Joy Elizabeth Hayes

History of Broadcasting
Cultural Studies

147 BCSB
phone (319) 353-2265
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Joy studies the cultural history of broadcasting in the United States and Mexico with a primary focus on the period 1930-1950. She investigates the role of radio broadcasting in cultural identity formation through the archival collections of broadcasting institutions (government agencies and commercial networks), the texts of radio programs (recordings and scripts), and the documents produced by and about radio audiences (fan letters and surveys). Some of her recent work examines the construction of whiteness in U.S. family drama programs of the late thirties and explores the impact of these radio shows on early television representations of "the American family." Her course offerings at the graduate level include the Cultural History of Radio, Nationalism as a Communication Process, Bakhtin and Cultural Theory, and Theories of Mass Communication.

Course Links and Syllabi

• 36:101 Honors Workshop (Fall 2004)
• 36:352 Media theory Seminar: Bakhtin and Cultural Theory (Fall 2004)
• 36:623 Cultural History of Radio
• 36:231 Theories of Mass Communication
• 36:152 Latin American Media
• 36:148 Communication as Popular Culture
• 36:025 Media and Society
• 36:370 Nationalism as a Communication Process (Fall 2000)