About MM&C

MM&C Student Biographies

 

Michelle Amazeen

Contact information:
Email: michelle.amazeen@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.S., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Advertising, 1992
  • B.S., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Advertising, 1991

Research interests:

Political communication, emotions in advertising, media ethics

Papers, presentations, and projects:

  • Amazeen, M. (2010, April 22). Emotions, attacks, and accuracy: The 2008 presidential advertising campaigns. Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association National Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Amazeen, M. (2009, November 20). Interpreting Obamas campaign successes from a social constructivist perspective. Paper presented at the Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Amazeen, M. (2009, November 5). Gap RED: Social responsibility campaign or false consciousness? Paper presented at the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association 2009 Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Amazeen, M. (2009, October 17). Making meaning of the Dole Godless Americans ad. Paper presented at the 70th Annual Pennsylvania Communication Association Conference, Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

Darren Bau-Madsen

Contact information:
Email: darren.bau-madsen@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.S., Colorado State University, Public Communication and Technology, 2009
  • B.A., University of Pennsylvania, English/Cognitive Science, 2002

Research interests:

Psychological processing of media, new media

Kathryn Beardsley

Contact information:
Email: kathryn.beardsley@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A., University of Pennsylvania, Liberal Arts, 2009
  • B.A., Cornell University, English and Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, 2007

Research interests:
Communication history, disability studies, cultural and historical constructions of difference in mass media, race and gender studies

Weidan Cao

Contact information:
Email: weidan@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A., Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, 2006
  • B.A., Jianghan University, English, 2004

Research interests:

Comic arts, intercultural communication, quantitative research methods

Angela Carter

Contact information:
Email: angela.carter@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.J., Temple University, 2003
  • B.A., West Chester University, Social Work, 1998

Research interests:
Representations of race and gender, media literacy, psychological
processing of media

John C. Church, Jr.

Contact information:
Email: jcchurch@temple.edu and jchurch@vfmac.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A., U. S. Naval War College, National Security and Strategic Studies, 2001
  • M.A., American University, Communication: Journalism and Public Affairs, 1998
  • B.S., United States Naval Academy, Political Science, 1989

Research interests:
Political communication and the history of service to country and community and how the processing and communication of such service was and is portrayed in the media

Papers, presentations, and projects:

  • Host of "Life Long Learning" which can be seen on Radnor Studio 21, Radnor Township, PA., (and on You Tube), featuring reviews of scholarly works

Maria Christina Cipollone

Contact information:
Email: mariacip@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2004, Liberal Arts
  • B.A., Dickinson College, 2001, English and Spanish

Research interests:

Media and identity construction, psychological processing of media, media and the cognitive process, US popular culture and representations of race

Angela M. Cirucci

Contact information:
Email: angela.cirucci@temple.edu
Web: http://www.angelacirucci.com

Degrees:

  • M.A., Temple University, 2011, Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media
  • B.A., Rowan University, 2007, Radio, Television and Film

Research interests:

Social media's effects on identity formation and perception of reality, social media and immersion, teen usage of new media, digital and media literacy

Papers, presentations, and projects:

  • Cirucci, A.M. (2011, October 27). Space telescopes and social media: Electronic consciousness extended, overheated and reversed? Part of a panel entitled Cosmic McLuhan: Space ages, space telescopes and spaceship earth. Paper to be presented at McLuhan's Philosophy of Media Centennial Conference in Brussels, Belgium.
  • Cirucci, A. M. (2011). First person paparazzi: A systematic analysis of identity and reality in social media and video games. Master's Thesis. Temple University: Philadelphia, PA.
  • Cirucci, A. M. & Scheirer, A. E. (2011). A tale of two teachers: Contrasting approaches to media literacy integration in the middle school. Paper presented at The Northeast Media Literacy Conference in Storrs, CT and at The NAMLE Conference in Philadelphia, PA.

