David W. Park
Gustav E. Beerly Jr. Assistant Professor of Communication

Phone 847-735-5149
E-mail park@lakeforest.edu

Specialization
Theories of Mass Communication
New Media
Intellectuals and Experts
Popular Culture
Communication of Authority

Interests
Independent Media
Webcasting
Comic Books
Political Cartoons
Popular Psychology
History of Journalism
 
Education
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
M.A., University of Pennsylvania
B.S., Northwestern University

Courses Taught
Communication 110: Introduction to Communication
Communication 281: Theories of Mass Communication
Communication 285: Modern Media History
Communication 350: Topics in Comm; Media, Information & Society
Communication 381: History and Theory of Freedom of Expression
Communication 383: New Media & Society
Communication 420: Senior Seminar:  Journalism, Culture, and Society
Communication 420: Senior Seminar:  Cultural Theory and Media Studies

Books
The History of Media and Communication Research: Contested Memories (edited with Jeff Pooley), New York. Peter Lang Press, 2008.

Articles
“Networks of the Dead or Alive in Cyberspace: Public  Intellectuals in the Mass and Internet Media,”
w/James Danowski, (2008), New Media & Society, in press.
 
“Living Up to Media and the American Mind,” (2007), Critical Studies in Media Communication, in press.
 
“Introduction,” co-authored with Jeff Pooley, in Media The History of Mass Communication Research: Contested Memories, ed. by David W. Park & Jeff Pooley, New York:  Peter Lang Press, in press.
 
“The Lonely Crowd vs. The Two-Step Flow:  Conformity and the Media in the 1950s,” in The History of Mass Communication Research:  Contested Memories, New York:  Peter Lang Press, in press.
 
“Public Intellectuals and the Media: Integrating Media Theory Into a Stalled Debate,” (2006),
International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, Vol. 2(2), 115-129

“The Convictions of Reflexivity: Pierre Bourdieu’s Relevance to Marxist Theory in Communication,” (2005), in Marxism and Communication Studies in the 21st Century, ed. by Lee Artz, Dana Cloud, & Stephen Macek, Peter Lang Pres, in press.

“Strategic Self-Marginalization:  The Case of Psychoanalysis,” (2005) Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 41 (3), 207-224.  Portions co-authored with Jaap Bos & Petteri Pietikainen.

“The Couch and the Clinic:  The Cultural Authority of Popular Psychiatry and Lay Analysis,” (2004) Cultural Studies, Vol. 18 (1), 109-133.

Barbie Zelizer, David Park, & David Gudelunas (2002) "How Bias Shapes the News: Challenging The New York Times' Status as a Newspaper of Record on the Middle East," Journalism, Vol. 3 (3), 283-307

David W. Park (2002) "The Kefauver Comic Book Hearings as Show Trial: Decency, Authority, and the Dominated Expert," Cultural Studies, Vol. 16 (2), 259-288

David W. Park (1999) "Picturing the War: Visual Genres in Civil War News," The Communication Review, Vol. 3 (4), 287-321

Joseph Walther, Jeffrey Anderson, and David W. Park (1994) "Interpersonal Effects in Computer-Mediated Interaction," Communication Research, Vol. 21 (4), 460-487.

Invited Talks
“Webcasting’s Impact on the Role of the Radio Disk Jockey:  An Institutional Analysis,” Association of Internet Researchers, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2007.
 
“The Lonely Crowd in the Two-Step Flow:  Re-Assessing Personal Influence in the Context of the
Conformity Trope, “National Communication Association, Boston, MA  2006

“The Media and the Public Intellectual:  Five Theses to Get Us Out of a Structuralist Funk,” Lake Forest Workshop on the Intellectual, Lake Forest, IL, 2005.

“Bloggers as Public Intellectuals: Boot-Strapping Authority for a New Commentariat,” Lake Forest Workshop on the Intellectual, Lake Forest, IL, 2005.

“Riesman Reconsidered:  Recovering the Communication Dimensions in the Lonely Crowd, and in David Riesman’s Accidental Popular Success,” International Communication Association, New York, NY, 2005.

“Putting Webcasting In Its Place?:  Finding the Geographical Dimensions of Radio Programming as it Moves to Satellites and the Internet,” International Communication Association, New York, NY, 2005.

“Marxist Theory Moving Forward and Firing Back:  Pierre Bourdieu, Marxist Theory, and Their Emerging and Intertwined Meaning to Communication Studies,” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 2004.

“Webcasting’s Importance to the Radio Underdogs: Noncommercial Radio, Local Scenes, & the Absorption of the Internet-accessible Audience,” Association of Internet Researchers, University of Sussex, UK, 2004.

“From Many, A Few:  Intellectual Authority and Strategic Posisioning in the Coverage of, and  Self-Descriptions of, the ‘Big Four’ Weblogs,” International Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, 2004.

“Intimate Expertise:  On the Effacement of the Professional and the Emphasis on the Personal in the Public Persona of Dr. Phil,” International Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, 2004.

National Communication Assocation annual convention, Miami, November 2003, "Public Intellectuals, the World Wide web, and Re-engaging the Public"

Association of Internet Researchers: Internet Research 4.0, Toronto, October 2003, "Bloggers and Warbloggers as Public Intellectuals: Charting the Authoritative Space of the Weblog"

International Social Network conference, Cancun, February 2003, "Networks of the Dead or Alive in Cybercemeteries," w/ James Danowski.

National Communication Association annual convention, New Orleans, November 2002, "Public Intellectuals and the Uses of Decline"

National Communication Association annual convention, New Orleans, November 2002, "when Bias Shapes the Intifada: Challenging the New York Times' Status as a Newspaper of Record," w/ David Gudelunas & Barbie Zelizer

Cheiron annual conference, Eugene, OR, June 2002, "Popular Psychiatrists and Psychoanalysts as Public Intellectuals?: On the Authority of Public Professionals"

International Communication Association annual convention, San Francisco, May 1999, "Putting the World on the Couch"

International Communication Association annual convention, Jerusalem, July 1998, "Picturing War: Illustration and Photography in Civil War News"

International Communication Association annual convention, Montreal, May 1997, "The Kefauver Hearings as Show Trial: Decency, Authority, and the Dominated Expert"

Awards and Honors
Reviews Editor, New Media & Society (Sage Publications), 2005-present.

Associate Editor, The Journal of Literacy and Technology, 2005-present.