Stewart M. Hoover
| School of Journalism and Mass Communication | 1497 Lodge Lane |
| The University of Colorado | Boulder, CO 80303 |
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| email: hoover@colorado.edu |
EDUCATION:
The Annenberg School of Communications, The University of Pennsylvania: Ph.D., Communications, 1985.
The Annenberg School of Communications, The University of Pennsylvania: M.A., Communications, 1981.
The Pacific School of Religion/Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley: M.A., Ethics, 1976.
McPherson College, Kansas: A.B., Philosophy and Religion, 1973.
CURRENT POSITION:
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder
Interim Dean, 1999-2000; 2002-03
Professor, 1996 to present
Associate Professor, 1991 to 1996
Director, Center for Media, Religion, and Culture, 2005 to present
Department of Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
Professor Adjoint, 1991 to present
OTHER ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, Michelmas Term, 2005.
Visiting Professor, University of Edinburgh, Spring, 2001
Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, University if Uppsala, Sweden, Fall, 1996
Visiting Professor, University of Uppsala, Sweden, Spring, 1997
Director, Temple London Program, Temple University, Spring, 1998
PREVIOUS:
School of Communications and Theater, Temple University, Philadelphia
Assistant Professor, 1985-1990
Associate Professor, 1990-1991
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, 1989-1991
BOOKS:
Religion in the Media Age. London: Routledge, 2006.
Co-Author, with Lynn Schofield Clark, Diane F. Alters, Joseph G. Champ and Lee Hood, Media, Home and Family. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Co-Editor, with Lynn Schofield Clark, Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media: Explorations in Media, Religion, and Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
Religion in the News: Faith and Journalism in American Public Discourse. London: Sage, 1998.
Co-Editor, with Knut Lundby, Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture. London: Sage, 1997.
Co-Editor, with Robert Abelman, Religious Television: Controversies and Conclusions. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Press, 1990.
Mass Media Religion: The Social Sources of the Electronic Church. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1988.
The Electronic Giant. Elgin, Illinois: The Brethren Press, 1982.
BOOKS IN PROGRESS:
Men, Media and Spiritualities of work and civic engagement (working title).
RECENT PUBLICATIONS (refereed journals and book chapters):
Co-Author with Lynn Schofield Clark (2008). Children and media in the context of the home and Family. In S. Livingstone, Sonia & K. Drotner, (Eds.), The international handbook on children, media, and culture. London, Sage.
“Numbers, Interpretations, and Meta-Analysis: Research Paradigms in Dialogue,” (2007). Communication Methods and Measures.
"Media," Helen Rose Ebaugh (ed). Handbook of Religion and Social Institutions. (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research) New York: Springer, 2005
“Islands in the Global Stream: Television, Religion, and Geographic Integration,” Studies in World Christianity (11) no. 1, (2005) pp. 125-143.
“Digital religion in the media age: Field notes from the household setting,” (co-authored with Jin Kyu Park) in Rothenbuhler, Eric, and Mihai Coman, eds., Media Anthropology. London: Sage, 2005.
“Religion and meaning in the digital age: Field research on internet/web religion,” (co-author with Jin Kyu Park) in Horsfield, Peter and Mary Hess, eds., Belief in Media. London: Ashgate, 2004.
“Meaning, faith and spirituality in the media world,” in Jolyon Mitchell and Sophia Marriage, eds., Mediating religion: Conversations in media, religion, and culture. London: T&T Clark, 2003
“Religion in the Media Age,” Expository Times, June, 2002.
“The culturalist turn in scholarship on media and religion,” Journal ofMedia and Religion, vol 1, no. 1., Summer, 2002.
"Visual Religion in Media Culture," in Morgan, David and Sally Promey, eds., The Visual Culture of American Religions. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
"The Cross at Willow Creek," in Mahan, Jeffrey and Bruce Forbes, eds., Religion and Popular Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
“The Source of the Problem," in June Scelta, ed. Sociology of Religion. New York: Prentice Hall, 2000
"Controversy and Cultural Symbolism: Press Relations and the Formation of Public Discourse in the Case of the RE-Imagining Event," (Co-author with Lynn Schofield Clark) Critical Studies in Mass Communication, December, 1997
"Event and Publicity as Social Drama: A Case Study of the RE-Imagining Conference" (Co-author with Lynn Schofield Clark) Review of Religious Research, Summer, 1997.
“History and Policy in American Broadcast Treatment of Religion,” (Co-author with Douglas K. Wagner) Media, Culture and Society Vol. 19, Number 1, January 1997, pp. 7-27.
"The Category of 'the Religious:' The 'Blindspot' of Contemporary Media Theory?" (Co-author with Shalini Venturelli). Critical Studies in Mass Communication, September, 1996.
"Media and the Moral Order in Post-Positivist Approaches to Media Studies," (review essay), Journal of Communication 45(1) (Winter 1995) pp. 136-145.
"Post-Invasion Television in Grenada: Grenadian Culture and Reagan's Television Gift" (Co-author with Marlene Cuthbert), Caejec Journal (The Journal of the Commonwealth Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication). Volume 5, 1993, pp. 71-84.
"What Do We Do About the Media?" The Conrad Grebel Review (University of Waterloo, Ontario) Vol. 11, No. 2, (Spring, 1993), pp. 97-108.
"Trends in Global Communication Policy-Making: Lessons from the Asian Case," (Co-author with Shalini Venturelli and Douglas Wagner), Asian Journal of Communication. 3(1) (Winter 1993), pp. 103-132.
"Video Beachheads: Communication, Culture and Policy in the Eastern Caribbean," in J. Lent and J. Sussman, eds., Electronic Dependency. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1991.
"Televangelism Reconsidered," Media Information Australia (60) (May 1991) pp. 17-26.
"Lassez-Faire Policies, VCRs and Caribbean Identity," (Co-author with Marlene Cuthbert) in S. Surlin and W. Soderland, eds., Mass Media and the Caribbean. London: Gordon and Breach, 1990.
"Television, Religion and Religious Television: Purposes and Cross Purposes," in M. Morgan and N. Signorielli, eds., Advances in Cultivation Analysis. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990.
Response to "Star Wars of a Different Kind: Reflections on the Religion and Television Research Project," (Co-authored with G. Gerbner, L. Gross, M. Morgan, and N. Signorielli) Review of Religious Research 31 (1) (September 1989), pp. 94-98.
"Audience Size: Some Questions," Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Spring, 1988.
"The Religious Television Audience: A Question of Significance, or Size?" Review of Religious Research 29 (2), (Winter 1987) pp 135-151.
PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS:
"Media Scholarship and the Question of Religion," in preparation for submission to Communication Theory.
OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
“Media Marketplace,” in Stout, Daniel, ed. (2007). Encyclopedia of Media and Religion. Erlbaum.
“Media,” in Stout, Daniel, ed. (2007). Encyclopedia of Media and Religion. Erlbaum
“Media, Ritual, and Cultivation: A synthesis of Major Sources,” review essay of Gunnar Sæbø, “Media, Ritual and the Cultivation of Collective Representations: A Theoretical-Historical Analysis and Critique of the ‘Cultivation’ Paradigm in Media Studies.” Norsk medietidsskrift. January, 2005.
“The Media,” (2004), in Roof, Wade Clark, ed., The Macmillian Encyclopedia of Religion. New York: Macmillan.
“Religion, Politics, and the Media,” in Blumhofer, Edith, ed., Religion, Politics, and the American Experience. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.
"The Megachurch," (2001), in Roof, Wade Clark, ed., The Macmillian Encyclopedia of Religion. New York: Macmillan.
"Global Media and the Confrontation at Cairo," (forthcoming) (co-author with Joseph G. Champ) in Marty, Martin, and David Sinacore-Guinn, eds., Religion and Civil Discourse: Case Studies of the 1994 U.N. Population Conference. Boston: Beacon Press.
"Introduction," in Kevin Kersten, ed., Value and Communication : Critical Humanistic Perspectives. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2000.
"Everett Parker," (1999) (co-author with George Conklin) in Newcomb, Horace, ed., The Encyclopedia of Television
"Religion and Television," (1999) (co-author with Jerome Lackamp) in Newcomb, Horace, ed., The Encyclopedia of Television
"At the Intersection of Media, Religion and Culture," (co-author, with Lynn Schofield Clark) in Hoover and Lundby, eds., Rethinking Media, Religion and Culture. London: Sage 1997.
"Media and the Construction of the Religious Public Sphere," in Hoover and Lundby, eds., Rethinking Media, Religion and Culture. London: Sage, 1997.
"Finding Religion," Quill, January/February, 1996, pp. 36-7.
"Religion in the Media Age," Perspectives, June/July, 1995, pp. 17-18.
