Maxwell E. McCombs
Maxwell E. McCombs (* 1938 ) is an American communication scientist .
Life
McCombs studied at Tulane University (BA 1960) and Stanford University (MA 1961). At Stanford he earned a Ph.D. He was also a reporter for The Times-Picayune . He was then a lecturer and assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of North Carolina . From 1973 to 1985 he was John Ben Snow Professor of Research at Syracuse University and Director of the Communication Research Center there.
In 1985 he took over the Jesse H. Jones Centennial Chair in Communication and the Professorship in Government at the University of Texas at Austin . From 1985 to 1991 he headed the Department of Journalism in Austin. In 1994 he became Adjunct Professor at the University of Navarra . In addition, he was visiting professor at the University of Diego Portales in Santiago de Chile and the University of Vienna (Paul Lazarsfeld Professorship). McCombs was a director of the American Newspaper Publishers Association.
He is a member of u. a. Phi Beta Kappa , Omicron Delta Kappa and Kappa Tau Alpha.
Agenda setting approach
Together with Donald L. Shaw (1972), he advocates the media impact model, the agenda-setting approach.
Awards and memberships
- 1978: Sidney S. Goldish Award
- 1995: Fellow of the International Communication Association
- 1996: Murray Edelman Award
- 1998: Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research
- 2002: Honorary doctorate from the University of Antwerp
Web links
- Vita of Maxwell E. McCombs at the University of Texas at Austin
- Professor Emeritus at the Moody College of Communication
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McCombs, Maxwell E. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American communication scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1938 |