CURRICULUM VITAE
MATTHEW P. MCALLISTER
Department of Film/Video & Media Studies
College of Communications
209 Carnegie Bldg.
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 863-3322 (office)
E-mail:
mattmc@psu.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Institute of
Communications Research,
1990. Dissertation title: Medicalization in the news media: A
comparison of AIDS coverage in three newspapers. Advisor: D.
Charles Whitney.
M.A. Purdue University, Department
of Communication, 1986.
B.A. Purdue University, Department
of Communication, 1983.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Professor. Dept. of Film/Video & Media
Studies, College of
Communications, The
Pennsylvania State University, Summer 2009-present.
Undergraduate courses taught: Mass Media and Society; Cultural
Aspects of the Mass Media; Political Economy of
Communications. Graduate course taught: Television
Criticism, Ph.D. Proseminar in Critical-Cultural
Communications. Affiliate faculty status in the Dept. of
Communication Arts and Sciences
and the Social Thought
Program.
Associate Professor with tenure. Dept. of
Film/Video & Media Studies, College of
Communications, The Pennsylvania State
University, Fall 2004-Summer 2009.
Associate Professor with tenure. Department of
Communication, Virginia Tech,
Spring 1997-Spring 2004.
Assistant Professor. Department of Communication
Studies, Virginia Tech, Fall 1991-Spring 1997. Courses taught:
Introduction to Communication Studies, Media Institutions,
Advertising Criticism, Television Criticism (undergraduate and
graduate levels).
Visiting Assistant Professor. Department
of Communication, Denison University,
Fall 1990-Spring 1991. Courses taught: Social Impact of the
Mass Media, Media Literacy Seminar, Advertising Seminar,
Broadcast News Seminar.
Adjunct Faculty Member. Liberal Arts Division, Danville Area
Community College, Summers
1989, 1990. Course taught: Oral (Interpersonal) Communication.
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Department of
Speech Communication and Institute of
Communications Research,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 1985-May
1990. Courses taught: The Arts of Public Discourse (Teaching
Assistant), Communications and Popular Culture, Verbal
Communication.
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Department
of Communication, Purdue University,
August 1983-May 1985. Courses taught: Mass Communication and
Society (Teaching Assistant), Communicative Behavior in
Organizations, Reporting for the Mass Media.
RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP (click on selected titles for PDF versions)
Books
McAllister, M. P. (1996). The
commercialization
of American culture: New advertising, control and democracy.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. Hardback and
paperback editions.
Edited Books
Turow, J., & McAllister, M. P. (Eds.).
(2009). The advertising and
consumer culture reader. New York: Routledge.
Gordon, I., Jancovich, M, & McAllister, M.
P. (Eds.). (2007). Film
and comic books. Jackson, MS: University
Press of Mississippi.
McAllister, M. P., Sewell, E. H., Jr., &
Gordon, I. (Eds.). (2001). Comics
and ideology. New York: Peter Lang. Published in the
series "Popular Culture and Everyday Life," Series Editor Toby
Miller.
Guest-Edited Journals
McAllister, M. P., & Turow, J. (Eds.).
(2002). Journal of Broadcasting &
Electronic Media, Special Issue on "New Media and the
Commercial Sphere," 46(4). Shared responsibility for writing
and publicizing call for papers, coordinating reviewers, and
selecting/editing manuscripts.
McAllister, M. P., & Mazzarella, S. R. (Eds.)
(2000). Mass Communication &
Society, Special Issue on "Advertising and Consumer
Culture," 3(4). Shared responsibility for writing and
publicizing call for papers, coordinating reviewers,
selecting/editing manuscripts, and inviting a "Milestones"
essay from Professor Stuart Ewen.
Journal Articles
Kang,
H., & McAllister, M. P. (2011). Selling you and your
clicks: Examining the audience commodification of Google. tripleC - Cognition,
Communication, Co-operation, 9(2). On-line journal
available at http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/255.
McAllister, M. P. (2010). But
wait, there's more!: Advertising, the recession, and the
future of commercial culture.
Popular Communication, 8(3), 189-193 [invited essay].
McAllister, M. P. (2010). Hypercommercialism,
televisuality,
and the changing nature of college sports sponsorship.
American
Behavioral
Scientist, 53(10), 1476-1491 [special issue on “Sport,
communication, and the culture of consumption,” edited by
Lawrence Wenner].
McAllister, M. P. (2010).
No logo legacy.
Women’s Studies Quarterly, 38(3/4), 287-292 [invited essay].
McAllister, M. P.
(2007). ‘Girls with a
passion for fashion’: The Bratz brand as integrated
spectacular consumption. Journal of Children and Media,
1(3), 244-258.
Proffitt, J. M., Tchoi, D. Y.,
& McAllister, M. P. (2007). Plugging back into The
Matrix: The
intertextual flow of corporate media commodities. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 31(3),
239-254.
McAllister, M. P., Gordon, I.,
& Jancovich, M. (2006). Art house meets
graphic novel, or blockbuster meets superhero comic?:
The contradictory relationship between film and comic
art. Journal of Popular Film and
Television, 34(3), 108-114.
McAllister, M. P., &
Giglio, J. M. (2005). The commodity flow of U.S. children’s
television. Critical Studies in Media
Communication, 22(1), 26-44.
McAllister, M. P. (2003).
Is commercial culture popular culture?: A
question for popular communication scholars. Popular Communication, 1(1),
41-49 [invited essay; inaugural issue].
McAllister, M. P., &
Turow, J. (2002). New media and the commercial sphere: Two
intersecting trends, five categories of concern. Journal of Broadcasting &
Electronic Media, 46(4), 505-514 [introduction to
special issue].
McAllister, M. P. (2002).
Television news plugola and the last episode
of Seinfeld. Journal of Communication, 52(2),
383-401.
McAllister, M. P., &
Mazzarella, S. R. (2000). Guest editor’s note: Advertising and consumer
culture. Mass
Communication & Society, 3(4), 347-350
[introduction to special issue].
McAllister, M. P. (1999).
Super Bowl advertising as commercial
celebration. The Communication Review, 3(4),
403-428.
McAllister, M. P. (1998).
College bowl sponsorship and the increased
commercialization of amateur sports. Critical Studies in Mass
Communication, 15(4), 357-381.
McAllister, M. P. (1992).
Recombinant television genres and Doogie
Howser, M.D.. Journal
of Popular Film and Television, 20(3), 61-69.
McAllister, M. P. (1992).
Comic books and AIDS, Journal of Popular Culture, 26(2),
1-24.
McAllister, M. P. (1990).
Cultural argument
and organizational constraint in the comic book
industry, Journal of Communication, 40(1),
55-71.
