Contributors to Volume VII
Elisenda Ardévol is an associate professor at the Department of Arts and Humanities at the Open University of Catalunya where she teaches social and cultural anthropology and qualitative methods in the social sciences and collaborates with the PhD international interdisciplinary program on the information and knowledge society. Her main research lines are related to digital culture, visuality, and the media. Her major publications include the books (in Spanish) A Gaze's Quest (2006) and Representation and Audiovisual Culture in Contemporary Societies (2004). Currently, she is coordinator of the digital culture research group Mediaccions, a member of the Media Anthropology Network of the European Social Anthropologists Association (EASA), and chair of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) Digital Culture and Communication section.
Kim Bissell is a professor at the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama. She serves as the College's Associate Dean for Research and is the Director of the Institute for Communication and Information Research. Her research interests lie in the intersection of media, health, and children. She helped develop the Child Media Lab and the psychophysiology lab in the college's research center, and has recently conducted several studies examining the effectiveness of video game devices in helping children at risk for overweight and obesity become more physically active. She teaches graduate courses in research methods, mass communication theory, media effects, children and cognition, and body image, and undergraduate courses in magazine design and international journalism. She has studied the social effects of mass media in relation to body image for more than a decade, and has designed and developed media and health literacy programs for children and adolescents in the area of health and body image. She is a certified personal trainer and teaches group exercise classes in spin, boot camp, and weight training. She also serves as a trainer for half-marathons, marathons, and other endurance events.
Tanja Bosch is a senior lecturer in the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She completed her MA in international affairs while a Fulbright Scholar at Ohio University, where she also graduated with a PhD in mass communication. Her dissertation, which was awarded the Broadcast Educational Association (BEA) Outstanding Dissertation Award 2003, was an ethnographic study of community radio and identity in South Africa. Bosch teaches radio journalism, new media, health communication, and media theory and research. Her areas of research and publication include talk radio and democracy, community radio, and youth use of mobile media, particularly mobile phones and Facebook.
Kevin Coe is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Utah. His research focuses on the interaction of American political discourse, news media, and public opinion. His work has appeared in journals such as Communication Monographs, Journal of Communication, Political Communication, and Public Opinion Quarterly.
Mike Conway is an associate professor at the Indiana University School of Journalism. He is the author of The Origins of Television News in America: The Visualizers of CBS in the 1940s (2009), as well as of numerous journal articles relating to journalism history, emerging technologies, broadcast news content, and research methodology. Conway spent close to 20 years in broadcast news, most of that time in television, working as a reporter, photojournalist, anchor, producer, and news director.
Peter Dahlgren is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Communication and Media, Lund University, Sweden. His work focuses on media and democracy, from the horizons of late modern social and cultural theory. Most recently he has focused on the Internet and political participation, looking at how the Internet, combined with other factors, can promote or hinder civic identities and engagement, especially among young people. In addition to journal articles and book chapters, his recent publications include The Political Web (2013), Media and Political Engagement (2009), the co-edited volume Young People, ICTs and Democracy (2010), and the collection Young Citizens and New Media (2007).
Fabienne Darling-Wolf is Associate Professor of Journalism in the School of Media and Communication at Temple University. She also teaches and supervises graduate students in the school's Media and Communication doctoral program. A global media scholar, Darling-Wolf studies processes of transnational cultural influence and their “local” negotiation in different contexts, including Japan, Europe, and the United States. She pays particular attention to how such processes intersect with the construction of gendered, racial, and ethnic identities under conditions of globalization. Her work has been published in Communication Theory, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Journalism and Communication Monographs, New Media and Society, Popular Music and Society, Feminist Media Studies, Journalism, Journalism Studies, and Communication Review.
Charles H. Davis works in the area of media innovation management and policy, and his current research focuses on media audiences, product innovation and experience goods, and Toronto's cultural economy. He holds the E. S. Rogers Sr Research Chair in Media Management and Entrepreneurship, is a professor in the RTA School of Media (Faculty of Communication and Design) at Ryerson University, and is cross-appointed to the Entrepreneurship and Strategy Department (Ted Rogers School of Management). He also serves as Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Communication and Design. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 scientific publications and reports, and has received numerous research grants from scholarly granting agencies, governments, international agencies, and private firms. He received his doctorate from the University of Montreal.
Lorena Frankenberg has a degree in communication and a master's degree in humanistic studies from the University of Monterrey, and a PhD in cultural studies and communication from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico where she was a research fellow at the Mass Media Research Center until 2009. Since 2011 she has been a fellow of the National System of Researchers of the Mexican National Council for Science and Technology (SNI-Conacyt). She recently conducted a postdoctoral research project, financed by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), at the Centre for Media and Communication Research (ZEMKI), University of Bremen, Germany. She is Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre at Metropolitan University of Monterrey, Mexico. Her research interests include the relationship between media, citizenship, and democracy, and audience studies.
