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Michael Schudson

Communications

#125

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#250

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#69

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Journalism

#16

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#22

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#16

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Linguistics

#816

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#1055

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#249

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Michael Schudson

Sociology

#220

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#289

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#109

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According to Wikipedia, Michael S. Schudson is professor of journalism in the graduate school of journalism of Columbia University and adjunct professor in the department of sociology. He is professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He is an expert in the fields such as journalism history, media sociology, political communication, and public culture.

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The science of fake news (2018) (2192)
Discovering The News: A Social History Of American Newspapers (1980) (1246)
The sociology of news (2003) (1026)
The objectivity norm in American journalism* (2001) (816)
The good citizen : a history of American civic life (1999) (585)
The sociology of news production (1989) (496)
Why conversation is not the soul of democracy (1997) (432)
The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker (2017) (426)
The Power of News (1995) (391)
Advertising the uneasy persuasion: its dubious impact on American society (1993) (371)
How culture works (1989) (359)
THE NEWS MEDIA AS POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS (2003) (342)
Watergate In American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, And Reconstruct The Past (1993) (308)
Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies (1991) (277)
Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press (2008) (274)
Advertising, the uneasy persuasion (1984) (268)
Objectivity, Professionalism, and Truth Seeking in Journalism (2008) (209)
The Business of Media: Corporate Media and the Public Interest (2002) (157)
Reading the News (1986) (142)
The rise of contextual journalism, 1950s–2000s (2014) (141)
The good citizen (1998) (103)
What’s Unusual About Covering Politics as Usual (2003) (99)
Citizens, Consumers, and the Good Society (2007) (98)
The trouble with experts – and why democracies need them (2006) (95)
Lives, laws, and language: Commemorative versus non‐commemorative forms of effective public memory (1997) (91)
The "Lippmann-Dewey Debate" and the Invention of Walter Lippmann as an Anti-Democrat 1986-1996 (2008) (77)
The Ideal of Conversation in the Study of Mass Media (1978) (72)
Question Authority: A History of the News Interview in American Journalism, 1860s–1930s (1994) (72)
The new validation of popular culture: Sense and sentimentality in academia (1987) (67)
Embarrassment and Erving Goffman's idea of human nature (1984) (62)
The Politics of Narrative Form: The Emergence of News Conventions in Print and Television (2016) (54)
The Troubling Equivalence of Citizen and Consumer (2006) (51)
Political observatories, databases & news in the emerging ecology of public information (2010) (47)
Notes on Scandal and the Watergate Legacy (2004) (47)
Origins of the ideal of objectivity in the professions : studies in the history of American journalism and American law, 1830-1940 (1991) (46)
The Varieties of Civic Experience (2006) (45)
Good citizens and bad history: Today's political ideals in historical perspective (2000) (44)
Social Origins of Press Cynicism in Portraying Politics (1999) (36)
The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945-1975 (2015) (35)
The Anarchy of Events and the Anxiety of Story Telling (2007) (34)
Journalism as a Vehicle of Non-Commemorative Cultural Memory (2014) (34)
The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America. Burton J. Bledstein (1977) (30)
The Literacy Myth (1982) (29)
Toward a Troubleshooting Manual for Journalism History (1997) (28)
On Tourism and Modern Culture (1979) (27)
Advertising as Capitalist Realism (2000) (26)
Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising) : Its Dubious Impact on American Society (2013) (23)
Objectivity, Professionalism, and Truth Seeking (2019) (22)
Organizing the 'Meritocracy': A History of the College Entrance Examination Board (1972) (22)
Criticizing the critics of advertising: towards a sociological view of marketing (1981) (22)
The Federal Machine: Beginnings of Bureaucracy in Jacksonian America. (1975) (21)
The Public Sphere and Its Problems: Bringing the State (Back) In (2012) (19)
News as Stories (2005) (17)
Reluctant Stewards: Journalism in a Democratic Society (2013) (17)
Production of culture (1982) (17)
Introduction: The Diversity of Culture (2008) (16)
How does a culture of health change? Lessons from the war on cigarettes. (2016) (16)
The Rise of the Right to Know (2015) (15)
Politics as Cultural Practice (2001) (15)
Professions for the people : the politics of skill (1978) (13)
The News Media: What Everyone Needs to Know (2016) (13)
What sorts of things are thingy? And what sorts of thinginess are there? Notes on stuff and social construction (2015) (13)
Report of the Tobacco Policy Research Study Group on Tobacco Marketing and Promotion (1992) (13)
The US model of journalism: exception or exemplar? (2006) (13)
Public, Private, and Professional Lives: The Correspondence of David Dudley Field and Samuel Bowles (1977) (12)
The Virtues of an Unlovable Press (2005) (12)
Ten years backwards and forwards (2009) (11)
The Concept of Politics in Contemporary U.S. Journalism (2007) (11)
The Classroom as Newsroom: Leveraging University Resources for Public Affairs Reporting (2012) (10)
The domain of journalism studies around the globe (2000) (10)
News, Public, Nation (2002) (10)
Fourteen or Fifteen Generations: News as a Cultural Form and Journalism as a Historical Formation (2013) (10)
Sending a political message: lessons from the American 1790s (1997) (9)
