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Tables of Contents for The Media Revolution in America and in Western Europe
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
About the Contributors
xiii
Introduction to Communication Research in Europe and America
1
18
Part I: The Changing Nature of the Mass Media in Europe and America
19
74
European Mass Media in the 1980s
21
22
Claude-Jean Bertrand
Miguel Urabayen
Mass Media in the United States in the 1980s
43
25
Bradley S. Greenberg
The New Communication Technologies and the New Distribution of Roles
68
12
Henry Breitrose
The Communication Revolution and Freedom of Expression Redefined
80
13
Francis Balle
Part II: The New Worlds of the Mass Media
93
90
Preconceived Ideas about Mediated Information
95
13
Jacques Ellul
The Impacts of New Communication Technologies
108
26
Euerett M. Rogers
Arnold Picot
First World Communication Technologies in Third World Contexts
134
16
Bella Mody
International Communication: A New Order?
150
15
Elie Abel
Active Audiences in Europe: Public Participation in the Media
165
12
Axel Gryspeerdt
Television as Instrument of Cultural Identity: The Case of Quebec
177
6
Denise Bombardier
Part III: European and American Approaches to Communication Research
183
125
European--American Differences in Communication Research
185
15
Jay Blumler
The Beginnings of Communication Study in the United States
200
12
Wilbur Schramm
The Basic Concepts of Communication and Information
212
7
Osmo Wiio
The Empirical and Critical Schoots of Communication Research
219
17
Euerett M. Rogers
Communication Research: One Paradigm or Four?
236
31
Karl Erik Rosengren
The Beginnings of Political Communication Research in the United States: Origins of the ``Limited Effects'' Model
267
30
Steuen H. Chaffee
John L. Hochheimer
Toward Integration of European and American Communication Research
297
11
Euerett M. Rogers
Francis Balle
Appendix A: Some Communication Research Centers in Europe
308
6
Appendix B: Some Major Centers for Communication Research in the U.S.
314
3
Name Index
317
6
Subject Index
323