Book Chapters
McAllister, M. P., &
Smith, A. N. (Forthcoming, 2012). Understanding hypercommercialized media
texts.
In S. R. Mazzarella
(Ed.), Blackwell’s international
companion to media studies: Content. Oxford, England: Blackwell.
McAllister, M. P.
(2011). Consumer culture and new media: Commodity
fetishism in the digital era. In S. Papathanassopoulos
(Ed.), Media perspectives
for the 21st century (pp. 149-165). London:
Routledge.
McAllister, M. P. (2011). “Very high art”:
The cultural enhancement of product promotion in “making-of”
videos about advertising campaigns. In G. Sussman
(Ed.), The
propaganda society: Promotional culture and politics in
global context (pp. 61-76). New York: Peter
Lang.
Turow, J., &
McAllister, M. P. (2009). General introduction:
Thinking critically about advertising and consumer culture.
In J. Turow & M. P. McAllister (Eds.), The advertising and consumer
culture reader (pp. 1-8). New York:
Routledge.
McAllister, M. P., &
Proffitt, J. M. (2008). Media ownership in a
corporate age. In L. Wilkins & C. G. Christians
(Eds.), Handbook of mass media ethics
(pp. 328-339). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Gordon, I., Jancovich, M,
& McAllister, M. P. (2007). Introduction.
In I. Gordon, M. Jancovich, & M. P.
McAllister (Eds.), Film and comic books
(pp. vii-xvii). Jackson, MS: University Press of
Mississippi.
McAllister, M. P.
(2007). Just how commercialized is children’s
culture? In S. R. Mazzarella
(Ed.), 20 questions about youth and the media
(pp. 267-279). New York: Peter Lang.
McAllister, M. P.
(2005). Television advertising as textual and
economic systems. In J. Wasko (Ed.),
A companion to television (pp.
217-237). Oxford, England: Blackwell.
McAllister, M. P. (2003).
Selling Survivor: The use of TV news to
promote commercial entertainment. In A. N.
Valdivia (Ed.), A
companion to media studies (pp. 209-226).
Oxford, England: Blackwell.
McAllister, M. P., &
Kitron, U. (2003). Differences in early print media coverage of
AIDS and Lyme Disease. In L. K. Fuller (Ed.), Media-mediated AIDS (pp. 43-62).
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
McAllister, M. P., Sewell, E. H.,
Jr., & Gordon, I. (2001). Introducing comics and ideology. In M. P.
McAllister, E. H. Sewell, Jr., & I. Gordon,
(Eds.), Comics and ideology (pp.
1-13). New York: Peter Lang.
McAllister, M. P. (2001).
Ownership concentration in the U.S. comic
book industry. In M. P. McAllister, E.
H. Sewell, Jr., & I. Gordon, (Eds.), Comics and ideology
(pp. 15-38). New York: Peter Lang.
McAllister, M. P. (2000).
From flick to flack: The increased emphasis
on marketing by media entertainment corporations. In R. Andersen
and L. A. Strate (Eds.), Critical studies in media
commercialism (pp. 101-122). New York: Oxford
University Press.
McAllister, M. P. (1997).
Sponsorship, globalization, and the Summer
Olympics. In K. T. Frith (Ed.), Undressing the ad: Reading culture in
advertising (pp. 35-63). New York: Peter Lang.
McAllister, M. P. (1993).
"What did you advertise with the war, Daddy?": Using the
Persian Gulf War as a referent system in advertising. In R.
E. Denton, Jr. (Ed.), The
media and
the Persian Gulf War (pp. 213-233). New York:
Praeger.
McAllister, M. P. (1992). AIDS,
medicalization, and the news media, in T. Edgar, M.
A. Fitzpatrick, and V. S. Freimuth (Eds.), AIDS: A communication
perspective (pp. 195-221). Hillsdale, New
Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Miscellaneous Parts of Books
McAllister, M. P. (2010). Beyond product placement: Integrated
marketing in Movie Extra. A “Spotlight On” section in Sayre, S., &
King, C., Entertainment and
society:
Influences, impacts, and innovations (pp. 147-148). New York: Routledge.
McAllister,
M. P. (2010). Forward. In J. Hardy,
Cross-media promotion
(pp. xi-xiii). New York: Peter Lang.
Encyclopedia Entries
McAllister, M. P. (2010/2008). Advertising,
economics of. In
W. Donsbach (Ed.), The
international encyclopedia of communication: Vol. 1 (pp.
56-60). Oxford,
England: Wiley-Blackwell.
Revised June 2010 at http://www.communicationencyclopedia.com
McAllister, M. P. (2010/2008). Consumer culture. In W. Donsbach
(Ed.), The international
encyclopedia of communication: Vol. 3 (pp. 954-959).
Oxford, England: Wiley-Blackwell. Revised June 2010 at http://www.communicationencyclopedia.com
McAllister, M. P., &
Kahle, S. (2009). Comics. In C. H.
Sterling (Ed.), Encyclopedia
of
journalism (pp. 322-326). Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage.
McAllister, M. P. (2004/1997).
The financial interest and syndication rules. In H.
Newcomb (Ed.), Encyclopedia of television (pp.
612-613, first edition; pp. 875-877, second edition). First
editor publisher: Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn; Second edition
publisher: New York: Taylor & Francis.
McAllister, M. P. (2004/1997).
The Simpsons. In H. Newcomb (Ed.), Encyclopedia of television
(pp. 1493-1495, first edition; pp. 2093-2094, second
edition). First editor publisher: Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn;
Second edition publisher: New York: Taylor & Francis.
Reprints
McAllister, M. P., &
Giglio, J. M. (2009). The commodity flow of U.S.
children’s television. In J. Turow & M. P.
McAllister (Eds.), The
advertising and consumer culture reader (pp.
110-127). New York; Routledge.
McAllister, M. P., Gordon, I.,
& Jancovich, M. (2009). Art house meets
graphic novel, or blockbuster meets superhero comic?: The
contradictory relationship between film and comic art.
In B. E. Duffy & J. Turow (Eds.), Key readings in media today: A mass
communication reader (pp. 303-312). New York:
Routledge.
McAllister, M. P. (2004).
Recombinant television genres and Doogie Howser, M.D..
In Vande Berg, L. R., Gronbeck, B. E., & Wenner, L. A.
(Eds.), Critical approaches to
television (2nd Ed.) (pp. 129-138). Boston:
Houghton Mifflin.
Published Book Reviews
McAllister, M. P.
(2008). Review of Benjamin R. Barber, Consumed: How markets corrupt
children,
infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole, in
Journal
of Communication, 58(1), 193-195.
McAllister, M. P. (2004). Review of C. Edwin Baker, Media, markets, and democracy,
in Journal of Communication, 54(1),
185-186.
