Harold L. Nelson Award Recipients
| 1991 | Jay Blumler |
 Jay
Blumler, one of the most prominent media researchers in the world,
presented the first Founders’ Address on “The Social Purpose
of Mass Communication Research: A Transatlantic Perspective,”
to the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
convention in Madison in 1977. Blumler graduated from Antioch College
after serving in the U. S. Army in Europe at the close of World War
II. He studied at the London School of Economics before completing
his doctorate in social and political theory from Oxford in 1962.
For 14 years, Blumler was a lecturer and tutor at Ruskin College,
Oxford. He then moved to the University of Leeds, where he served
as Director of the Center for Television Research from 1966 until
his retirement in 1989. He was Brittingham Visiting Professor here
at UW-Madison during the spring semester of 1980 and again in 1983.
Blumler has made significant contributions to the understanding of
broadcasting policy in the service of democratic values and has devoted
considerable energy to making communication research truly international.
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