Jeffrey Cannon
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Recent News
- Faculty, students to attend AEJMC convention
- Faculty, students to present work at ICA conference
- Faculty, doctoral students to participate at ICA
Biography
Jeff Cannon is a third-year doctoral student whose research interests are in Alternative Media. He received his MA in Journalism in 2006, having written his MA thesis on disaster narratives and grief, analyzing newspaper coverage of space disasters in three eras. He was the School of Journalism’s Chancellor’s Scholar in 2004, receiving his BAJ with Highest Distiction. He has delivered papers to the Law & Policy, Popular Communications, Advertising, and Visual Communications divisions of the International Communications Association, as well as the Newspaper division of the AEJ. His dissertation topic will focus on active efforts, both within and without the media, to “Write Toward Peace.”
He has extensive professional experience in many areas, but he has most recently completed Buskers: A Street Performer’s Tale, a full-length trade ethnography of Boston’s street performing community, examining that community and its work as material culture, social commentary, and dialogic performance. He has also written for magazines and the School of Journalism Web site, and has been a journalism instructor at IU for the last five years, having taught J200 & J201 Writing, Reporting & Editing I & II; K305 Statistics for Journalists; as well as serving as assistant instructor for J110 Introduction to Journalism and J460 Magazine Production.