Selected Faculty Publications

Media and Communication Studies faculty actively publish in key scholarly and professional journals as well as present papers and projects at some of the leading conferences in the discipline, including the International Communication Association (ICA 2007 Conference presentations), the National Communication Association (NCA 2006 conference presentations) and the Broadcast Education Association.

In order to provide an overview of faculty publications, select books and journal articles published by the Media and Communication Studies faculty since 2004 are listed below. Please Note: This list is not comprehensive. A complete list of individual faculty publications can be found on individual faculty web sites.

Arpan, L. M. (2005). Integration of information about corporate social performance. Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 10(1), 83-98.

Arpan, L. M., Baker, K., Lee, Y., Jung, T., Lorusso, L., & Smith, J. (2006). News coverage of social protests and the effects of photographs and prior attitudes. Mass Communication & Society, 9(1), 1-20.

Arpan, L. M., & Roskos-Ewoldsen, D. R. (2005). Stealing thunder: Analysis of the effects of proactive disclosure of crisis information Public relations review, 31(3), 425-433.

Arpan, L., & Sun, H. (2006). The effect of country of origin on judgments of multinational organizations involved in a crisis. Journal of Promotion Management, 12(3/4), 189-214.

Bunz, U. (2004). The computer-email-web (CEW) fluency scale-development and validation. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 17(4), 479-506.

Bunz, U. (2005). Publish or perish: A limited author analysis of ICA and NCA journals. Journal of Communication, 55(4), 703-720.

Bunz, U. (2005). Using scantron versus an audience response system for survey research: Does methodology matter when measuring computer-mediated communication competence? Computers in Human Behavior, 21(2), 343.

Bunz, U. (2005). The word of mouse on internet research. Review of Communication, 5(1), 25-35.

Bunz, U. (2006). Reviewing organizational communication concepts with the movie office space. Communication Teacher, 20(2)

Bunz, U. (2006). Saturation of CMC competency: Good or bad news for instructors? Journal of Technology and Literacy, 6(1)

Bunz, U., & Campbell, S. W. (2004). Politeness accommodation in electronic mail. Communication Research Reports, 21(1), 11-25.

Bunz, U., & Campbell, S. W. (2005). Analysis of discursive fragments in electronic mail. In L. Lederman, D. Gibson & M. Taylor (Eds.), Communication theory. A casebook approach. (pp. 317-334). Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt.

Bunz, U., Curry, C., & Voon, W. (2007). Perceived versus actual computer-email-web fluency. Computers in Human Behavior, 23(5), 2321.

Houck, D. W. (2005). From money to montgomery: Emmett till, rosa parks, and the freedom movement, 1955-2005.8(2), 175.

Houck, D. W. (2005). Introduction to Hugh Stephen Whitaker's essay. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 8(2)

Houck, D. W. (2005). Killing Emmett. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 8, 225-262.

Houck, D. W. (2006). Couching tiger, hidden blackness: Tiger woods and the disappearance of race. In A. A. Raney, & J. Bryant (Eds.), Handbook of sports and media (). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Houck, D. W. (2006). Sporting bodies. In A. A. Raney, & J. Bryant (Eds.), Handbook of sport and media (). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Houck, D. W., & Davenport, J. (2004). Redeeming 9-11. The Long Term View, 6, 123.

Houck, D. W., & Dixon, D. E. (Eds.). (2006). Rhetoric, religion, and the civil rights movement, 1954-1965. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press.

Houck, D. W., & Nocasian, M. (2006). Dictator, savior, and the return of confidence: Text, context, and reception in FDR¿s first inaugural address. In T. W. Benson (Ed.), American rhetoric in the new deal era, 1932-1945 (7th ed., pp. 83). East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.

Houck, D. W. (2004). Ed king's jaw--or, reading, writing, and embodying civil rights. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 7(1), 67-90.

Houck, D. W. (2004). FDR's commonwealth club address: Redefining individualism, adjudicating greatness. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 7(3), 259-282.

Houck, D. W. (2005). Habits of the high-tech heart: Living virtuously in the information age (review). Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 8(1), 169-171.

Houck, D. W. (2006). On or about june 1988. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 9(1), 132-137.

