Political Communication

The New Long Journalism. Book in progress. Available: www.uic.edu/~kgbcomm/longnews

Refereed Articles

Controlling Nature: Weathercasts on Local U.S. Television News, 2d author with Richard Doherty. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, revise and resubmit, under review.

Technology and the Changing Idea of News: An Analysis of Content on U.S. Newspaper Internet Sites. Reflections of Power: Critical Perspectives on U.S. Journalism History in the 20th Century, Ed. William S. Solomon. New York: SUNY Press, forthcoming.

Ideology and the Changing Representations of Persons in U.S. Journalism. Form and Style in Journalism: European Newspapers and the Representation of News, 1880–2005, pp. 219–234. Ed. Marcel J. Broersma. Groningen Studies in Cultural Change 26. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 2007.

News Ideology in the Twentieth Century, invited. In Diffusion of the News Paradigm, 1850 – 2000, pp. 239–62. Ed. Svennik Høyer & Horst Pöttker. Gothenburg, Sweden: Nordicom, 2005.

Queer Political News: Election-year Coverage of the LGBT Communities on National Public Radio, 1992 – 2000. Journalism Theory, Practice & Criticism 4.1 (February 2003): 5–28.

The Makers of Meaning: National Public Radio and the New Long Journalism, 1980 – 2000. Political Communication 20.1 (January–March 2003): 1–22.

News Geography & Monopoly: The Form of Reports on U.S. Newspaper Internet Sites. Journalism Studies 3.4 (November 2002): 477–89.

Republished Um balanço dos dez anos do boom dos jornais na internet. São Paulo: Paulus, in press.

American Journalism and the Decline on Event-Centered Reporting, with Diana C. Mutz. Journal of Communication 47.4 (Autumn 1997): 27–53.

• Best Article of the Year, APSA and ICA, Political Communication Divisions, 1998.

Republished in Mutz, Impersonal Influence, 38–51. Cambridge, 1998.

Image Bite News: The Coverage of Elections on U.S. Television, 1968 – 1992, with Catherine A. Steele. Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 2.1 (February 1997): 40–58.

The Journalism of Opinion: Network Coverage in U.S. Presidential Campaigns, 1968 – 1988, 2d author with Steele. Critical Studies in Mass Communication 13.3 (Sept. 1996): 187–209.

• Described in Christian Science Monitor, Richmond Times Dispatch, and Spectra.

Republished in Benchmarks in Communication Studies, Vol. 30. Ed. Philip Seib. Delhi: Sage, 2007.

Contemporary Terrorism in Peru: Sendero Luminoso & the Media. Journal of Communication 41.4 (Autumn 1991): 75–89.

The Literature of Terrorism: Implications for Visual Communications. In Media Coverage of Terrorism, 112–37. Ed. A. O. Alali and K. K. Eke. Newbury Park: Sage, 1991.

Refereed Conference Papers

When in U.S. News: The New, Long Journalism and the Shift from Factual to Predictive Political Reporting. National Communication Association (NCA), Chicago, November 2007.

The Paradox of Locations in U.S. News. Political Communication, American Political Science Association (APSA), Philadelphia, September 2006.

Controlling Nature: The Rhetoric of Local TV Weathercasters during a National Political Convention. Political Communication, NCA, Boston, November 2005.

Declining Events and the What of News. Political Communication, ICA, New York, May 2005.

Proximity and the Where of News. Political Communication, ICA, New York, May 2005.

Qualitative Methods and the Philosophical Orientation of Political Communication. Political Communication and Qualitative Methods, APSA, Chicago, September 2004.

Ideological Shifts in the Newsworthy What. Cultural Studies Conference, Boston, May 2004.

Going Long: Textual & Visual Form in U.S. News. NCA, Miami Beach, November 2003.

The Impact of the Internet on Newspaper Political Coverage. APSA, Boston, 2002.

The Queer Election: NPR Political News, the LGBT Communities, and the Fall 2000 Campaign. APSA, San Francisco, and ICA, Washington, 2001.

NPR News and the New Long Journalism. APSA, Washington, D.C., 2000, and with Carol Liebler, APSA, Boston, September 1998.

Sound Bites: An Update, 1988 – 1996, with Dan Hallin and Steele. ICA, Montreal, May 1997.

The More Visual Newscast, 1968 – 1988, with Steele. ICA, Chicago, May 1996.

Opinionated Journalism in Presidential Election TV Coverage, with Steele. American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), Salt Lake City, May 1996.

