Andrew Calabrese

Professor

Universityof Colorado

November2007

 

Address

School ofJournalism and Mass Communication

Universityof Colorado

Campus Box478

Boulder,CO 80309

USA

 

E-mail: andrew.calabrese@colorado.edu

 

 

Education

 

 

1988

Ph.D., Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

 

1983

M.A., Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

 

1979

B.A., Denison University, Granville, Ohio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professional Experience

 

7/05 – present

Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder.

 

8/95 – 6/05

 

1/98 –  6/98

Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Fulbright Scholar, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

 

8/97 – 12/97

Fellow, Center for the Humanities and the Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder.

 

8/92 –  7/95

Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder.

 

8/88 –  7/92

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

 

1/88 – 8/88

Presidential Fellow, Ohio State University.

 

6/86-12/87

Research Assistant, Department of Communication, Ohio State University.

 

1/82 – 6/83, 9/85 – 6/86

Teaching Assistant, Department of Communication, Ohio State University.

 

1/84 – 9/85

Research Associate, Office of Research, Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), Dublin, Ohio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected Articles & Book Chapters

 

Andrew Calabrese (2007). The letter of the law: Telecommunications and the corporate person. Info: The Journal of Policy, Regulation, and Strategy for Telecommunications, Information, and Media,9(2/3), 122-135.

Andrew Calabrese (2007). Historical memory, media studies and journalism ethics. Global Media and Communication, 3(3), 363-370.

Andrew Calabrese (2006). The symbolism of international summits and declarations: Reflections on the World Summit on the Information Society. Global Media Journal: Mediterranean Edition, 1(2), 44-54.

Andrew Calabrese (2005). Communication, global justice and the moral economy. Global Media and Communication, 1(3), 301-315.

Andrew Calabrese (2005). El Informe MacBride: Su valor para una nueva generación (Spanish), The MacBride Report: Its value to a new generation (English). Quaderns del CAC (journal of the Catalonian Broadcasting Council), #21 [special issue commemorating the 25th anniversary of the MacBride Report], January-April.

Andrew Calabrese (2005). The trade in television news. In J. Wasko (Ed.), A Companion to Television (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005).

Andrew Calabrese (2005). Casus belli: U.S. media and the justification of the Iraq war. Television and New Media, 6(2), 153-175. Also published in 2004 as Casus belli: I media statunitensi e la giustificazione della guerra in Iraq. In A. Medici (Ed.), Archivo Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico, Annali 6, Schermi di Guerra: Le Responsabilità della Comunicazione Audiovisiva. Rome: Ediesse.

Andrew Calabrese (2004). Virtual nonviolence? Civil disobedience and political violence in the information age. Info: The Journal of Policy, Regulation, and Strategy for Telecommunications, Information, and Media, 6(5), 326-338.

Andrew Calabrese (2004). The promise of civil society: A global movement for communication rights. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 18(3), 317-329.

Andrew Calabrese (2004). Stealth regulation: Moral meltdown and political radicalism at the FCC. New Media and Society, 6(1), 18-25.

Andrew Calabrese (2004). Moving forward, looking back: The MacBride Report revisited. Information Technologies and International Development (ITID) [Special issue on the World Summit on the Information Society] 1(3-4), 51-52.

 Andrew Calabrese (2004). Toward a political economy of culture. In A. Calabrese & C. Sparks (Eds.), Toward a political economy of culture: Capitalism and communication in the twenty-first century. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Andrew Calabrese (2004). Foreword. Many voices, one world: Towards a new, more just and more efficient world information and communication order [Twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the “MacBride Report”]. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Andrew Calabrese (2001). Why localism? Communication technology and the shifting scale of political community. In G. Shepherd & E. Rothenbuhler (Eds.), Communication and community (251-270). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.

Andrew Calabrese (2001). The political significance of media literacy. In O. Luthar, K. McLeod & M. Zagar (Eds.). Liberal democracy, citizenship and education (68-88). Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press. Reprinted in B. Cammaerts, L. Van Audenhove, G. Nulens & C. Pauwels (2003). Beyond the digital divide: Reducing exclusion, fostering inclusion. Brussels: Free University Press.

Andrew Calabrese (2001). Justifying civic competence in the information society. In S. Splichal (Ed.), Vox populi, vox dei? (147-164). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

 

Andrew Calabrese (1999). The welfare state, the information society, and the ambivalence of social movements. In A. Calabrese & J.C. Burgelman (Eds.), Communication, citizenship, and social policy: Re-thinking the limits of the welfare state (259-277). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

 

Andrew Calabrese (1999). Communication and the end of sovereignty? Info, 1(4), 313-326.

 

Andrew Calabrese (1997). Creative destruction? From the welfare state to the global information society. Javnost/The Public, 4(4), 7-24. [English-language quarterly journal, published in Slovenia].

 

Andrew Calabrese (1995). Local versus global in the modernisation of Central and Eastern European Telecommunications: A case study of US corporate investments. In P. Preston and F. Corcoran (Eds.), Re-Regulating European Communications, pp. 233-256. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

 

Andrew Calabrese (1994). Home-based telework and the politics of private woman and public man. In U.E. Gattiker (Ed.), Studies in Technological Innovation and Human Resources: Vol. 4. Women and Technology, pp. 161-199. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter.

 

Andrew Calabrese (1994). Free speech in America: Contemporary social movements and the politics of representation. In S. Splichal, A. Calabrese and C. Sparks (Eds.), Information Society and Civil Society: Contemporary Perspectives on the Changing World Order, pp. 254-290. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.

 

Andrew Calabrese (1993). Designing communication: The culture and politics of the electronic cottage. Progress in Communication Science, 11. Edited by B. Dervin and U. Hariharan, pp. 75-100. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

 

Andrew Calabrese (1991). The periphery in the center: The information age and the ‘good life’ in rural America. Gazette: The International Journal for Mass Communication Studies, 48, 105-128. This article was awarded the 1991 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research.

 

Andrew Calabrese and Mark Borchert (1996). Prospects for electronic democracy in the United States: Re-thinking communication and social policy. Media, Culture and Society, 18, 249-268.

 

Andrew Calabrese and Wendy Redal (1995). Is there a US foreign policy in telecommunications? Transatlantic trade policy as a case study. Telematics and Informatics, 12(1), 35-56.

 

Andrew Calabrese and Barbara Ruth Burke (1992) American identities: Nationalism, the media, and the public sphere. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 16(2), 52-73.

 

Andrew Calabrese and Silvo Lenart (1992). Cultural diversity and the perversion of tolerance. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 16(1), 33-44.

 

Andrew Calabrese and Janet Wasko (1992). All wired up and no place to go: The search for public space in U.S. cable development. Gazette: The International Journal for Mass Communication Studies, 49, 121-151.

 

Cinzia Padovani and Andrew Calabrese (1996). Berlusconi, RAI, and the modernization of Italian feudalism. Javnost/The Public, 3(2), 109-120. [English-language quarterly journal, published in Slovenia].

 

 

 

 

 

Book and Journal Editing

 

Andrew Calabrese and Claudia Padovani (Eds.). (2004). Theme issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 18(3), on the theme of “Global Communication Governance: WSIS and Beyond.”

Janet Wasko and Andrew Calabrese (Eds.). (2004). Theme issue of Javnost/The Public, 11(3), on the theme of “New Perspectives on Critical Communication Studies.” 

Andrew Calabrese and Colin Sparks (Eds.). (2004). Toward a political economy of culture: Capitalism and communication in the twenty-first century. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Andrew Calabrese and Jean-Claude Burgelman (Eds.). (1999). Communication, citizenship, and social policy: Re-thinking the limits of the welfare state. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

 

Andrew Calabrese and Jean-Claude Burgelman (Eds.). (1997). Special issue of Javnost/The Public, 4(4) [English-language quarterly journal, published in Slovenia], on the theme of “Communication and Citizenship.”

 

Slavko Splichal, Andrew Calabrese and Colin Sparks (Eds.). (1994). Information Society and Civil Society: Contemporary Perspectives on the Changing World Order. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.

 

 

 

 

Other Selected Publications

 

Andrew Calabrese (in press). UNESCO. Entry in the Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Communication (Walden, MA: Blackwell Publishing).

Andrew Calabrese (in press). Privatization of media. Entry in the Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Communication (Walden, MA: Blackwell Publishing).

Andrew Calabrese (in press). Social mobilization. Entry in the Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Communication (Walden, MA: Blackwell Publishing).

Andrew Calabrese (2006). Politica de Telecommunicaciones de Estados Unidos y Las Corporaciones. Boletin Digital de Politicas de Communicacion, Vol.15, October.

Andrew Calabrese (2006). Communication rights before and after the WSIS. Community Media Review, 29(4), 17-19.

Andrew Calabrese (2006). [Review of Creative Industries]. Continuum: The Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 20(1), 127-132.

Andrew Calabrese (2005). [Review of Global Activism, Global Media]. European Journal of Communication, 20(4), 555-559.

Andrew Calabrese (2004). Foreword. Many voices, one world: Towards a new, more just and more efficient world information and communication order [Twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the “MacBride Report”]. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Andrew Calabrese (2004). Profits and patriots: US media coverage of the Iraq war. Media Development, 3, 34-38.

Andrew Calabrese (2003). “If FCC Chairman Powell Has His Way, Independent Voices Will Be Further Curtailed’, Rocky Mountain News, 24 May: 22B. Reprinted in the Salt Lake Tribune, 31 May 2003.

Andrew Calabrese (1999). The information age according to Manuel Castells. [Review essay of The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture, 3 vols.]. Journal of Communication, 49(3), 172-186.

Andrew Calabrese (1993). [Review of Transforming the Revolution: Social Movements and the World-System]. Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 10(4), 436-437.

Andrew Calabrese (1993). A rich compilation of details. [Review essay of Electronic Byways: State Policies for Rural Development Through Telecommunications]. Telecommunications Policy, 17(1), 88-91.

 

 

Recent Lectures and Conference Presentations

 

(2008, February 1). What do human rights and global media have in common? Presentation to the Denver chapter of the International Institute of Education. Denver.

(2007, October 27). Speaker, roundtable on “Revisiting Communication, Citizenship and Social Policy (1999): A Roundtable on Globalization and Media Regulation” at the meeting of the Union for Democratic Communications, Vancouver.

(2007, October 27). Where to shine the spotlight? Public information and the problem of global business accountability. Paper presented at the meeting of the Union for Democratic Communications, Vancouver.

(2007, October 23). Civility and silence: Repressive norms of civil discourse. Presentation at the Institute of Public Goods and Policies, Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), Madrid.

(2007, October 17). Taking communication rights seriously. Presentation at the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster, London.

(2007, October 11-12). Keynote speaker, symposium on “Equal Opportunities and Communication Rights: Representation, Participation & the European Democratic Deficit.” Symposium sponsored by the European Communication and Research Association (ECREA), Vesalius College, and the European Journalism Centre, Brussels.

 (2007, October 10). Keynote speaker, symposium on “The Myth of the Global Internet: Unequal Infrastructures, Invisible Controls, Multiple Cultures.” Symposium sponsored by the European Communication and Research Association (ECREA) and the Free University of Brussels, Brussels.

(2007, July). Speaker, panel on “Mapping global media policy: The state of the art.” Presentation to the Working Group on Global Media Policy. International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Paris.

(2007, July). Speaker, panel on “Mapping global media policy: The way forward.” Presentation to the Working Group on Global Media Policy. International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Paris.

(2007, May). Activist networks, sovereignty, and the postnational constellation. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association. San Francisco.

(2006, September). Historical memory, media studies and journalism ethics. Paper presented at the conference on “Internationalizing Media Studies,” University of Westminster, London.

