Richard L Kaplan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1237535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard L Kaplan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard L |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaplan |
| SIGNATURE | KAPLAN R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Film Independent |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-7420-6106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Press, Paper, and the Public Sphere
In late nineteenth-century USA, technological developments in paper production—a shift from a reliance on scarce cotton rag to plentiful wood—drastically reduced the price of newsprint. That decline helped overturn the reigning economics of the daily newspaper and resulted in the rise of new cheap papers with vastly expanded circulation. This novel mass press encompassed almost all Americans in the public sphere as represented by its pages. Focus…
An Italian public sphere
This special issue of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies takes Jürgen Habermas's landmark analysis of the modern public sphere as its point of departure for exploring the Italians' historical relation to democracy. The introduction first sketches the innovative dimensions of Habermas's effort to ground the legitimacy of modern democracy in the open, reasoned dialogue of an independent public opinion. It then raises questions about the status o…
Journalism History
Newspapers emerged in colonial British North America in the early 1700s. By the time the first muskets were fired in the American revolt against King George III in 1775, a powerful new cultural imagining of the press's central role in the public debates of citizens and the functioning of modern democracy defined journalism. Newspapers were seen as essential to liberty, spreading information and opinion among “free‐born citizens.” Indeed, across t…
Between mass society and revolutionary praxis
In 1967, Guy Debord published his landmark analysis of the spectacle. Building on Marx’s theory of alienation, the spectacle describes our passive, quasi-visual relation to the social world. The individual, divorced from the collective praxis that constructs our social world, is reduced to consuming corporate-supplied entrancing narratives. This article explicates and assesses Debord’s theory. Its most serious defect is Debord’s rejection of the …
Spider‐Man in Love
The News About New Institutionalism
The author discusses the utility of sociology's new institutionalism (NI) in organizational theory for the study of journalism and contends that NI remedies the political and cultural deficits in most existing social theories of the news. By highlighting how news organizations and journalists are embedded in broader fields of news producers and also politics, NI reveals both the limits and possibilities that journalism confronts as it works to fu…
Politics and the American Press
American Journalism Goes to War, 1898–2001
Politics and the American Press
Barnhurst and Nerone. The Form of the News
Journal Article Kevin G. Barnhurst and John Nerone, The Form of the News: A History Get access RICHARD L. KAPLAN RICHARD L. KAPLAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 66, Issue 2, August 2002, Pages 306–309, https://doi.org/10.1086/340030 Published: 01 August 2002
The American press and political community
This paper argues that the tripartite model of society — economy, state, civil society — offers possibilities for the comparative analysis of news media in democratic countries. Ideally, the press is embedded in civil society's `public sphere' with its participatory and deliberative norms. However the media is also dependent upon the instrumental functions of the economy and the polity. The shifting public posture of the daily press of Detroit in…
The News About New Institutionalism
The author discusses the utility of sociology's new institutionalism (NI) in organizational theory for the study of journalism and contends that NI remedies the political and cultural deficits in most existing social theories of the news. By highlighting how news organizations and journalists are embedded in broader fields of news producers and also politics, NI reveals both the limits and possibilities that journalism confronts as it works to fu…
Between mass society and revolutionary praxis
In 1967, Guy Debord published his landmark analysis of the spectacle. Building on Marx’s theory of alienation, the spectacle describes our passive, quasi-visual relation to the social world. The individual, divorced from the collective praxis that constructs our social world, is reduced to consuming corporate-supplied entrancing narratives. This article explicates and assesses Debord’s theory. Its most serious defect is Debord’s rejection of the …
Press, Paper, and the Public Sphere
In late nineteenth-century USA, technological developments in paper production—a shift from a reliance on scarce cotton rag to plentiful wood—drastically reduced the price of newsprint. That decline helped overturn the reigning economics of the daily newspaper and resulted in the rise of new cheap papers with vastly expanded circulation. This novel mass press encompassed almost all Americans in the public sphere as represented by its pages. Focus…
American Journalism Goes to War, 1898–2001
The American press and political community
This paper argues that the tripartite model of society — economy, state, civil society — offers possibilities for the comparative analysis of news media in democratic countries. Ideally, the press is embedded in civil society's `public sphere' with its participatory and deliberative norms. However the media is also dependent upon the instrumental functions of the economy and the polity. The shifting public posture of the daily press of Detroit in…
Barnhurst and Nerone. The Form of the News
Journal Article Kevin G. Barnhurst and John Nerone, The Form of the News: A History Get access RICHARD L. KAPLAN RICHARD L. KAPLAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 66, Issue 2, August 2002, Pages 306–309, https://doi.org/10.1086/340030 Published: 01 August 2002
Politics and the American Press
American Journalism Goes to War, 1898–2001
Politics and the American Press
The News About New Institutionalism
The author discusses the utility of sociology's new institutionalism (NI) in organizational theory for the study of journalism and contends that NI remedies the political and cultural deficits in most existing social theories of the news. By highlighting how news organizations and journalists are embedded in broader fields of news producers and also politics, NI reveals both the limits and possibilities that journalism confronts as it works to fu…
Spider‐Man in Love
Journalism History
Newspapers emerged in colonial British North America in the early 1700s. By the time the first muskets were fired in the American revolt against King George III in 1775, a powerful new cultural imagining of the press's central role in the public debates of citizens and the functioning of modern democracy defined journalism. Newspapers were seen as essential to liberty, spreading information and opinion among “free‐born citizens.” Indeed, across t…
Between mass society and revolutionary praxis
In 1967, Guy Debord published his landmark analysis of the spectacle. Building on Marx’s theory of alienation, the spectacle describes our passive, quasi-visual relation to the social world. The individual, divorced from the collective praxis that constructs our social world, is reduced to consuming corporate-supplied entrancing narratives. This article explicates and assesses Debord’s theory. Its most serious defect is Debord’s rejection of the …
An Italian public sphere
This special issue of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies takes Jürgen Habermas's landmark analysis of the modern public sphere as its point of departure for exploring the Italians' historical relation to democracy. The introduction first sketches the innovative dimensions of Habermas's effort to ground the legitimacy of modern democracy in the open, reasoned dialogue of an independent public opinion. It then raises questions about the status o…
Press, Paper, and the Public Sphere
In late nineteenth-century USA, technological developments in paper production—a shift from a reliance on scarce cotton rag to plentiful wood—drastically reduced the price of newsprint. That decline helped overturn the reigning economics of the daily newspaper and resulted in the rise of new cheap papers with vastly expanded circulation. This novel mass press encompassed almost all Americans in the public sphere as represented by its pages. Focus…
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