Susannah Cobb

Contact information:
Email: susannah.cobb@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A., Villanova University, Communication, 2008
  • B.A., Eastern University, Communication Studies, 2006

Research interests:

New media, advertising, public relations, how social media is shifting the way organizations communicate with their audiences

David Crider

Contact information:
Email: david.crider@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A., Syracuse University, Media Studies, 2009
  • B.A., Susquehanna University, Mass Communications, 2000

Research interests:

Radio studies (in particular, industry practices and problems); effects of new media on audience fragmentation; the connection between broadcaster and audience

Papers, presentations, and projects:

  • Crider, D. (2009, August). Is There Anybody Out There?: How Radio Program Directors Target Today's Audience. Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications Convention Conference, Boston, MA.

Satarupa Dasgupta

Contact information:
Email: satarupa@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A., Temple University, Broadcasting, Telecommunications & Mass Media, 2006
  • M.A., Calcutta University, India, Journalism, 2003
  • B.A., Loreto College, Calcutta, India, English, 2001

Research interests:
Health communication, preventive journalism, popular culture, South Asian cinema

Katrina Flener

Contact information:
Email: kflener@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.S., Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Television and Radio, 2006
  • B.A., Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, Media/Culture, 1993

Research interests:
Political economy of media; current changes in the ways in which people produce and consume media, "liveness" and interactive television viewing; the intertwining of media and consumer cultures; media representations of drugs, drug users and drug policy

Michael Fuller

Contact information:
Email: tuc15308@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.F.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Painting, 1991
  • B.F.A., State University of New York at Binghamton, Drawing, 1986

Research interests:

Communication between peripheries and centers, decolonization, legitimacy

Yvonne Fulmore

Contact information:
Email: yfulmore@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.F.A., State University of New York at Buffalo, Media Arts Production, 2010
  • B.A., Wellesley College, Media Arts and Sciences (with a concentration in Media Arts), 2007

Research interests:

Educational media production, image representation and media depictions of race and gender with a concentration on Black women, digital arts/interactive media, animation

Thomas Gallagher

Contact information:

Email: tgallagher85@gmail.com

Degrees:

  • M.A., Fordham University, 2010
  • B.A., LeMoyne College, 2007

Research interests:

Political communication, broadcast journalism, politically focused new media, media representations of popular culture

Kelly C. George

Contact information:

Email: kelly.george@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A., Emerson College, Health Communication, 2008
  • B.A., Rutgers College, Rutgers University, English and Theater, 2000

Research interests:

Disability studies, strategic communication, non-profit organizations, health communication, qualitative research methods

Maxine Gesualdi

Contact information:

Email:maxinegesualdi@gmail.com

Degrees:

  • M.A., West Chester University of PA, Communication Studies, 2011
  • B.S., West Virginia University, Journalism, 1997

Research interests:

Public relations, integrated marketing communication, corporate reputation especially as created in online channels, social media, Cultural Studies and the cultural construct of "working mother"

Linda Greenwood

Contact information:
Email: greenwood01@comcast.net

Degrees:

  • M.A., Temple University, Rhetoric & Communication, 1997
  • B.A., Rutgers University, English, 1994

Research interests:
Political communication & new media, psychological processing of media, social impact of technology, visual communication

Papers, presentations, and projects:

  • I am currently writing my dissertation proposal entitled: "The effects of presence and flow on political knowledge, interest, efficacy, and participation"
  • "The distance education evolution: issues and case studies" co-editor of book for Idea Group Publishers (in press; 2003)
  • "Convergent interests and divergent perspectives: The marketplace of ideas and knowledge building in a new media environment" paper presented at WWDU conference (2002)
  • "A framework for studying comic art" co-authored chapter published in The International Journal of Comic Art (1999)
  • "A semiotic analysis of media representations in comic art" (1998) paper presented at MMC research forum
  • "Politics in the age of information: Promise or peril? (1997) paper presented at IAMCR conference

Constanta Alina Hogea

Contact information:
Email: constanta.hogea@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A., New School for General Studies, Media Studies, 2007
  • M.A., University of Bucharest, Romania, Mass Media Management, 1999
  • B.A., University of Bucharest, Romania, Journalism, 1998

Research interests:
Social change, communication and public policy, globalization, media ethics

Jaehyeon Jeong

Contact information:
Email: jeongljjy@gmail.com

Degrees:

