Research
Interests:
Global
media and communications; international and national news
agencies; propaganda, war and terrorism.
Selection
of Recent & Reoccurring Courses:
The
Political Economy of Mass Communication (COMS 729); War,
Terrorism and the Communications Media (JOUR 495/TCOMM
469)
Biography:
I
was born of Irish parents in Dublin, the Republic of Ireland,
but was educated and worked for much of my life in the
United Kingdom in and around London, also spending periods
in the south, south west, east and center of England.
I held full-time academic appointments at Essex University,
Imperial College (University of London), City University
(London), Open University and Leicester University. With
my wife Leah, I bought a finca in sight of the Mediterranean
in the south of Spain near Benissa, where we lived for
a period of time with our four children, and where our
family spent long vacations in the period 1987-1997. My
mother had settled in Santa Monica, near Los Angeles,
in the early 1980s, so Southern California was a natural
destination when I searched academic opportunities in
the United States. From spring 1998 I help appointments
at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona until
2005 when I accepted the offer of appointment as Director
and Professor at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.
Selected
Recent Publications:
(2007). Media, War and Empire,
Spokane, WA: Marquette Books.
(2006)
(Ed.) Communications Media, Globalization and Empire,
Luton: John Libbey/University of Luton Press.
(2004).
????? (The globalization of news) (with T. Rantanen) (Eds.).
Chinese Edition. Weber Publications International Ltd.
(2004).
????? (Approaches to media) (with C. Newbold) (Eds.). Western Journalism and Communications Classics.
Chinese Edition. Beijing: Xinhua Publishing House
(2002). The media book (with C. Newbold & H. Van
Den Bulck) (Eds.). London: Edward Arnold.
(2001).
Final report of the Workshop on News Agencies in the Era
of the Internet. Paris: UNESCO. (http://www.unesco.org/webworld/publications/news_agencies/news_agencies.rtf).
(1998). The globalization of news (with T. Rantanen) (Eds.).
London: Sage.
(1997). Media in global context (with A. Sreberny-Mohammadi
& al.) (Eds.). London: Edward Arnold.
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