publications
talks & works-in-progress
“From Psychological Warfare to Social Justice: Shifts in Foundation Support for Communication Research.” To be published in Media & Social Justice, ed. Sue Curry Jansen, Jefferson Pooley, and Lora Taub-Pervizpour (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).
“Another Plea for the University Tradition: The Institutional Roots of Intellectual Compromise,” Making the University Matter, symposium of the Annenberg Scholars Program in Culture and Communication, University of Pennsylvania, December 5, 2009.
publications
2010
“The Consuming Self: From Flappers to Facebook.” In Blowing Up the Brand: Critical Perspectives on Promotional Culture, edited by Melissa Aronczyk and Devon Powers, New York: Peter Lang, 2010.
“Mnemonic Multiples: The Case of the Columbia Panel Studies.” Timelines 15 (2010): 7-11.
2009
“[Book Review] Caesarism, Charisma and Fate, By Peter Baehr.” Canadian Journal of Sociology 34, no. 1 (2009): 165-68.
“[Book Review] Media and Social Theory, edited by David Hesmondhalgh and Jason Toynbee.” Contemporary Sociology 38, no. 5 (2009): 404-406.
2008
& David Park, (eds.) The History of Media and Communication Research: Contested Memories. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. [Reviews]
& David Park. “Introduction.” In The History of Media and Communication Research: Contested Memories, 1-15. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.
“The New History of Mass Communication Research.” In The History of Media and Communication Research: Contested Memories, 43-69. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.
& Elihu Katz. “Further Notes on Why American Sociology Abandoned Mass Communication Research.” Journal of Communication 58 (2008): 767-86.
2007
“Edward Shils’ Turn Against Karl Mannheim: The Central European Connection.” The American Sociologist 38, no. 4 (2007): 364-82.
“Straight By Day, Swingers By Night: Re-Reading Daniel Bell on Capitalism and Its Culture.” Review of Communication 7, no. 4 (2007): 401-10.
“Daniel Czitrom, James W. Carey, and the Chicago School.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 24, no. 5 (2007): 469-72.
2006
“Fifteen Pages That Shook the Field: Personal Influence, Edward Shils, and the Remembered History of Mass Communication Research.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 608, no. 1 (2006): 130-56.
An Accident of Memory: Edward Shils, Paul Lazarsfeld and the History of American Mass Communication Research. PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 2006.
2005
“[Book Review] Canonic Texts in Media Research: Are There Any? How About These?” The Journal of Communication 55, no. 1 (2005): 199-203.