College of Liberal Arts & Sciences The University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication The University of Iowa

Research and Publications

Accepted for Publication or Published:

typest at typewriter, from French postcard, c. 1910Recently Published

Associate Professor Meenakshi Gigi Durham's new book, The Lolita Effect (New York: Overlook) will be published in the first week of May 2008. Durham's recent publications include:

Durham, Meenakshi Gigi. 2007. Sex in the transnational city: Discourses of gender, body and nation in the 'New Bollywood.' In Corey Creekmur and Mark Sidel (Eds.), Cinema, Law and the State in Asia, pp. 45-62. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan.

Durham, Meenakshi Gigi. 2007. Myths of race and beauty in teen magazines: A semiological analysis. In Pamela J. Creedon and Judith Cramer (Eds.), Women in mass communication (3rd ed.), pp. 233-246 Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Schaefer, Peter and Durham, Meenakshi G. 2007. "On the social implications of invisibility: The iMac G5 and the effacement of the technological object." Critical Studies in Media Communication, 24 (1): 39-56.

In addition, she presented two refereed conference papers at the 2007 annual
meeting of the International Communication Association in San Francisco.

Gloria Williams "Civil Disobedience  SOA Watch" in Z Magazine http://zmagsite.zmag.org/JulAug2006/williams0706.html

Jane Singer had the following refereed articles published:

"Contested Autonomy: Professional and Popular Claims on Journalistic Norms." Journalism Studies Vol. 8, No. 1 (2007): 79-95

"Stepping Back from the Gate: Online Newspaper Editors and the Co-Production of Content in Campaign 2004." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly Vol. 83, No. 2 (Summer 2006): pages 265-80

"The Socially Responsible Existentialist: A Normative Emphasis for Journalists in a New Media Environment?Journalism Studies Vol. 7, No. 1 (February 2006): pages 2-18

"Partnerships and Public Service: Normative Issues for Journalists in Converged Newsrooms." Journal of Mass Media Ethics Vol. 21, No. 1 (2006): pages 30-53

and this book chapter: "Journalists and News Bloggers: Complements, Contradictions, and Challenges" Uses of Blogs, Axel Bruns and Joanne Jacobs (eds.), pages 23-32. New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2006

Frank Durham's most recent articles include:

"Framing the state within globalization: The Financial Times" coverage of the 1997 Thai currency crisis" (forthcoming) in Critical Studies in Media Communication.

"Media ritual in catastrophic time: The populist turn in television coverage of Hurricane Katrina" (forthcoming) in Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism.

"Exposed by Katrina: The gulf between the president and the press" (2006) in Critical Studies in Media Communication.

"Media tactics and taste: Organizing the southern labor movement at Highlander Folk School, 1938-1946" (2005) in Javnost—The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture.

"Symmetry as structuration: The StarLink™ global food contamination case" (2005) in The Journal of Public Relations Research.

"Anti-Communism, race, and structuration: Newspaper coverage of the labor and desegregation movements in the South, 1932-40 and 1953-61" (2002) in Journalism and Mass Communication Monographs

"News Frames as Social Narratives: TWA Flight 800," in the Journal of Communication (1998).

"History of a curriculum: The search for salience," published in Journalism Educator (Winter 1992).

A book chapter: "Breaching powerful boundaries: A postmodern critique of framing," in Framing the new media landscape (2001)

 

Stephen Bloom's 2005 publications include a story, "Ode to Maestro Järvi," about an irrepressible groupie who tails famed Detroit Symphony Conductor Neemi Järvi around the nation, was published in the national journal of nonfiction writing, Points of Entry: Cross-Currents in Storytelling. His short story, "The Reptile King of Atlanta," about an itinerant lizard and gecko salesman, appears in the current issue of Wapsipinicon Almanac. Another story by Bloom, "Is Everyone Batty, or What?" appears in DoubleThink Magazine. His essay, "The Academy of the Overrated: Hello Sy Hershman, Goodbye Bob Woodward," will appear in the magazine's spring issue. Another story, "The Last Time I Saw Martha," about religious obligation vs. individual freedom, will appear in the spring issue of Mars Hill Review. Bloom's take on the priorities of university life, "Ode to Sheila," and his appreciation of novelist/teacher Frank Conroy, "The Writer's Writer," appeared in Inside Higher Education.

Articles and book chapters by Dan Berkowitz:

Berkowitz, D. & Eko, L. (2007). “Blasphemy As Sacred Rite/Right: ‘The Mohammed Cartoons Affair’ and Maintenance of Journalistic Ideology.” Manuscript accepted for publication by Journalism Studies pending approval of minor revisions.

Nossek, H. & Berkowitz, D. (2006). “Telling ‘Our’ Story Through News of Terrorism: Mythical Newswork as Journalistic Practice in Crisis. Journalism Studies, 7(5), 691-707.

Berkowitz, D. (2005). Suicide Bombers as Women Warriors: Making News Through Mythical Archetypes. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 82(3), 607-622.

Berkowitz, D (2006). Is all the news ours? Political violence, September 11 and the War on Iraq. In H. Nossek, P. Sonwalker, & A. Sreberny (Eds.), Media and political violence. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Berkowitz, D. (2005) Telling what-a-story news through myth and ritual: The Middle East as Wild West. In E. Rothenbuhler & M. Coman (Eds.), Media anthropology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

 

In Press

Jane Singer's forthcoming book: 'Online Journalism Ethics: Traditions and Transitions' (Friend and Singer)
M. E. Sharpe Publishers is scheduled for publication May 2007.

