Research Articles and Conference Presentations

Bates, Stephen. "Prenates, Postmorts, and Bell-Curve Dignity," Hastings Center Reports, July-August 2008,

Bates, Stephen. Review of Rediscovering a Lost Freedom, by Patrick M. Garry, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, summer 2008

Bates, Stephen. "The Day the TV Died," Wilson Quarterly, spring 2008

Bates. Stephen. "Standardization in Television and Video Technology." Paper presentation at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications Conference, August 7, 2008
 
Bates, Stephen. "Actual Law in Virtual Worlds: Protecting Creative Works in Second Life." Paper presentation, with Yuval Karniel, at International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference on Media and Global Divides, Stockholm, July 21, 2008
 
Bates, Stephen. "The Hutchins Commission and Public Intellectuals." Paper presentation at Conference on Public Intellectuals, Boston University Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, May 15, 2008
 
Bates, Stephen. "The Mixed Motives Behind a Pulitzer." Paper presentation at American Journalism Historians Association/Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Joint Journalism Historians Conference, New York City, March 15, 2008
 
Bates, Stephen. "The Entertainment Ecosystem." Panel presentation, Far West Popular and American Culture Associations Conference, Las Vegas, January 26, 2008
 
Bates, Stephen. Essay on Justice Clarence Thomas's view of the First Amendment's compelled-speech doctrine. Special section of www.firstamendmentcenter.org, September 2007
 

Borchard, G. A. & Ferri, A. J. “When in Las Vegas, do as the ancient Romans did: Bread and circuses then and now.”  The Journal of Popular Culture, in press.

Ferri, A. J. (2007). “Communication Research:  The Scientific Study of Media,” in Mass Communication in the Global Age, ed. David Copeland. Northport, AL: Vision Press.

Ferri, A. J. (2008). Leni: The life and work of Leni Reifenstahl by Steven Bach, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2007, Popular Culture Review, in press for Volume 19, #2

Ferri, A. J. (2007). Prime-time television: A concise history interpreting television: The critical view, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 51(3) pp. 543–546

Mullen, L.J. (2009). Swarm methodology: The Consumer Electronics Show, contagion, and visual data collection. Social Identities, 15(4), (forthcoming–accepted for publication).

Conley, D., & Mullen, L.J. (2008). Righting the commons in Red Rock Canyon. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 5(2), 180-199.

Mullen, L.J. (2008). Cave art and the origins of typography. Visual Communication Quarterly, 15(1), 6-14.

Mullen, L.J. (forthcoming). Visual Images in Science Communication. In, S. Priest (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Mullen, L.J. (2008). Sports broadcasting. In, S.L. Vaughn (Ed.)., Encyclopedia of American Journalism (pp. 496-500). New York: Routledge.

Mullen, L.J. (2008). Teaching Visual Communications with Second Life. Accepted for presentation at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, IL, August 6-9.

Friedman, D., Ferri, A., Karniel, Y., Dinur, A.L., Mullen, L., & Priest, S. (2008). Social Influence and Persuasion in Virtual Worlds. Accepted for presentation at the International Association for Mass Communication Research, Stockholm, Sweden, July 20-25.

Mullen, L.J. (2008). Images of a Virtual Culture: Exploring Second Life. Presented at the 22nd Annual Visual Communication Conference in Tahoe City, CA, June 18-22.

Mullen, L.J. (2008).Virtual Communities: Visual Explorations of Second Life. Presented at New Media Worlds: Changing Technologies, Industries, Cultures, and Audiences in Global and Historical Context, a conference at Texas A&M University, February 29- March 2, 2008.

Mullen, L.J., Chapman, J., & Barry, J. (2007). Hurricanes and aesthetic entropy: An exploratory study. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention in Chicago, IL, November 15-18. (Top four paper in the Visual Communication Division).

Mullen, L.J. (2007). Las Vegas cheesecake. Presented at the annual Visual Communication Conference, Estes, CO, June 13-17.

Mullen, L.J. (2008). Special Guest Speaker at “Facebook, Myspace and Beyond,” a roundtable discussion of the issues involving new media organized by Career Services at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, April 22.

Mullen, L.J. (2008).Virtual Communities: Visual Explorations of Second Life. Presented at Virtual Worlds, Real People at The Asper Institute for New Media Diplomacy, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herziliya, Israel, January 23.

Mullen, L.J. (2008). Visual Manipulation. Presented at Of Aesthetics and Ethics: A Conference on Visual Values at The University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, January 10-12.

Priest, S. 2008. North American Audiences for News of Emerging Technologies: Canadian and U.S. Responses to Bio- and Nanotechnologies. Journal of Risk Research (in press).

Hui, L., and S. Priest. 2008. Understanding Public Support for Stem Cell Research: Media Communication, Interpersonal Communication and Trust in Key Actors. Public Understanding of Science (in press).

Besley, J., V. Kramer, and S. Priest. 2008. Expert Opinion on Nanotechnology: Risk, Benefits, and Regulation.Journal of Nanoparticle Research 10(4): 549-558.

Lang, J., and S. Priest. 2007. Understanding Receptivity to Genetically Modified Foods: Gastronomica (Summer), 88-92.

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