The New Long Journalism, with Mutz. AAPOR, May 1996, and ICA, Albuquerque, May 1995.

The Growing Dominance of Opinionated Journalism in U.S. Presidential Campaign Television Coverage, 1968 – 1988, with Steele. ICA, May 1995.

The Press Responds to Terrorism. ICA, Chicago, May 1991.

Contemporary Terrorism in Peru. Intercultural Communication Conference, Miami, February 1991.

Speeches & Journalism

Lectures delivered at the universities of Louisiana, Jan. 2008, Groningen, June 2005, Emory, Feb. 2005, Michigan, Sept. 2004, Chicago, May 2004, Amsterdam, March 1998, and Harvard, Nov. 2001.

Short articles published in Kaid & Holtz-Bacha, eds., Encyclopedia of Political Communication, Sage (in press), and by DESK (Rome), 2004; by Knight-Ridder, 1995, 1996; in APSA/ICA Political Communication Report 6 (Fall 1995): 4; and in Habla! 3 (July 1990): 46–47.

Interviewed on “Eight-Forty Eight,” WBEZ-FM Chicago Public Radio, April 2004 and 2001, for Columbia Journalism Review, New York, September 2002, and Toronto Globe & Mail, June 2001.

Media History

The Form of News, A History, with John Nerone. New York: Guilford Press, cloth 2001, paper 2002.

• Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association, San Diego, 2003.

• Suzanne K. Langer Award, Media Ecology Association, New York, 2002.

• Reviewed in Bookwatch, Choice, Columbia Journalism Review, Press/Politics, J&MC Educator, JHistory, Journalism Studies, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Media Ethics, Nieman Reports, Public Opinion Quarterly, Sharp News, Technology & Culture, and Visual Communication.

Refereed Articles

Journalism. International Encyclopedia of Communication. Ed. Wolfgang Donsbach. Oxford, Blackwell, forthcoming 2008.

U.S. Newspaper Types, the Newsroom, and the Division of Labor, 1750 – 2000, 2d author with Nerone. Journalism Studies 4.4 (November 2003): 435–49.

News Form and the Media Environment: A Network of Represented Relationships, 2d author with Nerone. Media, Culture & Society 25.1 (January 2003): 153–66.

Beyond Modernism: Digital Design, Americanization & the Future of Newspaper Form, 2d author with Nerone. New Media & Society 3.4 (December 2001): 467–82.

Civic Picturing versus Realist Photojournalism: The Regime of Illustrated News, 1856 – 1901, with Nerone. Design Issues 16.1 (Spring 2000): 59–79.

• Covert Best Article of the Year Award, History Division, Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC), 2000, Washington, D.C., August 2001.

The President Is Dead: American News Photography & the New Long Journalism, with Nerone. In Pictures in the Public Sphere, 60–92. Ed. B. Brennen & H. Hardt. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Los periódicos españoles en la textura del siglo XX, with José Manuel de Pablos, et al. Latina: Revista Latina de Comunicación Social 18 (June 1999). www.ull.es/publicaciones/latina/

Visual Mapping & Cultural Authority: Design Change in U.S. Newspapers, 1920 – 1940, 2d author with Nerone. Journal of Communication 45.2 (Spring 1995): 9–43.

Newspapers as Twentieth-Century Texture. In The News Aesthetic, 22–35. Ed. Lawrence Mirsky & Silvana Tropea. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1995.

Design Changes in U.S. Front Pages, 1885 – 1985, with Nerone. Journalism Quarterly 68.4 (Winter 1991): 796–804.

Refereed Conference Papers

U.S. Newspaper Types, the Newsroom, and the Division of Labor, 1750 – 2000, 2d author with Nerone. International Association for Mass Communication Research (IAMCR), July 2002.

The Form of News: Thoughts on the Newspaper as Environment, with Nerone. Media Ecology Association, New York, June 2002.

Authors Meet Critics: Barnhurst & Nerone’s The Form of News. ICA, Washington, D.C., May 2001.

A Critique of News Form: Newspaper Production & Social Meaning in U.S. History, 1750 – 2000, with Nerone. ICA, Acapulco, Mexico, June 2000.

The Regime of Illustrated News, 1856 – 1901, with Nerone. ICA, San Francisco, May 1999.

News Photography & the New Long Journalism, with Nerone, invited. ICA, Montreal, May 1997.

Speeches & Short Articles

Journalism History, 2d author with Nerone. Handbook of Journalism Studies. Ed. Karin Wahl-Jorgensen & Thomas Hanitzsch. Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum, forthcoming 2008.

