Susan Herbst
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 368326 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Susan Herbst |
| PRENOMES | Susan |
| SOBRENOME | Herbst |
| ASSINATURA | HERBST S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Northwestern University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 88 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
A Review Article of Walter Lippmann
A Troubled Birth
Public Opinion
Perception and Opinion Formation
This chapter concentrates on perceptions of other people's opinions and how they influence the public opinion process. Human beings face physical and cognitive limitations that constrain their perceptions, including their perceptions of other people's actions and motives. Leon Festinger, several theoretical frameworks have treated the role of perception in public opinion formation. Festinger discussion of how social comparison informs opinions is…
Polling and Democracy
AAPOR was created by public research pioneers more than sixty years ago to encourage scientific research relating to American public opinion, under the conviction that the results of these scientific efforts should be available to the public itself and to the society’s leaders. This task force report has reviewed the current status of these goals. The report devotes major sections and an online appendix to a review of the philosophical and theore…
James R. Beniger, 1947-2010
Jim Beniger, professor of Communication Research and longtime AAPOR leader, died on April 14 after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He is survived by his wife, Kay Ferdinandsen, and his daughters, Ann and Katherine Beniger. For his many wonderful ideas and wildly ambitious intellect, Jim was an extraordinarily modest scholar and person, so he would be skeptical of the idea of even a brief essay in his honor. While modest, however, Jim w…
Disciplines, Intersections, and the Future of Communication Research
It is an honor to open this special issue of the Journal of Communication on “intersections.” Debates about the nature of our field have been extraordinarily productive, and to my mind, the navel-gazing we have reflexively undertaken over the years has been inspiring and stimulating. A bit self-absorbed, perhaps, but it underscores our sensitivities as a relatively new discipline. We certainly cannot claim infancy at this point, but our field is …
The Rhetorical Presidency and the Contemporary Media Environment
Presidential rhetoric can matter immensely in moments of national crisis, and even during times of less melodrama. But the possibilities for rhetorical impact are slipping away from American presidents. In light of the multiplication of presidential spokespeople, commentators, on‐line editors, and audiences, and the relative intimacy of other personalities viewed by those audiences, one might posit that “presidential speech,” as described and ana…
Introduction
Keywords: communication theorypublic opinionclassical traditionconversationpolitical discourse
Legitimate Power in a Mediated Age
Although scholars of political communication study legitimacy and power consistently, we often overlook older works on the topic from political theory and philosophy that might give us guidance in a mediated age. Friedrich was a contemporary of Lazarsfeld, Merton, and so many of the great 20th-century social scientists we look to as providing the foundations for our field. This essay asks that we go back to Friedrich as well, and to others who fo…
Illustrator, American Icon, and Public Opinion Theorist
This essay explores tensions over the portrayal of the public and public opinion during the mid-20th century, using common American images. Focus is on the extraordinarily popular pictures by Norman Rockwell, one of the most prolific artists of the 20th century, although one with ambitions far beyond simple illustration. I ask: Can we learn about public opinion from the commercial art market, and how might we go about using images as our data? Ho…
Illustrator, American Icon, and Public Opinion Theorist
This essay explores tensions over the portrayal of the public and public opinion during the mid-20th century, using common American images. Focus is on the extraordinarily popular pictures by Norman Rockwell, one of the most prolific artists of the 20th century, although one with ambitions far beyond simple illustration. I ask: Can we learn about public opinion from the commercial art market, and how might we go about using images as our data? Ho…
Political authority in a mediated age
The Measure of Democracy
Journal Article The Measure of Democracy: Polling, Market Research, and Public Life, 1930–1945. By Daniel J. Robinson. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. xx, 252 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8020-4274-0. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-80208109-6.) Get access Susan Herbst Susan Herbst Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, M…
Public Opinion Infrastructures
A model of public opinion is presented that incorporates and highlights historical knowledge. This model suggests that public opinion is best viewed as an infrastructure consisting of measurement tools, media, and conceptions of public opinion. Using this model, it is possible to gauge opinion, reading "backward" from analysis of cultural artifacts (e.g., film or art) and thereby detecting conceptions of public opinion at work in a given period. …
Public Opinion
Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion, Revisited
Reading public opinion
Public opinion is one of the most elusive and complex concepts in democratic theory, and we do not fully understand its role in the political process. Herbst draws on ideas from political science, sociology, and psychology to explore how three sets of political participants--legislative staffers, political activists, and journalists--actually evaluate and assess public opinion. She concludes that many political actors reject "the voice of the peo…
Politics at the Margin
INTRODUCTION 1. Politics, expression, and marginality 2. Backchannels of communication: salonnieres of the French Enlightenment 3. Race discrimination, mass media, and public expression: Chicago, 1934-60 4. Political marginality and communication in Greenwich village, 1911-18 5. Contemporary outsiders: the Libertarians Conclusion, Notes Bibliography Index.
