Ruth L Katz

Biographic Data

ID4680058
NAMERuth L Katz
GIVEN NAMESRuth L
FAMILY NAMEKatz
SIGNATUREKATZ R L
AFFILIATIONSHebrew University of Jerusalem
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX2

  • Revisiting the Origin of the Administrative versus Critical Research Debate

    Open AccessElihu Katz, Ruth L KatzARTICLEJournal of Information Policy2016Cited by: 2References: 2

    This scholarly essay by Elihu and Ruth Katz recounts the story of the “high moment” of the original debate between administrative and critical theory. The tensions between the Frankfurt and Vienna schools of immigrant scholars of the 1930s are captured in the conflict between Paul Lazarsfeld, who engaged with the then-new commercial model of media research, and Theodor Adorno, a critical scholar, who disdained it, over the Princeton Radio Researc…

  • Evaluating culture

    Open AccessRuth Katz, Ruth L Katz et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Cultural…2014Cited by: 1References: 14

    The problem of how to adapt criteria of evaluation to stylistic change will always be with us. Our current era of multiculturalism, postmodernism and globalism, however, confounds the problem almost beyond recognition. Multiculturalism, an heir of cultural relativism, asks us to withhold our evaluation, insisting that all cultures and subcultures deserve to be analyzed only from within themselves, postmodernism has virtually embraced dissonances …

  • You Are What You Environmentally, Politically, Socially, and Economically Eat

    Ruth Katz, Ruth L KatzARTICLEEnvironmental Communication2010

    The old term “you are what you eat” used to mean that if you ate too much cake, you would become the cake: with extra layers. Now “you are what you eat” has come to mean all the environmental, poli

  • A Language of Its Own

    Ruth Katz, Ruth L KatzBOOKLanguage of Its Own2009

  • Rhythmic Patterns Reflecting Cognitive Constraints and Aesthetic Ideals

    Dalia Cohen, Ruth Katz et al.ARTICLEJournal of New Music Research2008References: 34

    This paper focuses on basic rhythmic patterns in terms of their contribution to the characterization of various styles that reflect different aesthetic ideals, and thereby to link the fields of cognition and musicology. The aesthetic ideal is realized in various ways; the one examined here concerns the degree of definability (in comparative rather than precise quantitative terms) of the rhythmic organization, which may be manifested on various le…

  • Melograph

    Dalia Cohen, Ruth Katz et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • McLuhan

    Ruth Katz, Ruth L Katz et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Communication1998

    Writings by and about McLuhan trace his interest in the comparative study of media to his literary training at Cambridge in the 1930s which was occupied with the aesthetics of sight and sound and the predominance of representational forms over the content represented. This paper puzzles over the lack of reference — by McLuhan, his mentors, and his critics — to an earlier group of British thinkers (from Shaftesbury to Adam Smith) who deliberated o…

  • Mannerism and Cultural Change

    Ruth Katz, Ruth L Katz et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1970Cited by: 2

    Based on a systematic analysis of musical materials of three generations of Aleppo Jews in Israel, a theory of the initial stages of one type of culture change is proposed. The central proposition of the theory is that the apparent resistance to acceptance of majority group culture may be expressed in "manneristic" terms, i.e., in terms of the exaggeration and embellishment of those elements of traditional culture by means of which the majority i…