Faculty at the School of Journalism are authors of studies, books, articles and other research that complement and inform their work with students. Here are some of their publications since 2008.
Bonnie Brownlee, associate professor
- Randal A. Beam, Bonnie J. Brownlee, David H. Weaver and Damon T. Di Cicco, “Journalism and Public Service in Troubled Times,” Journalism Studies, Vol. 10, No. 6, Dec. 2009, pp. 734-753.
- Randal A. Beam, David H. Weaver, and Bonnie J. Brownlee, “Changes in Professionalism of U.S. Journalists in the Turbulent Twenty-First Century,” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 86(2), 2009, pp. 277-298.
Mike Conway, associate professor
- Conway, Mike. The Origins of Television News in America: The Visualizers of CBS in the 1940s. Mediating American History. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. (Finalist for Tankard Award, honoring top book in mass communication)
- Conway, Mike. “The Extemporaneous Newscast: The Lasting Impact of Walter Cronkite’s Local TV News Experiment.” American Journalism 26, no. 3 (2009): 33-54. (First Place, Top Article Award, American Journalism journal, 2009.)
- Conway, Mike and Jacob Groshek. “Forgive Me Now, Fire Me Later: Mass Communication Students’ Ethics Gap Concerning School and Journalism.” Communication Education 58, no. 4 (October 2009): 461-482.
- Conway, Mike and Jeffrey R. Patterson. “Today’s Top Story? An Agenda-Setting and Recall Experiment Involving Internet and Television News.” Southwestern Mass Communication Journal 24, no. 1 (2008): 31-48.
- Conway, Mike and Jacob Groshek. “Ethics Gaps and Ethics Gains: Differences and Similarities in Journalism Students’ Perceptions of Plagiarism and Fabrication. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator 63, no. 2 (2008): 127-145.
- Conway, Mike. “Television in the United States, 1948 – Present.” In The Age of Mass Communication, 2nd ed., edited by William David Sloan, 439-463. Northport, AL: Vision Press, 2008.
- Conway, Mike. “Broadcast Journalism.” In International Encyclopedia of Communication, edited by Wolfgang Donsbach, Vol II, 370-372. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
- Conway, Mike. “Television News.” In International Encyclopedia of Communication, edited by Wolfgang Donsbach, Vol. XI, 5083-5088. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
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Claude Cookman, professor
- Cookman, Claude. American Photojournalism: Motivations and Meanings. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2009. (322 pages).
- Cookman, Claude. An American Family: Three Decades with the McGarveys. Washington: National Geographic Society, 2009.
- Cookman, Claude. “Using Just-in-Time Teaching to Foster Critical Thinking in a Humanities Course,” chapter in Just In Time Teaching, eds. Scott Simkins, Mark Maier, Sterling, Va.: Stylus Publishing, 2009, pp. 163–178.
- Cookman, Claude. “Gilles Caron’s coverage of the crisis in Biafra,” Visual Communication Quarterly, Winter 2008, pp. 226–242.
- Cookman, Claude. “Henri Cartier-Bresson Reinterprets his Career,” History of Photography, Spring, 2008, pp. 59–73.
- Cookman, Claude. “Gilles Caron and the Student Rebellion of May 1968,” History of Photography, Autumn 2007, pp. 239–259.
- Cookman, Claude. “An American atrocity: The My Lai massacre concretized in a victim’s face.” The Journal of American History, Jun. 2007, pp. 154–162.
- Cookman, Claude. “The equality they deserve: Janine Niépce’s coverage of French women’s lives and struggle for equal rights,” Visual Communication Quarterly, Fall 2006, pp. 202–223.
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Jack Dvorak, professor
- Jack Dvorak, Candace Perkins Bowen and Changhee Choi, “Minority Journalism Student Comparisons between Those with and Those without High School Print Media Experience,” Journalism & Mass Communication Educator 64 (autumn 2009): 258-272.
- Jack Dvorak and Changhee Choi, “High School Journalism, Academic Performance Correlate,” Newspaper Research Journal 30 (summer 2009): 75-89.
