Lovink, Geert2019-01-082019-01-082018https://necsus-ejms.org/from-mass-psychology-to-media-studies-interview-with-jaap-van-ginneken-on-his-kurt-baschwitz-biography/https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4206In this interview with Jaap van Ginneken we are looking at the (dis)appearance of ‘mass psychology’: a small and short-lived discipline shaped by figures such as Gustave Le Bon, Gabriel Tarde, and Sigmund Freud. For most of his life, Dutch academic van Ginneken has both utilised mass psychology’s methods and written its history. His latest contribution is the biography of the German-Dutch Kurt Baschwitz (1886-1968), who can be considered The Netherlands’ most influential mass psychologist (Kurt Baschwitz, A Pioneer of Communication Studies and Social Psychology, Amsterdam University Press, 2018).engKommunikationswissenschaftInterviewPsychologiecommunication studiesmass psychologysocial psychology791Jaap van GinnekenKurt Baschwitz10.25969/mediarep/34372213-0217