Publications
Robin Andersen and Jonathan Gray’s two-volume edited encyclopedia,
Battleground: The Media, was published on Dec31, 2007. The book examines numerous “battleground”/hot-button/controversial issues in the media, including close to 100 entries overall. The department is well-represented, with entries on:
- “Advertising and Persuasion,” “Embedding Journalists,” “Hypercommercialism,” “Media and Election Campaigns,” “Paparazzi and Photographic Ethics,” “Presidential Stagecraft and Militainment,” and “World Cinema” by Robin Andersen;
- “Audience Power to Resist,” “Dating Shows,” “Nationalism and the Media,” “News Satire,” “Political Entertainment,” and “Transmedia Storytelling” by Jonathan Gray;
- “Google Book Search” by former Public Communications MA student (and current PhD candidate at University of California, San Diego) Paul Vinelli;
- “Government Censorship and Freedom of Speech” and “Obscenity and Indecency” by Gwenyth Jackaway;
- “The iTunes Effect” and “National Public Radio” by Tom McCourt;
- “Journalists in Peril” by Beth Knobel;
- “Media and the Crisis of Values” by Fr. Michael Tueth;
- “Minority Media Ownership” by Arthur Hayes;
- “Mobile Media” by Paul Levinson;
- “Narrative Power and Media Influence” by James VanOosting;
- “Ratings” by department friend and member of the Communications and Media Management dept Philip Napoli
- “Sensationalism, Fear Mongering, and Tabloid Media” by Margot Hardenbergh;
- “Women’s Magazines” by Amy Aronson.
The second edition of Amy Aronson and Michael Kimmel's
Sociology Now is now print, including, amidst its comprehensive look at sociology, a new section on media
The Third Edition of Amy Aronson and Michael Kimmel's The Gendered Society Reader was recently published by Oxford University Press, including a new section on the media.
Jonathan Gray's Television Entertainment was published by Routledge in April 2008.
Awards
Robin Andersen's
A Century of Media, A Century of War (Peter Lang, 2006) was awarded a National Jesuit Book Award.
Promotions
Congratulations to:
- Robin Andersen, for her promotion from Associate Professor to Professor
- Lance Strate, for his promotion from Associate Professor to Professor
- Arthur Hayes, for being awarded tenure
- Tom McCourt, for being awarded tenure.
