Professor Stewart M. Hoover
Armory 102A
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Colorado at Boulder
1511 University Ave.
478 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Stewart.Hoover@Colorado.edu
303-492-4833 phone
303-492-0969 fax

Professor Stewart M. Hoover joined the faculty in 1991 after seven years at Temple University in Philadelphia where he was associate dean for research and graduate studies in the School of Communications and Theatre. Professor Hoover’s research concentrates on qualitative studies of media audiences, looking at questions of communication and culture and the implications of media technologies and technological change. His work has focused on meaning and identity as constructed through media practice in the context of domestic and everyday life. He is particularly well known for his work on religion and media, looking most recently at how mediated popular and commercial culture serves as a context for meaning-making of the kinds traditionally (though no longer necessarily) thought of as "religious." He has received major research funding to carry out studies and explorations of these issues, and has been actively involved in developing an international scholarly discourse on religion and media. He directs the School’s Center for Media, Religion and Culture.  He is the author of four books and the co-editor of three others, and holds MA and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School.

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