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4 unusual facts about Wilbur Schramm


Joe and Beth Krush

--earliest i have found, not known to be their debuts--> Joe did Windwagon Smith and Other Yarns, a collection of short stories by Wilbur Schramm.

Nora C. Quebral

Drawing from the works of Alan Chalkley, Wilbur Schramm, and Daniel Lerner, among others, she coined a definition of the field outlining its basic theory and practice.

Wilbur Schramm

Schramm was especially influential for his 1964 book Mass Media and National Development which was published in conjunction with UNESCO, which effectively began research into the link between the spread of communication technology and socio-economic development.

Windwagon Smith

The story appears in "Windwagon Smith and Other Yarns" in 1947, by Wilbur Lang Schramm while he was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.


Development communication

The advent of communication sciences in the 1950s included recognition of the field as an academic discipline, led by Daniel Lerner, Wilbur Schramm and Everett Rogers.

International communication

Some renowned scholars in international communication include Wilbur Schramm, Ithiel de Sola Pool, Johan Galtung, Anthony Smith, Robert Stevenson, Jeremy Tunstall, Armand Mattelart, Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Ali Mohammadi, Annabelle Sreberny, Cees J. Hamelink, Daya Kishan Thussu and Chris Paterson.


see also

Cal Pritner

He is the author and co-author of three instructional television series on Shakespeare and poetry; he co-authored Page to Stage: Julius Caesar, which won the Wilbur Schramm award as best American instructional series of 1991.