Dossier · 1937–1938

Princeton Radio Research Project

Radio audiences and Adorno’s American research

Chronology

1937–1938

193719381938
2 dated events
  1. Radio-project grant is approved Reported · Source 1, pp. 238–239; PDF pp. 490–493
  2. Adorno meets Lazarsfeld in New York Reported · Source 1, p. 239; PDF pp. 492–493

Ideas

The project studied radio and listeners. Adorno wanted to connect that work with criticism of how commercial culture shaped people. The researchers had to work across different methods and aims. [1], pp. 238–243