McAllister, M. P. (2002).
Review of Janet Staiger, Blockbuster TV: Must-see
sitcoms in the network era, in Film Quarterly, 55(4),
52-53.
McAllister, M. P. (1998). Review
of John Thornton Caldwell, Televisuality:
Style, crisis, and authority in American television,
in Film Quarterly, 51(4), 61-62.
McAllister, M. P. (1996-97).
Review of Robin Andersen, Consumer
culture
& TV programming, in Film Quarterly, 50(2),
51-52.
McAllister, M. P. (1996).
Review of Jackson Lears, Fables of abundance: A cultural
history of advertising in America, in Journal of Communication, 46(3),
195-197.
McAllister, M. P. (1996).
Re-decoding advertisements. Review essay of Sammy
R. Danna, Advertising and popular culture:
Studies in variety and versatility; Robert Goldman,
Reading ads socially;
Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, Aunt
Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Rastus: Blacks in advertising;
Ivan L. Preston, The
tangled web they weave: Truth, falsity, &
advertisers; Armand Mattelart, Advertising international: The
privatisation of public space, in Journal of Communication, 46(2),
150-157.
McAllister, M. P. (1994).
"Book note" review of Marjorie Garber, Jann Matlock and
Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Media spectacles, in
Film Quarterly, 48(1),
61-62.
McAllister, M. P. (1993). Review
of Kenneth MacKinnon, The
politics of popular representation: Reagan, Thatcher, AIDS, and
the movies, in Film Quarterly, 47(1),
58-59.
McAllister, M. P. (1992).
Review of Roberta E. Pearson
and William Urrichio (Eds.), The
many lives of the Batman: Critical approaches to a superhero and
his media, in Journal of Communication, 42(1),
141-144.
Refereed
Papers Presented at Professional Meetings
McAllister, M. P.
(2009. August). Commodity fetishism in the
digital era. Presented at the
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication, Boston, MA.
McAllister, M. P.
(2008, May). Hypercommercialism,
televisuality, and the changing nature of college sports sponsorship.
Presented at the International Communication Association,
Montreal, Canada.
McAllister, M. P.
(2006, August). “Girls
With a Passion for Fashion”: The Bratz Brand as
Spectacular
Consumption. Presented at the Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, San
Francisco, CA.
McAllister, M. P.
(2005, April). Advertising as a funding source
for television: Seven effects.
Presented at the Eastern Communication Association,
Pittsburgh, PA.
McAllister, M. P., &
Giglio, J. M. (2003, November). The
commodity flow of U.S. children’s television. Presented
at the meeting of the National Communication Association,
Miami, FL.
McAllister, M. P. (2002,
November). Selling Survivor: The use of TV
news to promote commercial entertainment. Presented at
the meeting of the National Communication Association, New
Orleans, LA.
McAllister, M. P. (2000,
November). Television news plugola and the
last episode of Seinfeld. Presented at the meeting of
the National Communication Association, Seattle, WA.
McAllister, M. P. (1998,
November). From flick to flack: The
increased emphasis on marketing by media entertainment
corporations. Presented at the meeting of the National
Communication Association, New York City, NY.
McAllister, M. P. (1997,
November). College bowl sponsorship and the
commercialization of amateur sports. Presented at
the meeting of the National Communication Association,
Chicago, IL.
McAllister, M. P. (1997, May).
Sponsorship,
globalization, and the Summer Olympics. Presented at
the meeting of the International Communication Association,
Montreal, Canada.
McAllister, M. P. (1994,
November). Comic production and control.
Presented at the meeting of the Speech Communication
Association, New Orleans, LA.
McAllister, M. P. (1993,
November). Place-based advertising as economic
and symbolic control. Presented at the meeting of the
Speech Communication Association, Miami, FL.
McAllister, M. P. (1993, May).
Recombinant television genres and
Doogie Howser, M.D.. Presented at the meeting of the
International Communication Association, Washington, DC.
McAllister, M. P. (1992,
November). "What did you advertise
with the war, daddy": Using the Persian Gulf War as a
referent system in advertising. Presented at the
meeting of the Speech Communication Association, Chicago,
IL.
McAllister, M. P. (1989, April).
Medicalization in the news media: A
theoretical investigation. Presented at the meeting of
the Southern States Communication Association, Louisville,
KY.
McAllister, M. P. (1989, April).
Comic book research: A
bibliography and brief history. Presented at the
meeting of the Southern States Communication Association,
Louisville, KY.
McAllister, M. P. (1989, April).
Comic books and AIDS.
Presented at the meeting of the Popular Culture Association,
St. Louis, MO.
McAllister, M. P. (1987,
November). Cultural legitimation,
argumentation and industrial factors: The changing nature
of the comic book. Presented at the meeting of the
Speech Communication Association, Boston, MA.
McAllister, M. P. (1987, May).
Medicalization as organizational
control. Presented at the meeting of the International
Communication Association, Montreal, Canada.
McAllister, M. P. (1986,
November). The relationship between
Rockefeller philanthropies and mass communication research.
Presented at the meeting of the Speech Communication
Association, Chicago, IL.
McAllister, M. P., Billingsley,
J. M. and Orlando, J. M. (1986, April). Mass media and medicine: A case
study investigating
the information subsidy model. Presented at the
meeting of the Central States Speech Association,
Cincinnati, OH.
May, S. K., Hennen, P. and
McAllister, M. P. (1984, November). Exploratory relationships
between social-interaction
attributes and the amount of television viewing.
Presented at the meeting of the Speech Communication
Association, Chicago, IL.
Papers
Presented at Professional Meetings as Part of a
Competitively Selected Panel
McAllister, M. P. (2011, February).
Panel participant on Market:
Economy, culture and gender. Presented at
the Center for the Study of Women and Society, The City
University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY
[panel organized as part of the launch of the special
issue on “Market” of Women’s
Studies Quarterly].
McAllister, M. P. (2010, October).
No Logo legacy: Assessing Naomi Klein's
No Logo ten years later. Presented at the Union for Democratic
Communications, State College, PA.
McAllister, M. P.
(2009, May). Ads as art: The reification of
advertising in behind-the-scene videos about advertising
campaigns. Presented at the Union for Democratic
Communications, Buffalo, NY.
McAllister, M. P.
(2008, August). IMC: Integrated Marketing
Culture? Presented at the Association
for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago,
IL.
McAllister, M. P. (2007,
October). TV programs, parody and product
placement. Presented at the Union for
Democratic Communication, Vancouver, Canada.
McAllister, M. P.
(2007, May). “...And Twins”: Gender ideology
in intrusive commercial forms.
Presented at the International Communication Association,
San Francisco, CA.
McAllister, M. P.