Houck, D. W., Kiewe, A., & Longmore, P. K. (2004). Reviews of books and films - CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES - FDR's body politics: The rhetoric of disability. The American historical review, 109(2), 554.

Jordan-Jackson, F. F. (2005). I’m not scared of you: An exploratory study comparing communication apprehension and receiver apprehension of black and white male college students. The Journal of Intergroup Relations, 32(2), 45.

Jordan-Jackson, F. F., & Davis, K. A. (2005). Men talk: An exploratory study of communication patterns and communication apprehension of black and white males. Journal of Men’s Studies, 13, 347.

Laurents, M. H. (2006). Speaking on special occasions. In C. Griffin (Ed.), Invitation to public speaking (). San Francisco, California: Thomson-Wadsworth. McDowell, S. D. (2004). Mass media and information technology in education. Encyclopedia of life support systems (). Paris: UNESCO.

McDowell, S. D. (2006). Commercial control and governance of global electronic networks. In C. May (Ed.), Global corporate power: (re)integrating companies into IPE, international political economy yearbook (15th ed., )Lynne Rienner Publishers.

McDowell, S. D., & Hadley, P. (2004). La brecha digital y la comunidad latina en estados unidos. Fronteras en america del norte: Estudios multidisciplinarios [The Digital Divide and the Latino Community in the United States] (Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM) Trans.). (). Mexico City: Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM).

McDowell, S. D., & Hong, M. (2006). United states trade policy and the reshaping of intellectual property rights protection in the APEC region. In Servaes, J.: Thomas, P. (Ed.), Intellectual property rights and communications in asia: Conflicting traditions (). New Delhi: Sage.

McDowell, S. D., & Lee, J. (2006). Tracking `Localism’ in television broadcasting: Utilizing and structuring public information. In P. Napoli (Ed.), Media diversity and localism: Meaning and metrics (pp. 177). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

McDowell, S. D., & Park, C. (2005, January 24). Direct broadcast satellites and the social shaping of technology: Comparing south korea and canada. Canadian Journal of Communication, 30(1)

McDowell, S. D., Steinberg, P. E., & Tomasello, T. (2007). Managing the infosphere: Governance, technology, and cultural practice in motionTemple University Press.

McDowell, S. D., & Strover, S. (2006). Issues in wireless broadband. Government Information Quarterly (special issue), 23(3-4), 347.

McDowell, S. D. (2006). The information revolution and developing countries. Perspectives on Politics, 4(2), 415-416.

Nudd, D., & Schriver, K. (2005). Feminist analysis. The art of rhetorical criticism (pp. 270). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Nudd, D. M. (2004). The left rewriting america's best historical fiction finalist: The january 20, 2001 "inaugural BAWL" in tallahassee, florida. Text and Performance Quarterly, 24(1), 74-88.

Opel, A. (2004). Micro radio and the FCC: Media activism and the struggle over broadcast policyPraeger Press.

Opel, A. (2005). Depleted uranium and the media: Conspiracy, censorship and the iraq war. Panel Presentation to the Environmental Communication Commission of NCA, Boston, MA.

Opel, A. (2005). Paradise lost I & II: Documentary, gothic and the monster of justice. Jump Cut, 47

Opel, A. (2006). In Nudd D., Faust Films(Eds.), The cargo bike Opel, A., & Templin, R. (2005). Is anybody reading this? indymedia and internet traffic reports. Transformations, 10(special issue on alternative media)

Opel, A. (2006). SURVIVING THE INEVITABLE FUTURE. Cultural Studies, 20(4), 477-492.

Opel, A., Pomper, D., & Skinner, D. (2007). Reviews - representing resistance: Media, civil disobedience and the global justice movement. Canadian journal of communication, 32(1), 139.

Opel, A., & Smith, J. (2004). ZooTycoon TM: Capitalism, nature, and the pursuit of happiness. Ethics & the Environment, 9(2), 103-120.

Proffitt, J. (2006). The question remains—Can government intervention promote free speech? revisiting arguments for structural regulation. Communication, 6(1), 28.

Proffitt, J. (2007). Challenges to democratic discourse: Media concentration and the marginalization of dissent. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 29(1), 65-84.

