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Early Media Effects Theory & the Suggestion Doctrine: Selected Readings, 1895–1935

  • Patrick Parsons (editor)
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TitleEarly Media Effects Theory & the Suggestion Doctrine
SubtitleSelected Readings, 1895–1935
ContributorPatrick Parsons (editor)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.32376/3f8575cb.f1e0489e
Landing pagehttps://www.mediastudies.press/early-media-effects-theory-the-suggestion-doctrine
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (introduction, chapter introductions); https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/ (other materials)
CopyrightParsons, Patrick (introduction, chapter introductions)
Publishermediastudies.press
Publication placeBethlehem, PA
Published on2024-12-28
Series
  • Public Domain Series vol. 6
  • ISSN Print: 2770-2472
  • ISSN Digital: 2770-2480
ISBN978-1-951399-28-3 (Paperback)
978-1-951399-26-9 (PDF)
978-1-951399-27-6 (HTML)
978-1-951399-29-0 (EPUB)
Short abstractEarly Media Effects Theory & the Suggestion Doctrine: Selected Readings, 1895–1935 consists of over 30 public domain works originally publishing from the late 19th century to the mid-1930s on the concept of “suggestion”
Long abstractWhile much has been written on the history of media effects research in the United States, a casual review of the literature could reasonably lead one to believe that little if any such work was conducted until the 1940s. Early Media Effects Theory & the Suggestion Doctrine: Selected Readings, 1895–1935, consisting of over 30 public domain works originally publishing from the late 19th century to the mid-1930s, demonstrates the rich and varied study of media effects before mid-century—much of it centered on the concept of “suggestion.” What media scholars know today as “persuasion,” social psychologists of the early 1900s would have understood as the process of suggestion. The works collected in Early Media Effects Theory & the Suggestion Doctrine include the original statements on the subject from many of the leading social theorists of the age, among them figures such as Gabriel Tarde and Gustave Le Bon in France and James Baldwin, Edward Ross, and Floyd Allport in the United States.
Print length330 pages (i-xii,1-318)
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Dimensions152 x 229 mm | 6" x 9" (Paperback)
Media1 illustration
LCCN2024931261
THEMA
  • JMH
  • JMT
  • JBCT
BISAC
  • SOC052000
  • PSY031000
  • POL049000
Contents
  • Gabriel Tarde
  • Boris Sidis
  • William McDougall
  • Wilfred Trotter
  • Edward Lee Thorndike
  • Floyd Henry Allport
  • Robert H. Gault
  • Edmund Prideaux
  • Knight Dunlap
  • Ellsworth Faris
  • Charles A. Ellwood
  • Luther Lee Bernard
  • Frederick Elmore Lumley
  • Ernest Théodore Krueger
  • Walter C. Reckless
  • William Macpherson
  • Arland Deyett Weeks
  • Edward Kellog Strong, Jr.
  • Harold D. Lasswell
  • Walter Dill Scott
  • Albert T. Poffenberger
  • Harry L. Hollingworth
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Contributors

Patrick Parsons

(editor)

Patrick Parsons is professor emeritus at the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State.