(2006, November). Understanding the Dangers of
Post-TiVO Programming. Presented at the
National Communication Association, San Antonio, Texas.
McAllister, M. P.
(2006, June). Flow as a critical concept for
modern commercial culture. Presented at
the International Communication Association, Dresden,
Germany.
McAllister, M. P.
(2006, June). Art house meets graphic novel,
or blockbuster meets superhero comic?: The
contradictory relationship between film and comic art.
Presented at the International Communication Association,
Dresden, Germany.
McAllister, M. P.
(2004, May). From
Lard Lad to Butterfinger: Contradictions of The
Simpsons in promotional and commercial culture.
Presented at the International Communication Association,
New Orleans, LA.
McAllister, M.P., &
Giglio, J. M. (2003, May). The commercial synergy of the
Internet and U.S. children's television.
Presented at the International Communication Association,
San Diego, CA.
McAllister, M. P. (2002,
November). Using video as a teaching tool to
critique commercial culture. Presented at the
annual meeting of the National Communication Association,
New Orleans, LA.
McAllister, M. P. (2002,
October). Is commercial culture popular
culture? Presented at the annual meeting of the
Union for Democratic Communication, State College, PA.
McAllister, M. P. (2002,
September). Global flows of advertising.
Presented at "Cultural Diversity for Sale: Global Economies
of Art and Entertainment," Roanoke, VA.
McAllister, M. P. (1999,
November). The new face of television news
plugola. Presented at the meeting of the National
Communication Association, Chicago, IL (75-minute "Media
Forum" presentation).
McAllister, M. P. (1998, April).
The Super Bowl as commercial celebration.
Presented at the meeting of the Broadcast Education
Association, Las Vegas, NV.
McAllister, M. P. (1997, May).
Panel participant in Advertising
as popular culture: Multi-divisional perspectives. Presented
at the meeting of the International Communication
Association, Montreal, Canada.
McAllister, M. P. (1997, April).
Comics research: A political economy
perspective. Presented at the meeting of the
Eastern Communication Association, Baltimore, MD.
McAllister, M. P. (1996,
November). Sponsorship and the commercialization of
sports. Presented at the meeting of the Speech
Communication Association, San Diego, CA (75-minute "Media
Forum" presentation).
McAllister, M. P. (1995, April).
Panel Participant in The funnies and beyond.
Presented at the meeting of the Popular Culture Association,
Philadelphia, PA.
McAllister, M. P. (1994,
November). Unmasking the camouflaged ad on
television. Presented at the meeting of the Speech
Communication Association, New Orleans, LA (75-minute "Media
Forum" presentation).
McAllister, M. P. (1991, May).
AIDS, medicalization, and the news
media. Presented at the meeting of the
International Communication Association, Chicago, IL.
McAllister, M. P. (1991, May).
Unconventional conventionality: How the
entertainment industry talks about Twin Peaks.
Presented at the meeting of the International Communication
Association, Chicago, IL.
McAllister, M. P., and Kitron, U.
(1990, November). Media
coverage of AIDS and Lyme Disease: A visual comparison.
Presented at the meeting of the Speech Communication
Association, Chicago, IL (75-minute "Media Forum"
presentation).
McAllister, M. P. (1990,
November). Representations of science in the medical
domain: AIDS research in American Medical News.
Presented at the meeting of the Speech Communication
Association, Chicago, IL.
McAllister, M. P. (1988,
November). AIDS, medicalized social control
and the communication scholar. Presented at the
pre-conference seminar of the Speech Communication
Association, New Orleans, LA.
McAllister, M. P. (1985, May).
The medical education process:
The control of physicians through professional
identification. Presented at the meeting of the
International Communication Association, Honolulu, HI.
Conference
Panel Responses
“Scholar-to-scholar Refereed
Paper Research Session.” (2008,
August). Discussant for two papers at the Association
for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Graduate
Education Interest Group, Chicago, IL.
“Branding Experience:
Explorations in the Marketization of Cultures and
Identities.” (2007, May). Respondent for a panel at
the International Communication Association, Popular
Communication Division, San Francisco, CA.
“(Trans)forming Cultural Values
in Popular Music.” (2005, May).
Respondent for a panel at the meeting of the International
Communication Association, Popular Communication Division,
New York City, NY.
“Alternative and Radical Media:
Competitive Papers.” (2004, November).
Respondent for a panel at the meeting of the National
Communication Association, Mass Communication Division,
Chicago, IL.
“Aftershock: Processing Crisis in
Popular Music.” (2004, May). Respondent
for a panel at the meeting of the International
Communication Association, Popular Communication Division,
New Orleans, LA.
“Competitive Papers
on Politics in the Media.” (2003, November).
Respondent for a panel at the meeting of the National
Communication Association, Mass Communication Division,
Miami, FL.
“Television: News,
Quality Programming, and Fan Activism.” (2003,
May). Respondent for a panel at the meeting of the
International Communication Association, Popular
Communication Division, San Diego, CA.
“Competitive Papers
in the Cultural Production of Identities and the Social
Space.” (2002, November). Respondent for panel
at the meeting of the National Communication Association,
Mass Communication Division, New Orleans, LA.
“Public Radio,
Public TV & Globalization.” (2002,
September). Co-respondent for panel at "Cultural
Diversity for Sale": Global Economies of Art and
Entertainment,” Roanoke, VA.
“Advertising
Justice: Crossing Cultural Boundaries with the
Commodification of Social Justice.” (2000,
July). Respondent for panel at the meeting of the
International Communication Association, Mass Communication
Division, Acapulco, Mexico.
“Competitive Papers
in Cultural and Rhetorical Explorations of Popular
Communication and Advertising.” (1999,
November). Respondent for panel at the meeting of the
National Communication Association, Mass Communication
Division, Chicago, IL.
“Popular
Communication and Social Geography.” (1996,
May). Respondent for panel at the meeting of the
International Communication Association, Popular
Communication Division, Chicago, IL.
“Popular
Communication and Film.” (1995, May). Respondent
for panel at the meeting of the International Communication
Association, Popular Communication Division, Albuquerque,
NM.
“Relations of Gender
and Generation on Prime-Time Television.” (1993,
May). Respondent for panel at the meeting of the
International Communication Association, Popular
Communication Division, Washington, DC.
HONORS
AND AWARDS
The Penn State Alumni Teaching
Fellow Award, Spring 2010. University-wide award for undergraduate
teaching, awarded to no more than two University Park campus
teachers each year.
Third-Place Faculty Paper Award
in the Cultural and Critical Studies Division,
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication, August 2009. For Commodity fetishism
in the digital era. Ranked 3rd out of 92 papers submitted.
Deans’ Excellence Award for
Integrated Scholarship (Research, Teaching &
Service), College of Communications, Penn State, Spring
2009.