National Pubic Radio (NPR). Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Ed. Lynda Lee Kaid & Christina Holtz-Bacha. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, forthcoming 2008.

Lectures delivered at the Università di Sassari, Sardegna, Italy, June 2006, Università di Padova, Italy, May 2006, Università di Torino, Italy, April 2006, University of Texas at Austin, April 2002, and Stockholm University and the University of Copenhagen, May 2001.

Keynote address (in Spanish) delivered at the Globalización, Tecnologías y Culturas conference, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, México, November 2001.

Keynote address to the Working Group on Citizenship and Consumerism: Media, the Public Sphere and the Market, European Science Foundation, Prague, April 2001.

Op-ed Commentary: A New Era in News Design, with Nerone. Christian Science Monitor, Opinion Page, April 16, 2002, p. 11.

Interviewed on “The Morning Show,” WBAL Radio, Baltimore, July 2001, and “Focus 580,” WILL Radio, Champaign, Illinois, August 2001; and for articles in Slate.com, March 21, 2005, and American Journalism Review, June/July 2007.

Audience Sociology

Political Engagement & the Audience for News: Lessons from Spain. Journalism & Communication Monographs 2.1. Columbia, S.C.: AEJMC, Spring 2000.

Refereed Articles

“The Press Motivated Me”: Life History Accounts of the Media & Political History in Brazil, with Víctor Sampedro and Tânia Cordeiro. Communication Review 9.3 (Summer 2006), 163–187.

La edad de la inocencia: Medios comerciales y jóvenes ciudadanos, 2d author with Víctor Sampedro and Tânia Cordeiro. La pantalla de las identidades: Medios de comunicación, políticas y mercados de identidad, pp. 55–79. Ed. V. F. Sampedro B. Barcelona: ICARIA, 2003.

Mercantilización mediática y ciudadanía, 2d author with Sampedro and Cordeiro. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (Madrid) 103.3 (July–September 2003): 219–38.

Subjective States: Narratives of Citizenship among Young Europeans. Multilingua 22 (2003): 133–68.

Republished in Millar & Wilson, The Discourse of Europe: Talk & Text in Everyday Life., pp. 17–47. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007.

Young Citizens, American TV Newscasts, and the Collective Memory, with Ellen Wartella. Critical Studies in Mass Communication 15.3 (September 1998): 279–305.

• Described in Spectra.

Politics in the Fine Meshes: Youth, Power & Media. Media, Culture & Society 20.2 (Spring 1998): 201–18.

Newspapers & Citizenship: Young Adults’ Subjective Experience of Newspapers, with Wartella. Critical Studies in Mass Communication 8.2 (June 1991): 195–209.

Republished: Diarios y ciudadanos: La experiencia subjetiva de los jóvenes adultos con la prensa. Trans. Abraham Santibáñez. Reflexiones Académicos 6 (1994): 49–70.

Refereed Conference Papers

Qualitative Methods and the Philosophical Orientation of Political Communication. APSA, Political Communication, Chicago, September 2004.

La edad de la inocencia: Medios comerciales y ciudadanos de segunda. Last author with Sampedro and Cordeiro. Spanish Political Science Association, Barcelona, September 2001.

News Media as Fringe: The Phenomenology of Citizenship during Young Adulthood. Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, Illinois, April 2000.

Life History, Identity & the Media: Toward a Theory of Subjective Response. NCA, Chicago, November 1999.

Social Theory for News Media Research. ASA, Chicago, August 10, 1999.

Generational Changes in Experiences with News Media: Social, Political, and Communication Perspectives. Qualitative Analysis Conference, Fredericton, Canada, May 1999.

Young Citizens, News, and Democracy: The Spanish Case. Northeast Political Science Association, Boston, November 1998.

Qualitative & Quantitative Tools for Understanding the Audiences of Media Systems, invited. AEJMC, Baltimore, August 1998.

Life Histories & Surveys: Assessing Subjective Experience with the Media, with Wartella, invited. AEJMC, Washington, D.C., August 1995.

Young Adults’ Subjective Experience of Newspapers As a Source of Public Knowledge. Qualitative Studies, AEJMC, Boston, August 1991.

Talks & Shorter Pieces

Young Adults, Political Engagement & American Journalism. Università di Torino, Italy, April 2006.

Qualitative Analysis. Invited Entry for the Encyclopedia of Social Measurement 3: 225–30. San Diego: Elsevier Academic Press, 2005.

