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Sorin Adam Matei

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The origins of media research: the effects paradigm

This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media Theory taught at Purdue University by Sorin Adam Matei INTRODUCTION: Mass media has become a research issue during the 1930s and 1940s. This has imprinted it with an early concern with psychological…