MASS MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSES IN THE DETROIT RIOT OF 1967

Interviews with 500 Negro men arrested during the Detroit riot of 1967 are used to explore (a) the different functions of the mass media in communicating information about riots in other cities and in one's own; (b) the sources by which information about the Detroit riot entered the black community; (c) the channels used to transmit this information; (d) the messages heard by respondents on the various channels. The author is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.