Elihu Katz
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American and Israeli sociologist
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Elihu Katz's Degrees
- PhD Sociology Columbia University
- Masters Sociology Columbia University
- Bachelors Sociology Brooklyn College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elihu Katz was an American-Israeli sociologist and communication scientist whose expertise was uses and gratifications theory. He authored over 20 books and 175 articles and book chapters during his lifetime and is acknowledged as one of "the founding fathers of regular television broadcasts in Israel."
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Published Works
- Personal Influence: The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications (1956) (3058)
- Uses and Gratifications Research (2019) (1766)
- Medical Innovation: A Diffusion Study. (1967) (1530)
- The Uses of Mass Communications: Current Perspectives on Gratifications Research. Sage Annual Reviews of Communication Research Volume III. (1975) (1512)
- On the use of the mass media for important things. (1973) (1436)
- The Two-Step Flow of Communication: An Up-To-Date Report on an Hypothesis (1957) (1225)
- The Export of Meaning: Cross-Cultural Readings of Dallas (1990) (845)
- The Diffusion of an Innovation Among Physicians (1957) (781)
- Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History. (1992) (591)
- Mass Communications Research and the Study of Popular Culture: An Editorial Note on a Possible Future for This Journal (1959) (464)
- News, Talk, Opinion, Participation: The Part Played by Conversation in Deliberative Democracy (1999) (404)
- Traditions of Research on the Diffusion of Innovation (1963) (401)
- ON THE USE OF THE MASS MEDIA AS “ESCAPE”: CLARIFICATION OF A CONCEPT (1962) (394)
- Bridging the spheres: political and personal conversation in public and private spaces (2000) (310)
- COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH SINCE LAZARSFELD (1987) (218)
- Social Relations and Innovation in the Medical Profession: The Epidemiology of a New Drug (1955) (208)
- 'No More Peace!': How Disaster, Terror and War Have Upstaged Media Events 1 (2007) (190)
- Broadcasting in the Third World: Promise and Performance. (1978) (180)
- Public opinion and the communication of consent (1995) (167)
- The Social Itinerary of Technical Change: Two Studies on the Diffusion of Innovation (1961) (162)
- Patterns of Involvement in Television Fiction: A Comparative Analysis (1986) (153)
- Media, Ritual and Identity (1998) (140)
- And Deliver Us from Segmentation (1996) (139)
- Remembering the News: What the Picture Adds to Recall (1977) (135)
- The two-step flow of communication. (1960) (121)
- Social processes in physicians' adoption of a new drug. (1959) (114)
- Theorizing Diffusion: Tarde and Sorokin Revisited (1999) (106)
- Media imperialism reconsidered : the homogenizing of television culture (1978) (103)
- Broadcasting in the Third World. (1979) (90)
- Beliefs, Observances And Social Interaction Among Israeli Jews (1993) (80)
- Communication Research and the Image of Society Convergence of Two Traditions (1960) (73)
- The Politics of Community Conflict: The Fluoridation Decision (1969) (72)
- Rediscovering Gabriel Tarde (2006) (68)
- Youth and Popular Music: A Study in the Sociology of Taste (1957) (68)
- The End of Journalism? Notes on Watching the War (1992) (67)
- Publicity and Pluralistic Ignorance: Notes on ‘The Spiral of Silence’ (1981) (67)
- Media Events: The Sense of Occasion (1980) (66)
- Canonic texts in media research : are there any? should there be? how about these? (2003) (64)
- Interacting With "Dallas": Cross Cultural Readings of American TV (1990) (62)
- Further Notes on Why American Sociology Abandoned Mass Communication Research (2008) (61)
- Mass Media and Social Change. (1983) (60)
- Once Upon a Time, in Dallas (1984) (60)