"Mass Media and Religious Pluralism," in Philip Lee, ed., The Democratisation of Communication, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1995.
Religion in Public Discourse: The Role of the Media, (final report of sponsored research on religion coverage by the press), University of Colorado, 1994.
"On the Dehumanization in Global Communications" (Co-author with Shalini Venturelli), Media Development. 15(3) (Fall, 1993), pp. 13-16.
"Who Reads Religion News?" (Co-author with Barbara Hanley and Martin Radelfinger), Nieman Reports. 47(2) (Summer, 1993), pp. 42-47.
"Privatism, Authority and Autonomy in American Newspaper Coverage of Religion: The Readers Speak," in C. Arthur, ed., Religion and the Media. Cardiff: The University of Wales Press, 1993.
"The Meaning of Religious Television: The '700 Club' in the Lives of its Viewers," in Q. Schultze, ed., American Evangelicals and the Mass Media. Grand Rapids: Academie Press, 1990.
"The Report of the RNS-Lilly Study of Religion Reporting and Readership in the Daily Press," Philadelphia: Temple University, 1989.
"Video to Support Caribbean Cultural Identity," (Co-author with Marlene Cuthbert) Media Development (3), Fall 1989.
"Pat Robertson and the Prototype of the Electronic Church," Intermedia 17 (3-4), (August 1989) pp. 25-31.
"The Electronic Church as Therapeutic Community," in Gumpert, G. and Fiske, S., eds. Talking to Strangers: Mediated Therapeutic Communication. Norwood, NJ, Ablex Press, 1989.w
"Television Myth and Ritual: The Role of Substantive Meaning and Spatiality," in James Carey, ed., Media, Myths, and Narratives. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1988.
PUBLISHED REVIEWS:
S. McCloud The Making of the American Religious Fringe in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, forthcoming.
H. Dorgan. The Airwaves of Zion: Radio and Religion in Appalachia in The Journal of American History September, 1994, p. 831.
J. Peck, The Gods of Televangelism in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion Vol. 33, no. 1, March, 1994, pp. 92-93.
"Television Believers" (film review) in Visual Anthropology, Summer, 1993.
J. Hadden and A. Shupe, Televangelism: Power and Politics on God's Frontier in Sociological Analysis, Winter, 1993.
D. Kellner, The Persian Gulf TV War; P. Taylor, War and the Media: Propaganda and Persuasion in the Gulf War; D. Morrison, Television and the Gulf War; and H. Mowlana, G. Gerbner, and H. Schiller, Eds., Triumph of the Image: The Media's War in the Persian Gulf -- A Global Perspective in Media Development 15(2) (Spring, 1993).
P. Horsfield, Religious Television: The American Experience. London: Longman Press, 1984. (A forward, co-authored with G. Gerbner).
J. Hadden and C. Swann, Prime Time Preachers in the Journal of Communication, Summer, 1982.
SELECTED PAPERS:
"Men, Media, Meaning and Vocation: Work in Progress on Media, Religion and Culture," Pioner Seminar in Media and Religion, Amsterdam, July 1, 2006.
"Men, Masculinity, Religion and Spirituality: Elusive Resources in Mediated Understandings of Vocation and Work," (co-author with Curtis Coats). Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, Sigtuna, Sweden, July 6, 2006.
"Media, Meaning, and Making of Civic Engagement: Locations, Discourses, Institutions, and Values," presentation to the Annual Meeting, The International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany, June 20, 2006.
"Media and Religion in the Making of Identities of Masculinity, Fatherhood and Vocation," (co-authored with Curtis Coats) Annual Meeting, American Academy of Religion, Washington, D.C., November 18, 2006
"Seeking “Right Livelihood” in the Media Age: An Exploration of the Intersection of Spirituality, Media and Vocation among U.S. Workers," (co-authored with Monica Emerich," British Association for the Study of Religion, Bath, UK, September 4-6, 2006.
"Media and the Construction of Islam: Emerging Journalistic Discourses of Identity, Commonality, and Difference," CRESC Conference, "Media Change and Social Theory," Oxford University, September 6-8, 2006.
“Media and the Religious/Spiritual Self: Constructions and Reconstructions in Late Modernity,” (co-author with Monica Emerich), CRESC Conference "Media Change and Social Theory," Oxford University, September 6-8, 2006
“Digital Religion,” (Co-authored with Lynn Schofield Clark), Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Kansas City, October, 2004.
