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 hoover@colorado.edu
Dr. Hoover is Professor and Director
of the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture at the University
of Colorado. He earned his Ph.D. in mass communication at the
University of Pennsylvania and also holds an M.A. in ethics.
His research interests are in reception studies of media audiences
and the related cultural implications. He has focused on studies
of media and religion, looking first at the phenomenon of televangelism,
and later at the cultural and discursive construction of religion
by the press.
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lynn.clark@colorado.edu
www.mediameaning.org
Dr. Clark is Assistant Professor
at the University of Denver's School of Communication,
where she directs the Estlow International Center for Journalism
and New Media and continues to specialize
in research on the media uses of teens and their families.
From 2001-2006, Dr. Clark served as Assistant Research
Professor and Director of the Teens and the New Media @Home
project and co-Principal Investigator on the Symbolism, Meaning,
and the New Media @ Home project under what is now the Center
for Media, Religion, and Culture. From 1998-2001, she served
as Post-Doctoral Fellow and Associate Investigator on the
Symbolism, Meaning, and the Lifecourse project. Prior to
entering graduate school at the University of Colorado, Clark
worked in higher education journalism and advocacy journalism,
both in print and for tv.
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dalters@denverpost.com
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Dr. Alters is an award-winning journalist working as Assistant
City Editor at the Denver Post. A graduate
of the doctoral program in media studies at the University
of Colorado at Boulder, Diane is a co-author of Media,
Home, and Family, and has published scholarly articles and book chapters
on identity issues and the application of social theory to
case studies. Prior to her doctoral studies, Diane had been
a reporter or editor at several newspapers, including The
Boston Globe, The Sacramento Bee, and The
Colorado Springs Gazette. At The
Globe, she covered
the presidential campaign of George Bush in 1988. |
scott.webber@colorado.edu
Dr. Webber manages a company focused on market research. A
Ph.D. graduate of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication
at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Scott has published
on lower-income families and the introduction of ICTs into
their homes and has also conducted ethnographic research exploring
the use of computers and the Internet in elementary schools.
He served as a project interviewer, analyst, co-author, and
dissertation fellowship coordinator. After receiving an M.A.
in Radio and Television from San Francisco State University
in 1997, Scott returned to Southern California where he worked
for two years in the prime-time television department of Creative
Artists Agency in Beverly Hills and experienced the joy of
low pay and long hours as a production assistant on the pilot
episode of C-16, a short-lived television series that aired
on ABC in 1997. |
cdemonth@du.edu
Dr. Demont-Heinrich is an Assistant Professor at the University
of Denver. As a doctoral candidate at the CU-Boulder
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Christof served
as an interviewer, analyst, and co-author. He is interested
in the relation between media, identity, power, language and
globalization and has published extensively on these issues.
Prior to entering graduate school, Christof was a journalist
for several different newspapers.
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annamaria.russo@colorado.edu
Dr. Russo is a graduate
of the doctoral program in media studies at the University
of Colorado at Boulder. She is interested in questions of
media and identity, particularly as they relate to single
parents and their children. As a doctoral student, she served
on the project as an interviewer, analyst, and co-author. |
monica.emerich@colorado.edu
Dr. Emerich is a graduate of the School
of Journalism and Mass Communication and she is the first
Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Center for Media, Religion, and
Culture. Her research focuses on the Healthy Living Industries
and their media, with particular interest in how these media
create and maintain rhetoric that links spirituality with issues
of global economic sustainability. She is also interested in
how Celtic Neo-Pagan groups use the Internet for purposes of
political organization, worship and community building. A working
journalist for 25 years for trade and consumer publications,
her area of specialty is lifestyles of health and sustainability
(LOHAS) including natural health, natural and organic products
and agriculture, and socially responsible business practices.
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jin.park@colorado.edu
Dr. Park is an Assistant Professor and graduate of the doctoral
program at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Jin is interested in the relationships between the media and
religion; religion as a component for audiences' cultural text
reading; religioius and ethnic identity construction and media
use; and audiences' religious use of the Internet. He served
as a project interviewer and analyst. He holds a B.A. degree
in Mass Communication from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea,
and an M.A. degree in Journalism from the University of Texas
at Austin. |
michelle.miles@colorado.edu
Michelle served as a project interviewer, analyst, and co-author
for the research efforts at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
She is interested in films and television programs that depict
interracial relationships. |
denice.walker@colorado.edu
Denice served as a project interviewer and analyst for the
research efforts at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
She is interested in practices of memorialization and the material
and mediated artifacts that give these practices meaning for
participants while also sustaining dominant ideological patterns
in society. |
joe.champ@colorado.edu
Dr. Champ is an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University.
Joe graduated from the University of Colorado's School of Journalism
and Mass Communication in the spring of 2001. As a research team
member, Joseph interviewed families with younger and older children.
He specializes in the role of media in environmental meaning making.
Before returning to school, Joseph spent ten years in broadcast television
in the upper Midwest, working as a news reporter, photographer, anchor,
and documentary producer. |
lee.hood@colorado.edu
Dr. Hood is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado
at Boulder. As a research team member, Dr. Hood interviewed families
with young children and contributed expertise in the interpretation
of electronic news. She served as a co-author on Media, Home, and
Family and presented several academic papers based on research team
research. An Emmy award-winning news producer in Denver (KUSA)
before returning to higher education, Lee has worked as a freelance
producer and writer at KCNC in Denver and also has experience in
radio and newspapers. She is currently conducting research on the
impact of nationally owned radio stations on small local markets. |
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