Jefferson D Pooley
Biographic Data
| ID | 291251 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jefferson D Pooley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jefferson D |
| FAMILY NAME | Pooley |
| SIGNATURE | POOLEY J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Muhlenberg College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Social Media & the Self
Society on the Edge
The social sciences underwent rapid development in postwar America. Problems once framed in social terms gradually became redefined as individual with regards to scope and remedy, with economics and psychology winning influence over the other social sciences. By the 1970s, both economics and psychology had spread their intellectual remits wide: psychology's concepts suffused everyday language, while economists entered a myriad of policy debates. …
Facebook for Academics
Given widespread labor market precarity, contemporary workers-especially those in the media and creative industries-are increasingly called upon to brand themselves. Academics, we contend, are experiencing a parallel pressure to engage in self-promotional practices, particularly as universities become progressively more market-driven. Academia.edu , a paper-sharing social network that has been informally dubbed 'Facebook for academics,' has grown…
L azarsfeld, P aul F .
Paul Lazarsfeld (1901–1976), often counted among the field's “founders,” made significant contributions to media and communication theory. Some of this work, including the two‐step flow model of mass communication reception, continues to resonate in studies of audience reception. But the full richness of his theorizing about the active, socially embedded audience has been neglected, even by scholars touting viewers' creative media readings in the…
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…
Sociology of Knowledge
The sociology of knowledge is the subfield of sociology devoted to the interplay between social conditions and ideas. The subfield has traced the many ways that social factors, such as military funding, public controversy, generational experience, and personal rivalry, have helped to shape the ideas that scholars and intellectuals produce. The entry describes the early development of the sociology of knowledge, with reference to Max Scheler, Karl…
Communication Theory and the Disciplines
Communication theory, like the communication discipline itself, has a long history but a short past. This entry traces the range of contributions to communication theory, some influential and others neglected, from the disciplines beyond communication studies. The treatment is divided into three disciplinary categories: (1) the social sciences; (2) cognate fields (like film studies) whose domains overlap with communication; and (3) the humanities…
International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy, 4 Volume Set
The Four Cultures
The commentary traces four distinct but overlapping cultures in US media studies: (1) speech and rhetoric, (2) a media research field centered on the mass communication trades, (3) one detached from those trades, and (4) film studies. I point to each culture's institutional history, typical academic unit, and unique self-understanding. The main claim is that the four-part division has always had an arbitrary character, but is especially incoheren…
Mnemonic Multiples
This article uses the Bureau of Applied Social Research's mid-century book-length panel studies-The People's Choice (1944), Voting (1954), and Personal Influence (1955)-to identify and illustrate a neglected phenomenon in the remembered history of social science: mnemonic multiples. The article describes the way that the Bureau books, originally published into a post-World War II interdisciplinary social science milieu, have since come to be reme…
Media and Communications
This chapter contains sections titled: Communication and Social Theory: Legacy and Definitions Contemporary Issues References
The Price of Success
Harry Alpert (19121977), the US sociologist, is best-known for his directorship of the National Science Foundation’s social science programme in the 1950s. This study extends our understanding of Alpert in two main ways: first, by examining the earlier development of his views and career. Beginning with his 1939 biography of Emile Durkheim, we explore the early development of Alpert’s views about foundational questions concerning the scientific…
Peter Baehr, Caesarism, Charisma and Fate
P eter Baehr's Caesarism, Charisma and Fate is a deeply intelligent work, but it is also a lost opportunity.The book promises to challenge Robert Merton's distinction between the "history" and "systematics" of sociological theory: genuine historical research, as distinct from those theories and findings that have ongoing analytic purchase.Baehr, in refusing Merton's proposal for a division of labour, insists that history qua history might directl…
The Media and Social Theory
Facebook for Academics
Given widespread labor market precarity, contemporary workers-especially those in the media and creative industries-are increasingly called upon to brand themselves. Academics, we contend, are experiencing a parallel pressure to engage in self-promotional practices, particularly as universities become progressively more market-driven. Academia.edu , a paper-sharing social network that has been informally dubbed 'Facebook for academics,' has grown…
The Price of Success
Harry Alpert (19121977), the US sociologist, is best-known for his directorship of the National Science Foundation’s social science programme in the 1950s. This study extends our understanding of Alpert in two main ways: first, by examining the earlier development of his views and career. Beginning with his 1939 biography of Emile Durkheim, we explore the early development of Alpert’s views about foundational questions concerning the scientific…