- Why Sociology Abandoned Communication (2009) (53)
- Notes on a Natural History of Fads (1957) (52)
- Some Sociological Observations on the Response of Israeli Organizations to New Immigrants (1960) (52)
- The secularization of leisure: Culture and communication in Israel (1977) (51)
- Remembering the HolocaustA Debate (2009) (49)
- How Feeling Free to Talk Affects Ordinary Political Conversation, Purposeful Argumentation, and Civic Participation (2000) (49)
- 20 years of television in Israel: are there long‐run effects on values, social connectedness, and cultural practices? (1997) (47)
- Media events: On the experience of not being there (1985) (47)
- The Jewishness of Israelis : responses to the Guttman report (1997) (43)
- Can Authentic Cultures Survive New Media (1977) (41)
- Doctor-Patient Exchanges: A Diagnostic Approach to Organizations and Professions (1969) (36)
- Lazarsfeld'S Map of Media Effects (2001) (34)
- Petitions and Persuasive Appeals: A Study of Official-Client Relations (1966) (34)
- THE DIMENSIONS OF EXPRESSION INHIBITION: PERCEPTIONS OF OBSTACLES TO FREE SPEECH IN THREE CULTURES (1996) (33)
- “Just Call Me Adonai”: A Case Study of Ethnic Humor and Immigrant Assimilation (2005) (33)
- Platforms & Windows: Broadcasting's Role in Election Campaigns (1971) (33)
- Journalists as Scientists (1989) (32)
- Dimensions of being modern in medical practice. (1959) (32)
- Durkheimian sociology: cultural studies: Articulating consensus: the ritual and rhetoric of media events (1988) (32)
- Bureaucracy and the public : a reader in official-client relations (1973) (31)
- Portrait of Israeli Jewry: Beliefs, Observances, and Values among Israeli Jews 2000 (2002) (30)
- The Diffusion of an Innovation among Physicians1 (1977) (29)
- The End of Television? (2009) (26)
- The Return of the Humanities and Sociology. (1983) (24)
- The Uses of Becker, Blumler, and Swanson (1979) (23)
- Six concepts in search of retirement (2017) (20)
- Disintermediation: Cutting Out the Middle Man (1988) (20)
- Where Are Opinion Leaders Leading Us (2015) (19)
- Of Mutual Interest (1978) (16)
- Functions of the Book for Society and Self: a Study in Secular Transformation (1973) (15)
- On commuting between television fiction and real life (1992) (14)
- Staging peace: Televised ceremonies of reconciliation (1997) (14)
- Dallas and Genesis: Primordiality and Seriality in Popular Culture. (1986) (14)
- Leadership Stability and Social Change: An Experiment with Small Groups (1957) (14)
- Contests, Conquests, Coronations: On Media Events and Their Heroes (1986) (13)
- Jewish Involvement of The Baby Boom Generation: Interrogating the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey (1993) (12)
- Notes on the Unit of Adoption in Diffusion Research (1962) (12)
- Television ceremonial events (1985) (12)
- Communications in the 21st century: In defense of media events (1981) (11)
- Back to the Street: When Media and Opinion Leave Home (2014) (11)
- It’s the text, stupid! Mobile phones, religious communities, and the silent threat of text messages (2019) (11)
- Arab and Jewish Attitudes (1993) (11)
- THE MASS MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE (1960) (11)
- Ideological reproduction (1991) (10)
- Comment on Charles Winick, "The Diffusion of an Innovation Among Physicians in a Large City" (1963) (10)
- Arab and Jewish AttitudesToward a Palestinian State (1993) (10)
- Petitions and Prayers: A Method for the Content Analysis of Persuasive Appeals (1969) (10)
- Studies of Innovation and of Communication to the Public. Studies in the Utilization of Behavioral Science, Volume II. (1962) (9)
- Social research on broadcasting, proposals for further development: A report to the British Broadcasting Corporation (1977) (9)
- Looking for Trouble. (1978) (9)
- Ethnic Continuity in an Israeli Town (1961) (8)
- Did television empower women? The introduction of television and the changing status of women in the 1950s (2013) (8)
