A Study Of U.S Television And Its Historical Influence In The 1960s

In this period, beyond what can be expected with the development of modern science and technology for the sake of scientism, the topic on relations between media and society has transformed much. There are four parts of this thesis.In the first part, the author elaborated the current situation of the research and the related methods on U.S media. Basically speaking, American media has possessed all characters of modern media including the typical characters in the civil society when developing from traditional forms, thus it is more valuable if we do research on relations between media and society by analyzing American media. Paying attention to the media practice and observing media in the society, the author try to frame a"history- society-media"systemic structure to understand the alternant relations between American Television and society and interpret the role of television in the society, from an angle of historical society ,around an axes of the historical process in this thesis.Respecting the multi-discipline research on media, many scholars have done research about this topic. Among them, there are three important professors: David Riesman, Daniel Bell and Michael Schudson, who come from Sociology Department of Harvard University. Their researches are special, typical, systemic and successive. Theory and method of Prof.Schudson broke the traditional research, snatching the objective respect of media research, and we should learn such methods as this when we do research on history of American media.