- Jack Dvorak and Candace Perkins Bowen, “Minority J-Students Excel,” Quill & Scroll Magazine 83 (April/May 2009): 8-9.
- Jack Dvorak, “Journalists and Academics: J-Students Perform Better,” Quill & Scroll Magazine 83 (October/November 2008): 10-11.
- Jack Dvorak, “High School Journalism Matters,” Arlington, VA: Newspaper Association of America Foundation, June 2008.
- Jack Dvorak, “Journalism Student Academic Performance in the 21st Century,” Research Report prepared for the Newspaper Association of America Foundation,” February 2008.
Michael Evans, associate dean for undergraduate studies
- Evans, Michael Robert. “Artistic Courage in Small Groups: Identity, Intermediality, and Indian Country.” In The Role of the Individual in Tradition, eds. Pravina Shukla, Thomas Mould, Ray Cashman. Indiana University Press. 2011 (anticipated).
- Evans, Michael Robert. The Fast Runner: Filming the Legend of Atanarjuat. University of Nebraska Press. 2010.
- Evans, Michael Robert. Isuma: Inuit Video Art. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 2008.
- Evans, Michael Robert. 68 Knots. Tanglewood Press. 2008.
Anthony L. Fargo, associate professor
- Martin, J.A., Caramanica, M.R., & Fargo, A.L. (in press). Anonymous speakers and confidential sources: Using shield laws when they overlap online. Communication Law and Policy, 16.
- Fargo, A.L. (2010). What they meant to say: The courts try to explain Branzburg v. Hayes. Journalism & Communication Monographs, 12, 65-137.
- Fargo, A.L. & Alexander, L.B. (2009). Testing the boundaries of the First Amendment press clause: A proposal for protecting the media from newsgathering torts. Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 32, 1093-1154.
- Luo, Y. & Fargo, A.L. (2008). Measuring attitudes about the Indiana Public Access Counselor’s Office: An empirical study. Indiana Coalition for Open Government, http://www.indianacog.org, retrieved Oct. 2, 2010.
- Fargo, A.L. (2009, Spring). “FOI: Multimedia news sites, sports associations clash. American Editor, 31.
- Fargo, A.L. (2008-09). The strange case of Josh Wolf: What it tells us about privilege law. In R. Satyanarayana (Ed.), Law of Privileges: Journalists and Executives (pp. 1-36). Hyderabad, India: ICFAI University Press.
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Jim Kelly, associate professor
- Kim, Y. S. & Kelly, J. D. (2010). Public reactions toward an ethical dilemma faced by photojournalists: Examining the conflict between acting as a dispassionate observer and acting as a "Good Samaritan." Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 87, 25-42.
- Kim, Y. S. & Kelly, J. D. (2008). A Matter of culture: A comparative study of photojournalism. International Communication Gazette, 70, 155-174.
Jae Kook Lee, assistant professor
- Lee, Jae Kook (In press). The public agenda along the life span: Testing the life-cycle effect of age on the agenda-setting process. In T. Johnson (Ed.), Agenda setting in a 2.0 world: New agendas in communication. New York: Routledge.
- Stroud, Natalie Jomini & Jae Kook Lee (In press). Perceptions of cable news credibility. Mass Communication & Society.
- McCombs, M. E. & Lee, J. K. (In press). The continuing evolution of agenda setting theory. In E. Scharrer (Ed.), Media Effects/Media Psychology: Blackwell.
- Reese, S. D. & Lee, J. K. (2012). Understanding the content of news media. In H. A. Semetko & M. Scammell (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Political Communication: Sage.
- Gil de Zuniga, H, Lewis, S., Willard, A., Valenzuela, S., Lee, J. K., & Baresch, B. (2011). Blogging as a journalistic practice: A model linking perception, motivation and behavior. Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism.
Shannon E. Martin, associate dean for graduate studies and professor
- Martin, S. Freedom of Information: News the Media Use. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.
