Richard C. Crepeau is a professor of history at the University of Central Florida and former president of the North American Society for Sports History. He answered some questions about […]
Category: media studies
Q&A with Beyond the White Negro author Kimberly Chabot Davis
Kimberly Chabot Davis is an associate professor of English at Bridgewater State University. She answered some questions about her book Beyond the White Negro: Empathy and Anti-Racist Reading. Q: Where did the term […]
NFL Films to the rescue
If you are a football fan and week one of the NFL season has given you an early letdown (we’re looking at you Chicago Bears fans), perhaps some warmly manufactured memories […]
The meaning of Diana
Sunday, August 31 marks the seventeenth anniversary of Princess Diana’s death. The event became one of those “I remember just where I was when I heard” moments. The car crash […]
Mad Men and Mirror Makers
Matthew Weiner, creator of the AMC series “Mad Men,” was interviewed in the April 27 issue of the New York Times Book Review. Asked if he had any favorites among […]
Q&A with C. Francis Jenkins biographer Donald Godfrey
Donald G. Godfrey is a broadcast educator, professional broadcaster, and historian. Godfrey is also a past president of the national Broadcast Education Association (BEA), a former editor of the Journal of […]
Happy birthday, Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson “Spike” Lee was born March 20, 1957. With a long varies career that has spanned independent films such as his debut She’s Gotta Have It (1986), to mainstream, big-budget films including […]
Q&A with Hillary Clinton in the News author Shawn Parry-Giles
Shawn J. Parry-Giles is a professor of communication and director of the Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland. She answered some questions about her UIP […]
Women for President’s Day
What do Victoria Woodhull, Belva Lockwood, Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm, Patricia Schroeder, Lenora Fulani, Elizabeth Dole and Carol Moseley Braun have in common? Each of these women ran for […]
Intelligently Designed author weighs in on Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham
So Ken Ham and Bill Nye debated. Young-earth creationists were the winners by virtue of being on the same stage with a nationally known science educator before a national audience. […]
Q&A with The Battle over Marriage author Leigh Moscowitz
Leigh Moscowitz is an assistant professor of communication at the College of Charleston. In her UIP book The Battle over Marriage: Gay Rights Activism through the Media the author examines the aims […]
The ‘Media Moment’ for same-sex marriage by Leigh Moscowitz
Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decisions solidified two major victories for the gay rights movement and are being hailed as landmark cases for civil rights. As is widely known by […]