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Sandra Ball-Rokeach
Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach (born 1941) is an American sociologist and communications scholar. She is professor emerita at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and the department of sociology at the University of Southern California (USC). Ball-Rokeach is best known for developing media system dependency theory with Melvin Defleur. Life Sandra Jean Ball was born in Ottawa, Canada in 1941. She gained a BA in sociology from the University of Washington in 1963, and her PhD in sociology there in 1968. In 1967 Ball became an assistant professor at the University of Alberta. In 1968-69 she was co-director of a National Mass Media and Violence Task Force. In 1969 she married the social psychologist Milton Rokeach. In 1970 Ball-Rokeach moved to Michigan State University, and in 1972 to Washington State University (WSU). She started the first gender studies program at WSU. In 1986 she moved to the University of Southern California, where she stayed until retireme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USC Annenberg School For Communication And Journalism
The USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism comprises a School of Communication and a School of Journalism at the University of Southern California (USC). Starting July 2017, the school’s Dean is Willow Bay, succeeding Ernest J. Wilson III. The graduate program in Communications is consistently ranked first according to the QS World University Rankings. History The Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism was established in 1971 through the support of United States Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg. The USC Department of Communication Arts and Sciences and the School of Journalism became part of USC Annenberg in 1994. Schools School of Communication The USC Annenberg School of Communication is the school's center for general communications. It offers degrees from undergraduate to doctorates. Its current director is Sarah Banet-Weiser, who took over from Larry Gross in 2014. It offers the following degrees: B.A. (communication), M.A. (global communi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journal Of Communication
The ''Journal of Communication'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes articles and book reviews on a broad range of issues in communication theory and research. It was established in 1951 and the current editor-in-chief is R. Lance Holbert (Temple University). According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', its 2018 impact factor is 3.753. The ''Journal of Communication'' is ranked fifth out of 88 journals in the category "Communication". It is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Communication Association. Previously it was published by Wiley Online Library. Editors The following persons have been editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ... of the journal: References External links * {{Official we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Mass Media Scholars
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American Sociologists
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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1941 Births
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Euthanasia Centre in Germany, in the first phase of mass killings under the Action T4 program here. * January 1 – Thailand's Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram decrees January 1 as the official start of the Thai solar calendar new year (thus the previous year that began April 1 had only 9 months). * January 3 – A decree (''Normalschrifterlass'') promulgated in Germany by Martin Bormann, on behalf of Adolf Hitler, requires replacement of blackletter typefaces by Antiqua. * January 4 – The short subject ''Elmer's Pet Rabbit'' is released, marking the second appearance of Bugs Bunny, and also the first to have his name on a title card. * January 5 – WWII: Battle of Bardia in Libya: Australian and British troops def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Journal Of Public Opinion Research
The ''International Journal of Public Opinion Research'' (''IJPOR'') is a quarterly social science journal sponsored by the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) and published by Oxford University Press. Since 1994, WAPOR bestows the Robert M. Worcester Prize for "outstanding" publication in ''IJPOR''; among prior recipients of the prize is communications researcher Dietram Scheufele. See also * ''Public Opinion Quarterly ''Public Opinion Quarterly'' is an academic journal published by Oxford University Press for the American Association for Public Opinion Research, covering communication studies and political science. It was established in 1937 and according to t ...'' References Political science journals Publications established in 1989 Public opinion {{social-science-journal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Thomas (academic)
Douglas Thomas (born 1966) is an American scholar, researcher, and journalist. He is Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California where he studies technology, communication, and culture. He is author or editor of numerous books including ''Reading Nietzsche Rhetorically'' (Guilford, 1998), ''Cybercrime: Security and Surveillance in the Information Age'' (with Brian Loader, Routledge, 2000), ''Hacker Culture'' (University of Minnesota Press, 2002), and ''Technological Visions: The Hopes and Fears that Shape New Technologies'' (with Marita Sturken and Sandra Ball-Rokeach). He has published numerous articles in academic journals and is the founding editor of '' Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media''. In 1998 and 1999, he covered the case of Kevin Mitnick for ''Wired News''. On July 24, 2002, he testified before Congress on the topic of Cyber Terrorism and Critical Infrastructure Protection. His research has b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marita Sturken
Marita Sturken (born 1957) is an American scholar, author, professor, and critic. Life and work Marita Sturken is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, where she teaches courses on cultural studies, visual culture, popular culture, cultural memory, and consumerism. She focuses primarily on visual culture and the politics of cultural memory in American culture. Before coming to NYU she was an associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8.1 .... She has published essays in ''Representations, Public Culture, Social Text, Afterimage, Journal of Visual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muriel Cantor
Muriel Goldsman Cantor (1923–1995) was an American sociologist and media scholar. She founded and directed the women's studies program at American University (AU). Life Muriel Goldsman was born on March 2, 1923, in Minneapolis. She graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles, where she also gained her PhD. She married Joel M. Cantor (died 1988), who worked as a government psychologist. Cantor lectured at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles before joining American University in 1968. She chaired the department of sociology there in the 1970s. In 1989 she founded the AU gender studies program, and directed it until her retirement in 1993. At the time of her death Cantor had been elected president of Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS). She died of cardiac arrest at Georgetown University Hospital on July 19, 1995. Works * ''The Hollywood TV Producer: His Work and His Audience''. New York: Basic Books, 1971. * ''Prime Time Television: Content and Control ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Journal Of Communication
The ''International Journal of Communication'' is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal covering studies on communication. The editor-in-chief is Larry Gross (USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism) and it is published by the USC Annenberg Press (University of Southern California). The journal was established in 2007 and is abstracted and indexed by the ''Social Sciences Citation Index'', ''Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences'', and EBSCOhost EBSCO Information Services, headquartered in Ipswich, Massachusetts, is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., a private company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. EBSCO provides products and services to libraries of very many types around the .... The journal publishes continuously, posting articles as soon as they are accepted. References External links * University of Southern California Publications established in 2007 English-language journals Creative Commons-licensed journals Communi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communication Studies (journal)
''Communication Studies'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers communication processes, specifically communication theory and research. It was established in 1949 as the ''Central States Speech Journal'', obtaining its current title in 1989. The editor-in-chief is Yuping Mao (California State University, Long Beach). It is published in 6 issues a year by Routledge and is an official journal of the Central States Communication Association. The journal issues open science badges on articles meeting the criteria of the Center for Open Science. According to data published in ''Scientometrics'' ''Communication Studies'' was rated as the fifth-most central journal to the field of human communication. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in EBSCO databases, Emerging Sources Citation Index, ProQuest databases, and Scopus Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles (22,794 active titles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
