The role of mass communications during the Berlin blockade.

W. P. Davison

Expert InsightsPublished 1955

A study of the role that mass communications played during the Berlin blockade and airlift of 1948-49. The author suggests that mass communications, rather than an instrument of manipulation operating from outside the social system, were significant as part of the machinery within the social system.

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  • Year: 1955
  • Pages: 12
  • Document Number: P-665

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Davison, W. P., The role of mass communications during the Berlin blockade. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1955. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P665.html.
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