Maxwell McCombs
Maxwell McCombs | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1938年12月03日)December 3, 1938 Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. |
| Died | September 8, 2024(2024年09月08日) (aged 85) Austin, Texas, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Tulane University Stanford University |
| Known for | Agenda setting theory |
| Awards | (with Donald Lewis Shaw) Helen Dinerman Award from the World 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) |
Maxwell E. McCombs (December 3, 1938 – September 8, 2024) was an American journalism scholar known for his work on political communication. He was the Jesse H. Jones Centennial Chair in Communication Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin.[1] He is particularly known for developing the agenda setting theory of mass media with Donald 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 the University 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."[2] 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."[3]
Background
[edit ]McCombs was born in Birmingham, Alabama on December 3, 1938,[4] and died in Austin, Texas on September 4, 2024, at the age of 85.[5]
Honors and awards
[edit ]McCombs and Shaw were jointly awarded the 2011 Helen Dinerman Award of the World Association for Public Opinion Research. In 2014, McCombs received the Silver Medal from the University of Navarra in Spain, where he has been a visiting professor from 1994. With Shaw, he has also received the Murray Edelman Award from the American Political Science Association.[1]
References
[edit ]- ^ a b "Max McCombs". School of Journalism. University of Texas at Austin. 2017年01月11日. Retrieved 2019年09月14日.
- ^ Weaver, David H. (2008). "McCombs, Maxwell (1938–)". Mc Combs, 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. ISBN 9781412917995.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ Weaver, David H. (2019). "Maxwell McCombs". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2019年09月14日.
- ^ "McCombs, Maxwell E." Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved 2019年09月14日.
- ^ "In Memoriam: Maxwell McCombs | School of Journalism and Media". journalism.utexas.edu. 2024年09月09日. Retrieved 2025年01月30日.
Further reading
[edit ]- Trigueros, Joaquín; Lacasa-Mas, Ivan (2018年01月02日). "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 . ISSN 2375-3234.
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