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Faculty Profile:Dr. Thom Gencarelli
Education:
Research and Scholarly InterestsMedia and Popular Culture Theory and Criticism (with a particular emphasis on popular music), Media Education/Media Literacy, and Media Ecology
Publications, Conference Papers, and Special Lectures:Publications:“The Intellectual Roots of Media Ecology in the Work and Thought of Neil Postman.” Reprinted and translated into Chinese. “Special Issue: Media Ecology.” China Media Report. (In press). “At the Margins: A Remembrance.” (An introduction). In L. G. Elson, Paradox Lost: A Cross Contextual Definition of Levels of Abstraction, Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (In press). "The Missing Years: Neil Postman and The New English Book Series." (2006). Explorations in Media Ecology, 5 (1), 47-61. "Neil Postman and the Rise of Media Ecology." (2005). In C. M. K. Lum (Ed.), Perspectives on Culture, Technology, and Communication: The Media Ecology Tradition (pp. 201-253). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. Schumer, F. (2004, April 11). "Next, a Course on Dressing the Couch Potato." The New York Times (New Jersey Section), p. NJ1. [Interview] Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing. Mitsui, T., & Hosokawa, S. (Eds.). (2003). London and New York: Routledge. In Ethnomusicology. 47 (2), 261-262. [Book review] "Media Ecology
and Media Education in the United States." Media Education: The
Electronic Journal of the Media Ecology Institute - "Composing an Academic Life." Co-authored with Deborah Borisoff, James W. Chesebro, Susan Drucker, Dan F. Hahn, and Neil Postman. (2001). The Speech Communication Annual, 15, 115-137. Guest Editor, "Special Issue: Media Education." (1998). The New Jersey Journal of Communication, 6 (2). Conference Papers: “The Bias of Digital Communication.” Media Ecology Association Convention, Santa Clara, CA, June 2008, and the International Communication Association Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada, May 2008. "Models for Analysis of Broadband/Wi-Fi Adoption." Media Ecology Association Convention, Mexico City, México, June 2007. "Music in the Age of Digital Reproduction: What is the Dissenting Response?" New York State Communication Association Conference, Kerhonkson, NY, October 2006. "Jean Piaget, Cognitive Development, and Language Acquisition." New York Society for General Semantics Symposium, "World in Quandaries: Coping with Controversial Communication in the Global Village - Personal, Social, National and Cultural," New York, NY, September 2006. "Neil Postman and the New English." The Neil Postman Symposium, New York, NY, April 2006. "The Role of the Discipline in the Implementation of Educational Media Initiatives." National Communication Association Conference, Boston, MA, November 2005. "Bruce Springsteen, Heroism, and Celebrity." Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium (organized by Penn State University), Monmouth, NJ, September 2005. "Theory Before Praxis: Or, 'What is an Educator For?'" Eastern Communication Association Conference, Boston, MA, April 2004. "Six (or 7, or 8, or 9...) Lessons from the Work and Thought of Neil Postman." National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, IL, November 2004. "The New York School of Media Ecology in the History of Media Education." National Communication Association Conference, Miami, FL, November 2003. "Music, Authorship, Ownership, and Identity: The Case for 'Mash-ups.'" New York State Communication Association Conference, Tarrytown, NY, October 2002. "Media Ecology and Media Education in the United States." [Invited]. Media Education as Part of Civic Education Conference, Institute of Media Ecology, Ivan Franko L’viv National University, L’viv, Ukraine, September 2002. "Toward a Media Ecology of Music." Media Ecology Association Convention, New York, NY, June 2002. And the New York State Communication Association Conference, Monticello, NY, October 2001. "Media, Money, and Music: The Case of Digital Music." New York State Communication Association Conference, Monticello, NY, October 2001. "Telecommunications as Savior or Enslaver? The Contemporary Case of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan." New York State Communication Association Conference, Monticello, NY, September 2000. "From Tin Pan Alley to Absolute Nonsense: One Take on the Evolution of Pop Music Lyrics." Eastern Communication Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2000. Also presented as "In Defense of Lyrical Nonsense." New Jersey Communication Association Conference, Glassboro, NJ, April 2000. Special Lectures: "Understanding the Effects of Media in Everyday Life." Bayonne Jewish Community Center, Bayonne, NJ, October 11, 2005. And St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Irvington, NY, November 16, 2003.
Other Activities: Vice President (and former Treasurer), Media Ecology Association Past President, New York State Communication Association Past President, New Jersey Communication Association Co-coordinator (English-language program), the Eighth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association, Mexico City, México, June 6-10, 2007 Program planner, chair, respondent, and/or presenter for 65 conference panels since 2000 Associate Editor, The Atlantic Journal of Communication; Taught “Seminar on Media, Society and Research.” [Invited]. For the “Media Literacy in Post-Communist Countries” project, offered through the Open Society Institute – Higher Education Support Program, Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching. At Ivan Franko L’viv National University, L’viv, Ukraine, July 2007. (For junior faculty from Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and Eastern Europe.) Courses Taught:
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