Professor Bella Mody is the author of The Geopolitics of Representation in Foreign News: Explaining Darfur. The book received the International Communication Association’s Best Book of 2010 Award in the Global Communication and Social Change Division. The award was presented during the ICA conference in Boston. This inductive study investigates the ‘curricula’ of ten different news organizations from [...]
Professor Stewart M. Hoover and Monica Emerich (PhD ’06) are the editors of a new book Media, Spiritualities and Social Change.
Kiousis, S., Kim, S., McDevitt, M., & Ostrowski, A. (2009). Competing for attention: Information subsidy influence in agenda building during election campaigns. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 86 (3), 545-562. McDevitt, M., & Caton-Rosser, M. (2009). Deliberative barbarians: Reconciling the civic and the agonistic in democratic education. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, [...]
Professor Janice Peck’s video montage and a commentary about media treatment of Oprah Winfrey’s decision to end her talk show. More books by SJMC faculty.
Revisiting Violent Videogames Research: Game Studies Perspectives on Aggression, Violence, Immersion, Interaction, and Textual Analysis. Digital Culture and Education 1 (1): 6-30. By Kyle Kontour, doctoral student
The Secret of Her Success: Oprah Winfrey and the Seductions of Self-Transformation by Janice Peck
Myths of Neoconservatism and Privatization in World of Warcraft. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 16 By Kyle Kontour, doctoral student.
The Food Network program Iron Chef America creates a media ritual space in which public displays of virtuosity and the engendering of parasocial relationships combine to present both the media ritual itself (the cooking competition) and the media ritual it engenders (the viewing of and parasocial interaction with the cooking competition). These rituals though separate [...]
Peck charts the rise of Oprah Winfrey from highly rated TV “trash talk” host to one of the most influential cultural icons of our times. “How are we to understand this transformation of a figure once known chiefly for her dubious distinction as ‘queen of television talk’ … into a spiritual guru, cultural heroine and [...]
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