Media Literacy

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

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

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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...

 

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

Open Access

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Professional Resource: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use For Media Literacy Education, Journal of Media Literacy Education (2009)

New media and communication technologies have expanded both our object of study and the range...

 

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

Consumer Culture

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

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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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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....

 

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

Critical Cultural Studies

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

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Porn And Me(n): Sexual Morality, Objectification, And Religion At The Wheelock Anti-Pornography Conference, The Communication Review (2009)

In the Spring of 2007, I interviewed a panel of four men who, along with...

 

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