(2006, September). The U.S media and Iraq. Presentation at the international colloquium on “State and Communication,” School of Communication, University of Brasilia, Brazil.

(2006, June). Corporate welfare and corporate citizenship in telecommunications: No rights without responsibilities. Presentation at the ICA Pre-Conference “Influencing Outcomes: Communications Research and Global and Regional Policy Transformations,” Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

(2006, April). Global justice and the means of communication: Report on the 5th World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Colloquium presentation at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder.

(2006, April). The letter of the law: Censorship, surveillance and the corporate person. Paper presented at the conference on Making Public-Service Telecommunications: Past and Present Challenges for Networked Information Infrastructures. University of Illinois, Urbana.

(2005, November). Speaker at the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), regarding the launch of the “International Researchers’ Charter for Knowledge Societies,” which was sponsored by the International Association for Media and Communication Research's (IAMCR). Tunis, Tunisia.

(2005, September). State and civil society in the era of the MacBride Commission: An investigation of the role of NGOs. Paper presented at the European Institute for Communication and Culture (EURICOM) colloquium on “The MacBride Report-25 Years Later.” Piran, Slovenia.

(2005, June). All the news that’s fit to buy: Market values and American journalism. Public lecture presented at the Faculty of Communication, University of Maribor, Slovenia.

(2005, April). Communication, global justice and the moral economy. Presentation at the colloquium on “A Fourth Rights Revolution? Communication Rights and Global Justice.” University of Colorado, Boulder.

(2005, January). The American case. Invited lecture presented at the First Information and Communication World Forum. Porto Alegre, Brazil.

(2004, November). Multistakeholder approaches in historical perspective: National and transnational strategies of advocacy in communication policy. Keynote presentation at the conference on The Multistakeholder Approach in Information and Communication Policy: From Geneva to Tunis. Venice, Italy.

(2004, November). The radical right and the American media. Lecture presented at the University of Padova. Padova, Italy.

(2004, October). Accounting for the unaccountable: An agenda for the study of global media industries.  Invited closing presentation for a symposium to launch the Global Media Research Center, College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.

(2004, September). The means of communication and the problems of civil society. Colloquium presentation at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder.

(2004, March). Communication policy as social policy. Colloquium presentation at the Center for Values and Social Policy. University of Colorado. Boulder.

(2004, August). Transnational labor and the future of communication rights. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). Porto Alegre, Brazil.

(2003, May). Communication and the moral economy. Presented at the World Social Agenda conference. Padova, Italy.

(2002, October). We are all cosmopolitans now. Keynote presentation at the European Institute for Communication and Culture (EURICOM) conference on “Electronic Networks and Democracy,” hosted by the Department of Communication, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands.

(2002, June). Publicity and surveillance in the postnational constellation. Paper presented at the conference on “Capitalism and Communication in the 21st Century.” University of Westminster. London, UK.

(2002, May). The discrete charm of the world citizen. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Cinema Studies. Denver, Colorado.

(2001, November). Media and the idea of postnational citizenship. Lecture presented at the Center for Values and Social Policy. University of Colorado. Boulder.

(2001, June). A fourth rights revolution? The struggle for postnational communication rights. Paper presented at the "High-level Seminar on Digital Inclusion Policies," sponsored by SMIT research center at the Free University of Brussels. Brussels, Belgium.

(2001, February). Virtual nonviolence: Activism and the legacy of civil disobedience in the digital age. Lecture presented at the Telecom Policy Luncheon. University of Colorado. Boulder.

(2001, April). Honor among strangers? Political communication and post-national identity. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Communication, "Manipulation Power of the Media," held at Anadolu University, School of Communication Sciences, Eskisehir, Turkey.

 

(2001, February). Virtual nonviolence: Activism and the legacy of civil disobedience in the digital age. Lecture presented at the Telecom Policy Luncheon, University of Colorado, Boulder.