  • M.A., New York University, Media, Culture, and Communication, 2009
  • M.A., Yeonsei University, Visual Communication, 2006
  • B.A., Seoul National University, Anthropology, 2002

Research interests:

Genre studies on comic arts, cultural studies on media, globalization and localization, cultural hybridization in the mediascape

Papers, presentations, and projects:

  • "A study on the genre development and transformation of the Korean Comics: Focusing on Gourmet Comics.” Thesis presented at the Korean Society for Journalism & Communication Studies (2006)
  • "A study on the outsourcing policies of foreign TV networks and a way of applying to the domestic market." Co-researcher of a research project of Korean Broadcasting Commission (2006)

Russell Johnson

Contact information:
Email: tuc14411@temple.edu

Degrees:

Research interests:

 

Rachel Jones

Contact information:
Email: rachelcjones@gmail.com

Degrees:

  • M.F.A., Boston University, Film Studies, 2007
  • B.F.A., New York University, Film & Television Production, 2002

Research interests:

Reception of American media in developing nations, camera as a vehicle for social change, gender studies, intercultural communication, social impact of technology

Juoak Kim

Contact information:
Email: juoak.kim@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.F.A., Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Television Production, 2009
  • M.A., Seoul National University, Communication, 2006
  • B.A., Seoul National University, Korean Education and Communication, 2001

Research interests:

Global communication, media production and industries, media in education, digital storytelling, narratives and representation of culture, the construction of identity through media

Papers, presentations, and projects:

  • Kim, J. (2010) The Edge of Heaven, Documentary Film Broadcasted on CUNY-TV and Screened at the Brecht Forum Center, Williamson Theater in College of Staten Island and The 32nd Asian American International Film Festival, New York, NY.
  • Kim, J. (2010). Minority’s Beacon: Uses of Documentary Film in the Classroom. Paper presented at the Cultural Studies Association Conference, Berkeley, CA.
  • Kim, J. (2010). Why did Ninjas come from Korea? Paper presented at the Cultural Studies Association Conference, Berkeley, CA.
  • Kim, J. (2009). The Wasted Land 'Little Pakistan': Discursive Change of American National Identity after 9/11. Paper Presented at the Cultural Studies Association Conference, Kansas City, MO.
  • Kim, J. (2008). Aspects of Media Globalization in Contemporary Korea. Paper Presented at the Cultural Studies Association Conference, New York, NY.
  • Kim, J. (2006). The Changes of TV Historical Documentary in Globalization. Journal of Program/Text, 15, 73~104.
  • Kim, J. (2006). A New Globalization Strategy of Korean Television Programs: Asian Values.  Paper Presented at the Asian Culture Forum, Gwangju, Korea.

Jessica Knab

Contact information:
Email: jessica.knab@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.Ed., University of Pittsburgh, Secondary English Education, 2007
  • B.A., University of Pittsburgh, English Writing - Journalism, 2005

Research interests:

Communication and education, media literacy

Byron Lee

Contact information:
Email: byron.lee@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A., Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada, Women's Studies, 2007
  • B.A., Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada, Sociology, 2004

Research interests:
Gender and sexuality studies, ethnic studies, citizenship, construction and representations of identity, social networking, urban geography, cultural studies

Papers, presentations, and projects:

  • Lee, B. (2011, May). "Traveling to the Other, to the Self: Advertising "Places" to a "Gay" Community." Virtual/Online paper presented at the International Communication Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Lee, B. (2011, March). "Community History for Sale: Marketing a GLBT Past." Paper presented at the Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, USA
  • Lee, B. (2010, November). "Don't Look for Me: Decolonizing postcolonial ethnography." Paper presented at the National Communication Association Conference, San Francisco, California, USA
  • Lee, B. (2010, August). "Breeding Masculinities: Bareback pornography and the fluid phallus." Poster presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Convention, Denver, Colorado, USA
  • Lee, B. (2010, May). "Managing Public Representations of Community Memory: Gayborhoods as archival exhibitions of everyday life." Paper presented at The Archive and Everyday Life, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Hojeong Lee