Deans’ Award for Excellence in
Service, College of Communications,
Penn State, Spring 2006.
Top 3 Paper Award in the Mass
Communication Group, Eastern Communication
Association, April 2005. For Advertising as a funding source
for television: Seven effects.
Students’ Choice Faculty Member
of the Year, Virginia Tech Alumni Association,
Spring 2004. One of nine faculty members chosen
university-wide for the award, based upon student votes.
University Sporn Award for
teaching excellence in introductory subjects,
Virginia Tech, Spring 2001. One university-wide award given
each year, chosen from student nominations.
Member, Academy
of Teaching Excellence, Virginia Tech, Spring
2001-Spring 2004.
Outstanding Academic Book of 1996
designation for The commercialization of
American culture, Choice, January
1997. One of eight communication books published in 1996 so
designated by Choice, the academic
book review journal.
Certificate of Teaching
Excellence Award from the College of Arts and
Sciences, Virginia Tech, January 1995. Eight CTEs awarded
annually to faculty members in Arts and Sciences, Virginia
Tech's largest college.
Advisor of the Year, Virginia
Tech University Student Leadership Awards, April
1994. For work as Faculty Advisor for WUVT-AM
and FM, the student radio
stations. Selected among eight university-wide nominees.
Cited for teaching excellence for
Communications 220 (Communications and Popular
Culture), University of Illinois, Fall 1987, awarded April
1988.
Membership in Kappa Tau Alpha,
National Communications Honorary, University of
Illinois, April 1988.
Cited for teaching excellence for
Speech Communication 112 (Verbal Communication II),
University of Illinois, Fall 1986, awarded April 1987.
National Science Foundation
Fellow, Purdue University, August 1983-May 1984.
PROFESSIONAL
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND PUBLIC SERVICE
Professional
Service
Editorial Board, Communication Theory,
Spring 2009-present.
Editorial Board, Critical Studies in Media
Communication, Spring 2008-present.
Editorial Board, Popular Communication,
Spring 2002-present.
Editorial Board, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media,
Winter 2001-present.
Editorial Board, International Journal of
Comic Art, Spring/Summer 1999-present.
Book Review Editor, Popular Communication,
Spring 2002-Spring 2007.
Editorial Board, Journal of Communication,
Winter 2000-Winter 2005.
Editorial Board, Critical Studies in Mass
Communication, Spring 1996-Winter 1998.
Member, "Best Book" Award
Committee, International Communication Association, Spring
2004. Recipient selected from twenty books evaluated by a
five-person committee.
Member, Board of Directors,
International Communication Association, Summer
1998-Summer 2000.
Chair, Popular Communication
Division, International Communication Association,
Summer 1998-Summer 2000. Two-year term. Responsible for
Division program planning for the annual conference,
representing the Division to ICA, running annual business
meetings, and planning future initiatives.
Vice-Chair, Popular Communication
Division, International Communication Association,
Fall 1996-Summer 1998. Responsible for recruiting new
members, and developing/maintaining the Division's web site
(http://www.comm.vt.edu/icapopcomm/). The group achieved
Divisional status in Summer 1997.
Secretary, Popular Communication
Interest Group, International Communication
Association, Fall 1994-Fall 1996. Responsible for editing
and mailing a 6-10 page three-times-a-year newsletter for
the 200+ PopComm membership, assessing attendance at panels,
and taking minutes of annual meetings.
Reviewer of submitted journal
articles, 1990-present. Manuscripts reviewed for
the following journals: Asian Journal of Communication, The
Communication Review, Communication Law and Policy,
Communication Quarterly, Communication Theory,
Communication Yearbook #24, Critical Studies in Mass
Communication, Diplomatic History, Journal of
Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journal of Children
and Media, Journal of Communication, International Journal
on Media Management, Journal of Language and Social
Psychology, Mass Communication & Society, New
Media & Society, Popular Communication, Popular Music
and Society, Proteus (special issue on AIDS and
media), Sex Roles, and Virginia Journal of Communication.
Textbook Reviewer, Spring
1992-present. Reviewed textbooks for several
publishers, including Introduction to communication texts,
Wadsworth and Mayfield Publishing; a News and society text,
Sage Publications; a Communication methods text, Mayfield
Publishing Company; and a Media and society text, Longman
Publishing.
Reviewer of conference
manuscripts for scholarly organizations,
1992-present. Over 100 manuscripts and panel proposals
reviewed for the Popular Communication and Philosophy of
Communication Divisions of the International Communication
Association and the Mass Communication Division of the
National Communication Association.
Reviewer of pre-publication
scholarly manuscripts/proposals for publishers,
1995-present. Manuscripts/proposals reviewed for Blackwell,
Lawrence Erlbaum, Haworth, Peter Lang, Northwestern
University Press, Routledge, Rowman & Littlefield, and
University of Illinois Press.
Promotion and tenure reviewer,
1994-present. Sixteen external reviews for faculty
at a variety of colleges and universities.
Chair, Review Team, The
Pennsylvania Department of Education, for a
proposed Ph.D. program in Culture and Communication at
Drexel University, December 2008.
Panel Chair, Annual Convention of
the International Communication Association, 1995,
1997, 2000, 2009.
University-
and College-Level Service
At Penn State
Assistant Graduate Program Chair, Fall 2011-present.
Responsible for coordinating graduate student recruiting
and admissions.
Member, Arts and Humanities Selection Panel for the
Faculty Scholar Medal, November 2010-present.
Member, University Graduate
Council, Summer 2008-Spring 2010. Also served on the
Committee on Committees and Procedures, Summer 2008; and the
Committee on Academic Standards, Fall 2008-Spring 2010.
Member, Associate Dean for
Graduate Studies and Research Search Committee,
College of Communications, Spring 2010.
Member, Graduate Committee,
College of Communications, Fall 2005-Spring 2006;
Fall 2007-Spring 2010.
Member, College-level Promotion
and Tenure Committee, Fall 2006-Spring
2008.
Member, Faculty Senate, Fall
2005-Spring 2006. Also served on the Committee on
Faculty Affairs, and the Subcommittee on Promotion and
Tenure.
Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on
Student Rating of Teaching Effectiveness, College
of Communications, Spring 2006.
At Virginia Tech
Member, University Graduate
Curriculum Committee, Fall 2002-Spring 2004.
Chair, Computer Privacy Task
Force, Fall 2002-Spring 2004. Charged by the
VT Faculty and Staff Senates to (1) Explore issues about
Faculty and Staff rights concerning information on their
computers at the workplace, and (2) Recommend policies.
Member, University Honorifics
Committee, Spring 2001-Spring 2004. Responsible for
evaluating nominations of faculty for certain external and
internal awards/recognitions and for evaluating nominations
for honorary degrees to be granted by the university.
