The Content and Effects of Broadcasting

On the content of radio and television, see: Kenneth Baker ,. “An Analysis of Radio's Programming,” in Communications Research, 1948–49. Edited by Lazarsfeld Paul F. and Stanton Frank . New York: Harper & Bros., 1950.

Donald Horton ,; Mauksch Hans O. ; and Kurt Lang ,. Chicago Summer Television, July 30 to August 5, 1951. Urbana, Illinois: National Association of Educational Broadcasters, 1953.

Smythe Dallas W. An Inventory of (Noncommercial) Educational Radio Programming, August, 1949. Urbana, Illinois: Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois, 1949.

Smythe Dallas W. Inventory No. 2 of Educational Radio Station Programming: Analysis of 1950 Programs, with Comparisons, 1949–50. Urbana, Illinois: Institute of Communications Research, 1951.

Smythe Dallas W. New Haven Television, May 15–21, 1952. Urbana, Illinois: National Association of Educational Broadcasters, August, 1953.

Smythe Dallas W. New York Television, January 4–10, 1951–52, with an introduction by Merton Robert K. . Urbana, Illinois: National Association of Educational Broadcasters, 1953.

Smythe Dallas W. Three Years of New York Television, 1951–1953. Urbana, Illinois: National Association of Educational Broadcasters, July, 1953.

Smythe Dallas W. , and Angus Campbell ,. Los Angeles Television, May 23–29, 1951. Urbana, Illinois: National Association of Educational Broadcasters, December, 1951. For interpretative comment on the content of radio and television, see: Gershon Legman ,. Love and Death. New York: Breaking Point, 1949.

Seldes Gilbert The Great Audience. New York: Viking Press, 1950.

Siepmann Charles Radio, Television, and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 1950.

White Llewellyn The American Radio. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947. Many recent books in the area of psychology and sociology have been relevant to the question of the effects of radio and television. Leading examples are:

Adorno T. W. , and Others. The Authoritarian Personality. New York: Harper & Bros., 1950.

Wright Mills C. . White Collar. New York: Oxford University Press, 1951.

Riesman David The Lonely Crowd. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950. The reader should also see the research studies included in the three volumes edited by Stanton Frank N. and Lazarsfeld Paul F. :

Radio Research. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc., 1941. Radio Research, 1942–43. New York: Essential Books, 1944.

Communications Research, 1948–49. New York: Harper & Bros., 1949. Among special studies of radio listening, see: Division of Program Surveys, Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Attitudes of Rural People toward Radio Service. Washington: Government Printing Office, January, 1946.

Lazarsfeld Paul F. , and Harry Field ,. The People Look at Radio. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1946.

Lazarsfeld Paul F. , and Kendall Patricia L. Radio Listening in America. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1948.