PSCI 3333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Talk Radio, Adaptive Learning, The Christian Science Monitor
27 Jan 2017
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Monday, march 30, 2015 1:05 pm: readings for upcoming sections: If we were all driven by sb, all we would need to know is their characteristics to understand behaviors and outcomes for individuals. However, there is something else moving these attitudes and behaviors. Where do these external in uences come from: a lot of forms of public/mass media communications. Newspapers: earliest date back to early 19th century, falling prices of paper. Radio: started very crude, talk radio started. Internet: started out primarily for entertainment, network news started politicizing it, evolved into a massive communications network, worldwide publishing platform, both direct and broadcast, studies of mass media. Immigration of european scholars escaping the growing nazi regime: many jewish, not all, moved to universities in great britain and us. Lasswell: columbia university, saw rst hand of the propaganda machine in germany to shift public.