(2000, December). Governing culture: Cultural policy and cultural citizenship in U.S. history. Lecture presented to the Faculty of Communication, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

 

(2000, December). Virtual nonviolence: Activism and the legacy of civil disobedience in the digital age. Lecture presented to the Faculty of Communication, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. [Also presented in November 2000 at the CU Symposium on “The Internet and Political Participation.”]

 

(2000, December). Political theater in the 2000 U.S. election. Lecture presented to the Faculty of American Studies, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

 

(1999, October). Media and civic competence. Presented at the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy. Brisbane, Australia. [Also presented at the Department of Philosophy’s Center for Values and Social Policy, University of Colorado, November 1999].

 

(1999, October). Media education and the “digital divide.” Presentation at the School of Media and Journalism, Queensland University of Technology. Brisbane, Australia.

 

(1999, October). The idea of electronic democracy. Presentation at the School of Media and Journalism, Queensland University of Technology. Brisbane, Australia.

 

(1999, October). Cosmopolitan democracy as a theme in transnational media policy. Presentation at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology – Sydney. Sydney, Australia. [Also presented at the Department of Humanities, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, November 1999].

 

(1999, March). Virtual democracy: The promise of technology in the discourse on postsovereignty. Paper presented at the conference on Democracy and Democratic Discourse, University of Colorado at Boulder.

 

(1998, November). Communication technology and the shifting scale of political community. Lecture presented to the Globalization and Democracy Project, Institute for Behavioral Science, at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

 

(1998, October). The political significance of media literacy. Paper presented at the conference on Citizenship and Civic Education in Democracies in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

 

(1998, May). Media education as political education. Lecture presented to the faculty of the Department of Communication, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

 

(1998, May). Media, citizenship, and social policy. Lecture presented to the faculty of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Tampere, Finland.

 

(1998, May). The information society and the ideology of global restructuring. Lecture-discussion with the Finnish-Hungarian Tempus workshop on the Information Society, presented at the University of Tampere, Finland.

 

(1997, October). Creative destruction? From the welfare state to the global information society. Paper presented at the 12th Colloquium of the European Institute for Communication and Culture (EURICOM). Boulder, CO.

 

(1997, July). Global trade, the information society and the ambivalence of social movements. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Association of Media and Communication Research. Oaxaca, Mexico.

 

(1997, July). A computer in every pot: Views on the importance of hooking everyone up. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Association of Media and Communication Research. Oaxaca, Mexico.

 

(1997, April). John Stuart Mill and the perversion of tolerance. Paper presented at the University of Colorado Center for the Humanities and the Arts’ symposium on “Civility and Censorship.” Boulder, CO.

 

(1996, November). Communication as entitlement. Presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, San Diego, CA.

 

 

 

 

 

Courses Taught Recently at the University of Colorado

 

J2011:

Media and Public Culture (undergrad)

 

J4201/5201:

J4871/5871:

International Mass Communication (grad/undergrad)

Alternative Media (grad/undergrad)

 

J4321/5321:

Media Institutions and Economics (grad/undergrad)

 

J4871:

Technology, Literacy and Citizenship (undergrad)

 

J6051:

J6301:

Theories of Mass Communication (grad)

Communication, Media, and Concepts of the Public (grad)

 

J7011:

Proseminar in Communication Theory I Fall (grad)

 

J7021:

Proseminar in Communication Theory II Spring (grad)

 

J6871:

Media and Cultural Policy (grad))

 

 

 

 

Theses and dissertations supervised

 

Khleif, Richard (Ph.D., 2006). Beltway power brokers: An examination of the Heritage Foundation.

Demont-Heinrich, Christof (Ph.D., 2006). English by Popular Demand: American Prestige Press Discourses on Language and Globalization in a Post Cold War World.

Schack, Todd A. (Ph.D., 2006). The Cultural War on Drugs: The Language of Drug Discourse, 19th Century to the Present.

McGinley, Jennifer A. (M.A., 2005): Towards a democratization of media: Considering weblogs as alternative and citizens’ media.

