About Me
Hello. Welcome to my online office. I am a full primary graduate faculty member in the Graduate Program in the College of Communications and Information Studies and an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Telecommunications. I've been teaching and doing research at the University of Kentucky since 1989. I earned my B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and my M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I study political communication, social protest and the mass media, political economy of the mass media, and text analysis.
CJT 645: Proseminar in Mass Communication Theory
A broad examination and critical analysis of major mass communication theories and research areas. Prereq: A course in research methods and graduate standing in communications or consent of instructor. Current students can download the syllabus and course readings through the password-protected CJT 645 course page..
TEL 300: Telecommunications Research Methods
TEL 300 Course Material:
Content Analysis -- Content Analysis (part 2) -- Depth Interview -- Descriptive StatisticsEthics -- Experimental Design -- Experimental Method -- Getting Started -- Inferential Statistics -- Observation -- Presenting Scholarly Research -- Qualitative MethodsQualitative Text Analysis Research Report --sampling -- Survey Instruments -- TEL 300 Focus Groups -- Theory Development -- Theory Explication Validity and Reliability -- Ways of Knowing