It's time to ask what happened to what Lazarsfeld and Stanton (1944:vii) casually called' 'the discipline of communications research." Much of the history of this enterprise, discipline or not, can be written as a set of continuing arguments with Paul Lazarsfeld. Far from subsiding, these arguments have become more pointed in the last decade.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
E. Katz (1987) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 4 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: