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Department News
Event Photos
2011 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Awards Ceremony
 
Esther Pang, Kimberly Ogonosky, and Catherine Chan
2011 End of the Year Public Communications GRADUATE Party
 
Yijian Lu, Professor Sanders, and Sapna Srivastava James Lebbie, and Dr. Andersen
 
Tom Gallagher, James Lebbie, and Jantzen Rodriguez Tom Gallagher, Jantzen Rodriguez, Catherine Chan, Polina Miranova, and Candice Ni
James Lebbie, Amanda Mester, and Murad Matsapayev
Awards
Amy Aronson was awarded the 2009 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics for "To Live Greatly - That is the Thing': The Life and Times of Crystal Eastman, the Woman Behind the ACLU.".
Robin Andersen's A Century of Media, A Century of War (Peter Lang, 2006) was awarded a National Jesuit Book Award.
Publications
Beth Knobel and Mike Wallace's Heat and Light: Advice for the Next Generation of Journalists was published on July 13, 2010 by Three Rivers Press. It presents advice for the next generation of journalists, looks at the growing role of digital media, and offers anecdotes from the authors' storied careers.
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The fourth edition of Amy Aronson and Michael Kimmels' The Gendered Society Reader was published by Oxford University Press on January 20, 2010.
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Paul Levinson's New New Media was published on September 5, 2009. It explores how the "new new media" such as Twitter, Facebook, blogging, and YouTube are transforming the media landscape, and our entire culture as well.
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Robin Andersen and Jonathan Gray’s two-volume edited encyclopedia, Battleground: The Media, was published on December 31, 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 Michael Tueth, S.J.;
- “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.
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The second edition of Amy Aronson and Michael Kimmel's Sociology Now is now in print, including, amidst its comprehensive look at sociology, a new section on media.
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OTHER NEWS
Professor Meir Ribalow is a writer, director, and editor for a new radio show, New River on AIR. Every two weeks there is a new segment of gorgeous fiction, poetry or drama, and they are all free and archived permanently on this non-profit online station; so you can listen to as much as you like of any show at any time from any place in the world that has internet. Just go to our web site at www.newriverdramatists.org, and on the home page there is a very visible link directly to the radio show. And do check out our new segments every other Monday!
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