“Narratives of the Self in Research on Internet Identity,” Association of Internet Researchers, University of Sussex, UK, September, 2004.
“Personal Religion Online,” (Co-authored with Lynn Schofield Clark), Association of Internet Researchers, University of Sussx, UK, September, 2004
“Faith Online: Quantitative Research on Internet Religion,” Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, Louisville, KY, September, 2004.
“Religious Meaning-Making in the Media Age: Categories of Household Practice,”Stewart M. Hoover, Ph.D. (Co-presented with Jin Kyu Park). International Communication Association, New Orleans, 2004.
“Religion and Meaning in the Digital Age: Field Research on Internet/Web Religion” (Co-presented with Jin Kyu Park). Association of Internet Researchers, Toronto, September, 2003.
“Plausible Narratives of the Self,” International Communication Association, San Diego. 2003.
“Research Methods in Household Television Research,” International Association for Media and Communication Research, Barcelona, July, 2002.
Panelist, "Religion as Television and Television as Religion," at the Meeting, American Academy of Religion, Denver, Colorado, November 18, 2001
"Media Culture and the New Religious History," Invited presentation to Conference on the New Religious History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 5-7, 2001
"Religious Meaning Making in Media Households: Fieldwork on Social-Scientific Study of Religion and the Media." Presented to the Meeting, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Columbus, OH, Oct. 18-21, 2001
Presentation to the Conference, "Media, Religion, and Culture in Africa," Accra, Ghana, May, 2000
"Recovering Religion in Media Ritual," presented to the Communication Association, Acapulco, June, 2000.
"Media, Meaning and Visual Religion," paper presented to the Association for the History of Religions, Durban, South Africa, August, 2000.
"Media and the Visual Imagination of Religion," presentation to the invitational conference "The Visual Culture of American Religions," Valparaiso University, Indiana, August, 2000.
"Toward a Nominative Theory of Symbolism," paper presented to the round-table on meaning, jointly sponsored by the Network for Qualitative Audience Research and the Working Group on Media, Religion, and Culture, International Association for Media and Communication Research, Glasgow, July, 1998.
"Media Scholarship and the Question of Religion: Evolving Theory and Method," paper presented to the 48th Annual Conference, the International Communication Association, Jerusalem, July, 1998.
"Children, Families and the Media in the Context of Postmodern Religion: A Report on Research in Progress," (Co-author with Lynn Schofield Clark), paper presented to the 48th Annual Conference, the International Communication Association, Jerusalem, July, 1998.
"Media, Meaning, and the Lifecourse: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges to the Study of Religion in the Media age," (Co-author with Lynn Schofield Clark), paper delivered to the Conference on Media, Religion and Culture, Boulder, January, 1996.
"Press Relations and the Formation of Public Discourse," (Co-author with Lynn Schofield Clark), paper delivered to the Conference on Media, Religion and Culture, Boulder, January, 1996.
"The Confrontation of Journalism and Religion: Bringing Critical Coverage of Religion to Public Discourse," (Co-author with Douglas Wagner), paper delivered to the Conference on Media, Religion and Culture, Boulder, January, 1996.
"Media Policy for Democratic Participation in the Public Sphere," paper delivered to the Conference on the 'New Television,' University of Colorado, October, 1993.
"Theoretical and Methodological Implications of a Ritual Theory of Media Use," paper delivered to the conference "Media, Religion and Culture," University of Uppsala, Sweden, May, 1993.
Formal response to "Free Religion, Free Press: Who's Winning?" (delivered by Mike Maus), Conference on Religion and the Media, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indiana University/Purdue University-Indianapolis, Indianapolis, April, 1993.
"Religion, Myth and Ritual Under Scrutiny: Theoretical and Methodological Issues," paper delivered to the Assembly of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August, 1992.
"Communication Technology and Culture Policy: The Asian Case," (Co-authored with Shalini Venturelli and Douglas Wagner) paper delivered to the Annual Conference on Communication and Development, the University of Miami, Miami, May, 1992
"Religion Readership in the Daily Press: Attitudinal and Demographic Issues," paper delivered to the annual meeting, the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Virginia Beach, November, 1990.
"Communication, Culture, and Development in the Eastern Caribbean: Case Studies of New Technology and Culture Policy" (Co-author with Paula Britto), paper presented to the International Communication Association, Dublin, Ireland, June, 1990.
"Public Discourse About Science and Religion: The Role of Mass Media in the Public Sphere," paper presented to the International Communication Association, Dublin, Ireland, June, 1990.