Politics at the Margin
Journal Article Politics at the Margin: Historical Studies of Public Expression outside the Mainstream. By Susan Herbst. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. x, 231 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-46184-7. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-521-47763-8.) Get access Dayle C. Hardy-Short Dayle C. Hardy-Short Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History,…
Public Expression Outside the Mainstream
Although most research in political communication concerns conventional, electoral politics and mainstream media, scholars need to focus on the margins of the public sphere as well. By studying social groups that find it difficult to garner attention from the major networks and newspapers, we discover a variety of interesting innovations in human communication. This article discusses a few cases, historical and contemporary, of marginal political…
Public Opinion in U.S. Foreign Policy
Journal Article Public Opinion in U.S. Foreign Policy: The Controversy over Contra Aid. Ed. by Richard Sobel. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1993. x, 315 pp. Cloth, $52.50, ISBN 0-8476-7871-7. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8476-7872-5.) Get access Susan Herbst Susan Herbst Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Pages …
On electronic public space
Call‐in radio and television programming has received an enormous amount of attention since the 1992 U.S. presidential election campaign. Yet we know very little about why people call in to these programs, or whether the phenomenon has any theoretical importance for political science or communications. This article presents some exploratory data on the subject and draws upon some existing theoretical insights, in order to illuminate the role of c…
Numbered Voices
Numbered Voices
On electronic public space
Call‐in radio and television programming has received an enormous amount of attention since the 1992 U.S. presidential election campaign. Yet we know very little about why people call in to these programs, or whether the phenomenon has any theoretical importance for political science or communications. This article presents some exploratory data on the subject and draws upon some existing theoretical insights, in order to illuminate the role of c…
Political authority in a mediated age
The meaning of public opinion
Analyse des liens entre la communication de masse et la formation de l'opinion publique : comment les citoyens concoivent le role des medias dans le processus de formation de l'opinion publique. Etude particuliere aupres d'un groupe d'Americains, qui explore la facon dont ces personnes conceptualisent les frontieres entre la presse, l'Etat et le public
Managing perceptions of public opinion
The article reports an exploratory, interpretive study of campaign rhetoric, specifically the discourse surrounding opinion polls. It analyzes how candidates, their managers, and journalists reacted to polling results during the 1992 presidential race. Among the more interesting aspects of this discourse about polls was the way that political actors reified public opinion, speaking of survey data as though such statistics were independent of citi…
Surveys in the Public Sphere
Journal Article SURVEYS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE: APPLYING BOURDIEU'S CRITIQUE OF OPINION POLLS Get access Susan Herbst Susan Herbst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 4, Issue 3, AUTUMN 1992, Pages 220–229, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/4.3.220 Published: 01 October 1992
Public Expression Outside the Mainstream
Although most research in political communication concerns conventional, electoral politics and mainstream media, scholars need to focus on the margins of the public sphere as well. By studying social groups that find it difficult to garner attention from the major networks and newspapers, we discover a variety of interesting innovations in human communication. This article discusses a few cases, historical and contemporary, of marginal political…
Polling and Democracy
AAPOR was created by public research pioneers more than sixty years ago to encourage scientific research relating to American public opinion, under the conviction that the results of these scientific efforts should be available to the public itself and to the society’s leaders. This task force report has reviewed the current status of these goals. The report devotes major sections and an online appendix to a review of the philosophical and theore…
Illustrator, American Icon, and Public Opinion Theorist
This essay explores tensions over the portrayal of the public and public opinion during the mid-20th century, using common American images. Focus is on the extraordinarily popular pictures by Norman Rockwell, one of the most prolific artists of the 20th century, although one with ambitions far beyond simple illustration. I ask: Can we learn about public opinion from the commercial art market, and how might we go about using images as our data? Ho…
Public Opinion Infrastructures