Lustyik, Katalin (Ph.D., 2003). The transformation of children’s television: From communism to global capitalism in Hungary. [Postdoctoral Fellow, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand]

Volčič, Zala (Ph.D., 2003). Serbian spaces of identity and belonging: Narratives of Serbian nationalism by the last “Yugo” generation. [Winner, Thomas Edwin Devaney Dissertation Fellowship, CU Center for the Humanities and the Arts, 2002-2003, and winner, AEJMC’s Nafziger-White Dissertation Award, 2004]

Anderson, Michael (M.A., 2002): A case study in art and social change:  Adbusters magazine.

de Saint Just, Josseline (M.A., 2001). In search of the intellectual.

Maney, Michael Strickland (M.A., 2001): An analysis of the network news coverage of the May 2000 Disney-Time Warner cable dispute.

Oblak, Tanja (Ph.D., 2001). University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Images of Electronic Democracy.

Day, Wan-Wen (Ph.D., 1999). The pathology of modernity? Cultural dialogue and Taiwan’s small-scale media.

de Souza, Sergio (Ph.D., 1998). Elusive autonomy: Brazilian communications policy in an age of globalization and technological change.

Volčič, Zala (M.A., 1998): Media, post-socialism and the public sphere: A case study of Slovene public service broadcasting.

Colby, Dean (M.A., 1997). What is welfare reform?

McNeil, Christie (M.A., 1997): The U.S. influence on European telecommunications policy: A case study of public interest as consumer interest.

Morest, Claude (M.A., 1997): Agents, interests, and discourse in the communication policy process: A case study of S.1822, the Communications Act of 1994.

Rochat, Robert Scott (M.A., 1997): Is electronic copyright a net loss? The potential conflict between a strong intellectual property policy and an electronic “public space.”

Ryu, Seung-Kwan (M.A., 1997): A study of the activation of cable TV as public interest media: A comparative approach focusing on local origination channels of cable TV in Korea and the U.S.

Yusof, Arfah (M.A., 1997): Telecommunications for the developing world: The development of telecommunications in Malaysia as a member of the south east Asian region.

Ellis, Erik (M.A., 1996): Welcome to Lilliput: The shrinking of the general interest in magazine publishing.

Hume-Jones, Kathleen (M.A., 1996): Personal news and community ties: Changes in news content of three small-town Colorado newspapers, 1950-1990.

Ditzel, James (M.A., 1995): Advertising’s impact on four Colorado newspapers’ story selections.

Rodriguez, Carol Diaz (M.A., 1994): Bilingualism and the growth of Spanish-language media in the United States.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grants, Fellowships, Awards

 

2005

 

 

 

 

 

2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

2003

 

 

 

 

 

2000

"Global Activism and Communication Rights." Research grant awarded by the CU Institute for Ethical and Civic Engagement. Notification received in March 2005. Amount awarded: $5,000. I have used the funds to cover travel costs to attend major events in Slovenia (Sept. 2005) and Tunisia (Nov. 2005) pertaining to communication rights activities.

"Culture, Trade and UNESCO." Research grant awarded by the CU Center for Advanced Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS). Notification received in November 2005. Amount awarded: $3,000. I will use the funds to cover costs to travel this Spring to UNESCO headquarters in Paris to conduct interviews and archival research pertaining to the recent history (the past 25-30 years) of UNESCO activities pertaining to communication rights.

Participant in the 2003-04 de Tocqueville seminar, sponsored by the de Tocqueville Initiative and the Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS). University of Colorado, Boulder. A small grant was awarded to participants to help with research activities.

 

Co-investigator on grant from the National Science Foundation: Research and curriculum development project titled “Technology, Literacy, and Citizenship.”

 

1999

Co-investigator on grant from the University of Colorado’s Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS) to convene a year-long faculty seminar during the 1999-2000 academic year on “Globalization, Information Technology, and Democracy.” The grant provided for graduate research assistantships and course reductions for faculty from several different CU departments and colleges. Participants came from Anthropology, Sociology, Geography, Political Science, Philosophy, English, and History, and the Schools of Business, Law, and Journalism and Mass Communication). The seminar, which met twice a month, examined the impact of the globalization of communication and information technology and services on conceptions of citizenship and the practice of democracy. Funds also were used to sponsor visiting lectures.

