Michael Gurevitch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Gurevitch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Gurevitch |
| SIGNATURE | GUREVITCH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1191 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Media and Society
Media and Society is an established textbook, popular worldwide for its insightful and accessible essays from leading international academics on the most pertinent issues in the media field today. With this updated edition, David Hesmondhalgh joins James Curran and a team of leading international scholars to speak to current issues relating to media and gender, media and democracy, sociology of news, the global internet, the political impact of t…
Political Communication —Old and New Media Relationships
This article reflects upon the ways television changed the political landscape and considers how far new media, such as the Internet, are displacing television or reconfiguring the political communications ecology. The analysis explores opportunities and challenges facing media producers, politicians, and citizens. The authors conclude by suggesting that the television-politics relationship that emerged in the 1960s still prevails to some extent …
Culture, Society and the Media
The global newsroom: Convergences and diversities in the globalization of television news
This chapter attempts an initial examination of that question, by focusing on one aspect of that global system, namely the convergences and diversities in news events and news stories broadcast by different television news organizations, who are participants in a cross-national news exchange system. The chapter examines two aspects of these convergences and diversities; the topics, or events covered, and as conveyed in stories broadcast in differ…
Cultural dependency and the mass media
The focus of this chapter is on the role of the mass media in the poorer countries of the world, how the functions of the media relate to one or more definitions of ‘national development’, and especially on whether and how the media serve as channels for inter-cultural ‘invasion’ of the poorer countries by the more affluent and powerful nations. In other words, the central theme is the role of the mass media in relations of cultural dependency be…
The Crisis of Public Communication
The New Media and Our Political Communication Discontents: Democratizing Cyberspace
This article argues that the new interactive media have a 'vulnerable potential' to enhance public communications and enrich democracy, which can be realized only through appropriate policy support and imaginative institution building. After outlining the main shortcomings of the prevailing political communication system, certain elements of redemptive potential, inherent in distinctive features of the Internet, are identified. The policy implica…
The New Media and Our Political Communication Discontents: Democratizing Cyberspace
This article argues that the new interactive media have a 'vulnerable potential' to enhance public communications and enrich democracy, which can be realized only through appropriate policy support and imaginative institution building. After outlining the main shortcomings of the prevailing political communication system, certain elements of redemptive potential, inherent in distinctive features of the Internet, are identified. The policy implica…
Whither the Future? Some Afterthoughts
Papers in the symposium reflect in various ways distinctly European perspectives on recent developments in political communication, especially in their concern for possibilities of supranational political institutions and their focus on consequences of the decline of the mass party as an institutional form. From the European viewpoint, professionalization of political communication is alien to the very nature of political parties, and hence a spe…
Years of Television in Israel: Are There Long-run Effects on Values, Social Connectedness, and Cultural Practices
Based on identical studies of the uses of leisure, culture, and communication in Israel in 1970 and 1990, we sought to infer possible long-run effects of the introduction of television broadcasting 20 years after its inception. Although time spent outside the home did not decrease, there was a drop in attendance at “spectacles” of all kinds (whether theater or sports) and a rise in activities that are interactive, time flexible, and peer based. W…
Global Texts, Narrativity and the Construction of Local and Global Meanings in Television News
This article discusses the relevance of narrative analysis to the study of media globalization by presenting results of an ongoing study of television news in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. It discusses issues of local and global meanings by focusing on a number of elements of narrative structure (time, valence, story/discourse, themes, drama, genre, and myths) and argues that each element presents ways to track particularistic a…
The Purebred and the Platypus: Disciplinarity and Site in Mass Communication Research
Mass Media and Society
Part 1 Mass media and society - general perspectives: culture, communications, and political economy feminist perspectives on the media postmodernism and television mass media and the public interest - towards a framework of norms for media performance mass media and democracy revisited media changes and social change linkages and junctures. Part 2 Media production: the sociology of news production revisited entertainment the global and the local…
Television spectacles as politics
Democracy and the Mass Media: A Collection of Essays
In this volume a group of distinguished legal and political theorists and experts on journalism discuss how to reconcile our values concerning freedom of the press with the enormous power of the media - especially television - to shape opinions and values. The policy issues treated concern primarily the extent of justifiable government regulation of the media and the justification for regulating television differently from newspapers. The volume …
Comparative Research on Television News: Problems and Challenges
Out of work and on the air: Television news of unemployment
Issues concerning the ideological role of television are examined through a study of television news coverage of unemployment during the first six months of 1983. The study focuses on the explanations of unemployment contained in the coverage and the thematic structure of the news stories. The stories were found to contain few explicit explanations, but a diversity of thematic structures revealed the societal frameworks within which television jo…
The reform of election broadcasting: A reply to Nicholas Garnham
Who Knows Whom? Acquaintanceship and Contacts in the Israeli National Elite
