James R Beniger
Biographic Data
| ID | 116850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James R Beniger |
| GIVEN NAMES | James R |
| FAMILY NAME | Beniger |
| SIGNATURE | BENIGER J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Untitled Tribute, December 8, 2004
Presidential Address
Although I have been attending AAPOR’s annual conferences for the past 23 years, over the past three days here in St. Louis, I have sensed a climate of thought quite unlike anything I had previously experienced at an AAPOR conference. I can recall, for example, conferences following national elections whose outcomes had been called close to the mark by most of the major polling organizations. These conferences had an air of self-satisfaction abou…
The new icons – icons of change
An examination of a new sense of the word ‘icon’ and the changes it might foreshadow in everyday thought and language
Communication—Embrace the Subject, not the Field
Journal Article Communication—Embrace the Subject, not the Field Get access James R. Beniger James R. Beniger 1James R. Beniger is an associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 43, Issue 3, September 1993, Pages 18–25, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1993.tb01272.x Published: 07 Febru…
The Impact of Polling on Public Opinion
Journal Article THE IMPACT OF POLLING ON PUBLIC OPINION: RECONCILING FOUCAULT, HABERMAS, AND BOURDIEU Get access James R. Beniger James R. Beniger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 4, Issue 3, AUTUMN 1992, Pages 204–219, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/4.3.204 Published: 01 October 1992
Communication and the Control Revolution
Communication and the Control Revolution Get access James R. Beniger James R. Beniger James R. Beniger is Associate Professor of Communications and Sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 6, Issue 4, Spring 1992, Pages 10–13, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/6.4.10 Published: 01 March 1992
Annual Membership Meeting
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING JAMES R. BENIGER JAMES R. BENIGER Secretary-Treasurer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 53, Issue 3, Fall 1989, Pages 463–466, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/53.3.463 Published: 01 January 1989
Information Society and Global Science
In many advanced industrial countries, much of the labor force works at informational tasks, while wealth comes increasingly from informational goods and services. But why? Answers can be found in the Control Revolution, an abrupt change in the technological and economic arrangements by which information is collected, stored, processed, and communicated that began in the middle of the nineteenth century. The early history of computers in science …
The Control Revolution
Personalization of Mass Media and the Growth of Pseudo-Community
The Future Study of Public Opinion
It's All Information
Reviewed work: The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. by James R. Beniger
Toward and Old New Paradigm
Toward an Old New Paradigm the Half-Century Flirtation With Mass Society
TOWARD AN OLD NEW PARADIGM THE HALF-CENTURY FLIRTATION WITH MASS SOCIETY Get access JAMES R. BENIGER JAMES R. BENIGER Associate Professor at the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 4_PART_2, WINTER 1987, Pages S46–S66, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/51.4_PART_2.S46 Published: 01 January 1987
The control revolution
Trafficking in Drug Users
Understanding and Controlling Drug Users
The Organization of Technology in Advanced Industrial Society
Technical systems—large-scale, centrally coordinated technological enterprises—have emerged as a new mode of technological organization in advanced industrial societies. Recent scholarship points to the existence of two primary types of system based on whether the technology under development involves “collective” or “private” goods. It is hypothesized that these types differ in network structure and in the determinants of technical innovation. A…
The Battle for Public Opinion
The Language of Television Advertising
Does Television Enhance the Shared Symbolic Environment? Trends in Labeling of Editorial Cartoons, 1948-1980
The diffusion of television may increase the proportion of a population that recognizes various public figures and more abstract cultural symbols. This hypothesis is tested with time series of the labeling used in 1,154 editorial cartoons of five leading U.S. metropolitan newspapers. The sample includes at least a hundred cartoons published in each of the nine presidential election years, 1948-1980. Both the proportion of actual persons labeled a…
Candidate Ordering and Issue Circles
The choices confronting voters in an election involving three or more candidates, as in most recent U.S. presidential primary campaigns, can be conveniently structured in a candidate-issue matrix. Indeed, the news media often use this semigraphic display to summarize candidates' positions on key issues.1 A candidate-issue matrix is simply a rectangular array with rows corresponding to political issues, columns corre
