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Department News
New Faculty
The department welcomes our latest additions, Dr. Margaret Schwartz and Dr. Jennifer Clark, both at the Lincoln Center campus. Dr. Schwartz joins us from the University of Iowa, a Fulbright scholar who studies the phenomenology of media and communication, feminist media studies, and communication ethics, she is also a translator, having recently translated Macedonio Fernández’s Museo de la Novela de la Eterna (Museum of Eterna’s Novel ). Dr. Clark joins us from University of Southern California, where her doctoral dissertation examined the relationship between the American Women’s Liberation Movement and the film and television industries of the 1970s, and is currently working on a wide variety of issues from female news workers in early television, to the creation of sports celebrity, to gender politics in The Sopranos and Mad Men.
New Chairs
The department welcomes its new Chair, James VanOosting; the new Associate Chairs, Undergraduate (Rose Hill), Tom McCourt (Fall 2008) and Margot Hardenbergh (Spring 2009); the new Associate Chair, Undergraduate (Lincoln Center), Michael Tueth, S.J.; and the new Associate Chair, Graduate, Robin Andersen.
We also thank our outgoing chairs -- Chair, Paul Levinson; Associate Chair, Undergraduate (Rose Hill), Janet Sternberg; Associate Chair, Undergraduate (Lincoln Center), Al Auster; and Associate Chair, Graduate, Lance Strate -- for their sterling and dedicated work.
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 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.
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.
The Third Edition of Amy Aronson and Michael Kimmel's The Gendered Society Reader was recently published by Oxford University Press.
Jonathan Gray's Television Entertainment was published by Routledge in April 2008.
Awards
Jennifer Sawyer is the recipient of the department's 2008 Walsh Scholarship.
Samantha Smith is the recipient of the department's 2008 Kavanaugh Scholarship.
Robin Andersen's A Century of Media, A Century of War (Peter Lang, 2006) was awarded a National Jesuit Book Award.
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