[eccr] Communication Researchers and Policy-making

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Communication Researchers and Policy-making
An MIT Press Sourcebook
edited by Sandra Braman

As the global information infrastructure evolves, the field of 
communication has the opportunity to renew itself while addressing the 
urgent policy need for new ways of thinking and new data to think about. 
Communication Researchers and Policy-making examines diverse relationships 
between the communication research and policy communities over more than a 
century and the issues that arise out of those interactions. The book 
provides primary material in the form of reports on such relationships 
spanning time periods, subject matter, policy issues, decision-making 
venues, and governments.

The essays range from historical pieces on the importance of communication 
research since the beginning of systematic policy analysis and on the 
various roles that researchers can play to contemporary analyses of 
contributions of research to policy debates over network design and access, 
media violence, and advertising fraud. Substantial interstitial essays by 
the editor explore the impact of the policy context on communication 
theories and research practices, relationships between researchers and 
their institutional homes, the role of communication researchers as public 
intellectuals, and ways to maximize the impact of communication research on 
policy-making during this period of infrastructural transformation. The 
book includes an extensive bibliography.

Sandra Braman is Professor in the Department of Journalism and Mass 
Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Chair of the 
Communication Law and Policy Division of the International Communication 
Association.

Contributors
James L. Baughman, Sandra Braman, William Buxton, James W. Carey, John 
Dewey, Robert Entman, Cecilie Gaziano, Elihu Katz, Donald Lamberton, Harold 
Lasswell, Paul Felix Lazarsfeld, Don R. LeDuc, Daniel Linz, Bruce M. Owen, 
Bryant Paul, Ivan L. Preston, Byron Reeves, Willard D. Rowland, Jr., 
Bradley J. Shafer, Christopher Simpson, Alan G. Stavitsky, Ellen Wartella, 
Fred W. Weingarten, Woodrow Wilson, Dolf Zillmann.

6 x 9, 576 pp., 10 illus., paper ISBN 0-262-52340-X


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