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SECTION 4<br />

238<br />

CONTEMPORARY MASS<br />

COMMUNICATION THEORY:<br />

FROM ACTIVE-AUDIENCE TO<br />

MEANING-MAKING THEORIES<br />

1964 McLuhan’s Understanding Media published<br />

1965 Color comes to all three commercial TV networks<br />

Comsat satellite launched<br />

1966 Mendelsohn’s Mass Entertainment published<br />

Berger and Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality published<br />

1967 Merton’s On Theoretical Sociology published<br />

1969 Blumer coins “symbolic interaction”<br />

ARPANET, forerunner to Internet, goes online<br />

1971 Bandura’s Psychological Modeling published<br />

1972 Surgeon General’s Report on Television and Social Behavior released<br />

McCombs and Shaw introduce “agenda-setting”<br />

Gerbner’s Violence Profile initiated<br />

FCC requires cable companies to provide “local access”<br />

Ray Tomlinson develops e-mail<br />

1973 Watergate Hearings broadcast live<br />

1974 Blumler and Katz’s The Uses of Mass Communication published<br />

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