Proffitt, J. (Forthcoming 2007). Juggling justifications: Modifications to the national television station ownership rule. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic,

Proffitt, J. M. (2005). Structural regulation, concentration, and democratization a political economic analysis of the national television station ownership rule.http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-912/index.html

Proffitt, J. M. (2007). BOOK REVIEW: Why TV is not our fault: Television programming, viewers, and who's really in control, by by eileen R. meehan. Popular Communication, 5(1), 81-83.

Proffitt, J. M., & Brown, M. (2004). Regulating the radio monopoly: Ewin davis and his legislative debates, 1923-1928. Journal of Radio Studies, 11(1), 100-115.

Proffitt, J., Tchoi, D. Y., & McAllister, M. P. (Forthcoming 2007). Plugging back into the matrix: The inter-textual flow of corporate media commodities. Journal of Communication Inquiry,

Proffitt, J., & Yang, H. (2004). News perceptions of sensationalism and medium in the entertainment age. Kentucky Journal of Communication, 23(2), 55.

Raney, A. A. (2004). Expanding disposition theory: Reconsidering character liking, moral evaluations, and enjoyment. Communication Theory, 14(4), 348-369.

Raney, A. A. (2004). Motives for using sport in the media: Motivational aspects of sport reception processes. In H. Schramm (Ed.), Sport communication, part III: Reception of sport in the media (pp. 47). Cologne, Germany: Herbert von Halem Publishing.

Raney, A. A. (2005). Punishing media criminals and moral judgment: The impact on enjoyment. Media Psychology, 7(2), 145-163.

Raney, A. A. (2006). The psychology of disposition-based theories of media enjoyment. In J. Bryant, & P. Vorderer (Eds.), The psychology of entertainment (pp. 137). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Raney, A. A., & Baker, K. (2006). Adolescents and the appeal of video games. In P. Vorderer, & J. Bryant (Eds.), Playing computer games: Motives, responses, and consequences (pp. 165). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Raney, A. A., & Bryant, J. (2006). Handbook of sports and media. Mahwah, N.J: L. Erlbaum Associates.

Raney, A. A., & Depalma, A. J. (2006). The effect of viewing varying levels and contexts of violent sports programming on enjoyment, mood, and perceived violence. Mass Communication & Society, 9(3), 321-338.

