- Jay Blumler
Jay Blumler (born 1924) is an American-born theorist of communication and media. He is now
Emeritus Professor of Public Communication at theUniversity of Leeds , and also Emeritus Professor of Journalism at the University of Maryland, having spent his early academic life largely in the UK.He was a political science graduate of
Antioch College , and a doctoral student from 1947 at theLondon School of Economics . He taught atRuskin College, Oxford , before taking a position in Leeds in 1963, as Granada Television Research Fellow.References
*Ellis Cashmore and Chris Rojek, "Dictionary of Cultural Theorists" p.75-76
Works
*"Television in Politics: Its Uses and Influences" (1968) with
Denis McQuail
*"The Uses of Mass Communications: Current Perspectives on Gratifications Research" (1974) editor withElihu Katz
*"The Challenge of Election Broadcasting. Report of an Enquiry by the Centre for Television Research, University of Leeds" (1978) withMichael Gurevitch andJulian Ives
*"La télévision fait-elle l'élection?: Une analyse comparative, France, Grande-Bretagne, Belgique" (1978) withAlison Ewbank andClaude Geerts
*"Communicating to Voters: Television in the First European Parliamentary Elections" (1983) editor withAnthony D. Fox
*"Research on the Range and Quality of Broadcasting Services. A Report for the Committee on Financing the BBC."(HMSO 1986) withT. J. Nossiter ,Malcolm Brynin
*"Wired Cities: Shaping the Future of Communications" (1987) editor withWilliam H. Dutton andKenneth L. Kramer
*"Broadcasting Finance in Transition: A Comparative Handbook" (1991) editor with T. J. Nossiter
*"The Formation of Campaign Agendas: A Comparative Analysis of Party and Media Roles in Recent American and British Elections" (1991) with Michael Gurevitch,Holli A Semetko ,David H. Weaver
*"Comparatively Speaking: Communication and Culture across Space and Time" (1992) editor withJack M. McLeod ,Karl Erik Rosengren
*"Television and the Public Interest: Vulnerable Values in Western European Broadcasting" (1992) editor
*"The Crisis of Public Communication" (1995) withMichael Gurevitch
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