Elihu Katz (Hebrew: אליהוא כ"ץ, 21 May 1926 – 31 December 2021) was an American-Israeli sociologist and communication scientist whose expertise was uses and gratifications theory. He authored over 20 books and 175 articles and book chapters during his lifetime and is acknowledged as one of "the founding fathers of regular television broadcasts in Israel."[1][2]
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ElihuKatz (Hebrew: אליהוא כ"ץ, 21 May 1926 – 31 December 2021) was an American-Israeli sociologist and communication scientist whose expertise was uses...
theory of two-step flow of communication propounded by Paul Lazarsfeld and ElihuKatz. Significant developers of the opinion leader concept have been Robert...
and politician Elihu Emory Jackson (1837–1907), American businessman and politician, 41st governor of Maryland, United States ElihuKatz (1926–2021), American-Israeli...
Kurt Lewin, Harold Lasswell, Paul Lazarsfeld, Carl Hovland, James Carey, ElihuKatz, Kenneth Burke, John Dewey, Jurgen Habermas, Marshall McLuhan, Theodor...
Lazarsfeld introduced the idea of the two-step flow of communication in 1944. ElihuKatz contributed to the model in 1955 through studies and publications. The...
medium over how much effort they had to make to achieve gratification. ElihuKatz, Jay Blumler, and Michael Gurevitch synthesized that UGT's approach was...
decision-making processes), and developed in Personal Influence (Lazarsfeld, ElihuKatz 1955) and The Effects of Mass Communication (Joseph Klapper, 1960). Influencer...
Religionization of Israeli Society. Routledge, 2018. pp. 14-15. Charles S. Liebman, ElihuKatz, Jewishness of Israelis, The Responses to the Guttman Report. SUNY Press...
communications studies, such as Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Jeremy Tunstall and ElihuKatz, advanced a "media imperialism" perspective. This theory posits that there...
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2004. p. 1-2. Charles S. Liebman, ElihuKatz, Jewishness of Israelis, The Responses to the Guttman Report. SUNY Press...
Communication (1947–1960). The latter was a degree-granting program that counted ElihuKatz, Bernard Berelson, Edward Shils, and David Riesman amongst its faculty...
influence this relationship, like living in an area with a high-crime rate. ElihuKatz, the founder of uses and gratifications theory, listed cultivation theory...
there were increased concerns about the power of the mass media, and with ElihuKatz, Lazarsfeld published Personal Influence, which propounded the theory...
is based on users actively attempting to satisfy their media needs. ElihuKatz is often credited with being one of the original creators of this theory...
The "uses and gratifications" model, associated with Jay Blumler and ElihuKatz, reflected this growing interest in the 'active audience'. One such example...
change attitudes and behaviors such as voting and violence. Sociologists ElihuKatz and Paul Lazarsfeld introduced the concept of a two-step flow in communication...
Northcliffe. London: Longman, 1978. ISBN 0-582-48983-0 Dayan, Daniel, and ElihuKatz. Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History. Harvard University Press...
Children". Social Science Quarterly. 98 (2): 397–412. doi:10.1111/ssqu.12416. ElihuKatz and Paul Felix Lazarsfeld (1955). Personal Influence: the Part Played...
Nobel Prize laureate for Economics Ruth Kark, geography of (Eretz) Israel ElihuKatz, communication Aharon Katzir, chemistry David Kazhdan, mathematics Baruch...
Canadian Journal of Communication, 23, 1998; also in French, Quaderni (with ElihuKatz). “Wagner and the Jewish Commitment to Modernity“, The Sterosta Lectures...
of communication, and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center ElihuKatz, American-Israeli sociologist, and winner of the UNESCO-Canada McLuhan...
include social scientists Philip Converse, Louis Guttman, Roger Jowell, ElihuKatz, Juan Linz, Seymour Martin Lipset, Robert K. Merton, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann...
political scientist; a diplomat, journalist, politician, and statesman ElihuKatz, American sociologist Nitasha Kaul, Indian Kashmiri sociologist, writer...
and wife to have both received the Israel Prize (followed by ElihuKatz [1989] and Ruth Katz [2012]). Joshua Prawer Humanities Schneor Lipson Life sciences...
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