"Re-Thinking the Religious Audience: A Report on Qualitative Research on the 700 Club Audience," presented to the International Communication Association, San Francisco, May, 1989.
"Video Pirates of the Caribbean: Video, Culture, and Cultural Policy in conflict," presented to the International Communication Association, New Orleans, May, 1988.
"Elaboration as a Methodology in Audience Research," presented to the Conference "Re-Thinking the Audience" (funded by the Volksvagen Foundation). Department of English and American Studies, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, February, 1987.
"Qualitative Research on the Electronic Church," presented to the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December, 1986.
"The Politics of Traditionalism," presented to the Conference on Culture and Communication. Temple University, Philadelphia, October, 1986.
"Cross—Cultural Collaborative Research: An Evaluation of One Experience," presented to the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Honolulu, May, 1985.
"Religion as Culture in Mass Communication: The Case of the 'Electronic Church,'" presented to the Biennial Assembly of the International Association for Media and Communication Research. Prague, September, 1984.
SPONSORED RESEARCH AND OTHER AWARDS:
Principal Investigator, “Media, Religion, and Culture Conferences,” support for biennial conference series. Schichtung Porticus Foundation, Amsterdam, $40,000.
Principal Investigator, “Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for Media, Religion, and Culture,” support for two years’ post-doctoral support, Center for Media, Religion, and Culture, 2006-2008. Schichtung Porticus Foundation, Amsterdam, $90,000.
Co-Principal Investigator, “Media, Meaning, and Work: Qualitative Audience Research,” a multi-year study funded by the Lilly Endowment, 2006-09, $748,000.
Co-director, Doctoral Fellowship Program in Media and Religion, supported by the Lilly Endowment, 2002-03. Re-funded 2004-2007: $249,000.
Co-Prinicpal Investigator, “Media, Meaning, and the New Media@Home,” a multi-year study funded by the Lilly Endowment ($744,000), 2001-06.
Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala, Fall, 1996 (full salary plus expenses).
Principal Investigator, "Media, Meaning and the Lifecourse: Qualitative Audience Research," a multi-year study funded by the Lilly Endowment. Pilot phase award ($110,000) secured for calendar year 1996, implementation phase funding ($467,000) secured for calendar years 1997-2000.
Principal Investigator, "Religion in Public Discourse: The Role of the Media," a three-year study sponsored by the Lilly Endowment ($271,000), 1991-94.
Fulbright Grant in Aid of Research to the United Kingdom, 1992 (declined)
Principal Investigator of a study of mass media coverage of religion, using multidisciplinary methodologies. Funded by the Lilly Endowment ($100,000), 1988-89.
Co-Investigator, with Marlene Cuthbert of The University of Windsor, in a study of new communication technologies and their social consequences in the Eastern Caribbean. Funded by: UNESCO, Paris ($6,000); World Association for Christian Communication, London ($3,000); Intermedia, New York ($1,500); and Temple University Research Fund, Philadelphia ($1,500), 1986-1990.
Co-Investigator, with George Gerbner, Larry Gross, Michael Morgan, Nancy Signorielli, Robert Wuthnow, and Harry Cotugno, Religion on Television and in the Lives of Viewers, a major study of religion and mass communication conducted by the Annenberg School of Communications and the Gallup Organization. Funded by the Committee on Electronic Church Research, New York ($175,000), 1983-84.
SEMINARS, LECTURES AND INTERVIEWS:
“Media, Religion, and Culture: Future Directions,” plenary address to the fifth International Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, Sigtuna, Sweden, July, 2006.
“Men, Meaning, and Media,” plenary paper presentation to the Pionier Seminar on Media Culture, University of Amsterdam, June, 2006.
Keynote Speaker, “The Mediation of Religion,” Tehran International Conference on Religion and Media, Tehran, Iran, November 12-16, 2005.
Interviewee, emerging trends in religious media use, Religion&Ethics Newsweekly, PBS, August, 2005.
Interviewee, “Internet Religion,” Future Tense. Minnesota Public Radio, April 9, 2004.
“Media and Religious Understanding: The U.S. Case,” presentation to the Prix Europa conference “Crossing Borders: Cultures, Religions, and the Media,” Berlin, October, 2004.
“The Religious Right and the Media,” Keynote presentation to conference, “Religion on the Airwaves,” Texas Freedom Network, Austin, August, 2004.
