Article:
Empirie als Korrektiv. Adorno, Lazarsfeld und der Eigensinn des Medialen. Fiktionen objektiver Wahrscheinlichkeit

Author(s): Otto, Isabell

Abstract

The conflict between Theodor Adorno and Paul Lazarsfeld, with whom he collaborated on the Princeton Radio Research Project at the end of the 1930s, consisted of more than just a methodological disagreement about administrative or critical mass media research. It centered largely on their diverging assessments of the social and aesthetic effects of media. This contribution shows how empirical communications research in the 1930s responded to what was perceived to be a need for enhanced control and ›de-interference‹ in mass media communication. Contrary to this view, Adorno insisted on what may best be described as an autonomous logic of the medium, an inherent dynamic which needs to be accounted for before any empirical measurement of audience reactions can take place.

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Otto, Isabell: Empirie als Korrektiv. Adorno, Lazarsfeld und der Eigensinn des Medialen. Fiktionen objektiver Wahrscheinlichkeit. In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Jg. 3 (2011), Nr. 2, S. 15-24. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/2604.
@ARTICLE{Otto2011,
 author = {Otto, Isabell},
 title = {Empirie als Korrektiv. Adorno, Lazarsfeld und der Eigensinn des Medialen. Fiktionen objektiver Wahrscheinlichkeit},
 year = 2011,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/2604},
 volume = 3,
 address = {Berlin},
 journal = {Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft},
 number = 2,
 pages = {15--24},
}
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