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Racializing Media Policy

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Racializing Media Policy

Edited by

Jason A. Smith

George Mason University, USA

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Richard T. Craig

George Mason University, USA

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Contents

About the Editors

Jason A. Smith, PhD, is an Affiliate Faculty with the Center for Social Science Research at George Mason University and Member of the Justice 21 Committee with the Society for the Study of Social Problems. His research focuses on race and media exclusion. Previous research has been published in Sociology of Race & Ethnicity, Ethnic & Racial Studies, Studies in Media & Communication, The International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, and the Journal of Black Studies. He previously edited the volume Race and Contention in Twenty-First Century U.S. Media, along with issues of Information, Communication & Society and the International Journal of Communication.

Richard T. Craig, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Communication at George Mason University. His research centers on mass media political economy; addressing the production, distribution, and consumption of media content. He takes particular interest in exploring the social structure/struggle embedded in media production and interpreted in media consumption. His goal is to use research to influence the development of policy to enhance opportunities for media production and distribution by marginalized cultures.

About the Contributors

Richard T. Craig, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Communication at George Mason University. His research centers on mass media political economy; addressing the production, distribution, and consumption of media content. He takes particular interest in exploring the social structure/struggle embedded in media production and interpreted in media consumption. His goal is to use research to influence the development of policy to enhance opportunities for media production and distribution by marginalized cultures.

Leah P. Hunter is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism & Graphic Communication at Florida A&M University. She earned her PhD in Media Communication Studies from Florida State University, MS in Broadcasting & Film from Boston University, and Bachelor’s degree in Black Studies with a Psychology minor from Oberlin College. Before entering academia, she worked in the television and film industries. Notable companies she worked for include Whitney Houston’s BrownHouse Productions, Spike Lee’s 40 Acres & a Mule Filmworks, MTV Films and CBS Network. She has authored and co-authored a number of publications on media diversity and policy, assessment, and student achievement. She has published chapters on Tyler Perry’s manipulation of his core audience in The Problematic Tyler Perry, the viability of Bounce TV in Race and Contention in 21st Century US Media, and sister circles in social media in Black Sisterhoods. Her interests include media diversity, political economy of media, and media law and assessment.

Malav Kanuga is a Research Fellow at the Media, Inequality and Change Center at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University. He is a Cultural Anthropologist trained in ethnographic and archival studies of space, culture, and power, as well as uneven development in an internationalist and historical framework. As an Urban Researcher and an Activist, his work on the cultures and histories of popular mobilization and imagination attends to the articulations and resistances to domination and hierarchy in the urban and social life worlds of racial capitalism.

Allison Perlman is Associate Professor of History and Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the Author of Public Interests: Media Advocacy and Struggles Over U.S Television (Rutgers UP, 2016).

Jason A. Smith, PhD, is an Affiliate Faculty with the Center for Social Science Research at George Mason University and Member of the Justice 21 Committee with the Society for the Study of Social Problems. His research focuses on race and media exclusion. Previous research has been published in Sociology of Race & Ethnicity, Ethnic & Racial Studies, Studies in Media & Communication, The International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, and the Journal of Black Studies. He previously edited the volume Race and Contention in Twenty-First Century U.S. Media, along with issues of Information, Communication & Society and the International Journal of Communication.