Elfriede Fürsich is Research Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Boston College, USA. She specializes in issues of media globalization, journalism, popular culture, and mobility. She has investigated discourses on globalization in media ranging from travel programs and business journalism to music reviews and African Internet sites. In 2005 she was a visiting fellow at the University of Hyderabad, India. She currently is a visiting professor at Free University of Berlin, Germany.
Stephanie Geise currently works as a postdoctoral researcher and assistant professor at the Department of Methods of Empirical Communication Science at the University of Erfurt, Germany. She holds a German equivalent (Diplom) of an MBA in economics and a master's in communication science, sociology, and art history. As a research and teaching assistant, she has worked at the universities of Augsburg and of Hohenheim in southern Germany, where she finished her dissertation, “Vision that Matters,” on the functional logic and the media effects of visual communication using the example of election posters in 2010. For this work Geise was honored with the DGPuK Dissertation Award in 2012, a distinction presented by the German Communication Association for the best PhD thesis in the field of communication science over two years. Geise's research interests are media effects and empirical methods with a special focus on visual communication. She is chair of the Visual Communication Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK).
Edgar Gómez-Cruz is a research fellow at the Institute of Communication Studies, University of Leeds. He has published widely on a number of topics relating to digital communications, particularly in the area of digital photography, computer-mediated communication, digital ethnography, and visual culture. His recent publications include the book (in Spanish) From Kodak Culture to Networked Image: An Ethnography of Digital Photography Practices (2012). His current research, funded through a RCUK digital economy grant, investigates screen cultures and creative practice.
Mark Hampton is Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of the Centre for Cinema Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He is the author of Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850–1950 (2004), the editor (with Joel H. Wiener) of Anglo-American Media Interactions, 1850–2000 (2007), and a co-editor of the journal Media History. He has recently completed a book on British culture and Hong Kong, 1945–97.
Kevin Healey is an assistant professor of communication at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. He has a PhD in communications and media from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. His research appears in Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, and Symbolic Interaction. He is a co-editor and contributing author for Prophetic Critique and Popular Media (2013), and a contributing author for Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel (2013).
Tonny Krijnen is an assistant professor of media and communication in the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Her research interests lie in television (production, content, and reception), gender, morality, and new research methods. She is the co-editor of Gendered Transformations: Theory and Practices on Gender and Media and guest editor of a special issue of Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture. Her research is published in a variety of journals, including International Journal of Cultural Studies, Communications, and Participations.
Glenn Leshner is a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. His research interests focus on the social and psychological processing of media and health communication. His teaching interests include media effects, mass communication theory, and quantitative research methods. Leshner's recent research has focused on the relationship between health public service announcements and cognitive and affective outcomes. One study examined how emotional antismoking public service announcements impact the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses of both smokers and nonsmokers. He has published more than two dozen research articles in leading journals, such as Communication Research, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Communication, Health Communication, Media Psychology, Journal of Media Psychology, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, and Journal of Advertising. He has also presented more than 65 research papers at international conferences.
Matthew Lombard is an associate professor in the Department of Media Studies and Production and director of the media and communication doctoral program in the School of Media and Communication at Temple University in Philadelphia. His research centers on individuals' psychological and physiological processing of media presentations and experiences, with particular focus on the concept of (tele)presence. He co-founded and is president of the International Society for Presence Research and is editor of ISPR Presence News. He is also director of the Media Interface and Networked Design (MIND) Lab at Temple University. His work has appeared in academic journals including Behaviour & Information Technology, CyberPsychology and Behavior, Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments.
Jose Carlos Lozano is Professor and Director of the Communication Program at Texas A&M International University. He received his MA in communication research from the University of Leicester and his PhD in international communication and media studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He is co-principal investigator and coordinator of an international research project comparing the historical exhibition of films and cinema-going in Laredo, Texas, Barcelona, Spain, Barranquilla, Colombia, and the Mexican cities of Monterrey, Torreon, Tampico, and Mexico City.
Sara L. McKinnon is an assistant professor of rhetoric, politics, and culture in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research and teaching are in the areas of intercultural rhetoric, globalization/transnational studies, legal rhetoric, and transnational feminist theory, with expertise in critical rhetorical, qualitative, and performance-based methods. Her current research focuses on questions of subjectivity, agency, and legal access for refugees and asylum seekers and she is interested in the role of the state and of global capital in determining access and subjectivity for marginalized groups and individuals. Her essays have appeared in Women's Studies in Communication, Text and Performance Quarterly, and Quarterly Journal of Speech.
