Denis McQuail
British communication theorist, academic and writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Denis McQuail was a British communication theorist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam, considered one of the most influential scholars in the field of mass communication studies. Biography Denis McQuail was born in Wallington, London on 12 April 1935 to Irish immigrant parents Annie and Christopher McQuail. After schooling at St Anselm's college in Birkenhead, where he showed an aptitude for languages, he spent his national service in the Intelligence Corps learning Russian and studied history at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. McQuail obtained his BA in Modern History from the University of Oxford in 1958, and the next year his MA in Public and Social Administration. He obtained his PhD in social studies from the University of Leeds in 1967 with the thesis, entitled Factors affecting public interest in television plays.
Denis McQuail's Published Works
Published Works
- McQuail's Mass Communication Theory (2000) (2211)
- Mass Communication Theory: An Introduction (1983) (1811)
- Media Performance: Mass Communication and the Public Interest (1992) (852)
- The Television Audience : A Revised Perspective (1972) (593)
- Communication models for the study of mass communications (1981) (479)
- Normative Theories of the Media: Journalism in Democratic Societies (2009) (471)
- Media Policy Paradigm Shifts (2003) (299)
- Mass communication theory: An introduction, 2nd ed. (1987) (290)
- Media accountability and freedom of publication (2003) (196)
- McQuail's reader in mass communication theory (2002) (183)
- Sociology of Mass Communication (1985) (172)
- Television in politics : its uses and influence (1968) (168)
- The politics of news : the news of politics (1998) (145)
- With the benefit of hindsight: Reflections on uses and gratifications research (1984) (133)
- The Sage handbook of media studies (2004) (121)
- Media policy : convergence, concentration and commerce (1998) (116)
- Media Making: Mass Media in a Popular Culture (1998) (108)
- Towards a Sociology of Mass Communications (1969) (100)
- Journalism and Society (2013) (100)
- Accountability of Media to Society (1997) (87)
- Diversity as a Media Policy Goal: a Strategy for Evaluative Research and a Netherlands Case Study (1983) (82)
- Towards a New Communications Policy Paradigm (2010) (80)
- New Media Politics: Comparative Perspectives in Western Europe.@@@Inventing Reality: The Politics of Mass Media. (1987) (54)
- Democracy and the Media (2021) (53)
- Communication Theory and Research (2005) (43)
- The Making of a Television Series: A Case Study in the Sociology of Culture (1973) (42)
- Mass communication theory : an introduction [McQuail, 1994] (1994) (39)
- Media use as social action: a European approach to audience studies. (1996) (39)
- Some reflections on the western bias of media theory (2000) (38)
- Sociology of Mass Communications: Selected Readings (1974) (33)
- On the Mediatization of War (2006) (29)
- With More Hindsight: Conceptual Problems and Some Ways Forward for Media Use Research (2001) (27)
- Mass media in the public interest (1991) (27)
- Commercialization and beyond (2003) (25)
- Caging the Beast: Constructing a Framework for the Analysis of Media Change in Western Europe (1990) (23)
- Public Service Broadcasting: Both Free and Accountable (2003) (22)
- Functions of communication: A nonfunctionalist overview. (1987) (22)
- The media in Europe : the Euromedia research group (2004) (21)
- Uncertainty about the Audience and the Organization of Mass Communications (1965) (19)
- Book Review: Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics (2005) (18)
- Chapter 2. Communication theory and the Western bias (2005) (17)
- Revisiting Diversity as a Media Policy Goal (2007) (16)
- Policy help wanted: willing and able media culturalists please apply (1997) (15)
- Media policy paradigm shifts: In search of a new communications policy paradigm. (2000) (15)
- Reflections on Paradigm Change in Communication Theory and Research (2013) (14)
- Action theory and communication research: Recent developments in Europe (2004) (12)
- Mass communication (4th edition). (2000) (12)
- The Media and Lifestyle (2002) (12)
- Television News Research: Recent European Approaches and Findings (2000) (12)
- Research on new communication technologies: barren terrain or promising arena? (1987) (11)
- Communication theory & research : an EJC anthology (2005) (10)
- General Mass Communication (1983) (9)
- On evaluating media performance in the public interest: Past and future of a research tradition. (1997) (9)
- Models of Communication (2008) (9)
- Western European Media: the Mixed model under Threat (1995) (9)
- The Media Audience: A Brief Biography—Stages of Growth or Paradigm Change? (2013) (8)
- As it was in the beginning (2016) (7)
- Media Performance Assessment in the Public Interest: Principles and Methods (1991) (7)
- Review of sociological writing on the press (1976) (7)
- Handbook of Media Studies (2004) (7)
- Media and Democracy: new roles for new times? (1995) (7)
- Social Action Perspectives in Mass Comiminication Research (1996) (6)
- Comm Research—Views from Europe| Reflections on Paradigm Change in Communication Theory and Research (2013) (6)
- Action Theory and Communication Research (2008) (6)
- Media production and content (2006) (6)
- Elite Education and Political Values (1968) (5)
- Media policy: Premature obsequires? (2000) (5)
- Broadcasting European Elections (1984) (5)
- New Horizons for Communication Theory in the New Media Age (2007) (5)