Based upon data collected by means of a mailed questionnaire, this article examines the widely held assumption that "everyone knows everyone else" within the compact Israeli national elite. Data were collected on acquaintanceships among political, bureaucratic, economic, professional, academic, and cultural-artistic elites. The elites tend to be drawn from among the European-origin well educated minorities, although such features as kinship, scho…
Homo americanus
Mass communication and society
The Secularization of Leisure: Culture and Communication in Israel
The Secularization of Leisure: Culture and Communication in Israël
Uses and Gratifications Research
Journal Article USES AND GRATIFICATIONS RESEARCH Get access ELIHU KATZ, ELIHU KATZ Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JAY G. BLUMLER, JAY G. BLUMLER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL GUREVITCH MICHAEL GUREVITCH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 4, WINTER 1973, Pages 509–523, https:/…
On the Use of the Mass Media for Important Things
The mass media are ranked with respect to their perceived helpfulness in satisfying clusters of needs arising from social roles and individual dispositions. For example, integration into the sociopolitical order is best served by newspaper; while knowing oneself is best served by books. Cinema and books are more helpful as means of escape than is television. Primary relations, holidays and other cultural activities are often more important than t…
Uses and Gratifications Research
Journal Article USES AND GRATIFICATIONS RESEARCH Get access ELIHU KATZ, ELIHU KATZ Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JAY G. BLUMLER, JAY G. BLUMLER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL GUREVITCH MICHAEL GUREVITCH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 4, WINTER 1973, Pages 509–523, https:/…
Culture, Society and the Media
The Crisis of Public Communication
On the Use of the Mass Media for Important Things
The mass media are ranked with respect to their perceived helpfulness in satisfying clusters of needs arising from social roles and individual dispositions. For example, integration into the sociopolitical order is best served by newspaper; while knowing oneself is best served by books. Cinema and books are more helpful as means of escape than is television. Primary relations, holidays and other cultural activities are often more important than t…
Political Communication —Old and New Media Relationships
This article reflects upon the ways television changed the political landscape and considers how far new media, such as the Internet, are displacing television or reconfiguring the political communications ecology. The analysis explores opportunities and challenges facing media producers, politicians, and citizens. The authors conclude by suggesting that the television-politics relationship that emerged in the 1960s still prevails to some extent …
Out of work and on the air: Television news of unemployment
Issues concerning the ideological role of television are examined through a study of television news coverage of unemployment during the first six months of 1983. The study focuses on the explanations of unemployment contained in the coverage and the thematic structure of the news stories. The stories were found to contain few explicit explanations, but a diversity of thematic structures revealed the societal frameworks within which television jo…
Doctor-Patient Exchanges: A Diagnostic Approach to Organizations and Professions
Comparative Research on Television News: Problems and Challenges
Global Texts, Narrativity and the Construction of Local and Global Meanings in Television News
This article discusses the relevance of narrative analysis to the study of media globalization by presenting results of an ongoing study of television news in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. It discusses issues of local and global meanings by focusing on a number of elements of narrative structure (time, valence, story/discourse, themes, drama, genre, and myths) and argues that each element presents ways to track particularistic a…
Television spectacles as politics
The reform of election broadcasting: A reply to Nicholas Garnham
Who Knows Whom? Acquaintanceship and Contacts in the Israeli National Elite
Based upon data collected by means of a mailed questionnaire, this article examines the widely held assumption that "everyone knows everyone else" within the compact Israeli national elite. Data were collected on acquaintanceships among political, bureaucratic, economic, professional, academic, and cultural-artistic elites. The elites tend to be drawn from among the European-origin well educated minorities, although such features as kinship, scho…
Presentation of Self in Appeals to Bureaucracy: An Empirical Study of Role Specificity
This paper presents a general formulation of the process of bureaucratic locialization with special emphasis on three factors which lead men to internalize bureaucratic norms and values: (1) formal education; (2) exposure tobureaucratic norms at work; and (3) experience as a client of bureaucracy. Data for an empirical test of several propositions were drawn from a content analysisof letters written by clients of the Israeli customs authorities. …
Whither the Future? Some Afterthoughts
Papers in the symposium reflect in various ways distinctly European perspectives on recent developments in political communication, especially in their concern for possibilities of supranational political institutions and their focus on consequences of the decline of the mass party as an institutional form. From the European viewpoint, professionalization of political communication is alien to the very nature of political parties, and hence a spe…
The Diffusion of Television as an Innovation: The Case of the Kibbutz
Petitions and Prayers: A Method for the Content Analysis of Persuasive Appeals
This paper describes a method for the content analysis of persuasive appeals, or “reasons” given in support of requests which individuals make of one another. The method was originally developed in the context of a series of studies of communication between bureaucracies and the public in Israel. It is suggested that variations in the content of a client's appeals to an official for services or favors may be projective of the client's image of th…
Doctor-Patient Exchanges: A Diagnostic Approach to Organizations and Professions
L'attente du public: L'Exemple De La Télévision Israélienne
Gurevitch Michael. L'attente du public: l'exemple de la télévision israélienne. In: Communications, 14, 1969. La politique culturelle. pp. 172-176
The Image of the Police in Israel