- Media Multiplication and Social Segmentation (2000) (8)
- The Part Played By People (2017) (8)
- Neither here nor there : why «Dallas» failed in Japan (1991) (8)
- McLuhan: Where Did He Come From, Where Did He Disappear? (1998) (8)
- Religion, communications, and Judaism: the case of digital Chabad (2016) (7)
- Status Mobility and Reactions to Deviance and Subsequent Conformity (1964) (7)
- Mutual aid in the decoding of Dallas (2016) (7)
- Media-Government-Public: Coalitions and Oppositions (2009) (6)
- Dynamics of Inter-group Relations in Israel: 1967–2002 (2005) (6)
- Sonia Livingstone The work of Elihu Katz : conceptualizing media effects in context (2008) (6)
- The history of birth control in the United States. (1988) (5)
- The BBC: Public Institution and Private World.@@@Social Research on Broadcasting: Proposals for Further Development. (1978) (5)
- The Future of Fact (1998) (5)
- Culture and Communication in Israel: The Transformation of Tradition (1973) (4)
- Where Are Opinion Leaders Leading Us? Commentary (2015) (4)
- TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE: NOTES ON THE ISRAEL ELECTIONS OF 1988 (1989) (4)
- Broadcasting holidays : Sociological perspective on new communication technology (1998) (4)
- Nowhere to Go (2017) (4)
- A PORTRAIT OF ISRAELI JEWRY (2002) (3)
- Kanonizing Katz| Commuting and Co-Authoring: How To Be in More Than One Place at the Same Time (2014) (3)
- Television comes to the middle east (1971) (3)
- Evaluating culture: World music and fusion food (2015) (3)
- Election studies : what's their use? (2001) (3)
- Between Media and Mass (2017) (2)
- on a Natural History of Fads (2015) (2)
- Louis Guttman, 1916–1987 (1988) (2)
- Get Out of the Car. A Case Study On the Organization of Policy Research (1979) (2)
- Viewers Work (2018) (2)
- Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas (review) (2009) (2)
- DIMENSIONS OF SELF-DESIGNATED OPINION LEADERSHIP AND THEIR CORRELATES* (2016) (2)
- Ownership, Technology, Content, and Context in the Continuing Search for Media Effects (2011) (2)
- On Sixty Years of Research and Theorizing on Mass Communication (2010) (2)
- 6. Promise and Performance (1977) (2)
- Home Video in Israel: A Second TV Channel (1983) (1)
- Twenty Years of Television in Israel: Are There Long-Run Effects on Values and Cultural Practices? (2018) (1)
- Information, Decision, and Action: A Study of the Psychological Determinants of Changes in Farming Techniques.F. E. Emery , O. A. Oeser , Joan Tully (1959) (1)
- Commuting and Coauthoring: How to Be in More Than One Place at the Same Time (2014) (1)
- Inside Prime Time.Todd Gitlin (1985) (1)
- Integration in Army and Nation: An Essay in Institutional Permeability (2019) (1)
- Foreword: The Toronto School and Communication Research (2008) (1)
- Life and Death among the Binaries: Notes on Jeffrey Alexander’s Constructionism (2009) (1)
- The Happiness Game| "THE HAPPINESS GAME" A Content Analysis of Radio Fan Mail (1950) (2012) (1)
- Comment on "Prefatory Findings in the Sociology of Missions" (1967) (1)
- Book Review:Health, Culture, and Community: Case Studies of Public Reactions to Health Programs. Benjamin D. Paul, Walter B. Miller (1956) (1)
- Book Review:The Process and Effects of Mass Communication. Wilbur Schramm (1956) (1)
- Communications in an Ancient Empire: An Innisian Reading of the Book of Esther (2015) (0)
- The Happiness Game| In Pursuit of an MA (2012) (0)
- Norms and Small Groups: The Shared Character of Opinions and Attitudes (2017) (0)
- ScholarlyCommons Departmental Papers ( ASC ) Annenberg School for Communication 1997 Behavioral and Phenomenological Judaism (2015) (0)
- The voyage of the bagel (1999) (0)
- Book of the Month (1975) (0)
- Peace History Society Conference—Politics of Peace Movements: From Nonviolence to Social Justice—28–30 April 2000—Western Foundation, Women's Studies and the Department of History at Western Washington University—Washington, United (2000) (0)
