US communication research began with five figures meeting in Ann Arbor

Evidence

Research and scholarship on communication began as a cumulative tradition in the United States in the late 1880s when five people came together in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Two were young faculty—John Dewey and George Herbert Mead—and two were students at the time—Robert Park and Charles Cooley. The final element of the pentad was an itinerant American journalist by the name of Franklin Ford — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 577

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• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 577