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June 25, 2012

[SSJ: 7543] Member publication: Public Opinion - Propaganda - Ideology

From: Fabian Schaefer
Date: 2012/06/25

Dear list members,

I am pleased to announce the publication of "Public Opinion - Propaganda - Ideology: Theories on the Press and its Social Function in Interwar Japan, 1918-1937"
(Leiden, Boston, 2012), by Fabian Schäfer

As early as prewar Japan, thinkers of various intellectual proveniences had begun discussing the most important topics of contemporary media and communication studies, such as ways to define the social function of the press, journalism and the formation of public opinion. In Public Opinion – Propaganda – Ideology, light is particularly shed on press scholar Ono Hideo, his disciple the sociologist and propaganda researcher Koyama Eizo, Marxist philosopher Tosaka Jun and sociologist and postwar intellectual Shimizu Ikutarō. Besides introducing the different approaches of theaforementioned figures, this book also contextualizes the early discursive space of Japanese media and communication studies within global contexts from three perspectives of transnational intellectual history, i.e. adaptation reciprocities and parallels.

http://www.brill.com/public-opinion-propaganda-ideology

Dr. Fabian Schafer
Oberassistent / Senior researcher

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Universität Zurich
Dr. Fabian Schafer
UFSP Asien und Europa
Wiesenstrasse 7/9
CH-8003 Zurich

www.asienundeuropa.uzh.ch

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