- Fortunato, J. and Martin, S. “American Needle v. NFL: Legal Sponsorship Implications,” University of Denver Sports & Entertainment Law Journal (accepted, in press)
- Martin, S. and Lanosga, G., “The Historical and Legal Foundations of Access to Public Documents,” American Law Library Journal, in press for Fall 2010, 102:4, 38 pp.
- Martin, S. and Rabina, D., “National Security, Individual Privacy and Public Access to Government-held Information,” Information & Communications Technology Law, 18:1, March 2009, p. 13.
- Fortunato, J. and Martin, S. “The Supreme Court Perspective of Media Effects as Expressed in Campaign Finance Reform,” Texas Wesleyan Law Review, 14:2 Spring 2008, p. 197.
Lesa Hatley Major, assistant professor
- Hatley Major, L. & Walker, K. (forthcoming). "What are we saying about sex: A content analysis of sexual health issues in U.S. newspapers." Newspaper Research Journal.
- Holt, L. & Hatley Major, L. (2010). "Frame and blame: An analysis of how national and local newspapers framed the Jena Six controversy." Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 87(3/4), 582-597.
- Hatley Major, L. (2009). "Break it to me harshly: The effects of intersecting news frames on lung cancer and obesity coverage." Journal of Health Communication 14(2), 174-188.
- Sullivan, J, Hatley Major, L., Goidel, R., & Kurpius, D. (2009). “The Role of an African American Candidate on Psychological Engagement and Political Discussion in a Local Election.” Politics & Policy, 37(2).
- Hatley Major, L. & Renita Coleman (November, 2008). "The intersection of race and gender in election coverage: What happens when the candidates don't fit the stereotypes?" Howard Journal of Communication. 19(4), 315-333.
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Emily Metzgar, assistant professor
- Sill, K.; Metzgar, E. & Rouse, S. (forthcoming). "Media Coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court: How Do Journalists Assess the Importance of Court Decisions?" Political Communication.
- Metzgar, E. (2012). "Public Diplomacy, Smith-Mundt & the American Public." Communication Law and Policy 17(1): 67-101.
- Metzgar, E.T.; Kurpius, D.D. & Rowley, K. 2011). “Defining Hyperlocal Media: Proposing a Framework for Discussion.” New Media & Society.
- Kurpius, D.; Metzgar E.T. & Rowley, K. (2009). “Sustaining Hyperlocal Media: In Search of Funding Models.” Journalism Studies, 11(3). 359-376.
- Metzgar, E.T. & Maruggi, A. (2009). “Social Media and the 2008 Presidential Election.” Journal of New Communications Research. 4(1). 141-165.
David Paul Nord, professor
- Nord, D. P. (2008). "Accuracy or Fair Play? Complaining about the Newspaper in Early Twentieth-Century New York." In J. Machor & P. Goldstein (Eds.), American Reception Study: Reconsiderations and New Directions. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Nord, D.P. (2008). "The History of Journalism and the History of the Book.” In B. Zelizer (Ed.), Explorations in Communication and History. New York: Routledge.
- Nord, D.P., Rubin, & Schudson, M. (Eds.). (2009). The Enduring Book: Print Culture in Postwar America. Vol. 5 of A History of the Book in America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
- Nord, D.P. (2010). "Benevolent Books: Printing, Religion, and Reform, 1790-1840.” In R. Gross & M. Kelley (Eds.), An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation. Vol. 2 of A History of the Book in America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
- Nord, D.P. (2010, October 25). "Feeding Popular Hunger for Good History and Good Journalism. History News Network.
- Nord, D.P. (2011) “Plain and Certain Facts”: Four Episodes of Public Affairs Reporting in Eighteenth-Century Boston, Journalism History, 37 (Summer 2011).
- Nord, D.P. (2011) Benjamin Franklin and Journalism, in A Companion to Benjamin Franklin. Edited by David Waldstreicher. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
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Radhika Parameswaran, professor
- Parameswaran, R. (Forthcoming). "Producing cosmopolitan citizens: Journalism and communications in the U.S. academy." In B. Zelizer (Ed.), Making the university matter, London: Routledge.
