Articles

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The mother’s gaze and the model child: Reading print ads for designer children’s clothing, Advertising & Society Review (2009)
This audience analysis considers how two groups of mothers, one affluent and mostly white and...
 

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Porn And Me(n): Sexual Morality, Objectification, And Religion At The Wheelock Anti-Pornography Conference, The Communication Review (2008)
In the Spring of 2007, I interviewed a panel of four men who, along with...
 

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Don’t Smile for the Camera: Black Power, Para-Proxemics and Prolepsis in Print Ads for Hip-Hop Clothing, International Journal of Communication (2007)
While much has been written on marketing to children, there remains a curious gap in...
 

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Shifting currents in media awareness. (with Erica Scharrer), Academic Exchange Quarterly (2006)
This longitudinal qualitative research study examines how a group of parents and teachers sought to...
 

Masters Thesis

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Trophy Children Don’t Smile: Fashion Advertisements For Designer Children’s Clothing In Cookie Magazine, Masters Thesis (2007)
This study examines print advertising from Cookie, an up-scale American parenting magazine for affluent mothers....
 

Presentations

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"The Mother’s Gaze" (Video), Guest Lecture (2009)
 

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Fame: Why I heart Digital Repositories (Video), SPARC Institutional Repositories Meeting (2008)
 

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My SPARC Addendum Agreement with Taylor & Francis (2008)
 

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Fair game: a grad student’s adventures in fair use and copyright (Blog + Video), Open Students (2008)
 

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"Porn And Men" (Video), Media, Spiritualities and Social Change Conf., (2008)
 

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"Trophy Children Don’t Smile" (Video), ICA Convention (2007)
 

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Deconstructing Disney Workshop (Video), Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Unity Day (2006)
 

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Jungian Archetypes in Film (Video), UMass, Amherst (2004)