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Overview Faculty Courses Admissions Student Voices Current Student Login	Selected Faculty Publications Media and Communication Studies faculty actively publish in key scholarly and professional journals as well as present papers and projects at some of the leading conferences in the discipline, including the International Communication Association (ICA 2007 Conference presentations), the National Communication Association (NCA 2006 conference presentations) and the Broadcast Education Association. In order to provide an overview of faculty publications, select books and journal articles published by the Media and Communication Studies faculty since 2004 are listed below. Please Note: This list is not comprehensive. A complete list of individual faculty publications can be found on individual faculty web sites. Arpan, L. M. (2005). Integration of information about corporate social performance. Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 10(1), 83-98. Arpan, L. M., Baker, K., Lee, Y., Jung, T., Lorusso, L., & Smith, J. (2006). News coverage of social protests and the effects of photographs and prior attitudes. Mass Communication & Society, 9(1), 1-20. Arpan, L. M., & Roskos-Ewoldsen, D. R. (2005). Stealing thunder: Analysis of the effects of proactive disclosure of crisis information Public relations review, 31(3), 425-433. Arpan, L., & Sun, H. (2006). The effect of country of origin on judgments of multinational organizations involved in a crisis. Journal of Promotion Management, 12(3/4), 189-214. Bunz, U. (2004). The computer-email-web (CEW) fluency scale-development and validation. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 17(4), 479-506. Bunz, U. (2005). Publish or perish: A limited author analysis of ICA and NCA journals. Journal of Communication, 55(4), 703-720. Bunz, U. (2005). Using scantron versus an audience response system for survey research: Does methodology matter when measuring computer-mediated communication competence? Computers in Human Behavior, 21(2), 343. Bunz, U. (2005). The word of mouse on internet research. Review of Communication, 5(1), 25-35. Bunz, U. (2006). Reviewing organizational communication concepts with the movie office space. Communication Teacher, 20(2) Bunz, U. (2006). Saturation of CMC competency: Good or bad news for instructors? Journal of Technology and Literacy, 6(1) Bunz, U., & Campbell, S. W. (2004). Politeness accommodation in electronic mail. Communication Research Reports, 21(1), 11-25. Bunz, U., & Campbell, S. W. (2005). Analysis of discursive fragments in electronic mail. In L. Lederman, D. Gibson & M. Taylor (Eds.), Communication theory. A casebook approach. (pp. 317-334). Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt. Bunz, U., Curry, C., & Voon, W. (2007). Perceived versus actual computer-email-web fluency. Computers in Human Behavior, 23(5), 2321. Houck, D. W. (2005). From money to montgomery: Emmett till, rosa parks, and the freedom movement, 1955-2005.8(2), 175. Houck, D. W. (2005). Introduction to Hugh Stephen Whitaker's essay. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 8(2) Houck, D. W. (2005). Killing Emmett. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 8, 225-262. Houck, D. W. (2006). Couching tiger, hidden blackness: Tiger woods and the disappearance of race. In A. A. Raney, & J. Bryant (Eds.), Handbook of sports and media (). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Houck, D. W. (2006). Sporting bodies. In A. A. Raney, & J. Bryant (Eds.), Handbook of sport and media (). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Houck, D. W., & Davenport, J. (2004). Redeeming 9-11. The Long Term View, 6, 123. Houck, D. W., & Dixon, D. E. (Eds.). (2006). Rhetoric, religion, and the civil rights movement, 1954-1965. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press. Houck, D. W., & Nocasian, M. (2006). Dictator, savior, and the return of confidence: Text, context, and reception in FDR¿s first inaugural address. In T. W. Benson (Ed.), American rhetoric in the new deal era, 1932-1945 (7th ed., pp. 83). East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. Houck, D. W. (2004). Ed king's jaw--or, reading, writing, and embodying civil rights. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 7(1), 67-90. Houck, D. W. (2004). FDR's commonwealth club address: Redefining individualism, adjudicating greatness. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 7(3), 259-282. Houck, D. W. (2005). Habits of the high-tech heart: Living virtuously in the information age (review). Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 8(1), 169-171. Houck, D. W. (2006). On or about june 1988. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 9(1), 132-137. Houck, D. W., Kiewe, A., & Longmore, P. K. (2004). Reviews of books and films - CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES - FDR's body politics: The rhetoric of disability. The American historical review, 109(2), 554. Jordan-Jackson, F. F. (2005). I’m not scared of you: An exploratory study comparing communication apprehension and receiver apprehension of black and white male college students. The Journal of Intergroup Relations, 32(2), 45. Jordan-Jackson, F. F., & Davis, K. A. (2005). Men talk: An exploratory study of communication patterns and communication apprehension of black and white males. Journal of Men’s Studies, 13, 347. Laurents, M. H. (2006). Speaking on special occasions. In C. Griffin (Ed.), Invitation to public speaking (). San Francisco, California: Thomson-Wadsworth. McDowell, S. D. (2004). Mass media and information technology in education. Encyclopedia of life support systems (). Paris: UNESCO. McDowell, S. D. (2006). Commercial