Michael Schudson is an American academic sociologist working in the fields of journalism and its history, and public culture.

He was brought up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has an undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College, and a doctorate in sociology from Harvard University. From 1976 he was assistant professor at the University of Chicago. In 1980 he joined joined the faculty of University of California San Diego, where as of 2004 he is Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of Sociology.

He received a MacArthur Foundation award in 1990.

Works

• Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers (1978)
• Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion (1984)
• Reading the News (1986) editor with Robert K. Manoff
• Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies (1991) editor with Chandra Mukerji
• Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget and Reconstruct the Past (1992)
• The Power of News (1995)
• The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life (1998)
• The Sociology of News (2003)

External link

• Home page at UCSD (http://communication.ucsd.edu/people/f_schudson.html)