Ciudadanos jóvenes, periodismo y democracia: Una comparación entre los Estados Unidos y España. Latina 6 no. 56, July–December 2003. www.ull.es/publicaciones/latina/20035628kevin.htm

Lectures delivered at Stockholm University, May 2001; Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, January 1999; and Rutgers University, New Brunswick, December 1997.

Plenary talk at the European Worldview Conference, sponsored by the European Science Foundation, La Londe-les-Maures, France, May 2000.

Interviewed on “Extension 720,” WGN Radio, Chicago, Nov. 1999, and “USA Weekend,” Feb. 1998.

Visual Communication

Media/Queered: Visibility and its Discontents (Editor). New York: Peter Lang, 2007.

• Reviewed in Journal of Communication Inquiry and Reference & Research Book News.

Seeing the Newspaper. New York: St. Martin’s Press, cloth and paper editions, 1994.

• Mellett Special Citation, presented at National Press Club, Washington, D.C., October 1994.

• Named a Best Book of the Year by In These Times magazine, 1995.

• Reviewed in Editor & Publisher, Journal of Communication, Journalism Educator, Quill & Scroll, SND Design, Visual Communication Quarterly, and Visual Sociology.

News as Art. Journalism Monographs No. 130. Columbia, S.C.: AEJMC, December 1991.

Published serially in Design, the magazine of the Society of News Design: Design Theory: Expressing Tone. No. 26 (1987): 52–53; News as Art: Point and Line. No. 25 (1987): 32–33.

• Reviewed in Journal of Visual Literacy.

Serialized in Spanish in Cuadernos de Diálogos de la Comunicación. Bogotá: Federación Latinoamericana de Facultades de Comunicación Social (FELAFACS):

Periodismo visual. Cuadernos 14. March 1991. Reissued, Revista Latina de Comunicación Social (Latina) 7, July 1998. www.ull.es/publicaciones/latina

Republished in Portuguese: Jornalismo Visual, Unisinos 30 (23 setembro 2002): 179–82. Planejamento Gráfico. Trans. J. C. Kofmeister. www.comunica.unisinos.br/

La diagramación de noticias. Cuadernos 16. June 1991. Reissued, Latina 14, Feb. 1999.

Los cuadros gráficos. Cuadernos 19. June 1991. Reissued, Latina 16, April 1999.

Handbook for Visual Journalism. Champaign, Illinois: Hawthorne Books, 1988. Rev. ed., 1990.

Refereed Articles & Book Chapters

Visibility as Paradox: Representation and Simultaneous Contrast. In Media/Queered: Visibility and its Discontents, pp. 1–20. Ed. Kevin G. Barnhurst. New York: Peter Lang, 2007.

Mapping Visual Studies in Communication, with Michael Vari and Ígor Rodríguez, invited. State of the Art in Communication Theory and Research issue. Journal of Communication 45.4 (Winter 2004): 616–44.

Beyond the Frame: Alternative Perspectives on the Imagined Environment. Postscript to Thinking Geometrically: Re-Visioning Space for a Multi-Modal World, 149–81. By John Waisanen. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.

The Influence of Layout on the Perceived Tone of News Articles, 2d author with Susan E. Middlestadt. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 75.2 (Summer 1999): 264–76.

The Alternative Vision: Lewis Hine’s Men at Work in the Dominant Culture. In Photo-Textualities: Reading Photographs & Literature, 85–107. Ed. M. Bryant. London: AUP, 1996.

• Discussed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Fall 1993.

Layout as Political Expression: The Press and Sendero Luminoso. Visual Literacy in the Digital Age, 435–47. Blacksburg: International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA), 1994.

Accommodating Technology, 2d author with Carla V. Lloyd. Visual Literacy in the Digital Age, 233–39. Blacksburg: IVLA, 1994.

Photography as Culture: Reconsidering the History of U.S. Photojournalism. Medien und Zeit (Austria), January 1994, 17–24.

The Impact of Legibility Science on the Visual Design of Newspapers. Imagery in Science & the Arts, 35–42. Blacksburg: IVLA, 1993.

Effects of Modern and Postmodern Design Styles on Reader Perceptions of News, with Alan L. Ellis. Visual Communication: Bridging Across Cultures, 15–24. Blacksburg: IVLA, 1992.

Visual Literacy Training: Changing How Journalism Students Reason About Layout, with D. Charles Whitney. Investigating Visual Literacy, 25–36. Blacksburg: IVLA, 1991.