The Four Cultures
The commentary traces four distinct but overlapping cultures in US media studies: (1) speech and rhetoric, (2) a media research field centered on the mass communication trades, (3) one detached from those trades, and (4) film studies. I point to each culture's institutional history, typical academic unit, and unique self-understanding. The main claim is that the four-part division has always had an arbitrary character, but is especially incoheren…
Mnemonic Multiples
This article uses the Bureau of Applied Social Research's mid-century book-length panel studies-The People's Choice (1944), Voting (1954), and Personal Influence (1955)-to identify and illustrate a neglected phenomenon in the remembered history of social science: mnemonic multiples. The article describes the way that the Bureau books, originally published into a post-World War II interdisciplinary social science milieu, have since come to be reme…
Peter Baehr, Caesarism, Charisma and Fate
P eter Baehr's Caesarism, Charisma and Fate is a deeply intelligent work, but it is also a lost opportunity.The book promises to challenge Robert Merton's distinction between the "history" and "systematics" of sociological theory: genuine historical research, as distinct from those theories and findings that have ongoing analytic purchase.Baehr, in refusing Merton's proposal for a division of labour, insists that history qua history might directl…
The Media and Social Theory
The Price of Success
Harry Alpert (19121977), the US sociologist, is best-known for his directorship of the National Science Foundation’s social science programme in the 1950s. This study extends our understanding of Alpert in two main ways: first, by examining the earlier development of his views and career. Beginning with his 1939 biography of Emile Durkheim, we explore the early development of Alpert’s views about foundational questions concerning the scientific…
Media and Communications
This chapter contains sections titled: Communication and Social Theory: Legacy and Definitions Contemporary Issues References
Mnemonic Multiples
This article uses the Bureau of Applied Social Research's mid-century book-length panel studies-The People's Choice (1944), Voting (1954), and Personal Influence (1955)-to identify and illustrate a neglected phenomenon in the remembered history of social science: mnemonic multiples. The article describes the way that the Bureau books, originally published into a post-World War II interdisciplinary social science milieu, have since come to be reme…
L azarsfeld, P aul F .
Paul Lazarsfeld (1901–1976), often counted among the field's “founders,” made significant contributions to media and communication theory. Some of this work, including the two‐step flow model of mass communication reception, continues to resonate in studies of audience reception. But the full richness of his theorizing about the active, socially embedded audience has been neglected, even by scholars touting viewers' creative media readings in the…
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…
Sociology of Knowledge
The sociology of knowledge is the subfield of sociology devoted to the interplay between social conditions and ideas. The subfield has traced the many ways that social factors, such as military funding, public controversy, generational experience, and personal rivalry, have helped to shape the ideas that scholars and intellectuals produce. The entry describes the early development of the sociology of knowledge, with reference to Max Scheler, Karl…
Communication Theory and the Disciplines
Communication theory, like the communication discipline itself, has a long history but a short past. This entry traces the range of contributions to communication theory, some influential and others neglected, from the disciplines beyond communication studies. The treatment is divided into three disciplinary categories: (1) the social sciences; (2) cognate fields (like film studies) whose domains overlap with communication; and (3) the humanities…
International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy, 4 Volume Set
The Four Cultures
The commentary traces four distinct but overlapping cultures in US media studies: (1) speech and rhetoric, (2) a media research field centered on the mass communication trades, (3) one detached from those trades, and (4) film studies. I point to each culture's institutional history, typical academic unit, and unique self-understanding. The main claim is that the four-part division has always had an arbitrary character, but is especially incoheren…
Facebook for Academics
Given widespread labor market precarity, contemporary workers-especially those in the media and creative industries-are increasingly called upon to brand themselves. Academics, we contend, are experiencing a parallel pressure to engage in self-promotional practices, particularly as universities become progressively more market-driven. Academia.edu , a paper-sharing social network that has been informally dubbed 'Facebook for academics,' has grown…
Society on the Edge
The social sciences underwent rapid development in postwar America. Problems once framed in social terms gradually became redefined as individual with regards to scope and remedy, with economics and psychology winning influence over the other social sciences. By the 1970s, both economics and psychology had spread their intellectual remits wide: psychology's concepts suffused everyday language, while economists entered a myriad of policy debates. …
Social Media & the Self
Sociology (11 works) · Social science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works)