Robert K. Stewart

The Internet Provides Both Opportunities and Challenges for Mass Communication Researchers.

The Internet appears to be a mixed blessing. It offers new opportunities for both audience research and content analyses, yet old problems researchers have encountered over the years remain. Whether mass communication research will be better off or worse off will depend on the skill of researchers in using the Internet.

The Office of Technical Services: A New Deal Idea in the Cold War.

An emphasis on developing technology for use in World War II produced a body of German and American scientific knowledge that some U S policymakers believed could stimulate Americas postwar economy New Dealers, in particular, believed that the government should organize, evaluate, and declassify this body of knowledge and facilitate its transfer to American industry, especially to small businesses that had limited resources for research and development The debate to create a government agency that was to have, as its primary mission, the communica tion of scientific and technical information to the general public was, however, also shaped by cold war politics and this circumstance had significant impact on the later role of that agency.

Jacksonians Discipline a Party Editor: Economic Leverage and Political Exile

,During the first half of the 19th century new methods of political communication changed the way candidates campaigned for the office of president. The tightly controlled caucus system that dominated presidential politics for the first two decades of the century collapsed in the early 1820s. With the demise of “King Caucus,” presidential candidates more than ever before needed newspapers to win the support of voters. To wage a successful national campaign, party organizers sought to dictate the content of a few key newspapers that could be viewed as “official” party organs. This study examines how media strategists for candidate Andrew Jackson used economic leverage in their bid to control the content of a flagship Jackson newspaper. I