MAPPING THE NEW MENTAL WORLD CREATED BY RADIO - MEDIA MESSAGES, CULTURAL POLITICS, AND CANTRIL AND ALLPORT THE PSYCHOLOGY-OF-RADIO

During the 1930s a number of interesting critiques of science and soci ety emerged in the social sciences in general, and in psychology in pa rticular One example of this trend is The Psychology of Radio (1935), authored by Harvard psychologist Gordon Allport and his former student Hadley Cantril. The book, which was intended for both professional an d lay audiences, sought to open discussion on the effects of the perva sive presence of radio, and to throw into relief the political, cultur al, and economic contexts in which this new form of mass communication was embedded.