Member, University Alumni Award
for Excellence in Teaching Selection Committee,
Spring 2002-Spring 2004.
Faculty Advisor, WUVT-AM
and FM, the Virginia Tech student radio
stations, Spring 1993-Spring 2004.
Board Member, the Educational
Media Company at Virginia Tech (originally named
the Student Media Board), Spring 1993-Spring 2004. EMCVT is
made up of the General Managers, Business Managers, and
Faculty Advisors of the six major student media
organizations on campus.
Member, Search Committee for the
Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Human
Sciences, Spring 2003.
Member, Program Advisory
Committee, “Choices and Challenges” forum on
“Big Brother Technologies,” Spring 2002-Spring 2003.
Member, College of Human Sciences
and Education Graduate Curriculum Committee, Fall
2002-Spring 2003.Chair, Search Committee, General Manager
Position of EMCVT, Fall 1999. Responsible for planning,
coordinating and implementing national search for the sole
full-time paid employee of the independent student media
corporation.
Member, Virginia Tech University
Student Leadership Awards Committee, Spring 1995.
Committee was responsible for selecting University-wide
Advisor of the Year and Student Organization of the Year
awards.
Member, Search Committee,
Virginia Tech Coordinator of Student
Organizations/Student Media, Spring 1993.
Department
Service
At Penn State, Department of Film/Video & Media
Studies
Chair, Pockrass Memorial
Lecture Series Committee, Dept. of Film/Video & Media
Studies, Spring 2007-present.
Co-Coordinator, Critical-Cultural Media Studies Discussion
Group, Fall 2004-present.
Promotion and Tenure Committee,
Fall 2004-Spring 2006, Fall 2009-Spring 2010.
Chair, Fall 2005-Spring 2006, Fall 2009-Spring 2010.
Committee responsible for data
collection and evaluation of all 2nd, 4th and 6th
year tenure-track faculty in the College of Communications.
Member, HR-40 Five-Year Extended
Review Committee, Spring 2005; 2010.
Chair, Search Committee,
Critical-Cultural Media Studies Faculty Position,
Fall 2006-Spring 2007.
Media Studies Undergraduate
Curriculum Task Force, Spring 2005, 2006.
Search Committee, International
Communications Faculty Position, Spring 2005.
At Virginia Tech, Department of Communication
Director of Graduate Studies,
Department of Communication, Spring 2001-Spring 2004.
Responsible for chairing the Graduate Committee;
coordinating the development and publicity of the program,
evaluation and admission of new students; advising
first-year graduate students.
Member, Department of
Communication Studies Graduate Committee, Spring
1993-Fall 1993; Fall 1996-Spring 1998; Spring 2001-Spring
2004.
Member, Department of
Communication Studies Personnel Committee, Fall
1993-Spring 2002 (Chair, Spring 1997-Spring 1998).
Member, Department of
Communication Studies Curriculum Committee, Fall
1993-Spring 1997.
Chair, Department of
Communication Studies Student Organization
Executive Committee, Spring 1995-Spring 1997.
Coordinator, Department of
Communication Studies Student Events, Fall
1993-Fall 1997. Responsible for coordinating Fall student
picnic, Winter Holiday Reception, Senior Awards Reception,
and Graduation.
Coordinator, Department of
Communication Studies Orientation Sessions for
Incoming First-year and Transfer Students, Summer 1996,
Summer 1997.
Member, Department of
Communication Studies Search Committee for position
in Broadcasting, Spring 1992.
Teaching
Activities and Service
At Penn State
Course Director, Comm 100,
Spring 2006-present.
Teaching Evaluator for Graduate Teaching Assistants, Comm 602,
Supervised Experience in College Teaching, 1-2 per year, Fall
2006-present.
Member, Student Learning Assessment for Media Studies, Fall
2005-Spring 2010 (Chair, Fall 2007-Spring 2010).
Participant, New Faculty Orientation Teaching Workshop, College
of Communications, August 2005, 2006, 2009.
Guest lectures to Comm 502
(Pedagogy in Communications) on “Large-Lecture Teaching,”
Professor Anthony Olorunnisola, March 2007; and on
“Constructing Syllabi,” Professor Marie Hardin, October
2009.
At Virginia Tech
Chair, Academy
of Teaching Excellence, Virginia Tech, Spring
2003-Spring 2004. Secretary-Treasurer, Spring
2002-Spring 2003; Member since Spring 2001. Chair is
responsible for planning Fall and Spring meetings; updating
website; communicating with various university-level
teaching awards committees; exploring teaching initiatives;
and chairing the Alumni Teaching Award (see below).
Member, Selection Committee for
the Alumni Teaching Award, Spring 2002-Spring 2004
(Chair, Fall 2003-Spring 2004). Composed of university-level
teaching award winners from every college, this committee
selects two Alumni winners from among college-level
Certificate of Teaching Excellence winners from the previous
three years.
Panelist, “Communicating to
support learning in large classes,” Center for
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Spring 2004.
Peer Teaching Reviewer, Virginia
Tech, Fall 1993-Spring 2004. Conducted in-depth
reviews of 10 tenure-track and non-tenure track teaching
faculty. Process included attending several class meetings,
evaluating instructional materials, discussing teaching
philosophy, and writing a detailed review.
Faculty Advisor, University Sporn
Award for Excellence in Introductory Subjects
Selection Committee, Fall 2001-Spring 2003.
Guest-lecturer, “Large-lecture
teaching,” to EDCI 5774, “Preparation for
Teaching,” Spring 2003. Corrdinated by Dr. Sue
Magliaro in the Department of Teaching and Learning, this
course is designed for graduate students across different
departments to discuss teaching strategies and philosophy.
Panelist, “Award-winning teachers
on their favorite teaching methods.” Part of the
New Faculty Mentoring Breakfasts for the College of Human
Sciences and Education, November 2002.
Interviewed for and paraphrased
about teaching strategies in Murray, M. D. (2003).
Introduction to Mass Communication. In R. L. Moore & M.
D. Murray (Eds.), Mass Communication Education (pp. 17-34).
Iowa State University Press.
Participant, Virginia Tech
Faculty Development Initiative concerning new
technologies and teaching, Summers 1993, 1998. Learned about
computer-enhanced classroom presentations, digital
videography, and interactive networking possibilities for
teaching.
Academic
Advising Activities
Undergraduate
Academic Advisor for
approximately 15 undergraduate majors each
semester, Penn State (Fall 2004-present).
Academic Advisor for
approximately 50 undergraduate majors each
semester, Virginia Tech (Fall 1992-Spring 2004).
Graduate
Chair (At Penn State)
Zachary Roman (M.A.), Spring
2011 graduate.
