Background
Professor Jansen has taught at Muhlenberg College since 1985. She was chair of the Media and Communication Department for a number of years. In that department, she regularly teaches courses that focus on the sociology of media and media institutions. Her research gravitates around two fundamental questions: what and how we know. That is, it focuses on the institutional structures, power relationships and practices that mediate the construction of public knowledge. She has done extensive research on both state and market censorship. Her recent research critically examines the early twentieth century progressive movement; the role of international public relations in globalization including the phenomenon of nation branding; and social justice scholarship in media studies. Her research and teaching has also examined gender, race, class, information technologies, journalism, and sport media.
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Books: |
| 2002 |
Critical Communication Theory: Power, Media, Gender and Technology, Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. Chinese translation with a new preface, Shanghai: University of Fudan Press, translated by Cao Jin, 2007. |
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| 1988 |
Censorship: The Knot that Binds Power and Knowledge. Oxford University Press, Paperback edition with new Preface, 1991. |
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| 1978 |
Humanism in Sociology: Its Historical Roots and Contemporary Problems, with Aleksander Gella and Donald F. Sabo. University Press of America. |
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| Recent Articles and Chapters: |
| 2008 |
Forthcoming “Rethinking Social Justice Research in Media and Communication,” Communication, Culture, and Critique. |
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| 2008 |
“Designer Nations: Neo-Liberal Nation Branding – Brand Estonia,” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture 14, 1 (Jan.). |
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| 2008 |
“Walter Lippmann, Straw Man of Communication History” in The History of Media and Communication Research: Contested Memories edited by David W. Park and Jefferson Pooley, Peter Lang Publisher. |
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Department of Sociology & Anthropology