History of Media Studies
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Upcoming Meetings
There are no currently scheduled upcoming events.
Past Meetings
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March 15, 2023
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.”
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February 15, 2023
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?”
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January 18, 2023
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”.
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December 21, 2022
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.”
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November 16, 2022
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.
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October 19, 2022
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.
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September 21, 2022
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.”
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July 20, 2022
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?”
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June 14, 2022
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.”
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April 20, 2022
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.”
Group Conveners
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Dave Park
David Park (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) is professor of communication at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, IL. His scholarship addresses historical topics in communication and media studies, with an emphasis on the history of communication associations, media history, and scholarly communication. He is the reviews editor for New Media & Society, the founder of the Communication History Division of the International Communication Association, and the series editor for the Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory series at Peter Lang publishers. He is the author of Pierre Bourdieu: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory (Peter Lang, 2014). He has also co-edited The History of Media and Communication Research (Peter Lang, 2008), The Long History of New Media (Peter Lang, 2011), The International History of Communication Study (Routledge, 2015), Communicating Memory and History (Peter Lang, 2018), and The Inclusive Vision: Essays in Honor of Larry Gross (Peter Lang, 2018).
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Jeff Pooley
Jeff Pooley (PhD, Columbia University) is affiliated professor of media & communication at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, and lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. His research interests center on the history of media research within the context of the social sciences, with special focus on the early Cold War behavioral sciences. He is author of James W. Carey and Communication Research: Reputation at the University’s Margins (Peter Lang, 2016), and co-editor of The History of Media and Communication Research (Peter Lang, 2008), Media and Social Justice (Palgrave, 2011), and Society on the Edge: Social Science and Public Policy in the Postwar United States (Cambridge University Press, 2021). He is co-founder of the Society for the History of Recent Social Science, and has published articles and book chapters on a range of related topics.
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Pete Simonson
Pete Simonson (PhD, University of Iowa) is professor of communication and, by courtesy, media studies in the College of Media, Communication and Information at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research centers on the international history of communication and media studies, intellectual history, feminist historiography, and the interdisciplinary connections of rhetoric with philosophy, political theory, sociology, and anthropology. He is the author of Refiguring Mass Communication: A History, and editor or co-editor of The International History of Communication Study, The Handbook of Communication History, and Politics, Social Networks, and the History of Mass Communications Research: Re-Reading Personal Influence.
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