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A 1974 study by Katz, Blumler, and Gurevitch stated five basic assumptions for a framework for understanding the correlation between media and audiences. These assumptions are: [17] The audience is conceived as active. In the mass communication process, much initiative in linking gratification and media choice lies with the audience member.
The Uses of Mass Communications: Current Perspectives on Gratifications Research (1974) editor with Elihu Katz; The Challenge of Election Broadcasting. Report of an Enquiry by the Centre for Television Research, University of Leeds (1978) with Michael Gurevitch and Julian Ives; La télévision fait-elle l'élection?:
Major contributors to media psychology include Marshall McLuhan, Dolf Zillmann, Katz, Blumler and Gurevitch, David Giles, and Bernard Luskin. Marshall McLuhan is a Canadian communication philosopher who was active from the 1930s to the 1970s in the realm of Media Analysis and Technology. He was appointed by the President of the University of ...
Sociologists Elihu Katz and Paul Lazarsfeld introduced the concept of a two-step flow in communication, which suggested that media influence was moderated by opinion leaders. [4] By the late 1950s, most researchers concluded that media effects were limited by psychological processes like selective exposure , social networks, and the commercial ...
[citation needed] Later, two theoretical perspectives, uses-and-gratifications (Katz et al. 1973, [64] Rubin 2009 [63]) and selective exposure theory (Knobloch-Westerwick 2015, [65] Zillmann & Bryant 1985 [66]), were developed based on this assumption and aimed to pinpoint the psychological and social factors guiding and filtering an audience's ...
The 1970s also saw the development of what became known as uses and gratifications theory, developed by scholars such as Elihu Katz, Jay G. Blumler, and Michael Gurevitch. Instead of seeing audiences as passive entities experiencing effects from a one-way model (sender to receiver), they are analyzed through the paradigm of actively seeking out ...
Elihu Katz (Hebrew: אליהוא כ"ץ, 21 May 1926 – 31 December 2021) was an American-Israeli sociologist and communication scientist whose expertise was uses and gratifications theory. He authored over 20 books and 175 articles and book chapters during his lifetime and is acknowledged as one of "the founding fathers of regular television ...
The media professors Michael Gurevitch and Jay Blumler have proposed a number of functions that the mass media are expected to fulfill in a democracy: [109] Surveillance of the sociopolitical environment; Meaningful agenda setting; Platforms for an intelligible and illuminating advocacy; Dialogue across a diverse range of views