Institute of Communication Research
The Institute of Communication Research or ICR is an interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. It was founded by Wilbur Schramm in 1947 as the first academic research institute in the United States to grant a PhD in Communications[1]. The ICR was established to advance research on all forms of mass communication including press, radio, films, television, and facsimile to promote a better understanding of its basic problems and to contribute to its effective use in society.[2] Since then, the ICR's program of study has evolved, focusing broadly on the domains of systems and institutions, policy and history, and cultural theory and practice.[3]
The ICR is an academic research unit that grants doctoral degrees through the Graduate College and the College of Media and is located in Gregory Hall at the University of Illinois.
History
In 1947, the Board of Trustees at the University of Illinois decided to create a research center modeled in part after several comparable research institutes that were sprouting around the country. In the appointment of Wilbur Schramm as the director, the Board of Trustees stated that:
The Institute of Communications Research is for the graduate study of press, radio, and pictures. Through basic research it hopes to contribute to our knowledge of these mass media, their audiences and effects, their relation to government, business and society, their rights and responsibilities, their relation to each other, their ways of working and means of improving their effectiveness, and the quality of their performance in a world which has increasing need of skillful and accurate communication.[4]
In 1954 the Institute of Communications Research became a division of the Graduate College and then in 1957 the Institute was placed within the new College of Communications, home of the Departments of Radio-TV, Journalism and Advertising, and the Division of Broadcasting under its first dean, Ted Peterson.[5]
By 1959, ICR offered consulting services and graduate programs[6] to train individuals in communications and media drawing its faculty from the departments of social sciences, journalism, radio, and publishing. [7]
A shift occurred again after James W. Carey became director in 1969. During his seven-year tenure as director, the "macro" side of communication research, or the studies of mass media grew in prominence among doctoral students and faculty.[8]
Areas of Research
Notable Emeritus Faculty
References
- ↑ Rogers, Everett (1994). A History of Communication Study: A Biographical Approach. NY: The Free Press. p. 28. Search this book on
- ↑ "Communications Institute Studies Media Problems". 15 August 1951. Archived from the original on 1874–1975. Retrieved November 25, 2019 – via https://archon.library.illinois.edu/?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=423.
By studying basic problems of present communications media...they hope to contribute to the more effective use of mass communications in society.
CS1 maint: Date format (link) - ↑ University of Illinois, College of Media. "About ICR". Retrieved November 25, 2019.
- ↑ The Institute of Communications Research, 40th anniversary. Urbana-Champaign: The Institute. 1988. p. 20. Search this book on
- ↑ The Institute of Communications Research, 40th anniversary. Urbana-Champaign: The Institute. 1988. p. 22. Search this book on
- ↑ "Communications Institute Studies Press and Radio". 6 August 1959. Archived from the original on 1874–1975. Retrieved November 25, 2019 – via https://archon.library.illinois.edu/?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=423.
These results are reached through studying basic problems of present and new media, giving consulting service and offering graduate courses.
CS1 maint: Date format (link) - ↑ "Communications Institute Studies Media Problems". 15 August 1951. Archived from the original on 1874–1975. Retrieved November 25, 2019 – via https://archon.library.illinois.edu/?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=423.
members are drawn from social sciences, journalism, radio, and publishing.
CS1 maint: Date format (link) - ↑ The Institute of Communications Research, 40th anniversary. Urbana-Champaign: The Institute. 1988. p. 26. Search this book on
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