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AU Experts: Media Issues

Media Issues

The media world is changing daily. The Internet, blogs, Twitter, social networking, and HDTV have transformed the media landscape. With experts on issues ranging from the Internet, social networking, and blogs to newspapers, mass media, broadcast, and more, American University experts can paint a picture of what is really happening in the media world.

To arrange an interview with one of the experts below or other AU Experts, contact University Communications at 202-885-5950 or aumedia@american.edu.

Experts

Patricia Aufderheide

Patricia Aufderheide, professor of communication

Director, Center for Social Media

Can discuss: Copyright and creativity; media criticism; mass media; telecommunication policy;  independent films; documentary film and video

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Amy Eisman

Amy Eisman, director of writing programs, School of Communication

Director of Writing Programs, School of Communication

Can dicuss: Media landscape; convergent media; online and print publications; print versus Web journalism; citizen media

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Kathryn Montgomery

Kathryn Montgomery, professor of communication

Professor of Communication

Can discuss: Children and media; media policy; media criticism; Internet and youth; media and politics; online marketing and advertising

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Lauren Feldman

Lauren Feldman, associate professor of communication discusses political comedy with Fox 5 WTTG.

Professor of Communication

Can discuss: Effects of the media on political knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors; cable news; partisan media; the political implications of late-night comedy

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Gemma Puglisi

SOC Assistant Professor Gemma Puglisi

Assistant Professor of Communication

Can discuss: Media relations, women in the media, public relations and tactics, crisis communications, media coverage of celebrities,

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Leonard Steinhorn

Leonard Steinhorn, Professor of Communication

Professor of Public Communication

Can discuss: Mass media role in the political system, communication, public relations, American culture, baby boom generation, race relations, social  movements, civil rights, popular culture

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W. Joseph Campbell

Professor Joe Campbell discusses media myths on C-SPAN's Q&A.

Professor of Communication

Can discuss: News media influence; media myths; yellow journalism and American journalism history; U.S. news coverage of international affairs; Web logs

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Larry Kirkman

Larry Kirkman, Dean, School of Communication

Dean, School of Communication

Can discuss: Strategic communication; social media; Internet; public television and radio; communications education and research

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Jane Hall

Jane Hall, Associate Professor of Communication

Associate Professor of Print Journalism

Can discuss: Depiction of women in the media, war media coverage, media ethics and criticism, television news

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Angie Chuang

Angie Chuang (pictured) will present a paper she co-authored with AU librarian Robin Chin Roemer. It took third place in the Minorities and Communication Division competition.

Assistant professor of Communication

Can discuss: Representations of racial and ethnic minorities in news media; ethnic media; ethnic community reporting

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Declan Fahy

Photo: Declan Fahy

Assistant Professor of Communication

Can discuss: Science and environmental journalism; science communication; global journalism; mass media representation of scientists

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Richard Benedetto

Richard Benedetto, instructor in the School of Communication talking on Fox News.

Adjunct Professor of Communication

Can discuss: Media performance and criticism, national politics and elections, White House and the presidency, American political parties, political polling

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Wendell Cochran

Wendell Cochran, professor of communication

Professor of Communication

Can discuss: U.S. newspapers; computers and journalism; electronic media; Internet use by government agencies; journalism ethics; investigative reporting

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Charles (Chuck) Lewis

Charles Lewis, distinguished journalist in residence

Executive Editor, Investigative Reporting Workshop

Can discuss: Investigative journalism; political corruption; the future of journalism; journalism ethics, political corruption

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Matthew Nisbet

Matthew Nisbet, professor of communication

Associate Professor of Communication

Can discuss: Public opinion research; intersection between media, politics, and environmental issues; citizen activism

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Jill Olmsted

Jill Olmsted, professor of broadcast journalism

Associate Professor of Journalism; Journalism Division Director,

Can discuss: Broadcast and online journalism, news media criticism, television news, producing for television

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Jan Schaffer

Jan Schaffer is the Director of J-Lab, the Institute for Interactive Journalism at the American University School of Communication

Executive Director, J-Lab

Can discuss: Journalism, new media, citizen journalism, interactive journalism, the future of journalism, innovations in journalism, the business of journalism, civic media, new media women entrepreneurs

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Rick Rockwell

Rick Rockwell, professor of broadcast journalism

Associate Professor of Broadcast Journalism

Can discuss: Freedom of expression issues; journalism repression; journalism ethics; media consolidation, ownership, and regulation; U.S. telecommunication policy; the media and Congress

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