Eric W Rothenbuhler
Biographic Data
| ID | 280827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric W Rothenbuhler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric W |
| FAMILY NAME | Rothenbuhler |
| SIGNATURE | ROTHENBUHLER E W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Communicating Terror: Mediatization and Ritualization
In this essay, we explicate the internal logic of contemporary terrorist acts and our society’s responses, to denaturalize the label and meanings we give to “terrorism.” We argue that contemporary terrorism communicates intimidation, fear, and anxiety through the ritualization and mediatization of terrorist attacks. Mediatization refers to the strategic coercion of imperative media coverage of the attacks, and ritualization refers to the focus on…
The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy
Social cues, such as eye gaze and pointing fingers, can increase the prioritisation of specific locations for cognitive processing. A previous study using a manual reaching task showed that, although both gaze and pointing cues altered target prioritisation (reaction times [RTs]), only pointing cues affected action execution (trajectory deviations). These differential effects of gaze and pointing cues on action execution could be because the gaze…
Ritual
This entry reviews the origin, development, and various forms of the idea of ritual in communication theory. It traces the academic genealogy of ritual communication to Durkheim's sociology of religion. Recognizing the essential role of rituals in communicating shared meanings to social members, it reviews theorizations of ceremonial media events, the ritualistic nature of routine interactions, both face‐to‐face and mediated, as well as the conce…
Community
Community refers to the relationship between individuals and groups of different sizes, from nations to neighborhoods, in an array of contexts: geographical, interpersonal, organizational, political–economic, social–cultural, and mediated. At the heart of community is a series of themes: continuity and change, tradition and innovation, place and time, belonging and affiliation, identity and ideology, loss and recovery, destruction and repair. Thi…
International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy, 4 Volume Set
Media Events
Sound Histories: Communication, Technology, Media, and Fidelity
The interdisciplinary study of sound and sound technologies received a burst of new attention in the 1990s, much of it historical inquiry. Given the ubiquity of sound in human experience and the centrality of audio to modern media, this promised an intriguing horizontal slice across fields and disciplines of study. The literature has evolved, though, toward a set of relatively distinct areas of study, including film sound, recording and music his…
Communication Theory and Research in the Age of New Media: A Conversation from the CM Café
The Communication Monographs Cafe has become a neighborhood fixture—a spot for conversation about ideas that are circulating in the discipline and that have the potential for shaping scholarship in
John Peel in America
La terreur spectacle
For-the-record aesthetics and Robert Johnson's blues style as a product of recorded culture
Robert Johnson (1911-1938) is the most venerated of all pre-war blues musicians; the veneration borders on hagiography. Recently published revisionist literature has constructed a sociologically realistic portrayal of a professional musician working among other musicians for a contemporary audience in a specific historical context. This has left unexplained, however, the veneration granted to his music by the audience for his records from the 196…
The Church of the Cult of the Individual
Ground Zero, the Firemen, and the Symbolics of Touch on 9-11 and after
The Promise of Media Anthropology
Media anthropology grows out of the anthropology of modern societies, on one hand, and the cultural turn in media studies, on the other. It turns its attention from “exotic” to mundane and from “indigenous” to manufactured culture but preserves the methodological and conceptual assets of earlier anthropological tradition. It prepares media studies for more complete engagement with the symbolic construction of reality and the fundamental importanc…
Media Anthropology
Burnishing the brand: Todd Storz and the total station sound
This article examines the development of Top 40 radio by Todd Storz and Mid- Continent Broadcasting in the years following World War II. Our findings, based on recent interviews we have conducted with Storz employees, challenge the received wisdom concerning Top 40’s development and practices. Previous accounts infer that Top 40 marked an abrupt, almost instantaneous break with previous radio programming practice; that on-air talent chafed under …
SoundScan and the consolidation of control in the popular music industry
SoundScan is an information technology that compiles point of purchase sales data for use in constructing recording popularity charts and other marketing purposes. Although it represents the first significant procedural change in compiling Billboard charts in decades, many of SoundScan's effects have not been assessed. SoundScan shifts chart emphasis from `leading' outlets to mass-market stores, and increases the marketing efficiency of companies…
Commercial Radio as Communication
Journal Article Commercial Radio as Communication Get access Eric W. Rothenbuhler Eric W. Rothenbuhler 1Eric W. Rothenbuhler is an associate professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa and faculty advisor to the student radio station KRUI-FM. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 46, Issue 1, March 1996, Pages 125–143, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1996.tb0…
Communication Theory Today
Au-delà de la peur des images: La réalité de la construction
Stemming from a reflexion on the distrust or denigration of images that characterizes many philosophical or religious doctrines, from Moses' and Plato's condemnations, to empirist doctrines (Bacon, Locke, Hobbes, Hume), this paper proposes a general theoretical argument about the nature of communication and discourse about it. The argument is motivated by some issues in media studies, but is not limited to them. In fact, we suggest that the media…
Argument for a Durkheimian Theory of the Communicative
