publications
talks & works-in-progress
“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.
“The Authenticity Bind: From Flappers to Facebook.” Public lecture, Annenberg Scholars Program in Culture and Communication, University of Pennsylvania, April 7, 2009. (Revised version delivered at Blowing Up the Brand: Critical Perspectives on Promotional Paradigms, New York University, May 9, 2009, and at Drexel University, October 30, 2009)
publications
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.
& 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.