Personal Influence
Title | Personal Influence PDF eBook |
Author | Elihu Katz |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 435 |
Release | 2017-07-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351500201 |
First published in 1955, "Personal Influence" reports the results of a pioneering study conducted in Decatur, Illinois, validating Paul Lazarsfeld's serendipitous discovery that messages from the media may be further mediated by informal "opinion leaders" who intercept, interpret, and diffuse what they see and hear to the personal networks in which they are embedded. This classic volume set the stage for all subsequent studies of the interaction of mass media and interpersonal influence in the making of everyday decisions in public affairs, fashion, movie-going, and consumer behavior. The contextualizing essay in Part One dwells on the surprising relevance of primary groups to the flow of mass communication. Peter Simonson of the University of Pittsburgh has written that "Personal Influence was perhaps the most influential book in mass communication research of the postwar era, and it remains a signal text with historic significance and ongoing reverberations...more than any other single work, it solidified what came to be known as the dominant paradigm in the field, which later researchers were compelled either to cast off or build upon." In his introduction to this fiftieth-anniversary edition, Elihu Katz discusses the theory and methodology that underlie the Decatur study and evaluates the legacy of his coauthor and mentor, Paul F. Lazarsfeld.
Personal Influence; the Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications, by Elihu Katz and Paul F. Lazarsfeld. With a Foreword by Elmo Roper
Title | Personal Influence; the Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications, by Elihu Katz and Paul F. Lazarsfeld. With a Foreword by Elmo Roper PDF eBook |
Author | Elihu Katz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1955 |
Genre | Communication |
ISBN |
Personal Influence, the Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications
Title | Personal Influence, the Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications PDF eBook |
Author | Elihu Katz |
Publisher | Transaction Publishers |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1412830702 |
Personal Influence. The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications. By Elihu Katz and Paul F. Lazarsfeld ... A Report of the Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University
Title | Personal Influence. The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications. By Elihu Katz and Paul F. Lazarsfeld ... A Report of the Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University PDF eBook |
Author | Columbia University (NEW YORK). Bureau of Applied Social Research |
Publisher | |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Personal Influence
Title | Personal Influence PDF eBook |
Author | Elihu Katz |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2017-07-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351500198 |
First published in 1955, "Personal Influence" reports the results of a pioneering study conducted in Decatur, Illinois, validating Paul Lazarsfeld's serendipitous discovery that messages from the media may be further mediated by informal "opinion leaders" who intercept, interpret, and diffuse what they see and hear to the personal networks in which they are embedded. This classic volume set the stage for all subsequent studies of the interaction of mass media and interpersonal influence in the making of everyday decisions in public affairs, fashion, movie-going, and consumer behavior. The contextualizing essay in Part One dwells on the surprising relevance of primary groups to the flow of mass communication. Peter Simonson of the University of Pittsburgh has written that "Personal Influence was perhaps the most influential book in mass communication research of the postwar era, and it remains a signal text with historic significance and ongoing reverberations...more than any other single work, it solidified what came to be known as the dominant paradigm in the field, which later researchers were compelled either to cast off or build upon." In his introduction to this fiftieth-anniversary edition, Elihu Katz discusses the theory and methodology that underlie the Decatur study and evaluates the legacy of his coauthor and mentor, Paul F. Lazarsfeld.
Politics, Social Networks, and the History of Mass Communications Research: Rereading Personal Influence
Title | Politics, Social Networks, and the History of Mass Communications Research: Rereading Personal Influence PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Simonson |
Publisher | SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Revisits the 1955 classic, "Personal Influence : The part played by people in the flow of mass communications," by Elihu Katz and Paul Lazarsfeld.
Personal Influence
Title | Personal Influence PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | |
ISBN |