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Melvin L. DeFleur
Researcher at Washington State University
Publications - 29
Citations - 20074
Melvin L. DeFleur is an academic researcher from Washington State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mass media & Mass communication. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 28 publications receiving 20032 citations.
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Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity.
Melvin L. DeFleur,Erving Goffman +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the relationship between information control and personal identity, including the Discredited and the Discreditable Social Information Visibility Personal Identity Biography Biographical Others Passing Techniques of Information Control Covering.
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Theories of mass communication
TL;DR: The magic bullet theory theories of selective influence socialization and theories of indirect influence mass communication and the construction of meaning theoretical strategies for persuasion media system depending theory emerging media systems.
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Attitude as an interactional concept: social constraint and social distance as intervening variables between attitudes and action.
Lyle G. Warner,Melvin L. DeFleur +1 more
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Understanding mass communication
TL;DR: Understanding mass communication, Understanding mass communication , کتابخانه مرکزی دانشگاه علوم ایران.
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Verbal attitudes and overt acts: an experiment on the salience of attitudes *
TL;DR: The participant observation was adopted in this case only after responsible Air Force personnel believed they had obtained about all they could from general observation, questionnaires, and formal interviews as discussed by the authors, and they suspected that airmen, like other human beings, could and did maintain "false fronts," often deceiving officers, researchers, and perhaps themselves.