Japanese and U.S. Media
James R. Beniger, D. Eleanor Westney; Japanese and U.S. Media: Graphics as a Reflection of Newspapers' Social Role, Journal of Communication, Volume 31, Is
Diffusion of Energy‐Conserving Innovations
We suggest that people's decisions to adopt energy‐conserving processes and products is a specific instance of the decision to adopt an innovation. Drawing on previous research, we postulate a set of eight dimensions by means of which energy‐conserving innovations are evaluated. We further argue that people's perceptions of an innovation's characteristics, on these dimensions, determine their decisions to adopt that innovation. Again in keeping w…
Outliers in Statistical Data
Winning the Presidential Nomination
Using the results of 202 Gallup opinion polls and 248 state primary elections, this article develops a general model of presidential nomination campaigns. National public opinion is found to play a major role, and state primaries a much lesser role, in winning the presidential nomination
The Impact of Polling on Public Opinion
Journal Article THE IMPACT OF POLLING ON PUBLIC OPINION: RECONCILING FOUCAULT, HABERMAS, AND BOURDIEU Get access James R. Beniger James R. Beniger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 4, Issue 3, AUTUMN 1992, Pages 204–219, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/4.3.204 Published: 01 October 1992
Exploratory Data Analysis
Diffusion of Energy‐Conserving Innovations
We suggest that people's decisions to adopt energy‐conserving processes and products is a specific instance of the decision to adopt an innovation. Drawing on previous research, we postulate a set of eight dimensions by means of which energy‐conserving innovations are evaluated. We further argue that people's perceptions of an innovation's characteristics, on these dimensions, determine their decisions to adopt that innovation. Again in keeping w…
Toward an Old New Paradigm the Half-Century Flirtation With Mass Society
TOWARD AN OLD NEW PARADIGM THE HALF-CENTURY FLIRTATION WITH MASS SOCIETY Get access JAMES R. BENIGER JAMES R. BENIGER Associate Professor at the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 4_PART_2, WINTER 1987, Pages S46–S66, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/51.4_PART_2.S46 Published: 01 January 1987
Presidential Address
Although I have been attending AAPOR’s annual conferences for the past 23 years, over the past three days here in St. Louis, I have sensed a climate of thought quite unlike anything I had previously experienced at an AAPOR conference. I can recall, for example, conferences following national elections whose outcomes had been called close to the mark by most of the major polling organizations. These conferences had an air of self-satisfaction abou…
Information Society and Global Science
In many advanced industrial countries, much of the labor force works at informational tasks, while wealth comes increasingly from informational goods and services. But why? Answers can be found in the Control Revolution, an abrupt change in the technological and economic arrangements by which information is collected, stored, processed, and communicated that began in the middle of the nineteenth century. The early history of computers in science …
Toward and Old New Paradigm
Does Television Enhance the Shared Symbolic Environment? Trends in Labeling of Editorial Cartoons, 1948-1980
The diffusion of television may increase the proportion of a population that recognizes various public figures and more abstract cultural symbols. This hypothesis is tested with time series of the labeling used in 1,154 editorial cartoons of five leading U.S. metropolitan newspapers. The sample includes at least a hundred cartoons published in each of the nine presidential election years, 1948-1980. Both the proportion of actual persons labeled a…
Discrete Multivariate Analysis
At last, after a decade of mounting interest in log-linear and related models for the analysis of discrete multivariate data, particularly in the form of multidimensional tables, we now have a comprehensive text and general reference on the Even a mediocre attempt to organize the extensive and widely scattered literature on discrete multivariate analysis would be welcome; happily, this is an excellent such effort, but a group of Harvard statistic…
Communication and the Control Revolution
Communication and the Control Revolution Get access James R. Beniger James R. Beniger James R. Beniger is Associate Professor of Communications and Sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 6, Issue 4, Spring 1992, Pages 10–13, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/6.4.10 Published: 01 March 1992
Inferences from Sociological Survey Data
Discrete Multivariate Analysis