A model of public opinion is presented that incorporates and highlights historical knowledge. This model suggests that public opinion is best viewed as an infrastructure consisting of measurement tools, media, and conceptions of public opinion. Using this model, it is possible to gauge opinion, reading "backward" from analysis of cultural artifacts (e.g., film or art) and thereby detecting conceptions of public opinion at work in a given period. …
Assessing Public Opinion in the 1930s-1940s
A survey of 44 journalists whose careers spanned all or much of the 1930s and 1940s found that journalists developed a variety of innovative strategies for understanding public opinion — both systematic and unsystematic. This period was a transitional one for journalists who depended on traditional measurement techniques yet were also interested in quantifying the public sentiment
Legitimate Power in a Mediated Age
Although scholars of political communication study legitimacy and power consistently, we often overlook older works on the topic from political theory and philosophy that might give us guidance in a mediated age. Friedrich was a contemporary of Lazarsfeld, Merton, and so many of the great 20th-century social scientists we look to as providing the foundations for our field. This essay asks that we go back to Friedrich as well, and to others who fo…
Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion, Revisited
The Rhetorical Presidency and the Contemporary Media Environment
Presidential rhetoric can matter immensely in moments of national crisis, and even during times of less melodrama. But the possibilities for rhetorical impact are slipping away from American presidents. In light of the multiplication of presidential spokespeople, commentators, on‐line editors, and audiences, and the relative intimacy of other personalities viewed by those audiences, one might posit that “presidential speech,” as described and ana…
Public Opinion in U.S. Foreign Policy
Journal Article Public Opinion in U.S. Foreign Policy: The Controversy over Contra Aid. Ed. by Richard Sobel. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1993. x, 315 pp. Cloth, $52.50, ISBN 0-8476-7871-7. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8476-7872-5.) Get access Susan Herbst Susan Herbst Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Pages …
Classical Democracy, Polls, and Public Opinion
Since the turn of the century, scholars have conducted an enormous amount of research on the history of public opinion. Yet despite the existence of impressive bodies of literature on the subject in sociology, political science, history, and communication, there are still many unanswered questions about the changing nature of opinion expression and assessment. In an attempt to stimulate interest in public opinion history, I propose two frameworks…
Assessing Public Opinion in the 1930s-1940s
A survey of 44 journalists whose careers spanned all or much of the 1930s and 1940s found that journalists developed a variety of innovative strategies for understanding public opinion — both systematic and unsystematic. This period was a transitional one for journalists who depended on traditional measurement techniques yet were also interested in quantifying the public sentiment
Classical Democracy, Polls, and Public Opinion
Since the turn of the century, scholars have conducted an enormous amount of research on the history of public opinion. Yet despite the existence of impressive bodies of literature on the subject in sociology, political science, history, and communication, there are still many unanswered questions about the changing nature of opinion expression and assessment. In an attempt to stimulate interest in public opinion history, I propose two frameworks…
Surveys in the Public Sphere
Journal Article SURVEYS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE: APPLYING BOURDIEU'S CRITIQUE OF OPINION POLLS Get access Susan Herbst Susan Herbst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 4, Issue 3, AUTUMN 1992, Pages 220–229, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/4.3.220 Published: 01 October 1992
Social Conflict and Television News
History, Philosophy, and Public Opinion Research
Journal Article History, Philosophy, and Public Opinion Research Get access Susan Herbst Susan Herbst 1Susan Herbst is an assistant professor in the Departments of Communication Studies and Political Science at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 43, Issue 4, December 1993, Pages 140–145, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1993.tb01314.x …
The meaning of public opinion
Analyse des liens entre la communication de masse et la formation de l'opinion publique : comment les citoyens concoivent le role des medias dans le processus de formation de l'opinion publique. Etude particuliere aupres d'un groupe d'Americains, qui explore la facon dont ces personnes conceptualisent les frontieres entre la presse, l'Etat et le public
Numbered Voices
Perpetuating Patriotic Perceptions
Numbered Voices
Journal Article Numbered Voices: How Opinion Polling Has Shaped American Politics. By Susan Herbst. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. xii, 227 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-226-32742-6.) Get access Paul Brace Paul Brace Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 633–634, https://doi.org/10.2307/208118…
Managing perceptions of public opinion
