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As will become apparent, the „dominant paradigm” of the period proved to be in substantial part a paradigm of dominance, in which the apropriateness and inevitability of elite control of communication was taken as a given. As a practical matter, the key academic journals of the day demonstrated only a secondary interest in what communication „is”. Instead, they concentrated on how modern technology could be used by elites to manage social change, extract political concessions, or win purchasing decisions from targeted audiences. Their studies emphasized those aspects of communication that were of greatest practical interest to the public and private agencies that were underwriting most of the research. This orientation reduced the extraordinarily complex, inherently communal social process of communication to simple models based on the dynamic of transmission of persuasive — and in the final analysis, coercive — messages.
 — Christopther Simpson „Science Of Coercion: Communication Research And Psychological Warfare, 1945–1960″, Oxford University Press, NY, 1994, p. 61.

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