History of Media Studies

In this session, we will read and discuss Anna Shechtman’s draft chapter, “From Text to Media.”

In this session, we will read and discuss Jülide Etem's working paper, “Physics Film Experiments in the United States and Turkey, 1956–1978.”

In this session, we will read and discuss Angus Burgin's draft chapter, “The Rise of the Internet and the Fall of the Information Access.”

In this session, we will read and discuss Esperanza Herrero's working paper, “How women researchers contributed to the proposal of two-step flow: some of the hidden gendered work behind The People’s Choice”.

In this session, we will read contributions from the just-published The Ghost Reader: Recovering Women’s Contributions to Media Studies (Goldsmiths Press, 2023), including the introduction by the editors, Elena D. Hristova, Aimee-Marie Dorsten, and Carol A. Stabile, and a chapter by Marianne Kinkel on “Gene Weltfish (1902–1980).”

In this session, we will read Pete Simonson, Dave Park, and Jeff Pooley's “The History of Communication Studies Across the Americas: A View from the United States” and Afonso de Albuquerque's “Jornalismo E Imperialismo: Configurações Contemporâneas/Journalism and Imperialism: Contemporary Configurations.”

In this session, we will read Marcel Broersma's “From Press History to the History of Journalism” (2011) and Otávio Daros's “Prehistory of journalism studies: Discovering the Brazilian tradition.“

In this session, we will read Valeska Huber & Jürgen Osterhammel's “Introduction: Global Publics” (2020) (up to page 38), and Ali Karimi's "Ephemeral Publics: An Experiment in Influencing Muslim Public Opinion in WWI."

In this session, we will read Pierre Bourdieu & Loïc Wacquant's “On the Cunning of Imperialist Reason” (1999) and Bernard Geoghegan's “Learning to Code: Cybernetics and French Theory” (2023).

In this session, we will read Hadley Cantril & Gordon Allport's “Education,” from The Psychology of Radio (1935) and Brian C. Gregory's draft chapter “Developing Critical Listening: Educational Radio, Civic Participation, and Early Media Literacy”.

In this session, we will read Stuart Hall's “Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy and the Cultural Turn” (2007) and Steven Gotzler's “Virtue Signals: Richard Hoggart and British Cultural Studies, a Case-Study in the History of Theory.”

In this session, we will read Kit Coppard, Paddy Whannel, Raymond Williams, and Tony Higgins's “Television Supplement” (New Left Review, 1961) and Susan Douglas's draft chapters “Introduction” and “What Is Culture?”

In this session, we will read Terry Cook's “Evidence, Memory, Identity, and Community: Four Shifting Archival Paradigms” (2013) and Robert Riter's “Paper Archives: Stevenson’s Conceptualizations of Paper as Evidence & Information”.

In this session, we will read Michael J. Apter's “Cybernetics: A Case Study of a Scientific Subject-Complex” (1970) and Alexander Soytek's “Foucault’s Reception of the Information Discourse, 1948-1971.”

In this session, we will read Clara Ruvitoso's “Southern Theories in Northern Circulation: Analyzing the Translation of Latin American Dependency Theories into German” (2020) and Mariano Zarowsky's “Entre la renovación de las ciencias sociales y la intervención intelectual: Eliseo Verón editor en Tiempo Contemporáneo (1969–1974)” (2017). Both works are translated, using DeepL, following their original language.

In this session, we will read Jeff Pooley's “Edward Shils’ Turn Against Karl Mannheim: The Central European Connection” (2007) and Terhi Rantanen's “Introduction” to Dead Men's Tales: Failed Ideologies and Utopias in Transnational Comparative Communications Research.

In this session, we will read Silvio Waisbord's an excerpt from Communication: A Post-Discipline [introduction and chapter five] (2019) as well as Christian Pentzold, Anna Seikel, Erik Koenen, & Jakob Jünger's “Talking the Talk but Not Walking the Walk: A Study of ICA Presidential Addresses.”

In this session, we will read Eugenia Mitchelstein and Pablo J. Boczkowski's “What a Special Issue on Latin America Teaches Us about Some Key Limitations in the Field of Digital Journalism” (2021) and Brian Ekdale, Kathryn Biddle, Manfred Asuman, Melissa Tully, and Abby Rinaldi's “Global Disparities in Knowledge Production within Journalism Studies: Are Special Issues the Answer?”

In this session, we will read Gabriella Szabó's “Communication and Media Studies in Hungary (1990–2020)” (2021) and Márton Demeter, Dina Vozab, and Francisco José Segado Boj, “Research Collaboration of Communication Scholars from Central and Eastern Europe: A Longitudinal Network Analysis.”

In this session, we will read Chris Russill's “Dewey/Lippmann Redux” (2016) and Dominique Trudel and Juliette De Maeyer's “Franklin Ford: The Conundrum of the Day.”