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Writing

Here's a PDF collection of my past and present writings. Don't have a PDF reader? Go here to get one absolutely free! For the most up-to-date collection of my work, please visit my online Digital Repository hosted by ScholarWorks at UMass, Amherst.

Graduate School

The mother’s gaze and the model child: Reading print ads for designer children’s clothing. Forthcoming in Advertising and Society Review.

Porn & me(n): Sexual morality, objectification, and religion at the wheelock antipornography
conference. The Communication Review (Fall, 2008) 11:4.

Don’t smile for the camera: Black power, para-proxemics and prolepsis in print ads for hip-hop clothing. International Journal of Communication (Nov, 2007) 1:1.

Shifting currents in media awareness: (120 KB) A study of how a group of educators worked to reduce media consumption in their community originally published in Academic Exchange Quarterly 10.3 (Fall, 2006): 154(5).

College

Real Stories: Reality TV, Edu-tainment, Bob Dole vs Hollywood, and the V-Chip

The Business of the Gospel: The Printing Press and the Protestant Reformation

The Sound of Silence: Essay comparing Singing in the Rain and Bladerunner

TV Scripts

"The Wrong Path" for I, Detective on CourtTV (Microsoft Word Document)

"Patriotic Places" for World's Best on the Travel Channel