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Michael Schudson is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 academic sociologist working in the fields of journalism
Journalism

Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and editorial via a widening spectrum of Media . These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and, more recently, the cellphone....
 and its history, and public culture.

He was brought up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milwaukee is the largest city in Wisconsin and List of United States cities by population in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan....
. He has an undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College is a Private school, Independent school, Liberal arts colleges in the United States in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students....
, and a doctorate in sociology
Sociology

Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of Empiricism and critical theory to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, sometimes with the goal of applying such knowledge to the pursuit of social welfare....
 from Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
. From 1976 he was assistant professor at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
. In 1980 he joined the faculty of University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego is a public research university in San Diego, California, California. The school's campus contains 694 buildings and is located in the La Jolla, San Diego, California community....
, where he is Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of Sociology. He is also on on the faculty of The Journalism School
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is a journalism school and one of Columbia's graduate and professional schools. It offers three degree programs: Master of Science in journalism , Master of Arts in journalism and a Ph.D....
 at Columbia University
Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
.

He received a MacArthur Foundation
MacArthur Foundation

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a major private grant -making private foundation based in Chicago that has awarded more than US$4 billion since its inception in 1978....
 award in 1990.








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Michael Schudson is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 academic sociologist working in the fields of journalism
Journalism

Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and editorial via a widening spectrum of Media . These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and, more recently, the cellphone....
 and its history, and public culture.

He was brought up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milwaukee is the largest city in Wisconsin and List of United States cities by population in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan....
. He has an undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College is a Private school, Independent school, Liberal arts colleges in the United States in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students....
, and a doctorate in sociology
Sociology

Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of Empiricism and critical theory to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, sometimes with the goal of applying such knowledge to the pursuit of social welfare....
 from Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
. From 1976 he was assistant professor at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
. In 1980 he joined the faculty of University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego is a public research university in San Diego, California, California. The school's campus contains 694 buildings and is located in the La Jolla, San Diego, California community....
, where he is Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of Sociology. He is also on on the faculty of The Journalism School
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is a journalism school and one of Columbia's graduate and professional schools. It offers three degree programs: Master of Science in journalism , Master of Arts in journalism and a Ph.D....
 at Columbia University
Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
.

He received a MacArthur Foundation
MacArthur Foundation

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a major private grant -making private foundation based in Chicago that has awarded more than US$4 billion since its inception in 1978....
 award in 1990.

Books


  • Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers (1978) ISBN 978-0465016662
  • Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion (1984) ISBN 978-0465000791
  • 'When? Deadlines, Datelines, and History' in Reading the News (1986) ed. Robert K. Manoff ISBN 978-0394746494
  • Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies (1991) editor with Chandra Mukerji ISBN 978-0520068933
  • Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget and Reconstruct the Past (1992) ISBN 978-0465090846
  • The Power of News (1995) ISBN 978-0674695870
  • The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life (1998) ISBN 978-0674356405
  • The Sociology of News (2003) ISBN 978-0393975130
  • Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press (2008) ISBN 978-074564452X


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