# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herta-herzog
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:17:17.223Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herta-herzog"
name: "Herta Herzog"
slug: "herta-herzog"
description: "Herta Herzog-Massing was an Austrian-American social scientist specializing in communication studies. Her most prominent contribution to the field, an article entitled \"What Do We Really Know About Daytime Serial Listeners?\", is considered a pioneering work of the uses-and-gratifications approach and the cognitive revolution in media research. She was married to Paul Lazarsfeld, and later to Paul Massing, and was stepmother to Lazarsfeld's daughter, MIT professor Lotte Bailyn."
tagline: "American social scientist (1910-2010)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
birthDate: "1910-08-14"
deathDate: "2010-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.23076923076923
  historical:           6.809324
  currentAttention:     51.28205128205128
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Herta Herzog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هيرتا هيرتسوغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هيرتا هيرزوج"
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    title: "Χέρτα Χέρτσογκ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herta_Herzog"
    title: "Herta Herzog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herta_Herzog"
    title: "Herta Herzog"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herta_Herzog"
    title: "Herta Herzog"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88232"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump