The Unique Perspective of Television and Its Effect: A Pilot Study

Lang, Kurt; Lang, Gladys Engel

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“…For the recent trips, an ethnographic investigation has been conducted, using a model close to the investigation by Lang and Lang (1953), during visits made by the late President F. Mitterrand in Lille and Besançon: systematic observation of the cheering behaviors within the audience and passing round a close-ended questionnaire among spectators (one form offered to every tenth person encountered behind the barriers). A conventional investigation on secondary written sources in the National Library was added to the survey (regarding travel souvenir albums in particular) and an investigation in iconographic documentation (films of the TV news kept by the National Audiovisual Institute, photographic series of the National Archives).…”

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“…Following this lead, I wish to come back to the assessment of the gestures of flag-waving and illumination by showing how jubilation can be correctly prepared without becoming artificial. It is through local orchestration, which refers mainly to setting up the material and cognitive frame that have been learned, that makes the event recognized by those to whom it is intended, particularly in its behavioral expectations (Lang and Lang 1953).…”

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Does acclamation equal agreement? Rethinking collective effervescence through the case of the presidential “tour de France” during the twentieth century

Mariot

2011

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Does acclamation equal agreement? Rethinking collective effervescence through the case of the presidential “tour de France” during the twentieth century

Mariot

2011

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“…Park's dissertation (1904Park's dissertation ( /1972, written under Georg Simmel, contrasts "crowd and public" as social forms of deliberation to which Blumer (1939) later added "audience," echoing his interest in the effect of movies on adolescents. Another student of crowds, and of rumors, was Tamotsu Shibutani (1966), two of whose graduate students, Kurt and Gladys Lang (1953), made the first-ever comparison of viewing an event on television and experiencing the same event in-person. After World War II, Morris Janowitz (1952/l967) revisited the community press, and Louis Wirth (1948)-in his presidential address to the ASA-equated the power of the mass media to save the world with the power of atomic weapons to destroy it.…”

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Why Sociology Abandoned Communication

Katz

2009

Am Soc

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This paper considers the possibility that early sociological interest in the integrative role of mass communication may have been undermined (1) by the shortrun study of media "campaigns," and the declaration that such persuasive efforts have only "limited effect"; (2) by the wrangling over theories of "mass society"; and (3) by a quasi-journalistic emphasis on "media events." In spite of the theoretical basis for reconciling these traditions, the rift over the academic locus of communications research has not been repaired.Communications research seems to be flourishing, as evident in the number of universities offering degrees in communication, number of students enrolled, number of journals, etc. The field is interdisciplinary, and embraces various combinations of former Schools of Journalism, Schools of Speech (Midwest for Rhetoric), and programs in sociology and political science. The field is linked to Law, to Schools of Business and Health, to Cinema Studies, and, increasingly, to humanistically-oriented programs of so-called Cultural Studies. All this, in spite of having been prematurely pronounced dead, or bankrupt, by some of its founders.Sociologists once occupied a prominent place in the study of communicationboth in pioneering departments of sociology and as founding members of the interdisciplinary teams that constituted Departments and Schools of Communication. In the intervening years, I daresay that communications has attracted rather little attention in mainstream sociology and, as for Departments of Communication, a generation of scholars brought up on interdisciplinarity has lost touch with the disciplines from which their teachers were recruited. More recently, I believe, this

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“…The exception to this generalization was Lang and Lang's (1953) pathbreaking comparison of on-site observers' records of crowd reactions to General Douglas MacArthur's parade through the streets of Chicago with simultaneous records by observers viewing live television coverage of crowd reactions to that parade.…”

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A Method for Systematically Observing and Recording Collective Action

Schweingruber

McPhail

1999

Sociological Methods & Research

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University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignT his article describes a method for systematically observing and recording collective action within temporary gatherings. Our method uses trained observers, distributed across a gathering, who complete a code sheet during time interval samples. The data collected provide a rich record of collective action across space and time. This method has been used to

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The Unique Perspective of Television and Its Effect: A Pilot Study

Cited by 180 publications

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Does acclamation equal agreement? Rethinking collective effervescence through the case of the presidential “tour de France” during the twentieth century

Does acclamation equal agreement? Rethinking collective effervescence through the case of the presidential “tour de France” during the twentieth century

Why Sociology Abandoned Communication

A Method for Systematically Observing and Recording Collective Action

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