About the Journal Editors
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Journal of Health & Mass Communication
Fiona Chew (Ph.D., Communications, University of Washington) is a professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University (click here to visit her Web page) where she teaches television research, programming, persuasive writing, and global communications. She researches the impact of mass media in promoting health among various publics from information processing and message construction perspectives. Another specialization is the diffusion of information technology among health professionals.
She has served as a research consultant on international and U.S projects, and also on a major comparative study in Russia, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland that involved assessing the impact of televised health messages on health policy, public perceptions and behavioral change. In the United States, she has consulted for the SESAME Workshop, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions and the Center for Communications, Health and the Environment. She has received grants and awards and currently directs a health promotion campaign among a transitional generation.
She has written and presented more than 100 reports on health communication, media and message effects, and diffusion of information technology. Her research has been published in Health Communication, Journal of Health Communication, Health Promotion Practice, Nutrition, Family Medicine, Public Understanding of Science, Science Communication, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Journal of Development Communication and the International Communication Bulletin. Dr. Chew served previously as program chair for the Communications Theory and Methodology Division of AEJMC and as president of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research.
She can be reached at cmrfchew@syr.edu
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Journal of Global Mass Communication
Co-Editors
Thomas Hanitzsch is an assistant professor in the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He previously taught at universities in Indonesia and Germany. After working as a newspaper and radio journalist for several years, he joined the academy in 2002 and received his Ph.D. in communication and media studies from the Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany. Since then Dr. Hanitzsch has published four books and more than 50 articles and book chapters in several languages, including English, German and Indonesian. His teaching and research focuses on global journalism cultures, comparative methodology, and crisis and war communication. He is also the founder of the Journalism Studies Division of the International Communication Association. He can be reached at th.hanitzsch@ipmz.uzh.ch
P. Eric Louw is Deputy Head of School and Director of Communication Programs at the School of Journalism & Communication, University of Queensland. He previously taught at a number of South African universities and worked as a journalist on the Pretoria News. During the 1980s, Louw was an anti-apartheid UDF activist and chair of a non-government organization engaged in development communication work in South Africa. Professor Louw has published widely in the areas of political communication, and the South African media. His books include: The Media and Political Process; The Media and Cultural Production; New Voices Over the Air; The Transformation of the South African Broadcasting Corporation in a Changing South Africa; The Rise, Fall and Consequences of Apartheid; and South African Media Policy. He can be reached at e.louw@uq.edu.au
Founding Editor
Arnold S. de Beer (Ph.D. Journalism, North-West University [Potchefstroom], South Africa) recently retired as a professor extraordinary in the Department of Journalism at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
He is publisher and founding editor of Ecquid Novi, the African journal for journalism studies, and founding editor of the on-line Global Media Journal – Africa. He authored or co-authored articles in Journalism Studies, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Public Relations Review, Australian Journalism Review, and others. He has written or co-written book chapters on news flow, media and democracy, and journalism education. He co-edited with John C Merrill Global Journalism (Pearson/Allyn & Bacon) and is presently African coordinator and co-author for the AEJMC World Conference on Journalism Education’s project on global journalism education.
De Beer is research director of the Institute for Media Analysis in South Africa (iMasa); co-founder, board member and newsletter editor of the Trans African Council for Communication Education; board member of the International Communication Bulletin of ICD/AEJMC; and a former international communication division head of the IAMCR and international council member. He serves on the board of the African Media Review, and headed the media and society division of the African Council for Communication Education.
A former print journalist, De Beer did radio freelance work and media research in sub-Saharan Africa; North and South America; West and Eastern Europe; the Middle East and Asia. He holds a Ph.D. (Journalism) from the University of the Northwest (Potchefstroom); a M.A. (Communication) from the University of Johannesburg, and a M.I.J. (International journalism) from Baylor University.
He can be reached at asdebeer@imasa.org
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Journal of Media Sociology
Michael R. Cheney (Ph.D., Communication, The Ohio State University) is a senior fellow in the Institute of Government and Public Affairs and a professor of communication and an associate professor of economics at the University of Illinois. He previously served as provost of the University of Illinois at Springfield and earlier as dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and associate provost at Drake University. His research interests focus on new media, politics and the media, and social power in the work of Harold Innis.
Dr. Cheney has been the principal or co-principal investigator for more than $4 million in grants from AT&T, Gannett Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation. He has presented and/or published over 50 papers at regional, national and international conferences and in the Journal of Communication, Journal of Broadcasting, Communication Education, Journalism Quarterly and Public Telecommunications Review. He also scripted and directed two television documentaries and contributed chapters to books involving communication and higher education.
He can be reached at mrcheney@uiuc.edu
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Journal of Media Law & Ethics
Eric B. Easton (J.D. University of Maryland School of Law) is professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where he has taught Communications Law and other subjects for 15 years. Before joining the UB faculty, he taught media law and other subjects at Loyola College in Maryland. He has also taught comparative media law and copyright law at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and Shandong University, China, respectively. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Journalism Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Professor Easton holds a J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law and a B.S. from the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. He is currently completing a Ph.D. at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland.