- On Seeing Both Sides (2015) (0)
- On Follow-up Interviewing and Analysis (2017) (0)
- Criteria of Influence (2017) (0)
- An Essay in Convergence (2017) (0)
- Seis interpretaciones de la serie "Dallas" (1997) (0)
- Committee on the Status of Blacks Honors Scholars (1993) (0)
- 5. Programming Patterns (1977) (0)
- The Place of Impact Analysis in The Study of Influence (2017) (0)
- A multiplica????o dos media e a segmenta????o social (2005) (0)
- Community Political Analysis: Out of the Circle@@@The Politics of Community Conflict: The Fluoridation Decision@@@The Politics of School Desegregation@@@Community Structure and Decision-Making: Comparative Analyses@@@The Search for Community Power@@@Power and Leadership in Pluralist Systems (1970) (0)
- 4. The Interaction of Broadcasting and Established Institutions (1977) (0)
- A Technique of Confirmation (2017) (0)
- 1. The Problem of Development and the Promise of Broadcasting (1977) (0)
- Some Further Technical Problems (2017) (0)
- Volume Information (1962) (0)
- An Analysis of Persuasive Appeals (2008) (0)
- 1984 Once Upon a Time , in Dallas (2015) (0)
- Interpersonal Networks: Communicating within the Group (2017) (0)
- Volume Information (1959) (0)
- Opinion Leadership| Commentary ~ Where Are Opinion Leaders Leading Us? (2015) (0)
- Review of Inside Prime Time , by Todd Gitlin (1985) (0)
- Diffusion and Acceptance of Change (1970) (0)
- Variations in Impact (2017) (0)
- 3. The Transfer of Broadcasting (1977) (0)
- Behavioral and Phenomenological Judaism (1997) (0)
- Decatur Study (Personal Influence) (1945) (0)
- Choice of the City (2017) (0)
- Book Review:Group Dynamics: Research and Theory. Dorwin Cartwright, Alvin Zander (1955) (0)
- Changes in Individual Attitudes and Collective Identities: The Cases of Germany and Israel, 1949-2002. Final Scientific Report to the German Israeli Foundation (2003) (0)
- Public Television: Beginnings and Endings. Elihu Katz in conversation with Doron Galili (2016) (0)
- Foreign and International Media (1977) (0)
- The Group and the World Outside: Implications for Mass Media Research (2017) (0)
- Two Virtual Debates Between Lazarsfeld and McLuhan on Radio (1999) (0)
- Up from Puerto Rico.Elena Padilla80 Puerto Rican Families in New York City.Beatrice Bishop BerleIsland in the City: The World of Spanish Harlem.Dan Wakefield (1960) (0)
- The Role of the Group in Influencing Change: Implications for Mass Media Research (2017) (0)
- Book Review:Elite Communication in Samoa: A Study of Leadership. Felix M. Keesing, Marie M. Keesing (1958) (0)
- News From the Global Village: Elihu Katz on the Structure of Television in Developing Countries (1973) (0)
- In Pursuit of an MA (2012) (0)
- Errata (1986) (0)
- On Describing the Flow of Influence (2017) (0)
- WEIGHTED CHRONOTRON FOR TIME-DIGIT CONVERSION. (1969) (0)
- Book Review:The Clash of Cultures in Israel: A Problem for Education. Abraham Shumsky (1956) (0)
- Public Affairs Leaders (2017) (0)
- The "Transfer" Option (1989) (0)
- Books Received 25.4 (2003) (0)
- Reviews of the Literature (1954) (0)
- Evaluating the Impact of Various Influences (2017) (0)
- On the Construction of Indices: Including a Substantive Addendum on an Index of Popular Fiction Consumption (2017) (0)
- On Seeing Both Sides: Notes on the 2012 Presidential Debates (2015) (0)
- A Summary of Influences and Influentials (2017) (0)
- Tarde and Sorokin Revisited (2016) (0)
- Ethnic Continuity in an Israeli Town (1961) (0)
- Symmetrizing: On media attention to intergroup conflict (2010) (0)
- True Stories (2006) (0)
- An Agenda for the Sociology of Communication in Israel (2018) (0)
- 7. Are There Other Ways (1977) (0)
- 2. Broadcasting Structures in the Developing Countries (1977) (0)
- The Role and Sequence of Various Influences (2017) (0)
- Preface (1998) (0)
- Two dilemmas of religious identity and practice among Israeli Jews (2007) (0)
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