Contact information:
Email: hojeong.lee@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A., New York University, Media, Culture and Communication, 2009
  • M.A., Yonsei University, Visual Communication, 2006
  • B.A., Ewha Womans University, Economics, 2003

Research interests:

Globalization, audience studies, interaction between society and people through media, political dynamics

Marc Londo

Contact information:
Email: marc.londo@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A., University of Central Florida, Communication, 2006
  • B.S., University of Houston, Houston, Texas, Psychology, 2001

Research interests:
Psychological processing of media, uses and gratifications, popular culture, intercultural communication, comic art, African American studies

Papers, presentations, and projects:

  • Londo, M. A. (March 2006). A Social Cognitive Approach Towards Understanding the Effects of Popular Poker Television Shows on College Students. Oral presentation at the 3rd Annual Showcase of Diverse Student Research. University of Central Florida. Orlando, Fl.
  • Londo, M. A. "A Social Cognitive Approach Towards Understanding the Effects of Popular Poker Television Shows on College Students." Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, National Convention, Entertainment Studies Division, San Francisco, CA, 2006. Selected as one of the Top 5 papers.
  • Londo, M. A., Santana, M.C. Modeling a Media Phenomenon: Texas Hold Em. Saarbrücken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010.
  • Londo, M. A., Santana, Maria Cristina. (in press). Table Manners: A Retrospective on the Online Poker Craze. Web Journal of Mass Communication Research.
  • Londo, M. A. (in press). Review: Piled Higher and Deeper Comics. International Journal of Comic Art.
  • Londo, M. A. (in press). Mr. Tap. International Journal of Comic Art.

Heidi Mau


Contact information:

Email: heidi.mau@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.F.A., Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, Film & Media Arts, 1997
  • B.S., Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, Arts & Media, 1985

Research interests:

Film and media studies, new media, digital culture, visual communication, gender and sexuality

Brian McFadden

Contact information:
Email: bfadds@gmail.com
Website (part-time blog): http://themediaevolution.wordpress.com

Degrees:

  • M.A., Fordham University, Public Communication, 2008
  • B.A., Fordham University, (1) Communication & Media Studies and (2) Classical Civilizations, 2007

Research interests:
Social networking, web-based dramaturgical relationships, identity and representation, sports broadcasting, new media

Melissa R. Meade

Contact information:
Email: melimeade@yahoo.com

Degrees:

  • M.S.Ed., University of Pennsylvania, Sociolinguistics and Intercultural Communication with a Graduate Certificate in the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
  • M.S., University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain, Intercultural Studies
  • B.A., Albright College, Spanish, English, and Women’s Studies

Research interests:
International and intercultural communication issues

Papers, presentations, and projects:

[Selected papers and presentations]

  • Undocumented Immigrant Voices in the Public Sphere: A Case Study. National Communication Association. New Orleans, LA, November 2011. (Forthcoming.)
  • Violence, Oppression, and Double Standards in Three Colombian Films. Films as Spaces of Cultural Encounters Conference. Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2011.
  • Racial Hegemony and Myth. Hegemony and the Image Conference. Klagenfurt University, Klagenfurt. Austria, May 2011.
  • An Immigrant Counterpublic in the Time of the Arizona Law. Cornell University. Youth, Identities, and Transnational Flows. Ithaca, NY, March 2011.
  • War and Peace Journalism in Basque and Spanish Print Media. Fifth Global Temple Conference. Temple University. Philadelphia, PA, Nov 2010.
  • The Myth of Freedom of Expression in the U.S. National Discourse. Pennsylvania Communication Association Conference, East Stroudsburg, PA, Oct 2010.
  • Beautiful Penn Wimmin' [sic] Writing in a Room of Their Own. University of Notre Dame. Gender, Place, and Space Conference. South Bend, IN, March 2010.
  • International School of Communications. Fourth Global Temple Conference. Temple University. Philadelphia, PA, Nov 2009.
  • Actividades de Formacion para Mejorar Interacciones y Habilidades Interculturales. University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, October 2001.

