Assistant Research Professor Lynn Schofield Clark


Assistant Research Professor Lynn Schofield Clark (Ph.D. '98) taught a new undergraduate course this semester, “Doing Media Research on the Music Industry.” The course examines the economic and organizational relationships between music and media industries. It focuses on how new media, such as MP3s and file-sharing, has fundamentally changed the industry as a whole. The class Web site is spot.colorado.edu/~clarkl/musicclass.htm.

Last year, Clark had her first independent book published, “From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural.” It received the 2003 Best Scholarly Book Award from the National Communication Association's Ethnography Division and has been reviewed in a variety of publications including Washington Post Book World, Publisher's Weekly, Choice Magazine and Christianity Today.

Routledge Press has published a book co-authored by Clark and a number of other faculty members and Ph.D. graduates of the School. The book is titled “Media, Home and Family” and was written by Clark, Professor Stewart Hoover, Diane Alters (Ph.D. '02), Joseph Champ (Ph.D. '01) and Assistant Professor Lee Hood (Ph.D. '00).

Clark was also elected vice chair and chair-elect of the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association.