The Shortcomings of Transparency for Democracy (2020) (8)
Toward a Political Sociology of the News Media (2003) (8)
Troubling Transparency (2018) (8)
Introduction / The Problem of Journalism History, 1996 (1996) (8)
Critical response: A revolution in historiography? (1987) (8)
The Flexner Report and the Reed Report: notes on the history of professional education in the United States. (1974) (8)
How to Think Normatively About News and Democracy (2017) (7)
Troubling Transparency: The History and Future of Freedom of Information (2018) (7)
New Technologies and Not-So-New Democracies (2006) (7)
Historical approaches to communication studies (2015) (6)
The New Media in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign: The New York Times Watches its Back (2009) (5)
Cultural memory: A special issue (1997) (5)
Telling Stories about Rosa Parks (2012) (5)
Cultural sociology and its diversity (2008) (5)
The crisis in news: Can you whistle a happy tune? (2016) (4)
Trout or hamburger : politics and telemythology (1994) (4)
Book Review: The Accountability State: US Federal Inspectors General and the Pursuit of Democratic Integrity (2018) (4)
The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self.Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi , Eugene Rochberg-Halton (1983) (4)
Walter Lippmann’s Ghost: An Interview With Michael Schudson (2016) (3)
Historical Roots of Consumer Culture (2014) (3)
Origins of the Freedom of Information Act in the United States (2014) (3)
The politics of “lou grant” (1980) (3)
The Place of Sociology in the Study of Political Communication (2004) (3)
On the Sense of Vocation. (1974) (3)
Why Journalism Still Matters (2018) (3)
Shapes of Democracy: Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life by Theda Skocpol. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003, 384 Pages (2003) (2)
Introduction: Troubling Transparency (2018) (2)
“The Sociological Imagination” as Cliché: Perils of Sociology and Practices of Journalism (2008) (2)
Was Objectivity Killed in Action? (2006) (2)
A History of the Book in America (2015) (2)
Culture, Communication, and Carey (1990) (2)
News media and democratic processing (1984) (2)
Second Thoughts (2017) (2)
Colorization and authenticity (1987) (1)
No Time for Nostalgia (2011) (1)
What Does “Trust in the Media” Mean? (2022) (1)
Comment On Gaye Tuchman, “Facts Of The Moment: The Study Of News” (1980) (1)
Introduction: All politics is local, some local politics is personal (1999) (1)
Belgium Invades Germany (2019) (1)
Where we are and whither we are tending (2019) (1)
American Dreams (2004) (1)
Tocqueville's Interesting Error (2011) (1)
Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan.Daniel Czitrom (1984) (1)
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON JIM CAREY1 (2009) (1)
In All Fairness (2018) (1)
The Informed Citizen in Historical Context (2016) (1)
Reflecting on Forty Years of Sociology, Media Studies, and Journalism: An Interview with Todd Gitlin and Michael Schudson (2020) (1)
Beth Luey: Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge (2011) (1)
An Anthropology of Goods (2006) (1)
12. The Multiple Political Roles of American Journalism (2017) (1)
The New Journalism (2018) (1)
seven. Transparency in a Transformed Democracy (2015) (0)
Does Journalism’s Past Help Us Know Journalism’s Future? (2016) (0)
The Chattering Class (2012) (0)
U.S. Freedom of Information Act and Democratic Accountability (2020) (0)
2 The Varieties of Civic Experience (2008) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
Book Review: Bennett's New York Herald and the Rise of the Popular Press, by Michael Schudson (1990) (0)
The Making of Modern Advertising, by Daniel Pope; Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion: Its Dubious Impact on American Society, by Michael Schudson (1985) (0)
QUARTER NOTES (1984) (0)
“Old” Media, “New” Media, Hybrid Media, and the Changing Character of Political Participation (2020) (0)
'Shadow publics' in the news coverage of socio-political issues (2014) (0)
Mordecai Lee, Congress vs. the Bureaucracy: Muzzling Agency Public Relations (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011, $39.95). Pp. xvii + 232. isbn 978 0 8061 4203 6. (2012) (0)
eight. Disclosure and Its Discontents (2015) (0)
Book Reviews : Joseph Bensman and Robert Lilienfeld, Craft and Consciousness: Occupational Technique and the Development of World Images. John Wiley and Sons, 1973, 369 pp (1974) (0)
What is Our National Plan of Government? (2004) (0)
one. A Cultural Right to Know (2015) (0)
The Emergence of Professional Social Science: The American Social Science Association and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Authority. By Thomas L. Haskell. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977. ix + 276 pp. $12.00) (1979) (0)
公開講演会 The Media and Power in the United States (2004) (0)
Freedom of information: Q&A with Professor Michael Schudson (2016) (0)
five. The Media’s Presence (2015) (0)
Reprint Retrospective—"Historical Roots of Consumer Culture" from Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (2018) (0)
two. Origins of the Freedom of Information Act (2015) (0)
The Role of Culture in Culture Wars (0)
Reply to Chris Schroll (1999) (0)
Professions for the People: The Politics of Skill.Edited by Joel Gerstl and Glenn Jacobs. New York: Halsted, 1976. 230 pp. Cloth, $9.50; paper, $4.50 (1978) (0)
Review article (1980) (0)
Leadership in News Institutions (2009) (0)
What Gives Power to Words? A Multi-disciplinary Conversation on Social Change (2014) (0)
QUARTER NOTES (1984) (0)
four. Opening Up Congress (2015) (0)
New Materialities, Old Arguments? How to Think About Journalism, Technology, and Objects (2013) (0)
three. The Consumer’s Right to Be Informed (2015) (0)
Volume Information (1990) (0)
six “To Let People Know in Time” (2015) (0)
News and Democracy: Shifting Functions over Time (2008) (0)
Call for Papers (2003) (0)
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst. By David Nasaw. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. xv + 687 pp. Photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-395-82759-0 (2000) (0)
Quarter Notes (1986) (0)
QUARTER NOTES (1985) (0)

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