control and governance of global electronic networks. In C. May (Ed.), Global corporate power: (re)integrating companies into IPE, international political economy yearbook (15th ed., )Lynne Rienner Publishers. McDowell, S. D., & Hadley, P. (2004). La brecha digital y la comunidad latina en estados unidos. Fronteras en america del norte: Estudios multidisciplinarios [The Digital Divide and the Latino Community in the United States] (Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM) Trans.). (). Mexico City: Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM). McDowell, S. D., & Hong, M. (2006). United states trade policy and the reshaping of intellectual property rights protection in the APEC region. In Servaes, J.: Thomas, P. (Ed.), Intellectual property rights and communications in asia: Conflicting traditions (). New Delhi: Sage. McDowell, S. D., & Lee, J. (2006). Tracking `Localism’ in television broadcasting: Utilizing and structuring public information. In P. Napoli (Ed.), Media diversity and localism: Meaning and metrics (pp. 177). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. McDowell, S. D., & Park, C. (2005, January 24). Direct broadcast satellites and the social shaping of technology: Comparing south korea and canada. Canadian Journal of Communication, 30(1) McDowell, S. D., Steinberg, P. E., & Tomasello, T. (2007). Managing the infosphere: Governance, technology, and cultural practice in motionTemple University Press. McDowell, S. D., & Strover, S. (2006). Issues in wireless broadband. Government Information Quarterly (special issue), 23(3-4), 347. McDowell, S. D. (2006). The information revolution and developing countries. Perspectives on Politics, 4(2), 415-416. Nudd, D., & Schriver, K. (2005). Feminist analysis. The art of rhetorical criticism (pp. 270). Boston: Allyn & Bacon. Nudd, D. M. (2004). The left rewriting america's best historical fiction finalist: The january 20, 2001 "inaugural BAWL" in tallahassee, florida. Text and Performance Quarterly, 24(1), 74-88. Opel, A. (2004). Micro radio and the FCC: Media activism and the struggle over broadcast policyPraeger Press. Opel, A. (2005). Depleted uranium and the media: Conspiracy, censorship and the iraq war. Panel Presentation to the Environmental Communication Commission of NCA, Boston, MA. Opel, A. (2005). Paradise lost I & II: Documentary, gothic and the monster of justice. Jump Cut, 47 Opel, A. (2006). In Nudd D., Faust Films(Eds.), The cargo bike Opel, A., & Templin, R. (2005). Is anybody reading this? indymedia and internet traffic reports. Transformations, 10(special issue on alternative media) Opel, A. (2006). SURVIVING THE INEVITABLE FUTURE. Cultural Studies, 20(4), 477-492. Opel, A., Pomper, D., & Skinner, D. (2007). Reviews - representing resistance: Media, civil disobedience and the global justice movement. Canadian journal of communication, 32(1), 139. Opel, A., & Smith, J. (2004). ZooTycoon TM: Capitalism, nature, and the pursuit of happiness. Ethics & the Environment, 9(2), 103-120. Proffitt, J. (2006). The question remains—Can government intervention promote free speech? revisiting arguments for structural regulation. Communication, 6(1), 28. Proffitt, J. (2007). Challenges to democratic discourse: Media concentration and the marginalization of dissent. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 29(1), 65-84. Proffitt, J. (Forthcoming 2007). Juggling justifications: Modifications to the national television station ownership rule. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic, Proffitt, J. M. (2005). Structural regulation, concentration, and democratization a political economic analysis of the national television station ownership rule.http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-912/index.html Proffitt, J. M. (2007). BOOK REVIEW: Why TV is not our fault: Television programming, viewers, and who's really in control, by by eileen R. meehan. Popular Communication, 5(1), 81-83. Proffitt, J. M., & Brown, M. (2004). Regulating the radio monopoly: Ewin davis and his legislative debates, 1923-1928. Journal of Radio Studies, 11(1), 100-115. Proffitt, J., Tchoi, D. Y., & McAllister, M. P. (Forthcoming 2007). Plugging back into the matrix: The inter-textual flow of corporate media commodities. Journal of Communication Inquiry, Proffitt, J., & Yang, H. (2004). News perceptions of sensationalism and medium in the entertainment age. Kentucky Journal of Communication, 23(2), 55. Raney, A. A. (2004). Expanding disposition theory: Reconsidering character liking, moral evaluations, and enjoyment. Communication Theory, 14(4), 348-369. Raney, A. A. (2004). Motives for using sport in the media: Motivational aspects of sport reception processes. In H. Schramm (Ed.), Sport communication, part III: Reception of sport in the media (pp. 47). Cologne, Germany: Herbert von Halem Publishing. Raney, A. A. (2005). Punishing media criminals and moral judgment: The impact on enjoyment. Media Psychology, 7(2), 145-163. Raney, A. A. (2006). The psychology of disposition-based theories of media enjoyment. In J. Bryant, & P. Vorderer (Eds.), The psychology of entertainment (pp. 137). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Raney, A. A., & Baker, K. (2006). Adolescents and the appeal of video games. In P. Vorderer, & J. Bryant (Eds.), Playing computer games: Motives, responses, and consequences (pp. 165). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Raney, A. A., & Bryant, J. (2006). Handbook of sports and media. Mahwah, N.J: L. Erlbaum Associates. Raney, A. A., & Depalma, A. J. (2006). The effect of viewing varying levels and contexts of violent sports programming on enjoyment, mood, and perceived violence. Mass Communication & Society, 9(3), 321-338.