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| Name: | Dr. Laura R. Linder |
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Office Location: | Lowell Thomas 215 |
| Extension: | (845) 575-3000 ext. 2658 |
| Email: | Laura.Linder@marist.edu |
| Personal Web Page: | http://foxweb.marist.edu/users/laura.linder/ |
| Degrees Held: | PhD Mass Communication, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997. Dissertation: The Future of Public Access Television: The Electronic Soapbox in the Twenty-First Century MA Communication, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1986. Major: Broadcasting/Cinema. BA Communication, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1982. Major: Broadcasting/Cinema. |
| Bio: | Laura R. Linder earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Mass Communication and her M.A. and B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Currently she is an associate professor of media arts in the School of Communication and the Arts at Marist College. Her other teaching experience includes seven years each at The University of North Carolina and N.C. A&T State University. In addition, she has worked as a metro clerk for The Charlotte Observer; production coordinator for WFMY-TV2, a CBS affiliate; managing editor for Carolina Film and Southeast Film, trade magazines; and assistant manager at the Janus Theaters film complex. She is founding president, Board of Directors, Greensboro Community Television; member and past president, Citizens for Responsible Government; and member, Guilford County League of Women Voters and Greensboro Chapter of National Organization for Women. Laura considers television studies her vocation and films her avocation. She is co-author (with Mary Dalton) of Teacher TV: Sixty Years of Teachers on Television, forthcoming from Peter Lang Publishing. She is co-editor (with Mary Dalton) of the anthology America View and Skewed: Television Situation Comedies published in 2005 by SUNY Press that includes her chapter "From Ozzie to Ozzy: The Nonevolution of the Situation Comedy Family." Her first book, Public Access Television: America\'s Electronic Soapbox, was published by Praeger Publishing in 1999. |
| Awards & Honors: | Faculty Member of the Year Award, Department of Broadcasting and Cinema, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2002. Distance Learning Development Grant from the Division of Continual Learning, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2001. (funded, but declined) Summer Research Grant from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1997. Eli A. and Minnie S. Rubinstein Scholarship Award from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997. |
| Publications: | Teacher TV: Sixty Years of Teachers on Television, with Mary M. Dalton, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, forthcoming 2008. "From Ozzie to Ozzy: The Reassuring Nonevolution of the Sitcom Family" in The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed. Ed. Mary M. Dalton and Laura R. Linder. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, Oct. 2005. America Viewed and Skewed: Television Situation Comedies, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, forthcoming in 2005. (co-edited with Mary M. Dalton). "Who Watches Public Access Television?" in Community Media Review, Winter 2001-2002, 11-12. Public Access Television: America's Electronic Soapbox, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999. "Community Access Television" in The History of Mass Media in the United States: An Encyclopedia, Margaret A. Blanchard, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. "Radio Corporation of America" in The History of Mass Media in the United States: An Encyclopedia, Margaret A. Blanchard, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. "Thomas Edison" in The History of Mass Media in the United States: An Encyclopedia, Margaret A. Blanchard, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. Instructors' Manual to accompany Mass Communication, Sixth Edition, John R. Bittner. Needham Heights, MA: Simon & Schuster/Allyn, Bacon, 1996, 52 p.p. (with John R. Bittner) Video User's Guide for Mass Communication, Sixth Edition, John R. Bittner. Needham Heights, MA: Simon & Schuster/Allyn, Bacon, 1996. (with John R. Bittner) Instructors' Resource CNN Video Laserdisc to accompany Mass Communication, Sixth Edition, John R. Bittner. Needham Heights, MA: Simon & Schuster/Allyn, Bacon, 1996. (with John R. Bittner) "Now on the Net," Tune-In (Radio and Television News Directors Association of the Carolinas Newsletter), Fall 1995, 3-4. |
| Research Interests: | Television situation comedies Television history Cable public access television, freedom of expression and democracy |
| Conferences & Workshops: | "How to Get Access in Your Town," Alliance for Community Media International Conference, Cincinnati, OH, July 1999. "Media Ethics Course," National Communication Association Summer Conference, Arlington, VA, July 1999. Faculty Seminar Delegate. Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, November 1998. "Fundraising for Community Media Centers," Alliance for Community Media International Conference and Trade Show, Milwaukee, WI, July 1997. "Fundraising, Underwriting, and Grants: Examples That Work," Alliance for Community Media International Conference and Trade Show, Milwaukee, WI, July 1997. |
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