ICA Experts

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ICA experts are available to comment on a wide variety of topics in the field of communication studies. A select list of experts are below, along with their background information and areas of expertise. To arrange an interview, contact John Paul Gutierrez at media@icahdq.org.

• Patricia Aufderheide (American U)
  Areas of Expertise: Copyright and Creativity; Public Media; Digital Culture; Participatory Culture; Media and Democracy


• Andrew Billings (U of Alabama)
  Areas of Expertise: Mass Media; Audiovisual Media; Print Media


• Dominique Brossard (U of Wisconsin, Madison)
  Areas of Expertise: Biotechnology; Personality/Attitude & Behavior; Mass Media; Audiovisual Media; Printed Media


• J. Allison Bryant (PlayScience LLC)
  Areas of Expertise: Advertising/Public Relations; Personality/Attitude and Behavior; Mass Media; Audiovisual Media; Printed Media; Parenting and Child Care; Multimedia and Networking


• Carolyn Byerly (Howard U)
  Areas of Expertise: Political Economy of Media; Gender, Race & Class Issues in Media (especially news); Media Ownership; Critical Theory of Media (particularly Feminist Theory)


• Michael X. Delli Carpini (U of Pennsylvania - Annenberg School for Communication)
  Areas of Expertise: Guidelines/Treaties/Agreements; Personality/Attitude & Behavior; Mass Media; Political Science; Audiovisual and Print Media


• Benjamin Detenber (Nanyang Technical U)
  Areas of Expertise: Social/Behavioral Science, Mass Media, Audiovisual Media, Printed Media


• Claes de Vreese (The Amsterdam School of Communication Research ASCoR)
  Areas of Expertise: Social/Behavioral Science, Personality/Attitude, Mass Media, Audiovisual Media, Printed Media, Political Science


• David Ewoldsen (Ohio State U)
  Areas of Expertise: Personality/Attitude & Behavior; Minority Groups; Mass Media; Audiovisual & Print Media


• Rebecca Hains (Salem State U)
  Areas of Expertise: Advertising/Public Relations, Social/Behavioral Science, Anthropology, Arts & Culture, Learning/Literacy/Reading, Mass Media, Audiovisual Media, Printed Media, Parenting/Child Care/Family


• James D. Ivory (Virginia Tech)
  Areas of Expertise: Effects of virtual simulations of perceptions of schizophrenia; Psychological and physiological effects of technological features of video games; Psychological and physiological effects of using portable devices to display media; Psychological responses to World Wide Web search engine results; Psychological issues influencing perceptions of video game effects and support for restrictions on violent video games; Portrayals of gender, race, and sexual content in characters in video games and virtual environments; User behavior and speech in online game environments and virtual worlds


• Marina Krcmar (Wake Forest U)
  Areas of Expertise: Anthropology; Arts & Culture; Personality/Attidue & Behavior; Mass Media; Audiovisual Media


• Daniel Kreiss (North Carolina U - Chapel Hill)
  Areas of Expertise: Behavior, Personality/Attitude, Mass Media, Audiovisual Media, Printed Media, Political Science


• Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (U of Oxford)
  Areas of Expertise: Social/Behavioral Science, Personality/Attitude, Mass Media, Audiovisual Media, Printed Media, Political Science


• Mary Beth Oliver (Pennsylvania State U)
  Areas of Expertise: Personality/Attitude & Behavior; Mass Media;  Audiovisual & Print Media


• John Pollock (College of New Jersey)
  Areas of Expertise: A "community structure approach", examining connections between community (typically city or national-level) characteristics and reporting on political and social change; health communication and comparative/cross-national media, media system and structural comparisons; frame-building and agenda-building


• Dhavan Shah (U of Wisconsin, Madison)
  Areas of Expertise: Medical/Scientific Ethics; Personality/Attitude & Behavior; Aging; Mass Media; Print & Audiovisual Media; Political Science


• Federico Subervi (Texas State U)
  Areas of Expertise: Latinos and media issues, from a social science or critical empirical perspective; Latino political communication; media in Latin America, especially Puerto Rico and Brazil


• Helen Sun (U of Texas, Permian Basin)
  Areas of Expertise: Media Policy and Law, especially those in the People's Republic of China; Intellectual Property; Licenses/Patents; Mass Media


• Ellen Wartella (Northwestern U)
  Areas of Expertise: Advertising/Public Relations, Social/Behavioral Science, Personality/Attitude, Mass Media, Audiovisual Media, Printed Media, Parenting/Child Care/Family


• Ran Wei (U of South Carolina)
  Areas of Expertise: Principles of Advertising; Advertising Research; Advertising in Cultural China; Impact of New Media Technologies; Media Effects