- Analysis of newspaper content: A report (1977) (4)
- After Fire-television: The past half century of broadcasting. Its impact on our civilization (1997) (4)
- Overview of the Handbook (2004) (3)
- Introduction: Reflections on Media Policy in Europe (2007) (3)
- Political Communication Scholarship: The Uses of Election Research (2018) (3)
- A Review of: “Comparing Political Communication: Theories, Cases and Challenges” (2006) (2)
- British Broadcasting — Its Purposes, Structure, and Control (1965) (2)
- The mass media and the public interest: Forms of accountability in an open society (1999) (2)
- Media systems, economy, governance and globalisation (2006) (2)
- Towards a Civic Society: the Baltic Media's Long Road to Freedom [Review of: S. Hoyer. -] (1995) (2)
- Transatlantic TV flows: another look at cultural cost-accounting (1996) (2)
- Action theory and communication research: An introduction (2004) (2)
- MODELS FOR THE STUDY OF MASS COMMUNICATION by (2011) (1)
- Digitalization and the Future of Communication (1999) (1)
- AN ASSESSMENT OF A SCHOOLS TELEVISION SERIES (1966) (1)
- Reflections on the field, its relevance forthe public interest and its methodologicaldivisions, based on personal experience (2006) (1)
- Publication in a free society: the problem of accountability (2012) (1)
- Conceptual Problems and Some Ways Forward for Media Gratification Research( Uses and Gratifications from the Mass Media : New Perspectives) (1996) (1)
- Making progress in a trackless, weightless and intangible space: A response to Keith Roe (2003) (1)
- Television News Research in Europe: An Introductory Note (2001) (1)
- Political Communication Research in the Public Interest (2015) (1)
- Americanization of the Media (2008) (1)
- What is Journalism? How is it Linked to Society? (2013) (1)
- Reflections on The People’s Choice: Start of a Great Tradition or of a False Trail? (1998) (1)
- Audiences and effects of mass communication (2006) (1)
- Principles of Journalistic Performance (2013) (0)
- The Accountability of Journalism to Society (2013) (0)
- 9. POLITICAL COMMUNICATION (2010) (0)
- Televisions news research: Retropect and prospect. (2000) (0)
- Towards a Framework of Analysis for Journalism (2013) (0)
- Equality – an ambiguous value (2019) (0)
- Editorial (1995) (0)
- Media Organization, Selection and Production (2015) (0)
- Reviews (1995) (0)
- Television news research: Recent European research and findings. (2000) (0)
- Book Reviews : Mass Media and the Russian Public, by Ellen Propper Mickiewicz. Praeger, 1981. xii + 156 pp (1981) (0)
- Bringing It Home (2021) (0)
- Plunging into the Media (2021) (0)
- Action theory and research in Europe: Theory, methods and findings (2003) (0)
- New Media and the Information Society (2015) (0)
- Review of C. Lacey, & D. Longman [Review of: (1999) The press as Public Educator] (1999) (0)
- The Role of Broadcasting in the First Direct Elections to the European Parliament (2013) (0)
- Personal Influence, Diffusion and Short-Term Effects of Mass Communication on Individuals (2015) (0)
- Book Reviews : More Bad News, by the Glasgow University Media Group. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980. £ 17.50 (1981) (0)
- Mass communication in the post-industrial society. What future for media policy (1995) (0)
- Reviews (1997) (0)
- Media Structure and Performance: Reflections on a Changed Environment (2013) (0)
- Editorial: EJC Symposium Special Issue (2009) (0)
- Changing Media Technology: Consequences for Journalism, Press Institution and Relations with Society (2013) (0)
- Media Structure, Performance and the ‘Power of the Press’ (2013) (0)
- General Books in Mass Communications (1970) (0)
- PUNCTE DE VEDERE FEEDBACK BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (2011) (0)
- Research into political communication and the current crisis of media and democracy (1995) (0)
- General Media and Journalism (1977) (0)
- Journalistic Responsibility to Society (2013) (0)
- Future Trends of Audio-Visual Media in The Netherlands (1987) (0)
- Television News as an Object of Research: An Introductory Note (1998) (0)
- Communication scholarship as discipline. Karl Erik Rosengren shows the way (1997) (0)
- Bad News (1977) (0)
- Editors’ Introduction (2004) (0)
- Book Review : Communication and Equality - A Swedish Perspective, by Anne-Marie Thunberg, Kjell Novak, Karl Erik Rosengren & Bengt Sigurd. Almqvist & Wiksell International, Stockholm (1983) (0)
- In Conclusion: Striking a Normative Balance (2013) (0)
- Theories, basic concepts and varieties of approach (2006) (0)
- Action Theoretical Approaches in European Communication Research: Some Introductory Remarks (2001) (0)
- Book Review : Visible Fictions - Cinema; television; video by John Ellis. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982 (1984) (0)
- Perspectives on Mass Communication (2021) (0)
- Towards the Future (2021) (0)
- Getting Rigorous (2021) (0)
- Colin Lacey and David Longman, The Press as Public Educator: Cultures of Understanding, Cultures of Ignorance (1999) (0)
- New politics, new media [Review of: C. Murroni. -] (1997) (0)
- Democracy, media en public policy. (2000) (0)
- Gordon Best, John Dennis and Peter Draper, Health, the Mass Media and the National Health Service , Unit for the Study of Health Policy, Guy's Hospital Medical School, London, 1977. 146 pp. £2.00. (1979) (0)
- Action theoretical approaches in European communication research: An introductory note (2003) (0)
- Mass Media (2021) (0)
- The Central Role of Monitor and Messenger (2013) (0)
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