Maxwell E. McCombs(December 3, 1938 - September 8, 2024)[1]was an Americanjournalismscholar known for his work onpolitical communication.He was theJesse H. JonesCentennial Chair in Communication Emeritus at theUniversity of Texas at Austin.[2]He is particularly known for developing theagenda setting theoryofmass mediawithDonald Lewis Shaw.In a 1972 paper, McCombs and Shaw described the results of a study they conducted testing the hypothesis that the news media have a large influence on the issues that the American public considers important. They conducted the study while they were both working at theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.The resulting paper, "The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media", has since been described as "a classic and perhaps the most cited article in the field of mass communication research in the past 35 years."[3]McCombs has been described as, along with Shaw, "one of the two founding fathers of empirical research on the agenda-setting function of the press."[4]
Maxwell McCombs | |
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| Born | December 3, 1938 |
| Died | September 8, 2024(aged 85) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Tulane University Stanford University |
| Known for | Agenda setting theory |
| Awards | (withDonald Lewis Shaw)Helen DinermanAward from theWorld Association for Public Opinion Research(2011) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Communication studies Journalism Political communication |
| Institutions | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Syracuse University University of Texas at Austin |
| Thesis | Role of Television in the Acquisition of Language(1966) |
Honors and awards
editMcCombs and Shaw were jointly awarded the 2011Helen DinermanAward of theWorld Association for Public Opinion Research.In 2014, McCombs received the Silver Medal from theUniversity of NavarrainSpain,where he has been avisiting professorsince 1994. With Shaw, he has also received theMurray EdelmanAward from theAmerican Political Science Association.[2]
References
edit- ^"McCombs, Maxwell E."Library of Congress Name Authority File.Retrieved2019-09-14.
- ^ab"Max McCombs".School of Journalism.University of Texas at Austin. 2017-01-11.Retrieved2019-09-14.
- ^Weaver, David H. (2008)."McCombs, Maxwell (1938–)".McCombs,Maxwell (1938–).Encyclopedia of Political Communication.2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks California 91320 United States: SAGE Publications, Inc. p. 426.doi:10.4135/9781412953993.n379.ISBN9781412917995.
{{cite encyclopedia}}:CS1 maint: location (link) - ^Weaver, David H. (2019)."Maxwell McCombs".Encyclopedia Britannica.Retrieved2019-09-14.
Further reading
edit- Trigueros, Joaquín; Lacasa-Mas, Ivan (2018-01-02)."Colloquy with Maxwell McCombs at the University of Texas at Austin: agenda setting, a limitless theory in a connected world".Church, Communication and Culture.3(1): 53–74.doi:10.1080/23753234.2018.1430513.ISSN2375-3234.
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