The article reports an exploratory, interpretive study of campaign rhetoric, specifically the discourse surrounding opinion polls. It analyzes how candidates, their managers, and journalists reacted to polling results during the 1992 presidential race. Among the more interesting aspects of this discourse about polls was the way that political actors reified public opinion, speaking of survey data as though such statistics were independent of citi…
Public Opinion in U.S. Foreign Policy
Journal Article Public Opinion in U.S. Foreign Policy: The Controversy over Contra Aid. Ed. by Richard Sobel. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1993. x, 315 pp. Cloth, $52.50, ISBN 0-8476-7871-7. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8476-7872-5.) Get access Susan Herbst Susan Herbst Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Pages …
On electronic public space
Call‐in radio and television programming has received an enormous amount of attention since the 1992 U.S. presidential election campaign. Yet we know very little about why people call in to these programs, or whether the phenomenon has any theoretical importance for political science or communications. This article presents some exploratory data on the subject and draws upon some existing theoretical insights, in order to illuminate the role of c…
Numbered Voices
Politics at the Margin
INTRODUCTION 1. Politics, expression, and marginality 2. Backchannels of communication: salonnieres of the French Enlightenment 3. Race discrimination, mass media, and public expression: Chicago, 1934-60 4. Political marginality and communication in Greenwich village, 1911-18 5. Contemporary outsiders: the Libertarians Conclusion, Notes Bibliography Index.
Politics at the Margin
Journal Article Politics at the Margin: Historical Studies of Public Expression outside the Mainstream. By Susan Herbst. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. x, 231 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-46184-7. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-521-47763-8.) Get access Dayle C. Hardy-Short Dayle C. Hardy-Short Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History,…
Public Expression Outside the Mainstream
Although most research in political communication concerns conventional, electoral politics and mainstream media, scholars need to focus on the margins of the public sphere as well. By studying social groups that find it difficult to garner attention from the major networks and newspapers, we discover a variety of interesting innovations in human communication. This article discusses a few cases, historical and contemporary, of marginal political…
Reading public opinion
Public opinion is one of the most elusive and complex concepts in democratic theory, and we do not fully understand its role in the political process. Herbst draws on ideas from political science, sociology, and psychology to explore how three sets of political participants--legislative staffers, political activists, and journalists--actually evaluate and assess public opinion. She concludes that many political actors reject "the voice of the peo…
Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion, Revisited
Public Opinion
The Measure of Democracy
Journal Article The Measure of Democracy: Polling, Market Research, and Public Life, 1930–1945. By Daniel J. Robinson. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. xx, 252 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8020-4274-0. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-80208109-6.) Get access Susan Herbst Susan Herbst Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, M…
Public Opinion Infrastructures
A model of public opinion is presented that incorporates and highlights historical knowledge. This model suggests that public opinion is best viewed as an infrastructure consisting of measurement tools, media, and conceptions of public opinion. Using this model, it is possible to gauge opinion, reading "backward" from analysis of cultural artifacts (e.g., film or art) and thereby detecting conceptions of public opinion at work in a given period. …
Political authority in a mediated age
Illustrator, American Icon, and Public Opinion Theorist
This essay explores tensions over the portrayal of the public and public opinion during the mid-20th century, using common American images. Focus is on the extraordinarily popular pictures by Norman Rockwell, one of the most prolific artists of the 20th century, although one with ambitions far beyond simple illustration. I ask: Can we learn about public opinion from the commercial art market, and how might we go about using images as our data? Ho…
Illustrator, American Icon, and Public Opinion Theorist
This essay explores tensions over the portrayal of the public and public opinion during the mid-20th century, using common American images. Focus is on the extraordinarily popular pictures by Norman Rockwell, one of the most prolific artists of the 20th century, although one with ambitions far beyond simple illustration. I ask: Can we learn about public opinion from the commercial art market, and how might we go about using images as our data? Ho…
Introduction
Keywords: communication theorypublic opinionclassical traditionconversationpolitical discourse
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