Refereed Conference Papers

Pragmatics, Rhetoric, Semantics: A Trip-tick Map through Visual Studies in Communication. ICA, Theme Session, New Orleans, May 2004.

Global 20th-Century Newspaper Design, with S. Masiclat. AEJMC, Washington, D.C., August 1995.

Aesthetics and Elemental Theories. Rocky Mountain Conference, Feather River, June 1994.

What Critical Theory Teaches about Photojournalism Practice. Speech Communication Association (SCA), Miami Beach, November 1993.

Visual Literacy and the Politics of Newspaper Design. IVLA, Rochester, October 1993.

Science & Visual Design in Newspapers. IVLA, Pittsburgh, October 1992.

Cultural Backgrounds of Newspaper Typography, invited. AEJMC, Montreal, August 1992.

Lewis Hine & the Dominant Photographic Vision. SCA, Atlanta, November 1991.

The Knowing Eye: An Applied Arts Approach to Visual Knowledge. AEJMC, San Antonio, August 1987. Reissued in microform: ERIC no. ED 284 254.

Visual Literacy Training, with Whitney. IVLA, Normal, October 1990.

Speeches & Shorter Pieces

Alternative Perspectives on the Imagined Environment. Visual Studies, International Communication Association (ICA), Dresden, Germany, June 2006.

Ideology of Advertising. Centro Fiorenze, Florence, Italy, March 22, 2004.

Reflexiones sobre infografía periodística: Respuestas sobre infoperiodismo. Latina 6 no. 55, April–June 2003. www.ull.es/publicaciones/latina/20035516kevin.htm

Response to Article 125, Why the Web Will Win the Culture Wars for the Left: Deconstructing Hyper-links. CTheory: Theory, Technology, and Culture 26.1–2, Exchange, April 2003. Available: www.ctheory.net

• Digested, Utne Reader No. 56, 2004, www.utne.com/webwatch/2003_56/news/10543-1.html

Lectures delivered at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 1996; University of Texas at Austin, November 1994; the Five College Seminar, Amherst, Massachusetts, September 1994; and Columbia University, March 1994 and March 1992.

Lectures delivered in Spanish at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, July 1996; University of Lima, Perú, July 1989; Cuzco National University San Antonio Abad, Perú, June 1989; and University of Piura, Perú, May 1989.

Plenary talk, Serving the Reader Conference, Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, September 1988.

Commentaries in VisualSign 6.1 (Autumn 1999): 3–4, and Latina 5, May 1998; and in the Introduction to Tipografía y Diseño, 5–6, by Fernando Lallana (Madrid: Síntesis, 1999).

Op-ed articles in the Christian Science Monitor, January 22, 1996, 19; and June 27, 1994, 18. Reprinted in the Houston Post, Weds., July 13, 1994, A23.

Excerpts published in ViewPoints 12.1 (Fall 1993): 10–11, and 11.2 (February 1992): 3–5; Journalism Educator 48.2 (Summer 1993): 56–66; Visual Literacy Review 19 (November 1990): 1, 4–5; Design No. 38 (July 1990): 19–20; and Journalism Educator 45 (Summer 1990): 69–73, 96.

Interviewed for Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich, Switzerland, September 2002, on “Perspectives,” WEVO-FM, August 1994, and on “Talk of the Nation, Science Friday,” NPR, and “On the Media,” WNYC-AM, March 1994.

Book Reviews

Review Essay: Visual Politics. Journal of Communication, Invited, May 2008.

Democracy and the News, by Herbert Gans (Oxford, 2003), invited. Contemporary Sociology 33.3 (May 2004): 350–52.

“An American Family”: A Televised Life, by Jeffrey Ruoff (Minnesota, 2002), invited. Visual Studies 17.2 (October 2002):179–81.

The Making of Citizens: Young People, News, and Politics, by David Buckingham (Routledge, 2000). Journal of Communication 52.1 (Autumn 2001): 841–43.

The Daily Planet: A Critic on the Capitalist Culture Beat, by Patricia Aufderheide (Minnesota, 2000). Political Communication Report 11.2 (Spring 2001).

Review Essay: Les Frauduleux: Science and the Crisis in Representation. Journal of Communication 46.1 (1996): 159–68.

• Cited as a resource on the American Academy of Sciences Web site.

Review Essay: Defining the Public Image. Visual Communication Quarterly 1.4 (Fall 1994): 10–11.

Review Essay: Design Form and Chaos. Journal of Communication 44.2 (Spring 1994), 154–57.