Jonathan A. Obar (Ph.D.; Co-Chair with Amit M. Schejter),
Fall 2010 graduate;
Shannon Kahle (Ph.D.), Spring
2010 graduate.
Heather McIntosh (Ph.D.; Co-Chair
with Kevin Hagopian), Fall 2009 graduate.
Murali Balaji (Ph.D.), Summer
2009 graduate.
Ashley Sims (M.A.), Summer 2009
graduate.
Miranda Brady (Ph.D.; Co-Chair
with Jeremy Packer), December 2007 graduate.
4 Ph.D. students, in-progress.
1 M.A. student, in-progress.
Chair (At Virginia Tech)
Colleen C. Mihal (M.A.,
Communication, thesis option), Summer 2004 graduate.
J. Matt Giglio (M.A.,
Communication, non-thesis option), Spring 2003
graduate.
Committee Member (At Penn State)
12 Ph.D. student committees,
in-progress.
9 Ph.D. student committees,
completed.
3 M.A. student committees,
in-progress.
7 M.A. student committees,
completed.
Committee Member (At Virginia Tech)
1 Ph.D. student committee,
completed.
4 M.A. student
committees, completed.
Invited
Lectures and Presentations
“Ads as Art?: How Advertising Sells Itself to
the Public,” for the inaugural lecture of the PCA Informal
Lecture Series, Department of Performance and
Communication Arts, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New
York, October 25, 2010; and the Mass Communications Center
of Excellence, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, December
1, 2010.
“Kids, Commercialism, and Media Culture,” for the
Department of Communication Studies, Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel, November 11, 2010.
“Very High Art: The Cultural Enhancement of Product
Promotion in ‘Making-of’ Videos about Advertising
Campaigns,” for the 2010 International Speaker Series,
School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton
University, Ottawa, Canada, October 22, 2010.
“Advertising and Consumer Culture,” for
Communication Studies 6007, “Communication, Discourse and
Representation,” Professor Miranda J. Brady, Carleton
University, Ottawa, Canada, October 22, 2010.
“Superheroes at the Box Office: How Comic Books Changed
Hollywood,” for the Research Unplugged public lecture
series, Penn State, April 14, 2010; and for the "City
Lights" series organized by the Penn State Alumni
Association, held at the Toonseum, Pittsburgh, PA, May 12,
2011.
"Digital Advertising and
Mediated Content," the invitation-only conference, "New
Media, New Content," Hellenic Audiovisual Institute, Athens,
Greece, October 7, 2009.
“Consumer Culture and New Media: Commodity Fetishism in the Digital Era,” the
invitation-only workshop, “Communication in the 21st
Century,” Hellenic Audiovisual Institute, Athens, Greece,
October 31-November 1, 2008.
“Kids, Commercialism
and Media Culture,” Pennsylvania Renewable Energy and
Sustainable Living Festival, Kempton, Pennsylvania,
September 20, 2008.
“’Girls With a Passion for
Fashion’: The Bratz Brand as Spectacular
Consumption,” The Mary Junck Research Colloquium Series,
School of Journalism & Mass Communication, University of
North Carolina, March 6, 2008; and Noon-Time Colloquium,
Annenberg School for Communication, University of
Pennsylvania, March 27, 2008.
“From Lard Lad to Butterfinger:
Cultural Contradictions of The Simpsons in
Commercial Culture,” Department of Communication Studies
Public Lecture Series, University of Otago, Dunedin, New
Zealand, April 24, 2006.
“Media Conglomerate
Ownership,” Communication Studies 101, “Introduction to
Communication Studies,” Professor Chris Russill, University
of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, April 24, 2006.
“The Commodity Flow of U.S.
Children’s Television,” Department of Communication
Arts and Sciences Colloquium Series, Penn State, October 29,
2004.
“Concentration and Convergence in
the News Media,” co-presenter to the luncheon
program of the Blue Ridge Chapter of the Public Relations
Society of America, Roanoke, Virginia, Spring 2003.
“Data Collection and
Databases,” the “Choices and Challenges” public forum on
“Big Brother Technologies,” Virginia Tech, Spring 2003.
“Selling Survivor:
The Use of Television News to Promote Commercial
Entertainment,” Department of Advertising, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2002. Also
delivered as part of the XYZ Art Gallery Fall Lecture
Series, Blacksburg, VA, Fall 2002.
“Issues Surrounding
News Coverage of September 11 and its Aftermath,” the “Hot
Topic Discussion” series, Center for Public Administration
and Policy, Virginia Tech, Fall 2001.
"Democracy in the New
Communication Future -- Two Paths," part of a panel on "The
Future of Communications" organized by the Office of the
President at Virginia Tech for executives at the Roanoke
Times, Spring 2001.
"From Flick to Flack: The
Increased Emphasis on Marketing by Media Entertainment
Corporations" the Roy H. Park School of Communications,
Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, Fall 1997.
"The Growth of Mega-media
Conglomerates," Sociology 2004, Social Organization and
Social Problems, Professor Toni Calasanti, Fall 1995, 1996,
1997; and Sociology 3304, Collective Action, Professor
Rachel Parker-Gwin, Virginia Tech, Fall 1995.
"The Commercialization of
American Culture," the Blacksburg Unitarian Church, Summer
1996; and Media Studies 334, Advertising Analysis, Professor
Bernard Timberg, Radford University, Radford, Virginia,
Spring 1996.
"Surviving the Large
Lecture Course," two talks given to students in Lee and
Ambler Johnston Residence Halls, Virginia Tech, Fall 1995.
"Advertising and War,"
Media Studies 334, Advertising Analysis, Professor Bernard
Timberg, Radford University, Radford, Virginia, Spring 1994.
"Environmental Issues and
the News Media," the Worldwatch Environmental Seminar,
Virginia Tech, Fall 1992.
"A Brief History of
Advertising," the New River Valley Chapter of the National
Association of Retired Federal Employees, Blacksburg,
Virginia, Summer 1992.
"The Role of the Mass
Media in American Politics," a seminar to Dutch Officials,
Center for Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech,
Fall 1991.
Op-Ed
Newspaper Writing
McAllister, M. P. (2002,
September 17). Selling students; The dangers of the
sponsored classroom. The
Collegiate Times [the student-run newspaper at Virginia
Tech], p. 5.
McAllister, M. P. (2000, August
6). The selling of "Survivor." The Roanoke Times,
pp. Horizon1, 5.
McAllister, M. P. (2000, January
23). AOL-Time Warner union poses social dangers ...
shrinking the marketplace of ideas. The Roanoke Times,
p. METRO3.
Select
Media Interviews
Madhar, R. (2010,
May 7).