- Parameswaran, R. (Forthcoming). "The rise of India and China: Promising new directions for global media studies." Special issue of Global Media and Communication on globalization and the rise of Chindia.
- Parameswaran, R. (Forthcoming, January 2011). "E-raceing color: Gender and transnational visual economies of beauty." In R. Hegde (Ed.), Tracking visibilities: Gender and transnational media cultures. New York: NYU Press. (Recipient of ICA 2009 Top faculty paper award in Ethnicity and Race Division)
- Parameswaran, R, & Chitrapu, S. (Forthcoming, December 2010). In J. Downing (Ed), "Women’s movement media in India." Encyclopedia of social movement media. New Delhi: Sage Publications.
- Parameswaran, R., & Cardoza, K. (2009). "Melanin on the margins: Advertising and the cultural politics of fair/light/white beauty in India." Journalism & Communication Monographs. 11 (3), 213-274.
- Parameswaran, R. (2009). "Moral dilemmas of an immoral nation: Gender, journalism, and sexuality in the film Page 3." The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture, 1 (1). [Refereed online journal]
- Parameswaran, R. (2009). "Facing Barack Hussein Obama: Race, globalization, and transnational America." Journal of Communication Inquiry, 33 (3), 195-205.
- Parameswaran, R., & Cardoza, K. (2009). "Immortal comics, epidermal politics: Representations of gender and colorism in India." Journal of Children and Media, 3 (1), 19-34.
- Parameswaran, R., & Henson, L. (2008). "Getting real with 'Tell It Like It Is' talk therapy: Hegemonic masculinity and the Dr. Phil Show." Communication, Culture, and Critique, 1 (3), 287-310.
- Parameswaran, R. (2008). "Reading the visual, tracking the global: Postcolonial feminist methodology and the chameleon codes of resistance." In N. Denzin, Y. Lincoln, & L. Smith (Eds.), Handbook of Critical Indigenous Methodologies (pp. 407-428). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Parameswaran, R. (2008). "The Missing sides of globalization: Communication, culture, and postcolonial critique." Communication, Culture, and Critique, 1 (8), 116-125.
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David Weaver, Roy W. Howard Professor
- Martin Loeffelholz and David Weaver, eds., Global Journalism Research: Theories, Methods, Findings, Future (Malden, MA and Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishing, 2008), pp. 1-304.
- David H. Weaver, “US Journalism in the 21st Century—What Future?” Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 10, 3 (June 2009): 396-397.
- Randal A. Beam, David H. Weaver, and Bonnie J. Brownlee, “Changes in Professionalism of U.S. Journalists in the Turbulent Twenty-first Century,” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 86, 2 (Summer 2009): 277-298.
- David H. Weaver, “Agenda setting,” The American Editor (Washington, D.C.: American Society of News Editors, Sept. 11, 2009), pp. 1-5. Accessed online Sept. 16, 2009.
- Yue Tan and David H. Weaver, “Local Media, Public Opinion, and State Legislative Policies: Agenda Setting at the State Level,” International Journal of Press/Politics, 14, 4 (October 2009): 454-476. [Reprinted in Doris A. Graber, Media Power in Politics, sixth ed. (CQ Press, 2011), pp. 337-342.]
- Randal A. Beam, Bonnie J. Brownlee, David H. Weaver, and Damon T. Di Cicco, “Journalism and Public Service in Troubled Times,” Journalism Studies, 10, 6 (December 2009): 734-753.
- Yue Tan and David H. Weaver, “Media Bias, Public Opinion, and Policy Liberalism from 1956 to 2004: A Second-Level Agenda-Setting Study,” Mass Communication and Society, 13, 4 (October-December 2010): 412-434.
- David H. Weaver, “Attitudes of Journalists Toward Public Opinion Research,” Ch. 41 in Wolfgang Donsbach and Michael W. Traugott, eds., Handbook of Public Opinion Research (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2008), pp. 451-458.