"Religion in the Media Age," address to the founding conference, Capps Center for Religion and Society, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, February, 2004
Co-organizer and speaker, consultation on religion and iconography in Eastern Europe, Lviv, Ukraine, May, 2004.
“Media and the new civil religion in the post-9/11 era,” Keynote address to the conference Sacred Media, Jyvaskyla, Finland, July, 2003.
Co-organizer and speaker, consultation in religion and media in Latin America, Quito, Equador, February, 2003.
Co-organizer, Pre-conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, Annual Conference, American Academy of Religion, Denver, November, 2002.
Co-organizer, Asian consultation on Religion and the Media, Bangkok, July 9-14, 2001
Co-organizer, Pre-conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, Annual American Academy of Religion, Denver, November 16, 2001
Public Lecture, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, May 22, 2001
Public Lecture, Department of Communication and Information Studies, of Sterling, Scotland, April 4, 2001.
Co-organizer, Conference on Media and Religion in Africa, Accra, Ghana, May 2000.
"Spectacular Nature and Religion in the New West," presentation to Wirth forum on Nature and Religion in the West. University of Colorado Center for American West, March 3, 2000.
Presentation to the Workshop "Media, Religion, and Culture," Religious Communication Congress 2000, Chicago, March 30, 2000.
Invited Panelist, special joint session on studies in contemporary religion and culture, American Sociological Association and the Association for the Sociology of Religion, Chicago, August, 1999.
Keynote Speaker, Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, July, 1999.
Invited Speaker, Conference on Religion and the New Media, sponsored by the Program in the Social Sciences, University of Heidelberg, February, 1999.
Seminar Leader, faculty seminar on media literacy and education, Boston College, September, 1998.
Invited Panelist, Consultations on Religion and Public Life, sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts, Chicago, (six consultations, January-June, 1998).
Lecturer, "Seminar in Symbolism," Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, February, 1997.
Lecturer, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala, December, 1996.
Participant, Seminar on The Visual Culture of American Religions, 1996-1999 (funded by the Henry Luce Foundation).
Invited Panelist, consultation on the future of Religious Institutions, the Louisville Institute, Louisville, May, 1996.
Lecturer, the Annual George Gerbner Lecture, The Annenberg School for Communication, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April, 1996.
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Northwestern College, Iowa, March, 1996.
Invited panelist, Lilly Endowment Symposium on Religion in Public Discourse, Indianapolis, February, 1996.
Panelist, "Culture Wars," KRMA-TV, Channel 12, Denver, September 14, 1995.
Featured Interviewee, "Media Matters," Public Broadcasting Service, June 28, 1995.
Panelist, Conference on Religion and the News, Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, New York, October, 1993.
Interviewee, "Talk of the Nation," National Public Radio, Washington, June, 1993.
Formal Respondent, conference on "Public Expressions of Religion in the Media," Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indianapolis, April, 1993.
Featured Speaker, Annual Conference of the Association of Regional Religious Communicators, Ft. Lauderdale, December, 1991.
Keynote Speaker, Australian Communication Association, Melbourne, July, 1990.
Interviewee, "Radio Times," WHYY-FM, Philadelphia, November 20, 1989.
Formal Respondent, "Remaking the World: Fundamentalism's Impact," a public conference, sponsored by the Fundamentalism Project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The University of Chicago, October, 1989.
Commencement Speaker, McPherson College, Kansas, May, 1989.
Presenter, "Future Directions in Communication for Development," Division of Overseas Ministries, National Council of Churches, New York, April, 1989.
Major Speaker, Conference on Evangelicals and the Mass Media, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, September, 1988.
Public Lecturer, American Cultural Center, Colombo, Sri Lanka, July, 1988.
Keynote Speaker, Consultation on New Directions in Religious Communication in Latin America. Tijuana, Mexico, February, 1988.
Speaker, "Prospects for European Invasion by the American 'Electronic Church.'" The Collingham Group, London. February, 1987.
Invited Scholar, Consultation on "Cultural Power of the New Media: Implications for Theological Education." Union Seminary, New York. October, 1986.
Invited Scholar, Seminar on Evangelicals and Mass Media. Center for the Study of American Evangelicals, Hyannis, MA. July, 1986.
Invited participant, Consultation on Research on Communication and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean. Sponsored by UNESCO, Learning Systems Institute, Florida State University. December, 1984.
Keynote Speaker, Research Conference on Religion and Mass Communication. School of Journalism, Marquette University, Milwaukee. November, 1984.
