Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Media and Society - Softcover

Alison Alexander is a Professor of Telecommunications and Senior Associate Dean at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She is the past Editor of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, and past President of the Association for Communication Administration and the Eastern Communication Association. She received her PhD in communication from Ohio State University. She is widely published in the area of media and family, audience research, and media economics.

Jarice Hanson is Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her research focuses on the impact of new technology. She formerly held the Verizon Chair in Telecommunications at Temple University, and was the founding Dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University. She received her MA and PhD at Northwestern University’s Department of Radio-TV-Film. She is the author or editor of numer­ous books and articles, including The Economic Encyclopedia of Social Media: Friending, Following, Texting, and Connecting (Greenwood, 2016) and 24/7: How Cell Phones and the Internet Change the Way We Live, Work and Play (Praeger, 2007), Constructing Amer­ica’s War Culture: Iraq, Media, and Images at Home (coedited with Thomas Conroy) (Lexington Books, 2007), and The Unconnected: Participation, Engagement, and Social Justice in the Information Society (coedited with Paul M. A. Baker and Jeremy Hunsinger) (Peter Lang, 2013).