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Adopting a ‘scientific’ approach to mass communications in Chile in the late 1950s meant adopting the methods and premises of North American sociology. Not only was the North American approach seen as a way to modernize the study of communications, but North American sociology was part and parcel of the project to modernize Chile. This chapter will examine the sources and consequences for communications scholarship of the North American influence in Chile during this period.
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Davies, M. (1999). Origins of the Scientific Study of Mass Communications in Chile: 1958–67. In: International Political Economy and Mass Communication in Chile. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230509368_2
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