 

1999

Visiting Fellow, Centre for Media Policy and Practice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Five-week visit for consulting and research collaboration on the project “Media Education, Political Education and Citizenship in a Digital Age.” Fall 1999. Research and lecture visits to: QUT, University of New South Wales (Sydney), University of Technology-Sydney, Victoria University (Melbourne), and University of Canberra. Fall.

 

1998

Fulbright Fellow, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, to lecture at the University of Ljubljana in the Republic of Slovenia. Period: February - June.

 

1997

Fellow, Center for the Humanities and the Arts, University of Colorado. Research fellowship to participate in a faculty seminar on “Civility and Censorship.”

 

1991

Donald McGannon Communication Policy Research Award. Conferred annually through Fordham University for ethical and social relevance in published communication policy research.

 

1988

Cellular One Communication Award. Awarded by Ameritech Corporation for academic excellence.

 

1988

Ohio State University Presidential Fellowship. One year of funding for dissertation research and related expenses, awarded for academic excellence.

 

 

 

Professional Activities

 

Series editor, Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers), 1997 – present.

 

North American Editor: Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies (Taylor & Francis), 2003 – present.

 

 

Board Memberships:

 

Editorial board: Javnost/The Public (published in English by the Ministry of Education of Slovenia), 1993 – present.

 

Editorial board: Television and New Media (Sage Publications), 1999 – present

Editorial Board: Global Media Journal: Mediterranean Edition, 2005 – present.

Board member: European Institute for Communication and Culture (EURICOM), 1992 – present.

 

Advisory board: New Media and Society (Sage Publications), 1997 – 2006.

Advisory Board, Ablex Publishers' Communication and Information Science Series, 1990-1992.

 

 

 

Conferences Organized:

 

A Rights Revolution? Communication Rights and Global Justice. Research colloquium held at the University of Colorado, Boulder. April 1-3, 2005.

What’s Left in Communication Research? Colloquium of the European Institute for Communication and Culture (EURICOM). Piran, Slovenia. September 17-20, 2003.

Information Society Visions and Governance: The World Summit on the Information Society and Beyond. Colloquium of the European Institute for Communication and Culture (EURICOM). Padua and Venice, Italy. May 5-7, 2003.

Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy: Re-Thinking the Limits of the Welfare State. 12th Colloquium of the European Institute for Communication and Culture (EURICOM). Boulder, Colorado. October 2-5, 1997.

 

Global Media and Global Responsibility: A Time to Choose. 9th MacBride Roundtable on Communication. Boulder, Colorado. October 1

 

Re-Thinking State and Local Telecommunications Policy. Conference featuring speakers from industry, government, academia, and non-profit sectors. Boulder, Colorado. December 11-12, 1995.

 

 

 

Outreach:

 

Media Access Project, Washington, DC (4/02). I wrote a 20-page report for the Media Access Project, a Washington, DC-based public interest advocacy organization. The report, titled “Comments on the Belo and Media General Studies, and an Analysis of the Diversity Question,” was filed by MAP with the Federal Communications Commission on April 17, 2002. It analyzes evidence and arguments that have been used by industry lobbyists to persuade the commission to eliminate its current prohibition on newspaper-broadcast co-ownership in the same local market.

RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana). (11/97). Produced a subcontractor’s report titled Surrendering Standards: Contemporary Dilemmas in the Commercialization of News and Current Affairs Programming in the United States, for RAI’s “2nd United Nations World Television Forum.” Contractor was Kevin Robins, Center for Urban and Regional Development Standards, University of Newcastle (UK), in association with the European Broadcast Union.

Budapest University of Economics, Budapest, Hungary (6/95). Produced report on curriculum development in communication studies in the United States, and consulted on possible direction in curriculum reform at BUE.