Dr. Freeman (PhD, Univ of Oregon, 2008) is a critical/cultural studies researcher who studies media ethics, communication strategies for social justice movements, and the media's coverage of nonhuman animal and environmental issues, in particular, animal agribusiness and veganism. In addition to a previous career in public relations and H.R./training, she’s been active in the animal rights and vegetarian movement for almost two decades and has served as a volunteer director for local grassroots groups in three states. She currently serves as a co-host on a weekly Atlanta-based community radio program on animal protection (Second Opinion Radio) and a monthly host of an environmental program (In Tune to Nature), both on WRFG 89.3FM. Web Sites: http://gsu.academia.edu/CarrieFreeman/About AND http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwdcm/8646.html (GSU faculty profile page)
Articles
Fishing for Animal Rights in "The Cove": A Holistic Approach to Animal Advocacy Documentaries, Journal of Critical Animal Studies (2012)
The Oscar-winning 2009 documentary "The Cove" serves as a thrilling and poignant advocacy tool promoting...
Anonymous Sources: A Utilitarian Exploration of Their Justification and Guidelines for Limited Use (with Matt J. Duffy), Communication Faculty Publications (2011)
This article critically examines the practice of unnamed sourcing in journalism. A literature review highlights...
Giving Voice to the "Voiceless:" Incorporating Nonhuman Animal Perspectives as Journalistic Sources (with Marc Bekoff and Sarah M. Bexell), Communication Faculty Publications (2011)
As part of journalism's commitment to truth and justice by providing a diversity of relevant...
Framing Animal Rights in the "Go Veg" Campaigns of U.S. Animal Rights Organizations, Communication Faculty Publications (2010)
How much do animal rights activists talk about animal rights when they attempt to persuade...
Meat's Place on the Campaign Menu: How U.S. Environmental Discourse Negotiates Vegetarianism, Communication Faculty Publications (2010)
Given the impact of America’s food choices, particularly animal-based foods, on life-sustaining systems, to what...
Contributions to Books
Was Blind but Now I See: Animal Liberation Documentaries’ Deconstruction of Barriers to Witnessing Injustice (with Scott Tulloch), Screening Nature: Cinema Beyond the Human (2013)
Many pro-animal documentaries are built around footage taken by undercover animal activists uncovering abuses in...
Consuming Nature: Mass Media and The Cultural Politics of Animals and Environments (with Jason Jarvis), Ignoring Nature No More: The Case for Compassionate Conservation (2013)
The commercially-driven mass media package human identity and all our surrounding environment for daily consumption...
Pardon Your Turkey and Eat Him Too: Antagonism Over Meat-Eating in the Discourse of the Presidential Thanksgiving Turkey Pardoning (with Oana Leventi Perez), The Rhetoric of Food: Discourse, Materiality, and Power (2012)
To celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday for at least the last twenty years, the President of...
Stepping Up to the Veggie Plate: Framing Veganism as Living Your Values, Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication: Internatural Communication (2012)
America’s animal rights organizations have increasingly focused on vegetarian campaigns to protect the growing number...
"Embracing Humanimality: Deconstructing the Human/Animal Dichotomy", 2010 Faculty Books (2010)
In seeking to rhetorically combat speciesism, how can animal advocates talk about humans and other...