- David H. Weaver, “Agenda-Setting Effects,” in Wolfgang Donsbach, ed., The International Encyclopedia of Communication, Volume I (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2008), pp. 145-151.
- David H. Weaver, “Stability and Change: Contradictions in U.S. Journalism,” in Bernhard Porksen, Wiebke Loosen, and Armin Scholl, eds., Paradoxien des Journalismus: Theorie-Empirie-Praxis [Paradoxes of Journalism: Theories, Empirical Studies, and Practice] (Wiesbaden, Germany: VS Verlag fuer Sozialwissenschaften, 2008), pp. 183-192.
- Renita Coleman, Maxwell McCombs, Donald Shaw, and David Weaver, “Agenda Setting,” in Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Thomas Hanitzsch, eds., The Handbook of Journalism Studies (New York and London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 147-160.
- David H. Weaver, “Journalism Research: Past Trends and New Directions,” in Christina Holtz-Bacha, Gunter Reus, and Lee B. Becker, eds., Wissenschaft mit Wirkung: Beitrage zu Journalismus- und Medienwirkungsforschung [Science with Effect: Contributions to Journalism and Media Effects Research] (Wiesbaden, Germany: VS Verlag fuer Sozialwissenschaften, 2009), pp. 303-316.
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Lars Willnat, professor
- David H. Weaver and Lars Willnat (Eds.) (2012). The Global Journalist in the 21st Century (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge.
- Craig L. Brians, Lars Willnat, Jarol B. Manheim, and Richard C. Rich (2010). Empirical Political Analysis. New York: Pearson/Longman, 8th edition.
- Lars Willnat and Annette J. Aw (Eds.) (2009). Political Communication in Asia. New York: Routledge.
- Lars Willnat and Yunjuan Luo (2011). Watching the Dragon: Global Television News About China. Chinese Journal of Communication, 4:3, 255-273.
- Ezhar Tamam, Lars Willnat, and Mohd Nizam Osman (2009). Self-Construal and Exposure to American Entertainment and News Programs Among Malaysian Youths. Pertanika Journal Social Science & Humanities, 17(1): 17-24.
- Lars Willnat, Ven-hwei Lo and Annette Aw (forthcoming). Opinion Polls and the Media in Taiwan. In Christina Holtz-Bacha and Jesper Stromback (Eds.), Opinion Polls and the Media: Reflecting and Shaping Public Opinion. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
- Lars Willnat (2012). Foreign Correspondents – An Endangered Species? In David H. Weaver and Lars Willnat (Eds.), The Global Journalist in the 21st Century. New York: Routledge.
- Lars Willnat (2009). Surfing the News: The Internet and Traditional News Consumption. In Paul Lee and Kenneth L. Leung (Eds.), New Opportunities & Challenges of the Internet (pp. 83-100). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press.
- Lars Willnat and Annette J. Aw (2009). Elections in India: One Billion People and Democracy. In Jesper Strömbäck and Lynda Lee Kaid (Eds.), The Handbook of Election Coverage Around the World (pp. 123-140). Mahwah, NJ, London: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- Lars Willnat and Annette J. Aw (2009). The Big Unknown: Introduction to Political Communication in Asia. In Lars Willnat and Annette J. Aw (Eds.), Political Communication in Asia. (pp. 1-8). New York: Routledge.
- Lars Willnat and Annette J. Aw (2009). The Big Unknown: Conclusions About Political Communication in Asia. In Lars Willnat and Annette J. Aw (Eds.), Political Communication in Asia. (pp. 216-228). New York: Routledge.
- Terence Lee and Lars Willnat (2009). Political Communication in Singapore. In Lars Willnat and Annette J. Aw (Eds.), Political Communication in Asia. (pp. 93-111). New York: Routledge.
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Joann Wong, assistant professor
- Hust, Stacey J. T., Wong, W. Joann, Chen, Yvonnes. (in press). FCP and mediation styles: Factors associated with parents’ intentions to let their children watch violent, sexual and family-oriented television content. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 55(3).