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Adrienne Christiansen

Computer Communications

Communication and Media Studies Department

Christiansen specializes in communications via computer, "war talk," feminism and the rhetoric of social movements. She has researched editorial cartoon characterizations of Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura from newspapers around the world. Christiansen has also studied and written about contemporary conservatism, AIDS activists and the Persian Gulf War.

Jerry Fisher

Communication Technology/Cable TV/Satellites Communication Studies and History Departments

Fisher specializes in the influence of new communication technology, including cable TV and satellites. He has presented papers in Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan on satellite broadcasting and digital compression and their impact on the U.S. and Asia. Fisher is the general manager, Asia region, for the Hubbard Broadcasting Group. He lives part-time in Japan.

Leola Johnson

African Americans and the Media

Communication and Media Studies Department

Johnson's research focuses on media representations of African Americans in news and entertainment, particularly in sports and music. She also specializes in hip-hop culture and rap music. She is completing a book on Iceberg Slim, the pimp writer whose 1968 autobiography is being produced as a Hollywood film. She teaches courses on television, the press and other mass media as social and cultural institutions. Johnson is a regular guest on the PBS program "Mental Engineering."

Linda Schulte-Sasse

Propaganda/Film

German and Russian Department

Schulte-Sasse specializes in film and cultural studies, German literature and the analysis of American political discourse. She teaches 18th and 20th century literature, cinema studies and is interested in the history and use of propaganda, rhetoric and film. She focuses on the German cinema, particularly during the era of National Socialism. Her latest book, Entertaining the Third Reich: Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Cinema, examines Nazi films as movies containing propaganda, comparing them with classical Hollywood cinema. Schulte-Sasse also has written opinion pieces on Hollywood films and other issues for the Scripps-Howard News Service and the Star Tribune newspaper.

Clay Steinman

Media and Film Criticism/Political Advertising

Communication and Media Studies Department

Steinman can discuss the role of mass media in society as well as a variety of media and film issues including news media coverage, political advertising, television viewing habits and stereotypes in Hollywood films. His research interests include the impact of television and film on culture, and racism and Hollywood film. He teaches courses on critical media theory, film history and analysis, racism and the media, and gender and media. Steinman is the co-author of Consuming Environments: Television and Commercial Culture, which explores how television has helped create a culture of consumerism and over-consumption. He is a former journalist, writing for newspapers and other news organizations such as The Nation and Xinhua, the China news agency.