Sept. 7, 2008
Roy W. Howard Professor David Weaver presented “Journalism Research in an Age of Globalization,” a talk that was part of the first Research Colloquium Series at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.His presentation discussed the rise and globalization of mass communications and the type of journalism research needed to respond to this change. He also offered some links that could be made between journalism research and theories of media effects such as agenda setting. Weaver drew on a book he co-edited earlier this year, Global Journalism Research, which includes journalism theories, methods and findings.
Weaver is spending fall semester at UNC as the Roy H. Park Distinguished Visiting Professor. He received his doctorate at UNC in 1974 and came to IU in the fall of that year.
