media — ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Mon, 27 Mar 2023 18:30:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Sylvia Sierra /faculty-experts/sylvia-sierra/ Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:49:33 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=168826 Sylvia Sierra is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ.

Sierra is a discourse analyst interested in language and social interaction. She takes an interactional sociolinguistic approach to exploring knowledge management and identity construction in everyday conversation in both face-to-face and online contexts. Her research interests include identity, popular culture/media, knowledge management, social media, multimodal methods/embodied interaction, discourse-level sociolinguistic variation, and Mexican Spanish culture.

Sierra’s first book, , is scheduled for release in October 2021. The book focuses on how and why millennials quote a wide array of media in everyday talk, including films, tv shows, video games, memes, songs, and books. Sierra looks at the interrelationship between intertextuality, framing, epistemics and identity by analyzing actual everyday conversations among millennials which contain references to both old and new popular culture.

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Robert Thompson /faculty-experts/robert-thompson/ Thu, 08 Dec 2016 15:06:25 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=111364 Dubbed a “pop culture ambassador” by the Associated Press, Robert Thompson has contributed to hundreds of radio and TV programs and publications.

He is the founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture and a Trustee Professor of Television and Popular Culture. He was a visiting professor for six summers at Cornell University and served for nine years as professor and director of the N.H.S.I. Television and Film Institute at Northwestern University.

Thompson is the author or editor of five books: “Television’s Second Golden Age” (Continuum, 1996); “Prime Time, Prime Movers” (Little, Brown, 1992); “Adventures on Prime Time” (Praeger, 1990); and “Television Studies” (Praeger 1989).

He has been interviewed by a wide range of media outlets, including CBS’s “60 Minutes,” “48 Hours,” “The Early Show” and “The Evening News with Dan Rather”; NBC’s “Dateline,” “Today” and “Later Today”; ABC’s “20/20,” “World News Tonight” and “Good Morning America”; PBS’s “Newshour”; MSNBC’s “Headlines & Legends” and “Playback”; CNN’s “Newsstand”; CNBC’s “Upfront Tonight with Geraldo Rivera”; Fox News Channel’s “O’Reilly Factor”; NPR’s “All Things Considered,” “Morning Edition,” “Talk of the Nation,” “Fresh Air,” “On the Media” and “Anthem”; The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Time, Newsweek Fortune, TV Guide and Variety.

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