Michael Schudson
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Michael Schudson is an American academic sociologist working in the fields of journalism and its history, and public culture.
He was brought up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has an undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College, and a doctorate in sociology from Harvard University. From 1976 he was assistant professor at the University of Chicago. In 1980 he joined the faculty of University of California, San Diego, where he is Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of Sociology. He is also on on the faculty of The Journalism School at Columbia University.
He received a MacArthur Foundation award in 1990.
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- Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers (1978) ISBN 978-0465016662
- Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion (1984) ISBN 978-0465000791
- 'When? Deadlines, Datelines, and History' in Reading the News (1986) ed. Robert K. Manoff ISBN 978-0394746494
- Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies (1991) editor with Chandra Mukerji ISBN 978-0520068933
- Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget and Reconstruct the Past (1992) ISBN 978-0465090846
- The Power of News (1995) ISBN 978-0674695870
- The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life (1998) ISBN 978-0674356405
- The Sociology of News (2003) ISBN 978-0393975130
