Journalism, news images, cultural studies & popular culture, collective memory, media criticism, impact of the disciplines on inquiry. Studies on journalism as cultural practice, journalists as interpretive communities, news images & crisis - JFK assassination, Holocaust, September 11, war. Studies on disciplinary knowledge and the academy.
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Biography
Barbie Zelizer (Ph.D. 1990, University of Pennsylvania; MA 1981, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; BA 1976, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is Professor of Communication, holds the Raymond Williams Chair of Communication and is Director of the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication.
A former journalist, Zelizer's work focuses on the cultural dimensions of journalism, with a specific interest in journalistic authority, collective memory, and journalistic images in times of crisis and war. She also works on the impact of disciplinary knowledge on academic inquiry.
Coeditor and founder of the journal Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism (Sage), Zelizer also has served on the editorial boards of numerous book series and journals, including Journal of Communication, Communication Theory, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Popular Communication, and Critical and Cultural Studies in Communication. Zelizer has lectured widely both internationally and nationally, and her essays on the media have appeared in The Nation, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Newsday, and other publications.
Currently the President of the International Communication Association, Zelizer has been both a Guggenheim Fellow, a Research Fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, a Fellow at Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, and a Fulbright Senior Scholar. Her previous academic appointment was at Temple University.
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Current Projects
- Completed a book-length manuscript on how images of impending death have been used to depict controversial events in the news (About to Die: How News Images Move the Public. Under final review).
- Presently finishing a co-authored manuscript (with Stuart Allan) on keywords in journalism (Keywords in News and Journalism Studies. Open University Press, in preparation).
- Beginning a project on picturing the Cold War, that will trace how western journalism depicted a war with no obvious images.
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Research Interests
Prof. Zelizer's work focuses on the cultural dimensions of journalism, with a specific interest in journalistic authority, collective memory, and journalistic images in times of crisis and war. She also works on the impact of disciplinary knowledge on academic inquiry.
Author and editor of eight books and some 50 articles and book chapters, Zelizer's work has been translated into French, Hebrew, German, Portuguese, Korean, Romanian, Italian and Japanese and is now being translated in China and Spain.
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Teaching
Undergraduate:
- Critical Perspectives on Journalism
- The Communication Process
- Communication and Cultural Difference
- Media and Society
- Mass Media Effects
- Urban Journalism
- Communication and Popular Culture
- Introduction to Mass Media
- Media Criticism
Graduate:
- Journalism and the Academy
- Cultural Criticism and Journalism
- Mass Media Effects
- Culture and Communication
- Cultural Studies in Communication
- Cultural Analysis of the News-Media
- Media Criticism
- Communicating Memory
- Issues in Cultural Studies
- International Communication – Power and Flow
- News Images
- Journalism and Culture
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Honors
Fellow, International Communication Association, 2009.
Fulbright Senior Specialist, 2007-2012.
Fellow, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2004.
Best Book Award, International Communication Association, 2000 (for Remembering to Forget).
Diamond Book Award, National Communication Association, 1999 (for Remembering to Forget).
Bruno Brand Tolerance Book Award, Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance, 1999 (for Remembering to Forget).
Goldsmith Research Award, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1995.
Fellow, John H. Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1995.
Research Fellow, Freedom Forum Center for Media Studies, Columbia University, 1994-95.
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