[Invited lectures]

  • Speaking about the U.S. While Abroad. Rotary International Peace and Ambassadorial Scholar Conference Keynote Speaker. Freedom Foundation. Valley Forge, PA, June 2004.
  • Reflections on the Spanish Election: 3/11, the Civil War, ETA, and the European Union. Rotary District Conference plenary address. Scranton, PA, April 2004.
  • International Educational Exchange as a Pathway to Peace. Rotary District Conference plenary address. Hagerstown, MD, May 2003.
  • International Educational Exchange as a Means to Achieve Intercultural Understanding. Rotary International Conference plenary address. Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, April 2003.
  • North American Perspectives on Witnessing 9/11 Attacks while Living Abroad. Antenna 3 News Series, San Sebastian, Spain, Sept 2001.

[Film]

  • Shenandoah, PA. Pennsylvania Communication Association. Westminster College. New Wilmington, PA. October 2011. (Forthcoming).

Kelly Mendoza

Contact information:
Email: kmendoza@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A., Communication, University of Colorado at Denver, 2002
  • B.A., Communication and Visual Arts, Regis University, 1999

Research interests:
Media literacy, health communication, feminist studies, media criticism, rhetoric in media

Papers, presentations, and projects:

  • Walkosz, B., Campbell, K., & Mendoza, K. "A Multi-theoretical model: Smoking, Movies, and Media Literacy." National Communication Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2005.
  • Walkosz, B., Campbell, K., & Mendoza, K.  "TEAM:  Tobacco Education and Media."  Presented at the National Media Education Conference, San Francisco, California, June, 2005. 
  • Mendoza, Kelly.  "Coping with Loss:  U2's 'One Tree Hill'."  Rhetorical Criticism:  Exploration and Practice, 3rd ed. By Sonja K. Foss. Prospect Heights, IL:  Waveland, 2004, pp.  136-38.
  • Mendoza, Kelly. "Feminism:  An Individual Movement."  Presented at the Western States Communication Association Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2004.
  • [Mendoza] O'Connor, Kelly M. "Welcoming the Light:  Exploring Invitational Rhetoric in James Turrell's Artworks." Presented at the National Communication Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2002. 
  • [Mendoza] O'Connor, Kelly M.  "Cultural Differences in Embarrassment."  Presented at the Rocky Mountain Communication Association Conference, Denver, Colorado, February 2002.
  • [Mendoza] O'Connor, Kelly M.  "Images of the Elderly in Magazine Advertising."  Presented at the Colorado Speech Communication Conference, Denver, Colorado, February 2000.

Jennifer Midberry


Contact information:

Email: jmidberry@gmail.com

Degrees:

  • M.A., New York University, Near Eastern Studies, 2007
  • B.A., Messiah College, Journalism, 2001

Research interests:

Visual communication and photojournalism, intercultural communication, media coverage of conflict and representations of the Middle East

Alanna Miller


Contact information:

Email: alannarmiller@gmail.com

Degrees:

  • M.A., Syracuse University, Television, Radio, and Film 2006
  • B.A. University of Maryland, College Park, Journalism 2004

Research interests:

Film and television studies, popular culture, cultural and critical studies, ideology in science fiction and cult media, interactive media

Armando Morales

Contact information:

Email: armando.morales@gmail.com

Degrees:

  • M.J., Temple University, 2008
  • B.A., University of Pennsylvania, English, 2004

Research interests:

International media, Latin America and specifically Cuba, press relationships with governments and institutions

Stephanie Morrow

Contact information:

Email: stephmorrow72@yahoo.com

Degrees:

  • M.J., Temple University
  • B.A., West Chester University, Communications

Research interests:
Political communication, public relations, communication history

Papers, presentations, and projects:

  • Morrow, S. "Political Agenda Setting: A Comparison of Coverage of the 2008 Election." Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2009.