Journal Article Argument for a Durkheimian Theory of the Communicative Get access Eric W. Rothenbuhler Eric W. Rothenbuhler 1Eric W. Rothenbuhler is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 43, Issue 3, September 1993, Pages 158–163, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1993.tb01288.x Published: 07…
Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History
Preface Defining Media Events: High Holidays of Mass Communication Scripting Media Events: Contest, Conquest, Coronation Negotiating Media Events Performing Media Events Celebrating Media Events Shamanizing Media Events Reviewing Media Events Appendix: Five Frames for Assessing the Effects of Media Events Notes References Acknowledge Index
The process of community involvement
The role of communication in community processes has long been recognized by philosophers and social theorists and has been a topic of research for a century or more. That research has been conducted under the influence of theories that questioned the viability of community in industrial, urban societies. The relevant evidence has been taken to be the degree to which people develop ties of one sort or another to the places they live and the insti…
Values and symbols in orientations to the Olympics
In this study, survey data are used to support the argument that, consistent with Durkheim's theory, the modern Olympic games are secular religious festivals. The public's thinking about the 1984 Summer Games showed a relatively consensual core of values, ideas, and sentiments that affirm the Olympic tradition and are distinct from the public's thinking about professional sports. These ideas were reinforced, and the prevalence of cynicism was red…
The Living Room Celebration of the Olympic Games
Watching the Olympics on television proved to be a media event for which people planned their viewing, paid close attention to the television, and arranged to have visitors with whom they ate, drank, and talked about what they saw
Media Anthropology
Durkheimian sociology: Cultural studies
The classic works of Emile Durkheim are characterized by a structural approach to the understanding of collective behaviour, and it is this element of his writings that has been most taken up by modern social science. This volume, however, rejects the dominant structural approach, and draws instead on Durkheim's later work, in which he shifted to a symbolic theory of modern industrial societies that emphasized the importance of ritual and placed …
The Theory of the Niche: Quantifying Competition Among Media Industries
Journal Article The Theory of the Niche: Quantifying Competition Among Media Industries Get access John Dimmick, John Dimmick 1John Dimmick is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and School of Journalism, Ohio State University, Eric Rothenbuhler is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Eric Rothenbu…
The process of community involvement
The role of communication in community processes has long been recognized by philosophers and social theorists and has been a topic of research for a century or more. That research has been conducted under the influence of theories that questioned the viability of community in industrial, urban societies. The relevant evidence has been taken to be the degree to which people develop ties of one sort or another to the places they live and the insti…
Commercial Radio as Communication
Journal Article Commercial Radio as Communication Get access Eric W. Rothenbuhler Eric W. Rothenbuhler 1Eric W. Rothenbuhler is an associate professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa and faculty advisor to the student radio station KRUI-FM. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 46, Issue 1, March 1996, Pages 125–143, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1996.tb0…
SoundScan and the consolidation of control in the popular music industry
SoundScan is an information technology that compiles point of purchase sales data for use in constructing recording popularity charts and other marketing purposes. Although it represents the first significant procedural change in compiling Billboard charts in decades, many of SoundScan's effects have not been assessed. SoundScan shifts chart emphasis from `leading' outlets to mass-market stores, and increases the marketing efficiency of companies…
For-the-record aesthetics and Robert Johnson's blues style as a product of recorded culture
Robert Johnson (1911-1938) is the most venerated of all pre-war blues musicians; the veneration borders on hagiography. Recently published revisionist literature has constructed a sociologically realistic portrayal of a professional musician working among other musicians for a contemporary audience in a specific historical context. This has left unexplained, however, the veneration granted to his music by the audience for his records from the 196…
Communicating Terror: Mediatization and Ritualization
In this essay, we explicate the internal logic of contemporary terrorist acts and our society’s responses, to denaturalize the label and meanings we give to “terrorism.” We argue that contemporary terrorism communicates intimidation, fear, and anxiety through the ritualization and mediatization of terrorist attacks. Mediatization refers to the strategic coercion of imperative media coverage of the attacks, and ritualization refers to the focus on…
Popular Music: Concentration and Diversity in the Industry, 1974–1980
Eric W. Rothenbuhler, John W. Dimmick; Popular Music: Concentration and Diversity in the Industry, 1974–1980, Journal of Communication, Volume 32, Issue 1
The Theory of the Niche: Quantifying Competition Among Media Industries
Journal Article The Theory of the Niche: Quantifying Competition Among Media Industries Get access John Dimmick, John Dimmick 1John Dimmick is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and School of Journalism, Ohio State University, Eric Rothenbuhler is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Eric Rothenbu…
Critical response and reply: Comments on Kaul and McKerns' “Dialectic ecology”
(1986). Critical response and reply. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 380-383
The Living Room Celebration of the Olympic Games
Watching the Olympics on television proved to be a media event for which people planned their viewing, paid close attention to the television, and arranged to have visitors with whom they ate, drank, and talked about what they saw
