Robin Andersen

Robin Andersen, Ph.D., teaches Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University and is the Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program. She has written numerous journal articles and book chapters on media issues and the influence of TV and Advertising on American society. She is the author of Consumer Culture and TV Programming, published by Westview Press and editor of Critical Studies in Media Commercialism by Oxford University Press. Her book titled, Media and War: Censorship, Propaganda and Myth in the Information Age is forthcoming in 2004. She is frequently interviewed as an expert source on media issues for radio, television and newspaper reporting. She is also featured in numerous educational documentaries.