At last, after a decade of mounting interest in log-linear and related models for the analysis of discrete multivariate data, particularly in the form of multidimensional tables, we now have a comprehensive text and general reference on the Even a mediocre attempt to organize the extensive and widely scattered literature on discrete multivariate analysis would be welcome; happily, this is an excellent such effort, but a group of Harvard statistic…
Introduction to Structural Equation Models
Reply to Bastedo
were Democrats. In this last of polls before the July 13-14 Miami convention, McGovern's plurality was 30 percent. So the published data are both statistically significant and reliable. In the month after the California primary and before the Miami convention, McGovern's candidacy was not third ... behind Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace (p. 25). McGovern was first. He retained a plurality in June 1972 no matter how Gallup phrased the questions…
Winning the Presidential Nomination
Using the results of 202 Gallup opinion polls and 248 state primary elections, this article develops a general model of presidential nomination campaigns. National public opinion is found to play a major role, and state primaries a much lesser role, in winning the presidential nomination
Modeling Social Processes
Exploratory Data Analysis
The Social Contexts of Method
Outliers in Statistical Data
Japanese and U.S. Media
James R. Beniger, D. Eleanor Westney; Japanese and U.S. Media: Graphics as a Reflection of Newspapers' Social Role, Journal of Communication, Volume 31, Is
Diffusion of Energy‐Conserving Innovations
We suggest that people's decisions to adopt energy‐conserving processes and products is a specific instance of the decision to adopt an innovation. Drawing on previous research, we postulate a set of eight dimensions by means of which energy‐conserving innovations are evaluated. We further argue that people's perceptions of an innovation's characteristics, on these dimensions, determine their decisions to adopt that innovation. Again in keeping w…
Candidate Ordering and Issue Circles
The choices confronting voters in an election involving three or more candidates, as in most recent U.S. presidential primary campaigns, can be conveniently structured in a candidate-issue matrix. Indeed, the news media often use this semigraphic display to summarize candidates' positions on key issues.1 A candidate-issue matrix is simply a rectangular array with rows corresponding to political issues, columns corre
Does Television Enhance the Shared Symbolic Environment? Trends in Labeling of Editorial Cartoons, 1948-1980
The diffusion of television may increase the proportion of a population that recognizes various public figures and more abstract cultural symbols. This hypothesis is tested with time series of the labeling used in 1,154 editorial cartoons of five leading U.S. metropolitan newspapers. The sample includes at least a hundred cartoons published in each of the nine presidential election years, 1948-1980. Both the proportion of actual persons labeled a…
The Language of Television Advertising
Understanding and Controlling Drug Users
The Organization of Technology in Advanced Industrial Society
Technical systems—large-scale, centrally coordinated technological enterprises—have emerged as a new mode of technological organization in advanced industrial societies. Recent scholarship points to the existence of two primary types of system based on whether the technology under development involves “collective” or “private” goods. It is hypothesized that these types differ in network structure and in the determinants of technical innovation. A…
The Battle for Public Opinion
The control revolution
Trafficking in Drug Users
Personalization of Mass Media and the Growth of Pseudo-Community
The Future Study of Public Opinion
It's All Information
Reviewed work: The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. by James R. Beniger
Toward and Old New Paradigm
Toward an Old New Paradigm the Half-Century Flirtation With Mass Society
TOWARD AN OLD NEW PARADIGM THE HALF-CENTURY FLIRTATION WITH MASS SOCIETY Get access JAMES R. BENIGER JAMES R. BENIGER Associate Professor at the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 4_PART_2, WINTER 1987, Pages S46–S66, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/51.4_PART_2.S46 Published: 01 January 1987
Information Society and Global Science
In many advanced industrial countries, much of the labor force works at informational tasks, while wealth comes increasingly from informational goods and services. But why? Answers can be found in the Control Revolution, an abrupt change in the technological and economic arrangements by which information is collected, stored, processed, and communicated that began in the middle of the nineteenth century. The early history of computers in science …
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