Ruann Keith

Dissertation: "Constructing Professionalism: Reifying the Historical Inevitability of Commercialization in Mass Media Communication"

American political culture has virtually precluded public discussion about the fundamental weaknesses of capitalism, forcing media reformers to argue defensively that commercial broadcasting is a special case of market failure. My investigation questions the historical inevitability of commercialized mass media structure by examining how the ideology of media professionalism is deployed in public debate over noncommercial uses of mass media resources.

John Brown

 Bryan Cardinale-Powell 

Curt Hersey

Cindy Milligan 

Fran Pici

Stacy Schmitt