The police in several Western countries have been the object of a good deal of dissatisfaction lately, whether in open confrontation with rioters and demonstrators, or as the object of severe criticism by the courts and civilian review boards. Since the respect and cooperation of the public are essential for effective police operation-in reporting crimes, assisting officers, testifying in court, or in less direct ways-police departments have begu…
Some Intergenerational Comparisons in Two Ethnic Communities in Israel
This article reports the responses of 30 fathers and 30 sons in two ethnic communities in Israel on matters pertaining to the sons' education, future occupation, marriage, religious and political commitments and plans for involvement in the life of the community. The two communities are urban Israeli Arabs (i.e., Arabs who have lived in Israel at least since the establishment of the state) and ultra-Orthodox Jews, whose families came originally f…
The Diffusion of Television as an Innovation: The Case of the Kibbutz
Presentation of Self in Appeals to Bureaucracy: An Empirical Study of Role Specificity
This paper presents a general formulation of the process of bureaucratic locialization with special emphasis on three factors which lead men to internalize bureaucratic norms and values: (1) formal education; (2) exposure tobureaucratic norms at work; and (3) experience as a client of bureaucracy. Data for an empirical test of several propositions were drawn from a content analysisof letters written by clients of the Israeli customs authorities. …
Uses and Gratifications Research
Journal Article USES AND GRATIFICATIONS RESEARCH Get access ELIHU KATZ, ELIHU KATZ Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JAY G. BLUMLER, JAY G. BLUMLER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL GUREVITCH MICHAEL GUREVITCH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 4, WINTER 1973, Pages 509–523, https:/…
On the Use of the Mass Media for Important Things
The mass media are ranked with respect to their perceived helpfulness in satisfying clusters of needs arising from social roles and individual dispositions. For example, integration into the sociopolitical order is best served by newspaper; while knowing oneself is best served by books. Cinema and books are more helpful as means of escape than is television. Primary relations, holidays and other cultural activities are often more important than t…
The Secularization of Leisure: Culture and Communication in Israël
Mass communication and society
The Secularization of Leisure: Culture and Communication in Israel
Who Knows Whom? Acquaintanceship and Contacts in the Israeli National Elite
Based upon data collected by means of a mailed questionnaire, this article examines the widely held assumption that "everyone knows everyone else" within the compact Israeli national elite. Data were collected on acquaintanceships among political, bureaucratic, economic, professional, academic, and cultural-artistic elites. The elites tend to be drawn from among the European-origin well educated minorities, although such features as kinship, scho…
Homo americanus
The reform of election broadcasting: A reply to Nicholas Garnham
Out of work and on the air: Television news of unemployment
Issues concerning the ideological role of television are examined through a study of television news coverage of unemployment during the first six months of 1983. The study focuses on the explanations of unemployment contained in the coverage and the thematic structure of the news stories. The stories were found to contain few explicit explanations, but a diversity of thematic structures revealed the societal frameworks within which television jo…
Comparative Research on Television News: Problems and Challenges
Democracy and the Mass Media: A Collection of Essays
In this volume a group of distinguished legal and political theorists and experts on journalism discuss how to reconcile our values concerning freedom of the press with the enormous power of the media - especially television - to shape opinions and values. The policy issues treated concern primarily the extent of justifiable government regulation of the media and the justification for regulating television differently from newspapers. The volume …
Mass Media and Society
Part 1 Mass media and society - general perspectives: culture, communications, and political economy feminist perspectives on the media postmodernism and television mass media and the public interest - towards a framework of norms for media performance mass media and democracy revisited media changes and social change linkages and junctures. Part 2 Media production: the sociology of news production revisited entertainment the global and the local…
Television spectacles as politics
The Purebred and the Platypus: Disciplinarity and Site in Mass Communication Research
Global Texts, Narrativity and the Construction of Local and Global Meanings in Television News
This article discusses the relevance of narrative analysis to the study of media globalization by presenting results of an ongoing study of television news in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. It discusses issues of local and global meanings by focusing on a number of elements of narrative structure (time, valence, story/discourse, themes, drama, genre, and myths) and argues that each element presents ways to track particularistic a…
Years of Television in Israel: Are There Long-run Effects on Values, Social Connectedness, and Cultural Practices
Based on identical studies of the uses of leisure, culture, and communication in Israel in 1970 and 1990, we sought to infer possible long-run effects of the introduction of television broadcasting 20 years after its inception. Although time spent outside the home did not decrease, there was a drop in attendance at “spectacles” of all kinds (whether theater or sports) and a rise in activities that are interactive, time flexible, and peer based. W…
Whither the Future? Some Afterthoughts
Papers in the symposium reflect in various ways distinctly European perspectives on recent developments in political communication, especially in their concern for possibilities of supranational political institutions and their focus on consequences of the decline of the mass party as an institutional form. From the European viewpoint, professionalization of political communication is alien to the very nature of political parties, and hence a spe…
The New Media and Our Political Communication Discontents: Democratizing Cyberspace
This article argues that the new interactive media have a 'vulnerable potential' to enhance public communications and enrich democracy, which can be realized only through appropriate policy support and imaginative institution building. After outlining the main shortcomings of the prevailing political communication system, certain elements of redemptive potential, inherent in distinctive features of the Internet, are identified. The policy implica…
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