Before joining the academy, Professor Easton was a professional journalist for more than 20 years. He is an executive board member and past chair of the Mass Communications Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools and a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, the International Communication Association, the Communication Skills Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, the Association of Legal Writing Directors, and the Legal Writing Institute.
He can be reached at eeaston@ubalt.edu
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American Journal of Media Psychology
Michael G. Elasmar (Ph.D. Mass Media Research, Michigan State University) is director of the Communication Research Center at Boston University, a position he has held since 1994. He is also associate professor of communication research at Boston University.
His personal research programs include studying the impact of cross-border communication on audience members. This research program consists of conducting surveys of young adults in various countries. The aim of this research program is to understand how exposure to various types of cross-border messages affects these young adults' behaviors and influences their perceptions of themselves and of others who belong to other national and international groups. In 2003 he served as editor and author of book chapters in a volume entitled: “The Impact of International Television”. His other personal research programs include studying the adoption patterns and effects of new communication technologies on individual users at home and in the workplace.
He has published and/or presented over 40 manuscripts stemming from these two research programs, several of which have won top prizes at paper competitions. He has served on the editorial boards of the “Journal of Communication” and “Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media” and has also served as chair of the International Communication Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. He is a current member of the International Communication Association (ICA), the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), and the Broadcast Education Association (BEA).
He can be reached at elasmar@bu.edu
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International Journal of Media & Foreign Affairs
Peter Gross (Ph.D. Mass Communication, The University of Iowa) is director and professor of the School of Journalism and Electronic Media at the University of Tennesee. He came to UT from the University of Oklahoma, where he served as a professor and Gaylord Family Endowed Chair in International Communication at OU's Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication. He also served as the director of the school's Institute for Research and Training and the head of the college's journalism area.
Gross speaks several languages and has worked and traveled extensively in Western and East/Central Europe, the former Soviet Republics, Taiwan, India, and Cuba. Since 1989, he has directed journalism workshops and lectured in a number of Western and East/Central European countries and former Soviet republics. He was instrumental in establishing a new journalism program in 1992 at the University of Timisoara, Romania, and served as consultant on East European media issues to a number of governmental and non-governmental institutions.
He is the author of Entangled Evolutions. Media and Democratization in Eastern Europe (Johns Hopkins University Press/ Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002) and Mass Media in Revolution and National Development: The Romanian Laboratory (Iowa State University Press, 1996), for which he received the 1996 American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences Book Award. He is co-author of Media and Journalism in Romania (Vistas Verlag, Germany, 2006) and Eastern European Journalism. Before, During and After Communism (Hampton Press, 1999). He also wrote three books published in Romania, Mass Media and Democracy (Polirom, 2004), Introduction to Newswriting and Newsgathering (Editura de Vest, 1993), and Giants With Feet of Clay. The Post-Communist Romanian Press (Polirom, 1999); and co-authored, The Basics of Public Relations (NIM Press, 1998).
In 2005, the University of Bucharest, Romania, awarded Gross the Doctor Honoris Causa in 2005 for his contributions to Eastern European media studies.
He can be reached at pgross@utk.edu
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Journal of Communication Studies
Lawrence W. Hugenberg (Ph.D., Communication, The Ohio State University) is a professor of communication studies in the School of Communication Studies at Kent State University. He teaches graduate courses in communication research methods, instructional communication, and political communication. He also teaches undergraduate courses in organizational communication and communication theory. His research interests include organizational communication, instruction, popular culture, and applied communication. Specifically, he is interested in communication and organizational influences on sports fans, local communities, and other stakeholders. He also delivered the keynote address during a recent Florida Communication Association convention.
He was the founding editor of the Basic Communication Course Annual and the founding co-editor of Teaching Ideas for the Basic Communication Course. He also served the National Communication Association and the communication discipline as editor of Communication Teacher. He is currently working on a project with other communication scholars entitled, Basic Communication Course Best Practices: A Training Manual for Instructors.
He has written and presented more than 100 conference papers for state, regional and national professional organizations on communication theory and practice. His research has been published in Communication Education, The Journal of Popular Culture, Association for Communication Administration Bulletin, Quarterly Journal of Speech, American Communication Association Journal, Journal of Business Communication, The Speech Communication Annual, Journal of Business Education, Speaker and Gavel, and The Speech Communication Teacher. Dr. Hugenberg has also written chapters included in edited volumes on communication. He is a former President of the Speech Communication Association Ohio.
He can be reached at lhugenbe@kent.edu
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Russian Journal of Communication
Igor Klyukanov (Doctor of Philology, Saratov State University, Russia) is associate professor of communication studies at Eastern Washington University, where he teaches numerous undergraduate and graduate communication courses and directs the Master of Science in Communications program. His research interests include semiotics, the relationships between culture and communication, and communication theory as a field.
His works have been published in The American Journal of Semiotics, Studies in Humanities, Contrastes: Revista Interdisciplinar de FilosofÍa, New Dimensions in Communication, Arob@ase: A Journal of Literature and Human Sciences, International Journal of Applied Semiotics, and Discourse and Society. His book Principles of Intercultural Communication published in 2005 has received positive reviews in Spain, Russia, England, Canada, and the United States. He served as an associate editor of The American Journal of Semiotics and guest-edited an issue of The International Journal of Communication.
He can be reached at iklyukanov@mail.ewu.edu
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