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Michael Griffin | |
Michael Griffin is a visiting professor of Media Studies at Macalester College and immediate past Chair of the Visual Communication Studies Division of the International Communication Association (ICA). He previously taught visual communication studies, documentary film and video, and journalism and media studies for 25 years at the University of Minnesota, the University of Amsterdam, the University of Pennsylvania, Carleton College and Macalester College. He earned his Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania where he was awarded a CBS Fellowship for doctoral study. Griffin is currently the Visual Communication Area Editor for The International Encyclopedia of Communications, forthcoming from Blackwell Publishers. His essays for the encyclopedia include entries for “Visual Communication” and “Art as Communication.” A sampling of his other publications includes: "Picturing America's 'War on Terrorism' in Afghanistan and Iraq," in Journalism: Theory, Practice, Criticism 5(4); “Picturing the Gulf War” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 72 (4); “National Autonomy and Global News Flows: CNN in Israel During the Gulf War,” in International Media Monitoring; “The Great War Photographs: Constructing Myths of History and Photojournalism” in Picturing the Past: Media, History, and Photography; “Camera as Witness, Image as Sign: The Study of Visual Communication in Communication Research” in Communication Yearbook 24; "From Cultural Imperialism to Transnational Commercialization: Shifting Paradigms in International Media Studies," Global Media Journal, 2(2); “Gender Advertising in the U.S. and India: Exporting Cultural Stereotypes, Media, Culture & Society, 16(3); "Photos from Abu Ghraib," in Message: Internationale Fachzeitschrift fur Journalismus 3/2004; and, with Kaarle Nordenstreng, the book International Media Monitoring. In 2005 Griffin was selected to give the Stans Distinguished Lecture in American History and Politics, “War Images and American Memory,” at the Minnesota History Center. In 1995 he was named a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Annenberg Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania for his studies of the use of images in television news. |
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