Who’s Coming to Save the
Day?: Film Studios Tap into Super Heroes to Save Bottom
Line.
Toronto Star, p. E3 (quoted about
comic-book films and the changing nature of the Hollywood
blockbuster).
WPSU-FM. (2009, October 30). Interviewed for 4-minute long radio story
about vampires in popular culture.
Luscombe, R. (2007,
July 8). Doh! Its the battle of the
Springfields: Official Simpsons home could finally be
chosen. The Observer
(London), p. 35 (quoted about the setting of The Simpsons).
Jayson, S. (2007,
January 16). Bashes for little darlings get bigger and
bigger. USA
Today, p. 7D (quoted about pressures on
children to consume).
Here on Earth.
(2006, July 19). Interviewed during live hour-long
Wisconsin Public Radio regional program about the cultural
implications of The Simpsons (one of
three guests).
Robinson, J., &
Harris, P. (2006, June 18). Murdoch: An emperor
leading a revolution. The Observer (London), p.
10 (quoted about American views of News Corp. CEO Rupert
Murdoch).
Blue Ridge Live.
(2004, May 7). Politics in comics and editorial
cartoons. (One of two panelists on one-hour live
television talk program, airing on WBRA-TV, Blue Ridge
Public Television, Roanoke, VA).
American Morning.
(2004, April 23). CNN (quoted in story about the comic
strip Doonesbury and its Iraq war storyline; reaired
throughout the day on CNN Headline News).
Goodale, G. (2004,
April 23). Goodbye old ‘Friends,’ goodbye
sitcoms. Christian
Science
Monitor, p. 13 (quoted about future of television
situation comedies and reality-based programs).
Gillies, J. S.
(2003, December 28). Back to Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.
The Washington Post,
TV Week, p. Y06 (quoted about how the TV program Mr. Rogers
Neighborhood compared to other children’s programming).
Margolis, L. (2003, August 8).
Sellout or smart marketing. Christian Science Monitor,
p. 19 [quoted about cross-promotional marketing campaigns]
With Good Reason.
(2003, June 28-July 4). Interviewed during 15-minute segment
on "Super-sizing the media," on this public radio program
that is distributed throughout stations in Virginia.
Owen, R. (2003, May 25). Big 3 of
Cable News compete in a niche market. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
p. G3 (quoted about branding and ideological slant of the
cable news networks, especially Fox News).
Profiled in Baumgartner, D.
(2003, May 13). Making sense of the media’s
messages. The Roanoke Times
(New River Valley Current insert), pp. 1, 6.
Quoted in various outlets about
media coverage of the 2003 Iraq war, including
interviews on southwestern Virginia radio stations WFIR
(March 21) and WVTF (March 31) and Bothum, P. (March 29).
Sorting through‘Reality TV War.’ York (PA) Daily Record.
Talk of the Nation.
(2003, February 13). Interviewed during live National Public
Radio program about the cultural implications of The Simpsons.
Mowatt, R. V. (2002, August 16).
Improved `He-Man' series heads to Cartoon Network.
Chicago Tribune, p.
C4 (quoted about the recycling of children’s television
programs).
KUOW-FM, Public Radio, Seattle.
(2002, March 3). Live 5-minute interview on The Conversation, a
call-in radio show, about the possibility of David Letterman
replacing Nightline on ABC.
WBRA-TV. (2002, January 14/21).
Media coverage of September 11 and its aftermath. At Issue (Panelist
on two installments of this public affairs program on Blue
Ridge Public Television).
Stanton, S. "Ads
Proliferate -- Ad Nauseam?" The Sacramento Bee,
May 31, 1999, p. A1 (quoted about the increased
commercialization in society).
Cimons, M. "Some See
Internet Coming of Age During Clinton Troubles," The Los Angeles Times,
February 2, 1998, p. A5 (quoted about maturity of the
Internet as a form of communication).
Storm, J. & Seplow, S.
"Selling More than just Products," The Philadelphia Inquirer,
December 5, 1997, pp. A1, A26-27 (quoted about the blurring
of TV commercials into TV program content).
Maurstad, T. "Levi's
Commercials Sell Soft and Cool." The Dallas Morning News,
October 19, 1997, p. 7C (quoted about latest Levi's ad
campaign). Reprinted in The Arizona Republic, The
Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, and The
San Diego
Union-Tribune.
WVTF-FM radio, Roanoke, VA,
60-minute live interview on the commercialization
of American culture, July 8, 1997.
Schnabel, M., "Companies
Spending Big on the Net," The Roanoke Times,
August 18, 1996, pp. Business1, 3 (quoted about advertising
on the Internet).
KVMR-FM radio, Sacramento, CA,
30-minute live interview on the commercialization
of American culture, May 6, 1996.
Kahn, H., "Advertisers
seek new places to surprise consumers," The Charleston Gazette,
March 26, 1996, p. 7D (quoted about "place-based"
advertising found in such places as schools and airports).
Maurstad, T., "What's the
big deal about small talk; movies make it look -- and sound
-- easy," The
Dallas Morning News, December 9, 1995, p. C1 (quoted about
the use of conversation in film). Reprinted in The Des Moines Register
and The St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Gallagher, F. J.,
"Bandwidth in radio gets tighter," The Roanoke Times,
July 23, 1995, pp. F1, F3 (quoted about concentrated
ownership in media).
Bunce, A., "National
Geographic specials migrate back to network TV," Christian Science Monitor,
January 20, 1995, p. 13 (quoted about the effect of a PBS
program going to a commercial network).
Toner, N., "Different
views," The Press of Atlantic City,
January 8, 1995, pp. C1, C2 (quoted about how cable
television may fragment society).
Keveney, B., "Before
evolution, they were 'Quiz Shows,'" The Hartford Courant,
September 23, 1994, p. E1 (quoted about changes in game
shows since the 1950s quiz show scandals). Reprinted in
several newspapers, including The Los Angeles Times, The
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and The Baltimore Sun.
Rohde, D., "Affiliate
reshuffling reflects TV networks' new strength," Christian Science Monitor,
July 28, 1994, p. 1 (quoted about trends in network
television).
KRLD radio, Dallas, TX; KSDO
radio, San Diego, CA; and WKBK radio, Keene, NH,
live interviews about the 1994 Oscar telecast, March, 1994.
KIRO-FM/AM radio, Seattle,
Washington, live 10-minute interview about the 1993
Oscars and its effect on TV, March 28, 1993.
WJJD-AM radio, Chicago, IL and
KRLD-AM radio, Dallas TX, live interviews about the
1992 Fall Television Season, September, 1992.
Wood, D. B., "Emmy show
hints at TV trends," Christian Science Monitor,
September 3, 1992, p. 14 (quoted about trends in the Emmy
Awards).