Terhi Rantanen (MSc; LicSc; DocSc; Docent, Helsinki University) is Professor in Global Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is the founder of two double MSc programmes, with the University of Southern California (USC), which she has directed from 2000 to date, and with Fudan University, Shanghai, which she directed for its first three years. Since the beginning of her career, she has conducted research on globalisation and the media, and especially on news organisations but also on the history of knowledge production.

• List of figuresPreface1 Why study ideology and utopia in early comparative communications1.1 Previous research and its value1.2 Karl Mannheim a brief biography1.3 Robert K. Merton and his critique of Mannheim’s Wissenssoziologie1.4 Ideology and Utopia1.5 The concept of a generation1.6 Insiders and Outsiders1.7 Why does this matter now1.8 Plan of the book and details of sources2 Harold D. Lasswell propaganda research from the 1920s to the 1950s2.1 The academic period of progressive internationalism2.2 The policy science period of pragmatism to promote mainly US interests2.3 Conclusion3 Kent Cooper Barriers Down and The Right to Know3.1 The AP as a national and international news agency3.2 Cooper and his key concepts3.3 Cooper and his contemporaries3.4 Cooper as a liberal internationalist 1914–19253.5 Cooper as a pragmatic policymaker 1925–19343.6 Cooper as an ideologist 1942–19563.7 Conclusion4 World War II comparative communications the institutionalisation of ideology by policy scientists émigré scholars and the military 1940–19434.1 The nature of research4.2 The organisation and funding of the Wartime Communications Project4.3 Nazi terror European intellectuals run for their lives4.4 Quantitative and qualitative content analysis4.5 Conclusion5 From togetherness to separation comparative communications in the 1950s5.1 Post World Wars I and II communications compared5.2 The continuation of World War II studies5.3 Attempts to define international communication5.4 RAND Corporation and the work of émigré scholars after the war5.5 What were the main features of new international communication studies in the 1950s5.6 Conclusion6 Ideological utopias Fred S. Siebert Theodore Peterson and Wilbur Schramm and their Four Theories of the Press6.1 The key characters authors and colleagues at the University of Illinois6.2 New intellectual ideas the inspirations for Four Theories6.3 Generational conflicts over Four Theories6.4 Conclusion7 Conclusion can the circle be broken7.1 Ideology and utopia7.2 The concept of a generation7.3 Insiders and Outsiders7.4 Merton’s four criteria for evaluating comparative communications plus one new one7.5 Why does this all matterAcknowledgementsAbout the authorArchival sources and bibliographyIndex

Terhi Rantanen (MSc; LicSc; DocSc; Docent, Helsinki University) is Professor in Global Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is the founder of two double MSc programmes, with the University of Southern California (USC), which she has directed from 2000 to date, and with Fudan University, Shanghai, which she directed for its first three years. Since the beginning of her career, she has conducted research on globalisation and the media, and especially on news organisations but also on the history of knowledge production.

• List of figuresPreface1 Why study ideology and utopia in early comparative communications1.1 Previous research and its value1.2 Karl Mannheim a brief biography1.3 Robert K. Merton and his critique of Mannheim’s Wissenssoziologie1.4 Ideology and Utopia1.5 The concept of a generation1.6 Insiders and Outsiders1.7 Why does this matter now1.8 Plan of the book and details of sources2 Harold D. Lasswell propaganda research from the 1920s to the 1950s2.1 The academic period of progressive internationalism2.2 The policy science period of pragmatism to promote mainly US interests2.3 Conclusion3 Kent Cooper Barriers Down and The Right to Know3.1 The AP as a national and international news agency3.2 Cooper and his key concepts3.3 Cooper and his contemporaries3.4 Cooper as a liberal internationalist 1914–19253.5 Cooper as a pragmatic policymaker 1925–19343.6 Cooper as an ideologist 1942–19563.7 Conclusion4 World War II comparative communications the institutionalisation of ideology by policy scientists émigré scholars and the military 1940–19434.1 The nature of research4.2 The organisation and funding of the Wartime Communications Project4.3 Nazi terror European intellectuals run for their lives4.4 Quantitative and qualitative content analysis4.5 Conclusion5 From togetherness to separation comparative communications in the 1950s5.1 Post World Wars I and II communications compared5.2 The continuation of World War II studies5.3 Attempts to define international communication5.4 RAND Corporation and the work of émigré scholars after the war5.5 What were the main features of new international communication studies in the 1950s5.6 Conclusion6 Ideological utopias Fred S. Siebert Theodore Peterson and Wilbur Schramm and their Four Theories of the Press6.1 The key characters authors and colleagues at the University of Illinois6.2 New intellectual ideas the inspirations for Four Theories6.3 Generational conflicts over Four Theories6.4 Conclusion7 Conclusion can the circle be broken7.1 Ideology and utopia7.2 The concept of a generation7.3 Insiders and Outsiders7.4 Merton’s four criteria for evaluating comparative communications plus one new one7.5 Why does this all matterAcknowledgementsAbout the authorArchival sources and bibliographyIndex

Terhi Rantanen (MSc; LicSc; DocSc; Docent, Helsinki University) is Professor in Global Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is the founder of two double MSc programmes, with the University of Southern California (USC), which she has directed from 2000 to date, and with Fudan University, Shanghai, which she directed for its first three years. Since the beginning of her career, she has conducted research on globalisation and the media, and especially on news organisations but also on the history of knowledge production.

• List of figuresPreface1 Why study ideology and utopia in early comparative communications1.1 Previous research and its value1.2 Karl Mannheim a brief biography1.3 Robert K. Merton and his critique of Mannheim’s Wissenssoziologie1.4 Ideology and Utopia1.5 The concept of a generation1.6 Insiders and Outsiders1.7 Why does this matter now1.8 Plan of the book and details of sources2 Harold D. Lasswell propaganda research from the 1920s to the 1950s2.1 The academic period of progressive internationalism2.2 The policy science period of pragmatism to promote mainly US interests2.3 Conclusion3 Kent Cooper Barriers Down and The Right to Know3.1 The AP as a national and international news agency3.2 Cooper and his key concepts3.3 Cooper and his contemporaries3.4 Cooper as a liberal internationalist 1914–19253.5 Cooper as a pragmatic policymaker 1925–19343.6 Cooper as an ideologist 1942–19563.7 Conclusion4 World War II comparative communications the institutionalisation of ideology by policy scientists émigré scholars and the military 1940–19434.1 The nature of research4.2 The organisation and funding of the Wartime Communications Project4.3 Nazi terror European intellectuals run for their lives4.4 Quantitative and qualitative content analysis4.5 Conclusion5 From togetherness to separation comparative communications in the 1950s5.1 Post World Wars I and II communications compared5.2 The continuation of World War II studies5.3 Attempts to define international communication5.4 RAND Corporation and the work of émigré scholars after the war5.5 What were the main features of new international communication studies in the 1950s5.6 Conclusion6 Ideological utopias Fred S. Siebert Theodore Peterson and Wilbur Schramm and their Four Theories of the Press6.1 The key characters authors and colleagues at the University of Illinois6.2 New intellectual ideas the inspirations for Four Theories6.3 Generational conflicts over Four Theories6.4 Conclusion7 Conclusion can the circle be broken7.1 Ideology and utopia7.2 The concept of a generation7.3 Insiders and Outsiders7.4 Merton’s four criteria for evaluating comparative communications plus one new one7.5 Why does this all matterAcknowledgementsAbout the authorArchival sources and bibliographyIndex