Durkheimian sociology: Cultural studies
The classic works of Emile Durkheim are characterized by a structural approach to the understanding of collective behaviour, and it is this element of his writings that has been most taken up by modern social science. This volume, however, rejects the dominant structural approach, and draws instead on Durkheim's later work, in which he shifted to a symbolic theory of modern industrial societies that emphasized the importance of ritual and placed …
The measurement of Presidential punch
Values and symbols in orientations to the Olympics
In this study, survey data are used to support the argument that, consistent with Durkheim's theory, the modern Olympic games are secular religious festivals. The public's thinking about the 1984 Summer Games showed a relatively consensual core of values, ideas, and sentiments that affirm the Olympic tradition and are distinct from the public's thinking about professional sports. These ideas were reinforced, and the prevalence of cynicism was red…
The process of community involvement
The role of communication in community processes has long been recognized by philosophers and social theorists and has been a topic of research for a century or more. That research has been conducted under the influence of theories that questioned the viability of community in industrial, urban societies. The relevant evidence has been taken to be the degree to which people develop ties of one sort or another to the places they live and the insti…
Argument for a Durkheimian Theory of the Communicative
Journal Article Argument for a Durkheimian Theory of the Communicative Get access Eric W. Rothenbuhler Eric W. Rothenbuhler 1Eric W. Rothenbuhler is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 43, Issue 3, September 1993, Pages 158–163, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1993.tb01288.x Published: 07…
Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History
Preface Defining Media Events: High Holidays of Mass Communication Scripting Media Events: Contest, Conquest, Coronation Negotiating Media Events Performing Media Events Celebrating Media Events Shamanizing Media Events Reviewing Media Events Appendix: Five Frames for Assessing the Effects of Media Events Notes References Acknowledge Index
Au-delà de la peur des images: La réalité de la construction
Stemming from a reflexion on the distrust or denigration of images that characterizes many philosophical or religious doctrines, from Moses' and Plato's condemnations, to empirist doctrines (Bacon, Locke, Hobbes, Hume), this paper proposes a general theoretical argument about the nature of communication and discourse about it. The argument is motivated by some issues in media studies, but is not limited to them. In fact, we suggest that the media…
Communication Theory Today
Commercial Radio as Communication
Journal Article Commercial Radio as Communication Get access Eric W. Rothenbuhler Eric W. Rothenbuhler 1Eric W. Rothenbuhler is an associate professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa and faculty advisor to the student radio station KRUI-FM. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 46, Issue 1, March 1996, Pages 125–143, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1996.tb0…
SoundScan and the consolidation of control in the popular music industry
SoundScan is an information technology that compiles point of purchase sales data for use in constructing recording popularity charts and other marketing purposes. Although it represents the first significant procedural change in compiling Billboard charts in decades, many of SoundScan's effects have not been assessed. SoundScan shifts chart emphasis from `leading' outlets to mass-market stores, and increases the marketing efficiency of companies…
Burnishing the brand: Todd Storz and the total station sound
This article examines the development of Top 40 radio by Todd Storz and Mid- Continent Broadcasting in the years following World War II. Our findings, based on recent interviews we have conducted with Storz employees, challenge the received wisdom concerning Top 40’s development and practices. Previous accounts infer that Top 40 marked an abrupt, almost instantaneous break with previous radio programming practice; that on-air talent chafed under …
The Church of the Cult of the Individual
Ground Zero, the Firemen, and the Symbolics of Touch on 9-11 and after
The Promise of Media Anthropology
Media anthropology grows out of the anthropology of modern societies, on one hand, and the cultural turn in media studies, on the other. It turns its attention from “exotic” to mundane and from “indigenous” to manufactured culture but preserves the methodological and conceptual assets of earlier anthropological tradition. It prepares media studies for more complete engagement with the symbolic construction of reality and the fundamental importanc…
Media Anthropology
La terreur spectacle
For-the-record aesthetics and Robert Johnson's blues style as a product of recorded culture
Robert Johnson (1911-1938) is the most venerated of all pre-war blues musicians; the veneration borders on hagiography. Recently published revisionist literature has constructed a sociologically realistic portrayal of a professional musician working among other musicians for a contemporary audience in a specific historical context. This has left unexplained, however, the veneration granted to his music by the audience for his records from the 196…
John Peel in America
Sound Histories: Communication, Technology, Media, and Fidelity
The interdisciplinary study of sound and sound technologies received a burst of new attention in the 1990s, much of it historical inquiry. Given the ubiquity of sound in human experience and the centrality of audio to modern media, this promised an intriguing horizontal slice across fields and disciplines of study. The literature has evolved, though, toward a set of relatively distinct areas of study, including film sound, recording and music his…
Communication Theory and Research in the Age of New Media: A Conversation from the CM Café
The Communication Monographs Cafe has become a neighborhood fixture—a spot for conversation about ideas that are circulating in the discipline and that have the potential for shaping scholarship in
Media Events
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