Eloise Murphy

Contact information:
Email: eloise.murphy@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.S., Drexel University, Communication, 2010
  • B.S., Drexel University, Communication and Applied Technology, 2006

Research interests:

Critical analysis of political rhetoric

Heather Muse

Contact information:
Email: hmuse@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A., University of Georgia, Journalism and Mass Communication, 2003
  • B.A., New York University, Journalism and Mass Communication, 1996

Research interests:
Popular culture, press coverage of popular culture (especially television), mythology in journalism, critical theory, cultural studies, television studies

Stephanie Palmieri

Contact information:
Email: stephanie.palmieri@temple.edu
Web: http://sjp2.wikispaces.com/

Degrees:

  • M.A., Lehigh University, Secondary Education, 2009
  • B.A., Lehigh University, English, 2007

Research interests:

Representations of gender and sexual violence in media, psychological processing of media, media literacy

Lingling Pan

Contact information:
Email: lpan@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A., Sichuan University, Chengdu, P.R. China, 2004
  • B.A., Hubei University, Wuhan, P.R. China, 2001

Research interests:
Deliberation and political communication, Chinese media and society, social implications of new media technologies

Tina L. Peterson

Contact information:
Email: tina.peterson@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A., University of Nottingham (UK), Critical Theory & Cultural Studies, 2003
  • B.S., University of Colorado, Media Studies, 2000

Research interests:
Media literacy, globalization, international advertising, media effects on dietary choices and food cultures, construction of identity

Michael Plugh

Contact information:
Email: mike@plugh.net

Degrees:

  • M.A., Fordham University, Public Communication
  • B.A., Marist College, Communications

Research interests:
Collaboration, collaborative education, public discourse, media ecology, general semantics

Papers, presentations, and projects:

  • Plugh, M. (2010). The Quaker Tradition: Meaning in Silence. Presented at the Institute of General Semantics symposium in New York, NY in October, 2010.

Elizaveta Provorova

Contact information:
Email: e.provorova@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • Ph.D., St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, Cultural studies, 2008
  • B.A., St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, Cultural studies, 2005

Research interests:
Television studies, audience studies, impact of the foreign mass media and globalization studies

Papers, presentations, and projects:

[Publications]

  • Provorova, Elizaveta. 2010. Translation and afterword of the article: Peering through the Crack & good-bye to all that: 30 years of TV, telephones, sports, drugs, etc. by Elli Lester Roushanzamir (Qualitative Inquiry, 2009, V.15, #1). Studia culturae. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Philosophical society. pp. 278-296.
  • Provorova, Elizaveta. 2008. "Homosexuality and postmodernity. Shifting normativity limits." Bulletin of Herzen State Pedagogical University, 23(54). St. Petersburg: Herzen State Pedagogical University. pp. 118-124.
  • Provorova, Elizaveta. 2007. "The correlation between sanctions that follow breaking of social norms and the stability of the society." Philosophy of Culture and Cultural Studies: challenges and solutions (Round table proceedings). St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Philosophical society. pp. 276-385.

  • Provorova, Elizaveta. 2006. "The problematic nature of the ontological status of norms." Philosophy of Culture and Cultural Studies: challenges and solutions (Round table proceedings). St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Philosophical society. pp. 298-302
  • Provorova, Elizaveta. 2006. "Lost in a crowd. Norms and a genius." Studia culturae. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Philosophical society. pp. 182-185.

[Presentations]

  • Graduate Fellows Research Symposium, Temple University: "Low-quality translation and dubbing of American television programs broadcast in Russia." Philadelphia, USA. September 2011.
  • E-Youth: Balancing Between Opportunities and Risks? (international conference): "Young people and the freedom of the Internet: a comparative study of the influences of cultural contexts on self-nicknaming practices in Iranian and Russian chat rooms" (in collaboration with Reza Jarvandi). Antwerp, Belgium. 2010.
  • Philosophy of Culture and Cultural Studies: challenges and solutions (round table discussion): "The correlation between sanctions that follow breaking of social norms and the stability of the society." St. Petersburg, Russia. 2007.
  • Philosophy of Culture and Cultural Studies: challenges and solutions (round table discussion): "The problematic nature of the ontological status of norms", St. Petersburg, Russia. 2006.

