The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Volume 608, November 2006
Edited by: Peter Simonson

Introduction Peter Simonson, 6-24

Perpetual Revelations: C. Wright Mills and Paul Lazarsfeld John H. Summers, 25-40

Personal Influence and the Bracketing of Women's History Susan J. Douglas, 41-50

The Influences Influencing Personal Influence: Scholarship and Entrepreneurship David E. Morrison, 51-75

The Katz/Lowenthal Encounter: An Episode in the Creation of Personal Influence Gertrude J. Robinson, 76-96

The Part Played by Gentiles in the Flow of Mass Communications: On the Ethnic Utopia of Personal Influence John Durham Peters, 97-114

Personal Influence and the End of the Masses Paddy Scannell, 115-29

Fifteen Pages that Shook the Field: Personal Influence, Edward Shils, and the Remembered History of Mass Communication Research Jefferson Pooley, 130-56

Personal Influence and the New Paradigm: Some Inadvertent Consequences Kurt Lang and Gladys Engel Lang, 157-78

As Time Goes By . . . Thelma McCormack, 179-92

The Troubling Equivalence of Citizen and Consumer Michael Schudson, 193-204

The Consumer and the Citizen in Personal Influence Lawrence B. Glickman, 205-12

The One-Step Flow of Communication W. Lance Bennett and Jarol B. Manheim, 213-32

The Influence of Personal Influence on the Study of Audiences Sonia Livingstone, 233-50

Public Connection through Media Consumption: Between Oversocialization and De-Socialization? Nick Couldry and Tim Markham, 251-69

Personal Influence: A Radical Theory of Action Charles Kadushin, 270-81

Personal Influence and the Effects of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign Robert Hornik, 282-300

True Stories Elihu Katz, 301-14

Quick Read Synopsis [pdf], 315-42.

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