New History of Mass Communication Research.” In The History of Media and Communication Research: Contested Memories, 43–69. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. bibtex Peter Lang
& Elihu Katz. “Further Notes on Why American Sociology Abandoned Mass Communication Research.” Journal of Communication 58 (2008): 767–86. bibtex Journal of Communication

2007

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"Edward Shils' Turn Against Karl Mannheim: The Central European Connection.” The American Sociologist 38, no. 4 (2007): 364–82. bibtex The American Sociologist
"Straight By Day, Swingers By Night: Re-Reading Daniel Bell on Capitalism and Its Culture.” Review of Communication 7, no. 4 (2007): 401–10. bibtex Review of Communication
"Daniel Czitrom, James W. Carey, and the Chicago School.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 24, no. 5 (2007): 469–72. bibtex Critical Studies in Media Communication

2006

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"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. bibtex The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
An Accident of Memory: Edward Shils, Paul Lazarsfeld and the History of American Mass Communication Research. PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 2006. bibtex Columbia University
“Will Bethlehem Turn Steel into Gold?” bibtex Next American City

2005

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[Book Review] _Canonic Texts in Media Research: Are There Any? How About These?, by Elihu Katz, John Durham Peters, Tamar Liebes, & Avril Orloff, The Journal of Communication 55, no. 1 (2005): 199–203. bibtex Journal of Communication