Featured Interviewee, "Calendar" feature on the "Electronic Church." The Los Angeles Times, November,_1984.
Dinner Address, Second Annual Fosdick Seminar. Riverside Church, New York. October, 1982.
Leader, Critical Viewing Skills Workshop. KKL (Broadcasting Public Interest Group), Oslo, Norway. May, 1982.
Speaker, Central Committee Forum. World Association for Christian Communication, Woudschöten, The Netherlands. May, 1982.
Interviewee, Credo. London Weekend Television, London. February, 1982.
CONSULTING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Director, Conference on Fundamentalism and the Media, Boulder, CO, October 10-12, 2006.
Co-director, invitational roundtable on religion journalism (in cooperation with Prof. Diane Winston, of the University of Southern California), Boulder, CO, March, 2006.
Co-director, Porticus Global Seminars in Media and Religion, 2006 to present.
Chair, Porticus Media, Religion and Culture Projects, 2005 to present.
Steering Committee Chair, International Conferences on Media, Religion, and Culture, 2004 to present.
Member, Academic Advisory Board, Center for Media and Religion, New York University, 2004 to present.
Steering Committee, Pre-Conference Seminars on Media, Religion, and Culture, American Academy of Religion, 2001 to present.
Co-chair, Religion, Media, and Culture Consultation, American Academy of Religion, 2000-2006.
Founding Chair, International Study Commission on Media, Religion and Culture, 1996 to 2005.
Member, Advisory Board, Center for Religion and the News Media, Northwestern University, 1995 to present.
Director, The Conference on Media, Religion and Culture, January 11-14, 1996. The second international conference on this topic (the first public one). Attracted 220 participants (twenty from outside the US), including 50 competitive papers on simultaneous panels, six plenary sessions and a variety of media demonstrations. The conference received extensive publicity, and has been called a major watershed in the development of scholarship in the field. Tasks included planning of program, supervision of all aspects, and fund-raising of $16,000 from campus and off-campus sources.
Co-organizer, Conference on Religion and the News, Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, New York, October, 1993.
Research Director, study conference on communication and third-world development, sponsored by the National Council of Churches, Manila, Philippines, January, 1992.
Consultant, Policy on New Technologies and Development, National Council of Churches, 1988 to 1993.
Consultant on programming policy, Vision Interfaith Cable Network, Inc., New York, May, 1989 and February, 1992.
Consultant, planning committee, Consultation on Communication, Culture and Justice, Castries, St. Lucia, December, 1988.
Consultant on communication research, Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka, July, 1988.
Director, Temple University London Program, 1987.
Methodology consultant, research on the media and public attitudes about AIDS in Britain. Research Department, Independent Broadcasting Authority, London. Spring, 1987.
Consultant on critical viewing skills curricula. The Sainsbury Trust, London. November, 1985.
Scientific Director, Media Action Research Center (MARC), Inc., 1983 to present.
Research and consultation on communication technology, culture and development. Caribbean Development and Education Council (CADEC), Bridgetown, Barbados. February, 1983 and September, 1983.
Member, Committee on Public Service Applications. Federal Communication Commission working group on direct broadcast satellite policy, Washington, D.C. 1981-1983.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
External examiner, Ph.D. Dissertation (Dr. Sham Thomas) University of Edinburgh, January, 2005.
External examiner (“opponent”), Ph.D. Dissertation, (Dr. Gunnar Saebo) University of Oslo, Norway, May, 2003.
Outside member, dissertation committee (Dr, Maryellen Davis) University of North Carolina, 2003-07.
External examiner, Ph.D. Dissertation (Dr. Heidi Campbell) University of Edinburgh, 2002
External examiner, Ph.D. Dissertation (Dr. Kzrysztof Jozajtis) Sterling University, Scotland, 2001
External examiner ("opponent"), Ph.D. Dissertation (Dr. Alf Linderman) University of Uppsala, Sweden, May, 1995.
Co-Chair, division on Religion, Culture and Communication, American Academy of Religion, 2001 to present.
Chair, judging committee, National Awards of the Religion Newswriters Association, 1991-95.
Member, Board of Advisors, Center for Media and Religion, New York University, 2003 to present.
Editorial Board, Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 2006 to present.
Editorial Board, Journal of Media and Religion, 2002 to present.
Editorial Board, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1988-91.
Board of Directors, The Center for Media and Values, Los Angeles, 1985-91.
