> =ANNALS <i OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Volume 608 November 2006 IN THIS ISSUE: Politics, Social Networks, and the History of Mass Communications Research: Rereading Personal Influence Special Editor: PETER SIMONSON Introduction Peter Simonson Perpetual Revelations: C. Wright Mills and Paul Lazarsfeld John H. Summers Personal Influence and the Bracketing of Women’s History .............. Susan J. Douglas The Influences Influencing Personal Influence: Scholarship and Entrepreneurship David E. Morrison The Katz/Lowenthal Encounter: An Episode in the Creation of Personal Influence GertrudeJ . Robinson The Part Played by Gentiles in the Flow of Mass Communications: On the Ethnic Utopia of Personal Influence John Durham Peters Personal Influence and the End of the Masses... ... . Paddy Scannell Fifteen Pages that Shook the Field: Personal Influence, Edward Shils, and the Remembered History of Mass Communication Research Jefferson Pooley Personal Influence and the New Paradigm: Some Inadvertent Consequences Kurt Lang and Gladys Engel Langt e) > =ANNALS <i OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Volume 608 November 2006 IN THIS ISSUE: Politics, Social Networks, and the History of Mass Communications Research: Rereading Personal Influence Special Editor: PETER SIMONSON Introduction Peter Simonson Perpetual Revelations: C. Wright Mills and Paul Lazarsfeld John H. Summers Personal Influence and the Bracketing of Women’s History .............. Susan J. Douglas The Influences Influencing Personal Influence: Scholarship and Entrepreneurship David E. Morrison The Katz/Lowenthal Encounter: An Episode in the Creation of Personal Influence GertrudeJ . Robinson The Part Played by Gentiles in the Flow of Mass Communications: On the Ethnic Utopia of Personal Influence John Durham Peters Personal Influence and the End of the Masses... ... . Paddy Scannell Fifteen Pages that Shook the Field: Personal Influence, Edward Shils, and the Remembered History of Mass Communication Research Jefferson Pooley Personal Influence and the New Paradigm: Some Inadvertent Consequences Kurt Lang and Gladys Engel Langt e) As Time Goes By... Thelma McCormack The Troubling Equivalence of Citizen and Consumer Vichael Schudson The Consumer and the Citizen in Personal Influence Lawrence B. Glickman The One-Step Flow of Communication W. Lance Bennett and Jarol B. Manheim The Influence of Personal Influence on the Study of Audiences ....................... Sonia Livingstone Public Connection through Media Consumption: Between Oversocialization and De-Socialization? .. . Nick Couldry and Tim Markham Personal Influence: A Radical Theory of Action... . Charles Kadushin Personal Influence and the Effects of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign Robert Hornik Fe ee ee Elihu Katz Quick Read Synopsis Politics, Social Networks, and the History of Mass Communications Research: Rereading Personal Influence FORTHCOMING Race and Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market Special Editor: GEORGE WILSON Volume 609, January 2007 NAFTA and Beyond: Alternative Disciplinary Perspectives in the Study of Global Trade and Development Special Editors: PATRICIA FERN (NDEZ-KELLY and ION SHEFNER Volume 610, March 2007