Personal

For those who are interested in such things, I do have some college degrees: a B.A. from Earlham College (in Indiana) with majors in Speech and Music; and both an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (emphasizing Radio-TV).

After 28 years as a Professor of Media Studies at California State University, Northridge, I am now retired and living in the woods of North Carolina . . . where I teach courses at the Duke Institute for Learning in Retirement, plan to continue my writing, and think about updating my web site.

Educational Background

I have spent about nine years in various production and administrative positions in Educational Broadcasting. And thirty-one years in college work . . . teaching television production, educational media, and media theory and criticism.

My full curriculum vitae includes eighteen professional articles and six books, including the following:

Educational Telecommunications. Belmont, CA:

Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1977.

Video Production: Disciplines and Techniques (co-authored with Thomas Burrows, et al).

Dubuque, IA: WCB/McGraw-Hill, 1978. Eighth edition, 2001.

Mass Media and the Individual. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co., 1983.

Designing the Effective Message: Critical Thinking and Communication. 2nd. ed.

Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1996.

Post-Intellectualism and the Decline of Democracy: The Failure of Reason and Responsibility

in the Twentieth Century. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group/Praeger, 1996.

The Unraveling of the West: The Rise of Postmodernism and the Decline of Democracy.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group/Praeger, 2003.

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