Public opinion, propaganda, ideology [electronic resource] : theories on the press and its social function in interwar Japan, 1918-1937 / by Fabian Schäfer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schäfer, Fabian.

Series:

Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 39.

Brill's Japanese studies library, 0925-6512 ; 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism--Social aspects--Japan--History--20th century.

Journalism.

Journalism--Political aspects--Japan--History--20th century.

Public opinion--Japan.

Public opinion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As early as prewar Japan, thinkers of various intellectual proveniences had begun discussing the most important topics of contemporary media and communication studies, such as ways to define the social function of the press, journalism and the formation of public opinion. In Public Opinion – Propaganda – Ideology , light is particularly shed on press scholar Ono Hideo, his disciple the sociologist and propaganda researcher Koyama Eizō, Marxist philosopher Tosaka Jun and sociologist and postwar intellectual Shimizu Ikutarō. Besides introducing the different approaches of the aforementioned figures, this book also contextualizes the early discursive space of Japanese media and communication studies within global contexts from three perspectives of transnational intellectual history, id est adaptation reciprocities and parallels.

Contents:

Introduction

The formation of a modern mass press in Japan

Transnational contexts: appropriation, reciprocities, and parallels

Disciplining knowledge: the foundation of newspaper studies

The social function of the press: education, public opinion, propaganda

Marxian intervention: the actuality of journalism

Latent publics: rumors and the reciprocity of communication

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-185) and index.

ISBN:

90-04-23054-8

OCLC:

826856229

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004230545 DOI