Document (#15847)

Author

Cmiel, K.

Title

On cynicism, evil, and the discovery of communication in the 1940s

Source

Journal of communication. 46(1996) no.3, S.88-107

Year

1996

Abstract

Places mass communication research as the successor to propaganda analysis and as being related to modernization theory. Sets them in the broader context of mid century American and European thought, and examines some of the continuing moral and political conundrums of our times

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