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COMM 3303: Media and Society: Course Readings

4) Theodore M. Newcomb, “An Approach to the Study of Communication Acts,” Psychological Review 60 (November): 397-404, 1953.
5) David Manning White, “The ‘Gate Keeper’: A Study of the Selection of News,”
Journalism Quarterly 27: 283-90, 1950.
6) Bruce H. Westly and Malcolm S. MacLean, “A Conceptual Model for Communications Research,”
Originally published in Journalism Quarterly 34: 31-38, 1957.
7) Luigi Manca, "A Hypothesis about the Role of Gateopener in the Westley-MacLean Model"
Pages 68-81

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