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"This Media Reform Action Guide is your invitation to rise up, take to the phones, the Internet and the streets to build a better media system. Each chapter in this guide will help make your voice heard on the media issues that matter to you. Whether you’re motivated to fight for a free and open I ... more

Diffusion of Innovations

New York: Free Press, 5th ed. (2003), xxi, 551 pp.
"For me, growing up in Detroit, Coughlin was a fascinating figure of local lore: both loved and hated, he was clearly someone whose career cannot be reduced to a single dimension. It may well be argued that the conventional standards of biography should not be applied to media figures, for theirs is ... more

Diffusion of Innovations

New York: Free Press, 3d ed. (1983), 453 pp.
"Twelve years later, in 1983, with the total number of diffusion publications grown to almost 4,000, Rogers published the third edition which further revised the theoretical framework and introduced new concepts and theoretical viewpoints. All three editions have extensive bibliographies of works ci ... more
"In the 1971 edition of Communication of Innovations: A Cross-Cultural Approach, research had almost quadrupled, and its nature had become more varied and more involved with developing countries, necessitating a change in generalization about the theory." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass medi ... more
"Sociological studies of mass communications — the communicator and his audience — a survey of the media concerned the sociological institutions studied in relation to the theory of communications: examples — mass communications, conflict and strategy of persuasion — the limitations of resea ... more
"In 1963 when Rogers published the first edition of Diffusion of Innovations, summarizing and evaluating research results on the spread of ideas, his literature search revealed about 500 studies ranging from "new drugs among physicians to hand tools among primitive tribes to hybrid corn among farmer ... more
"The work is divided into two main parts: the effects of persuasion in communication; the effects of the specific types of media — The first part concentrates on the effects of strengthening opinions, forming new ones and changing attitudes by communications of the 'persuasive type, as well as the ... more
"Daniel Lerner's 1958 book 'The Passing of Traditional Society' was central in shaping Cold War-era ideas about the use of mass media and culture to promote social and economic progress in postcolonial nations. Based on a study of the effectiveness of propaganda in the Middle East, Lerner's book cla ... more
"Subjects: Part I: The role of the masses: a new centre of interests for the study of the effects of the mass media; stages in the process of mass communications; norms and systems of the process of persuasion. Part 2: Daily influences in a Middle West community; localisation of the personal influen ... more
"A collection of more than 50 articles by well-known specialists in the field of social sciences — The articles are grouped under the following heading: — 1. Theory of public opinion; 2. Formation of public opinion; 3. Effect of public opinion on politics; 4. Theory of communication; 5. The mean ... more