Free Public Lecture and Q&A
Author and commentator Kathleen Hall Jamieson discusses the new and growing influence of the Web on political communication, and the challenges of policing deceptions in the 2012 political campaigns. Jamieson will also discuss the Annenberg Public Policy Center's new FlackCheck.org, a companion site to Factcheck.org that will use parody and humor to debunk false political advertising in the 2012 campaign.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Jamieson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Political and Social Science and the International Communication Association. She is the author or co-author of 15 books including: The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Messages Shaped the 2008 Election, co-authored with Kate Kenski and Bruce Hardy (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Event Sponsors
This event is part of the Steven H. Chaffee Memorial Lecture Series and is co-sponsored by the Carsey-Wolf Center, Department of Communication, Center for Information Technology & Society, and Department of Political Science.
About the Steven H. Chaffee Memorial Lecture Series
The Steven H. Chaffee Memorial Lecture was established in May 2006 on the fifth anniversary of Steve’s untimely death to honor the scholarship and personal qualities of Steven Chaffee, one of the most influential communication scholars of the 20th century.
Steve Chaffee came to UCSB from Stanford University in 1999, when he was appointed as the first Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication. His research focused on a wide range of issues dealing with the effects of media, with particular emphasis on political communication and the impact of the news. He wrote extensively on the role of mass media in political campaigns, voter behavior, and child development.
Chaffee earned a Master's degree in journalism from UCLA in 1962 and worked as an editor and reporter at several Los Angeles area newspapers before deciding to pursue a Ph.D. in communication at Stanford. Before coming to UCSB he was on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin for 16 years and at Stanford for 18 years and was at various times the head of his department at both universities. His impact on the discipline was profound not only through his scholarship but also through his teaching. Approximately 40 prominent scholars in the discipline were his students.
2006 The Inaugural Steven H. Chaffee Memorial Lecture
Bryon Reeves: “Emotional Responses and Unexpected Uses for Complex Multi-Player Games”
Professor Reeves is the Paul C. Edwards Professor in the Department of Communication and Director for the Center for the Study of Language and Information, an interdisciplinary group of faculty working at the intersection of computing and social sciences. Reeves is also co-founder of the Media X Program that brings together industry partners with university researchers across the campus working on innovations in interactive technology.
Professor Reeves has published widely on such topics as children and television, physiological responses to media, attention, memory, and emotion, the history of media effects research, political advertising, television news, and multi-player interactive games. He is co-author of The media equation: How people treat computers, television, and the new media like real people and places (Cambridge University Press). Professor Reeves is a Fellow of the International Communication Association and was Steve Chaffee’s colleague at both the University of Wisconsin and Stanford.
2008
Lance Bennett: "Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina... and Beyond"
Lance Bennett is Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication and Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. His work on the news media and political communication has appeared in leading scholarly journals, and his research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Spencer Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation, and the Fulbright Commission. He is the author of seven books, including News: The Politics of Illusion, and The Governing Crisis: Media, Money, and Marketing in American Elections and most recently When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina (co-authored with Regina G. Lawrence and Steven Livingston). University of Chicago, 2007.
Professor Bennett’s awards include the E.E. Schattschneider Award from the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in American Politics; the Communication Policy Research Award for Social and Ethical Relevance from the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center; The Ithiel de Sola Pool Career Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association; the Murray Edelman Career Achievement Award in Political Communication, from the American Political Science Association, and most recently election as a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association in 2007.
2010
Robert M. Entman: “Scandals in the Media: Now You See 'Em, Now You Don't”
Entman is the J. B. and M. C. Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs and Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University. He is co-author of The Black image in the White mind: Media and race in America (University of Chicago, 2000, with Andrew Rojecki), which won Harvard's Goldsmith Book Prize, the Lane Award from the American Political Science Association, and the Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award; and Democracy without citizens: Media and the decay of American politics (Oxford, 1989) as well as numerous other volumes including, most recently, Projections of power: Framing news, public opinion and US foreign policy (Chicago, 2004), and Scandals of media and politics (Polity Press, 2010).
He has also published dozens of journal articles, reports, and book chapters in such fields as political communication, public opinion, race relations, and public policy. For his work on media framing, Entman received the 2005 Charles H. Woolbert Research Award from the National Communication Association for research that has stood the test of time and has become a stimulus for new conceptualizations of communication phenomena. In 2006 he was awarded the American Political Science Association's Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Achievement Award in Political Communication, and in 2007 was recognized as a Distinguished Scholar by the National Communication Association.
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