Board of Directors, Media Action Research Center (MARC), Inc., New York.
Chair, interest group on Meaning, Myth and Ritual, International Association for Media and Communication Research, 1984 to 1999.
Referee, Journal of Media and Religion.
Referee, Journal of Communication.
Referee, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
Referee, Sociology of Religion
Referee, Communication Research Trends. Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture, London.
Referee, Media Development.
Referee, Political Communication
Referee, The Journal of American History.
Referee, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
COURSES TAUGHT:
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO:
"Media Institutions," (undergraduate)
"Media History," (undergraduate)
"Mass Media and Society (undergraduate)
"Mass Media Theory," (graduate)
"History of Mass Communication," (graduate)
"Proseminar in Communication," (PhD proseminar)
"Media, Myth and Ritual," (graduate)
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA:
"Mass Media Research Methods," (graduate).
"Mass Media Sociology," (graduate).
"The Social Psychology of Communication," (graduate).
"Ethical Issues in Mass Communication," (graduate).
"Religion and Mass Communication," (graduate)
"Communication Networks and New Technologies," (undergraduate).
"The Broadcasting System," (undergraduate).
"International Telecommunication Policy," (undergraduate).
"Mass Media and Society," (undergraduate).
"The History of Broadcasting," (undergraduate).
"British Mass Media Institutions," (Temple London Program).
"International Communications," (Temple London Program).
SCHOOL SERVICE:
Member, Search Committee, 2006-07
Member, Diversity Committee, 2006-07
Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2005
Member, Personnel Committee, 2004
Member, Search Committees, Dean of SJMC, 2000-01 and 2002-03.
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, 2001-04
Chair, Media Studies Sequence, 1994-97
Member, Personnel Committee, 1992-1998
Member, Internal Faculty Committee, Center for Environmental Journalism, 1991 to present.
Chair, Ad-Hoc Graduate Curriculum Committee, 1991-92
Chair, Search Committees, 1994-95, 1998-99, and 2001-02
UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
Member, Campus Strategic Planning Committee, 2006-07
Member, Graduate School Executive Advisory Council, 2006 to present
Member, College of Arts and Sciences Unit Merit Advisory Committee, 2006
Member, Graduate Tuition and Enrollment Management Task Force, 2003-04
Member, Search Committee, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, 2003-04
Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, American Studies Program, 1995 to present
Member, Graduate School Executive Advisory Committee, 2001-02
Member, Vice Chancellor’s Advisory Committee, 2001-02
Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, Center of the American West, 1993-96
Member, Internal Review Committee, American Studies PRP review, 1995-96
Member, Boulder Faculty Assembly, 1993-1996
Member, Committee on Research and Creative Work, 1997-98
Member, Search Committee, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, 1997-98
DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED:
Myung-Jun Kim, "Coverage of the Korean War in the New York Times and Asahi Shimbun," (Temple University) (1990)
Sandy Kyrish, "Visions of the Future: Projections of Telecommunications Development," (Temple University) (1993)
Barbara Hanley, "Boundary Transgression in Television Content," (Temple University) (1994)
Shalini Venturelli, "Political Foundations of the Information Society in the European Union: Public Space in the Information Age" (1995)
Lynn Schofield Clark, "Identity, Discourse, and Media Audiences: A Critical Ethnography of the Role of Visual Media in Religious Identity-Construction Among U.S. Adolescents," (1998)
Jan Fernback, "The Wired Community: An Exploration of the Cultural Practices of the Citizens of Cyberspace," (1998)
David Shaw, "Public Commemoration and Ritual: The Case of the AIDS Memorial Quilt," (1998)
Douglas K. Wagner, "A Study of Policy and Discourse in Philippine Telecommunications," (1998)
Joseph G. Champ, “Spectacular Nature, the Media, and Environmental Understanding,” (2001).
Leona Hood, “Local News, Meaning, and Community,” (2001).
Edit Gorogh, “Androgyny in Media and Society,” (2002).
Diane F. Alters, “The Family Audience: Class, Taste, and Cultural Production in Late Modernity,” (2002).
Anna Maria Russo, “Single Parents, Media, and Family Identity,” (2003).
Tim Schoechle, “Standards in Global Telecommunications Policy,” (2004).
Monica Emerich, “The Spirituality of Sustainability,” (2006)
Nadia Kaneva, (anticipated, 2007)
Curtis Coats, (anticipated, 2008)