Week 7 Normative Theories

Normative Theories: Development of media Theory, Democratic Participant Theory, the Islamic concept of Communication

 

Siebert, F., Peterson, T., & Schramm, W. (1984). Four Theories of the Press: The Authoritarian, Libertarian, Social Responsibility, and Soviet Communist Concepts of What the Press Should Be and Do. University of Illinois Press. (pp.1-147)

Baran, S.J. &  Davis, D.K. (2012). Mass Communication Theory: Foundations, Ferment, and Future. Wadsworth. (pp.126-129)

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