Mary Beth Ray

Contact information:
Email: meray@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A., Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, Media Studies, 2006
  • B.S., Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, Graphic Design, 2003

Research interests:
Social networking, internet culture, popular culture, subcultures, youth culture

Michael RobbGrieco

Contact information:
Email: robbgrieco@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A.T., University of New Hampshire, Secondary English
  • B.A., Bucknell University, English

Research interests:
Media literacy (in relation to K-12 education, academic achievement, civic engagement, adolescent identity, urban learners, critical and constructivist pedagogy, teacher education, and parental involvement in children’s media use); remix culture; remix practice as a component of literacy (appropriation, modification and distribution of digital texts for new purposes and contexts as a means of cultural participation); teaching and learning about copyright and fair use; music and adolescent identity

Papers, presentations, and projects:

[Publications]

  • RobbGrieco, M. & Hobbs, R., joint authors (2010, in press). Passive Dupes, Code-Breakers, & Savvy Users: Theorizing Media Literacy in English Language Arts. In D. Lapp & D. Fisher (eds.) Handbook on Research in English Language Arts. Routledge, NY.
  • RobbGrieco, M. and Renee Hobbs. (2009, March). Media Use & Academic Achievement among African-American Elementary Children. Philadelphia: Temple University.
    Online: http://mediaeducationlab.com/publications/list. Presented at Broadcast Educators Association conference, Las Vegas, in April 2009. Academic revision seeking publication in Journal of Media & Children.
  • RobbGrieco, M. Perez, A.C., Moore, D., Dainoff, B., Kiser, E.C. and Hobbs, R.. (2008, April). It’s a Media World After All: A Survey of Children’s Media and Technology Use. Philadelphia: Temple University. Online: http://mediaeducationlab.com/publications/list
  • Hobbs, R., and RobbGrieco, M. (2007). The National Media Education Conference helps strengthen the field. Youth Media Reporter 3(1), July 31, 2007.

[Presentations]

  • RobbGrieco, M. (2010). Developing Multimedia Texts to Teach Copyright & Fair Use. Presented at Popular Culture Association conference in St. Louis, MO in April, 2010.
  • RobbGrieco, M. (2009). Bridges, Carrots, and Vehicles: How Pre-Service English Teachers Intend to Use Non-Print and Print Media for Teaching and Learning. Paper presented at National Council for Teachers of English conference, Philadelphia, PA, November, 2009.
  • RobbGrieco, M. (2009). Remix as Composition. Presented on a panel entitled Digital Learning and the Fair Use of Web 2.0 Texts and Technologies at the Conference of College Composition and Communication in San Francisco, CA in March 2009.
  • RobbGrieco, M. (2008). Working-in critical thinking: Introducing media literacy in vocational communication arts. Action research presented in a panel entitled The Media Education Lab:  Creating university-community partnerships in media literacy at the National Communication Association conference in San Diego, CA, November, 2008.
  • RobbGrieco, M. (2008). Mash-up, mix-down: Mapping remix discourses towards and understanding of the educational possibilities of remix practice. Presented as part of a panel presentation entitled Cut, paste, learn: Educational affordances of remix practice (RobbGrieco, panel chair) for Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 2008.
  • RobbGrieco, M. (2007). Top five songs at my funeral: Using music tastes for critical inquiry. Presented at National Media Educators Conference (NMEC), St. Louis, MO, June 2007.
  • RobbGrieco, M. (2006). Roles of Media in Adolescent Identity. Presented at Temple University School of Communications and Theater Competitive Research Forum, February 2007.

Kelly K. Ryan

Contact information:
Email: keisryan@earthlink.net

Degrees:

  • M.A., Media Studies, New School University, 2004
  • B.A., English, Temple University, 1996

Research interests:
Online identity construction, cyberculture studies, media ownership issues, media literacy, political economy of information, history of advertising

Papers, presentations, and projects:

  • Ryan, K. K. (2002, October). Click on me: Identity as commodity in the digital age. Paper presented at New School University Critical Themes in Media Studies yearly conference.
  • Ryan, K. K. (2002, October). The whole world in its hands: The global reach of Coca-cola. Paper presented at New York State Communications Association yearly conference.

Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri

Contact information:
Email: tuc16440@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A., New York University, Cinema Studies
  • B.A., Trinity College, Hartford, CT

Research interests:

Film studies; documentary film; Iranian cinema; cinema, culture and representation

Papers, presentations, and projects:

[Presentations]

  • "Images of Iranian Women in Film." February 2010, presented at Southwest Texas Popular Culture, American Culture Association. Albuquerque, NM.
  • "Women in Iranian War Cinema." June, 2008. St. Andrews University Conference on Iranian Cinema. St. Andrews, Scotland.

[Selected Filmography]

  • Cinema Encounters in Tehran, 2009, broadcast on Link TV.
  • Caught Between Two Worlds, 2008, distributed by Arab Films.
  • Women Like Us, 2002, distributed by Women Make Movies, Broadcast on PBS.
  • A Place Called Home, 1998, distributed by Women Make Movies.

Michael T. Schuyler

Contact information:
Email: profmike89@aol.com

Degrees:

  • M.A., New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Cinema Studies, 2002
  • M.A., City University of New York, Hunter College, Literature, 2000
  • B.A., City University of New York, College of Staten Island, English, 1993

Research interests:
Representations of queerness, gender, race, and ethnicity; post-colonialism; film; television; camp; pornography; production and reception; HIV in the media

Papers, presentations, and projects:

  • "'Traffic was a bitch': Gender, Race and Spectatorship in Robert
    Altman's The Player." JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory. Summer
    2005: 218-47.
  • "Camp for Camp's Sake: Absolutely Fabulous, Self-Consciousness,
    and the Mae West Debate." Journal of Film and Video. Winter 2004:
    3-20.

Chad Sims

Contact information:
Email: chad.sims@temple.edu

Degrees:

Research interests:

Film studies, video essay, psychoanalytic theory

Sam Srauy

Contact info:

Email: ssrauy@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A., California State University, Fresno, 2006
  • B.A., California State University, Fresno, 2003

Research interests:

Political communication, new media, media structures, development communication, municipal wireless network

Laura Stephenson

Contact information:
Email: laurajohnay@gmail.com

Degrees:

  • M.A., University of Pennsylvania, Communication, 2000
  • B.A., Stanford University, Sociology, 1997

Research interests:

Children and media, media literacy, and parental mediation

Siobahn (Tara) Stiles

Contact information:
Email: tara.stiles@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.A., Fordham University, Communications and Media Studies, 2005
  • B.A., Fordham University, English and Creative Writing, 2003

Research interests:
Development communication, discourse analysis, globalization, and women's studies, with a specific concentration on the mass media's influence and involvement with human sex trafficking


Chiaoning Su

Contact information:
Email: chiaoning.su@temple.edu; misia_misia@hotmail.com

Degrees:

  • M.A., Emerson College, Boston, Management and Organizational Communication, 2003
  • B.A., National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Sociology, 2001

Research interests:
Cultural studies, popular culture, consumer culture and modernity, culture commodity, globalization, international communication, culture imperialism



HaeLim Suh

Contact information:
Email: haelimsuh@gmail.com

Degrees:

  • M.A., Ewha University, Media Studies, 2003
  • B.A., Ewha University, Mass Communication, 2000

Research interests:
International film industry, gender representation in intercultural communication, audience studies of digital media and online games

Carrie Teresa

Contact information:
Email: cateresa@gmail.com

Degrees:

Research interests:

Diane Varner

Contact information:
Email: diane.varner@temple.edu

Degrees:

  • M.S., Oklahoma State University, Mass Communications, 2005
  • Graduate Certificate in International Studies, Oklahoma State University, 2005
  • B.J., University of Missouri, Magazine Journalism, 1996

Research interests:
Globalization and news, journalism, journalistic ethics, social cognitive theory and its relation to values and the news media, mediation of meaning between news organizations and their audiences

Yuanxin Wang

Contact information:
Email: yuanxin.wang@gmail.com

Degrees:

  • M.Phil., Hong Kong Baptist University

Research interests:
Media effects, new media study, environmental communication

Papers, presentations, and projects:

  • Wang, Y. (20110, February). New media public participation in environmental decision-making (EDM) in China: A case study of 'text protest' in Xiamen. Paper presented in WSCA, Monterrey, California.