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Parker's Immigration Newspaper and Its Control

The Department of Sociology of the University of Chicago is the first sociology department in the United States, and the Chicago School is the most influential school in the field of social sciences in the United States in the 20th century. Among the Chicago School, robert parker, who has the greatest influence on communication, is called "the scholar who initiated the study of mass communication".

Parker did not write many books in his life. People say that he would rather instruct others to write 10 books than spend time writing one himself. Apart from his doctoral thesis, Immigration Newspapers and Their Control published in 1922 is his only work. He made a series of influential reports and published a book introducing his students. However, his most influential book is Immigration Newspaper and Its Control, which is by far the most important textbook and reading material about early American communication.

Immigration Newspapers and Their Control is divided into four parts and eighteen chapters. The first part, "The Survival Soil of Immigrant Newspapers", is divided into four chapters to introduce the reasons for the existence of foreign newspapers, the European background of immigrant newspapers, the integration of immigrant newspapers and its enlightenment. The second part is "the situation of foreign newspapers", which is divided into five chapters to analyze advertisements, the development of local newspapers, metropolis daily, metropolis daily, war and class struggle. The third part is "The History of Immigrant Newspapers", which is divided into five chapters to introduce newspapers founded by early immigrants, newspapers founded by late immigrants, immigrants' reflection on their own immigration situation, the survival competition of newspapers and the results of survival of the fittest. The fourth part is "newspaper control", which is divided into four chapters to discuss the control lever, Hamelin's manipulation control, opponent propaganda and government intervention, and alliance control.

The publication of immigration newspapers and their control is due to a country's concern that immigrants in the United States may be unfaithful. Are thousands of German-Americans loyal to America or K. William? Will they spread propaganda or sabotage? Parker directed the research of immigrant foreign language newspapers and periodicals. He found that Yiddish, Polish, German and other newspapers mainly helped new immigrants understand how to survive in North America. Few newspapers encourage loyalty to the original motherland. American foreign language newspapers and periodicals have gradually formed their own roles by helping immigrant readers integrate into American culture.

In the United States, Parker is the first person to study the relationship between ethnic minorities and the media. 19 At the end of the 20th century, a large number of new immigrants came to the United States. How to assimilate these new immigrants was a common concern of mainstream American society at that time. At the same time, American society also excludes new immigrants. Parker went deep into ethnic minority communities. After investigating dozens of foreign newspapers and periodicals, he published the monograph "Immigration Newspapers and Their Control" in 1922, opposing the suppression or control of these newspapers and periodicals. He emphasized that their role helps to maintain ethnic culture, let readers contact metropolis life through the language of their hometown, and let immigrants smoothly integrate into American society. Parker pays attention to empirical analysis and takes solving social problems as his main research direction. He investigated the slums of Chicago and the serious crime problem at that time. Parker's research contents and methods had a great influence on later scholars who studied media from the perspective of sociology in Europe, America and Japan.

In "Immigration Newspapers and Their Control", Parker mentioned the topic that communication has been studying so far: How does media content affect public opinions? How is the mass media influenced by public opinion? Can mass media bring about social change? What is the relationship between interpersonal communication and mass communication? Its definition of communication is similar to Shannon's later information theory.