The second edition of “Media and Cultural Studies: KeyWorks” (scheduled to be published by Blackwell in 2005; co-edited by Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas M. Kellner)

Durham, Meenakshi Gigi “Myths of race and beauty in teen magazines: A semiotic analysis.”  Chapter to appear in “Women in Mass Communication 3,” edited by Judith Cramer and Pamela J. Creedon (to be published by Peter Lang in 2005).

Meenakshi Gigi Durham has an article, co-authored with Peter Schaefer, forthcoming in the March 2007 issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication. It is titled, "On the social implications of invisibility: The iMac G5 and the effacement of the technological object."

Gigi Durham is also working on an encyclopedia article on the sexualization of children, for The Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents and the Media, edited by Jeffrey Arnett (to be published by Sage in 2006).

Accepted for Publication

 

Recent presentations

Refereed presentations

Lyombe Eko & Dan Berkowitz 57th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco (May 24-28, 2007). “Le Monde, French Secular Republicanism and the Mohammad Cartoons Affair: ‘Re-presentation’ of the Sacred Right to Offend.” Journalism Studies Division.

Gigi Durham 57th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco (May 24-28, 2007).“Sex and Spectacle in Seventeen Magazine: A Feminist Myth Analysis.” Feminist Scholarship Division

Gigi Durham 57th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco (May 24-28, 2007)."Media Controversy Around Girls' Sexuality." Popular Communication Division

Jane Singer Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Comm convention. "'Truth and Transparency: Bloggers' Challenge to Professional Autonomy in Defining and Enacting Two Journalistic Norms" (Singer)
Presented to Media Ethics Division, August 2006 (San Francisco) Top faculty paper; professional relevance award

Jane Singer International Communication Association convention. "The Watchdog's Bark: Professional Norms and Institutional Routines in Cable News Coverage of Hurricane Katrina" (F. Durham and Singer)
Accepted for presentation to Journalism Studies Interest Group, June 2006 (Dresden, Germany)

Julie Andsager & David Cuillier. (2004, May). "Attitudes toward access to public records: A test of power expression protection hypothesis." Paper will be presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, Mass Communication Division, New Orleans.

Victoria Bemker's paper "Boosting News Ratings Via Technology? A Textual-Visual Analysis of NBC and Fox News' Use of Technology in Covering the War in Iraq," a paper she wrote initially for Communication and Change class last fall, was accepted for presentation at the AEJMC mid-winter meeting.

Sarah Burke-Odland's paper "Performing Motherhood: Ladies' Home Journal In Postwar America" has been accepted in the Feminist Scholarship Division at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, Mass Communication Division, New Orleans, 2004.

Leo Eko's paper "Converting Communication Swords to Commercial Ploughshares: A Comparative Study of American and Russian Regulation of Electronic Signatures." was accepted for presentation by the ICA Law and Policy Division, New Orleans, 2004.

Leo Eko's "French Press Framing the 'Black Problem' in American Presidental Elections, 1972-2000: The More Things Change, the More they Stay the Same?" was accepted by the ICA International and Development Communication Division, New Orleans, 2004.

Jane Singer's paper "Partnerships and Public Service: Normative Issues for Journalists in Converged Newsrooms" was accepted by the Mass Communication Division of ICA for presentation at the New Orleans convention, 2004.

Don McLeese has had a paper accepted at the 2004 Experience Music Project Pop Conference in Seattle, WA, April 15-18, 2004. His paper will discuss music in Lubbock, Texas.

Doctoral student Yu Shi, whose paper, "The Chinese Diaspora, Ethnic Media Use, and Identity Formation" has been accepted for ICA by the International and Intercultural Division, at New Orleans, 2004.

Doctoral student Shayla Thiel will present her paper "Instant Message as Diary: Adolescent Girls, Identity, and Interactive Journaling in the 21st Century." in the Communication and Technology division and is titled "Gender, Young People, and New Media." at ICA in New Orleans, 2004.

Non-Refereed presentations

Durham, Meenakshi Gigi. "Media, culture, and the sexy girl." Invited presentation at the University of Iowa Saturday Scholars lecture series, October 4, 2003.

Durham, Meenakshi Gigi. "Human differences and teaching." Presentation at the University of Iowa New Faculty Orientation, August 21, 2003.

Durham, Meenakshi Gigi. "Exploring third wave feminism." Panelist, annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Critical and Cultural Studies Division, Kansas City, July/August 2003.

Durham, Meenakshi Gigi. "Internationalism and nationalism in journalism courses." Participant in panel, "Cross-cultural dynamics in the white college and university classroom," Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, International Communication Division and Minorities in Communication Interest Group, Kansas City, July/August 2003.

Durham, Meenakshi Gigi. "Media, sexuality, and diaspora identity among transnational teens: Constructing the 'new ethnicities'. " Lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 11, 2003.

Durham, Meenakshi Gigi. "Media and cultural studies." Presentation via videoconference, the University of Dortmund, Germany, January 29, 2003.

Non-refereed presentation: Kenneth Starck, Moderator, panel discussion on "Decisions, Deadlines, and Dialogue: U.S. Media and International News Coverage," University of Iowa International Programs, April 8, 2003.

Grants

Jane Singer: $1,000 Kappa Tau Alpha inaugural Chapter Adviser Research Grant; Principal / sole investigator; One-time award, in support of study of "converged" newsrooms, January - March 2003