Person
Carroll J. Glynn
Communication researcher working on public opinion and social norms. In 1997, with Andrew Hayes and James Shanahan, wrote the meta-analysis on the spiral of silence.
Biography
Carroll J. Glynn is a communication researcher who works on the social-psychological aspects of public opinion and social norms. Glynn earned a doctorate at the University of Wisconsin, worked for a long time as a professor at the Ohio State University School of Communication, ran the school, and is now an emeritus professor.
Glynn is one of the authors of Public Opinion, a university textbook on public opinion prepared with several co-authors; the book has gone through several editions.
In the spiral of silence literature, Glynn is best known for the meta-analysis published with Andrew Hayes and James Shanahan in Public Opinion Quarterly in 1997: by bringing together earlier survey studies, the work evaluated a testable premise of the spiral, that is, the relationship between perceived support and willingness to speak.
In this course
In the “Criticism and limits” section of the lesson The Spiral of Silence, Glynn appears with the meta-analysis that evaluates the theory’s empirical testing.
Key works
- Glynn, Carroll J.; Hayes, Andrew F.; Shanahan, James (1997). Perceived support for one's opinions and willingness to speak out: A meta-analysis of survey studies on the “spiral of silence”. Public Opinion Quarterly, 61(3), 452-463. https://doi.org/10.1086/297808 — Meta-analysis of spiral of silence survey studies.
- Glynn, Carroll J.; Herbst, Susan; Lindeman, Mark; O'Keefe, Garrett J.; Shapiro, Robert Y. (2016). Public opinion (3rd edition). New York: Routledge / Westview Press. — Co-authored public opinion textbook (3rd edition).