Carolyn Michelle is a senior lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, and a founding member of the university's Audience Research Unit. Her current research focuses on international receptions of blockbuster event films (The Hobbit and Avatar film trilogies) and explores the potential applications of Q methodology for cross-cultural comparative audience research and theory building. Previous research has explored audience receptions of television sitcom and reality TV, along with media constructions of gender and ethnicity, new human biotechnologies, and domestic violence.
Suman Mishra is an assistant professor in the Department of Mass Communications at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She received her PhD in mass media and communication from Temple University, Philadelphia, and a master's degree in advertising from Michigan State University, East Lansing. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research interests are in the areas of international advertising, cross-cultural communication, globalization, and health communication. She focuses particularly on issues of race, gender, social class, and nationality in media coverage. Mishra teaches various courses including research methods, transnational media, and international advertising.
Rico Neumann works for the international consulting firm McKinsey & Company and serves as a research collaborator at the UN-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. His academic research centers on political discourse and behavior, public opinion, and media performance during times of conflict. His work has appeared in such journals as Communication Monographs, Mass Communication and Society, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and International Journal of Communication.
David R. Novak is an assistant professor in the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His research focuses on social change organizing, democratic values, and the use of images in research methods. His research has appeared in a variety of journals including Journal of Applied Communication Research, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Communication Methods and Measures.
Richard K. Popp is assistant professor in the Department of Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. His research explores the history of media and consumer society. Popp's work includes The Holiday Makers: Magazines, Advertising and Mass Tourism in Postwar America (2012) winner of the 2013 American Journalism Historians Association Book of the Year Award, and articles in Book History, Technology & Culture, Journalism History, and Critical Studies in Media Communication.
Amparo Porta holds a BA in education and a PhD in the theory of languages from the University of Valencia, Spain. She is a senior lecturer in teaching musical expression at the Department of Education at Jaume I University. She is the author of a number of books and articles and serves as the director of the research group Hábitat Sonoro: Música, Imagen y Significado, where she is the main researcher on several projects. She is also a member of the Network of Heritage Experts. Her lines of research include the comprehension and meaning of the child's sound environment and its application to musical education.
Jéssica Retis is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism at the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communications, California State University, Northridge. She earned her BA in communication at the University of Lima, Peru, her MA in Latin American studies from National Autonomous University of Mexico, and her PhD in contemporary Latin America from the Complutense University of Madrid. Retis has taught at universities in the United States, Spain, Mexico, and Ecuador. Her areas of specialization include Latin American diasporas and the media, diversity and the media, and the history of Hispanic media in the USA and Europe. Some of her recent publications (in Spanish) include Exploratory Study on Cultural Consumption of Latin American Immigrants in Spain (2011), Daily News in British Broadcasting Corporation and Spanish Television: Discourses of Its Professionals and Audiences (2010), and Media Spaces of Immigration in Madrid: Genesis and Evolution (2008). Before becoming a college professor, Retis worked as a journalist for various international print and broadcast media in Peru, Mexico, and Spain.
Sue Robinson, a former reporter, began teaching at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2007 after receiving her PhD from Temple University. She is an associate professor researching new technologies, information authority, and journalism and has published in her field's top journals, including a recent Journalism and Communication monograph on “Journalism as Process.”
Helle Sjøvaag is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her postdoctoral research concerns the effect of ownership on content in the newspaper sector. Her dissertation, completed in 2011, investigates changes in the news market and its effect on journalism as an institution. Sjøvaag has published internationally on the topics of journalism and broadcast news, online media, and methodology.
Lillian C. Spina-Caza is a lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York. Her dissertation, “Meaningful Clicks, Significant Bricks: Perceptions of Creative Agency in Physical and Virtual Play,” explores the impact of virtual technology use on children and youth.
Slavko Splichal is Professor of Communication and Public Opinion at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, fellow of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Director of the European Institute for Communication and Culture, and editor of its journal Javnost/The Public. His primary areas of research include communication theory, public opinion and the public sphere, political communication, and communication research methods. His recent English-language books include Transnationalization of the Public Sphere and the Fate of the Public (2011), Principles of Publicity and Press Freedom (2002), and Ferdinand Tönnies on Public Opinion: Selections and Analyses (2000, with H. Hardt). Since 2011 he has been Chair of the Advisory Board of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA).
Eirik Stavelin is a PhD candidate at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Eirik works on computational journalism and computing as an expressive creative craft.
Johanna Uotinen is an adjunct professor (docent) and a senior lecturer in media studies and communication in the Department of Finnish Language and Cultural Research at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu, Finland. Her research interests focus on cultural studies of technology, especially media and medical technologies, and autoethnography as a method.
James Walters is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Birmingham. His is the author of Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema (2008), Fantasy Film (2011), and the co-editor (with Tom Brown) of Film Moments: Critical Methods and Approaches (2010).