Faculty
Michael Huntsberger - Assistant Professor
Renshaw 212A
1-503-883-2271
mhuntsb@linfield.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Communication and Society, University of Oregon School of Journalism and Mass Communication
B.A., Music Technology Emphasis, The Evergreen State College
Professional experience as an engineer, producer, manager, and consultant across a range of public and commercial media enterprises.
Academic interests:
Public media policy (U.S. and international)
Media technology
Mass media ethics
Mass media history
Publications:
Huntsberger, Michael W. (in press). "My show is a public service: How values of free expression and professionalism influence community radio." In Janey Gordon (ed.), Community Radio in the 21st Century. Oxford: Peter Lang.
Huntsberger, Michael W. (in press). "U.S. Radio in the 21st century: Staying the course in unknown territory." In John Allen Hendricks (ed.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of International Radio. London: Palgrave MacMillan
Stavitsky, Alan G. & Huntsberger, Michael W. (2010). "With the support of listeners like you: Lessons from U.S. public radio." In Gregory Ferrell Lowe (ed.), The Public in Public Media. Goteborg: Nordicom.
Stavitsky, Alan. G. & Huntsberger, Michael W. (2010). "Digital radio strategies in the United States: A tale of two systems." In Brian O'Neill (ed.), Digital radio in Europe: Technologies, industries and cultures. London: Intellect.
Huntsberger, Michael W. (October 2008). "A matter of both legal and moral authority." Journal of Mass Media Ethics, v.23 n.4, 314-317.
Huntsberger, Michael W. and Stavitsky, Alan G. (Winter 2007). "The new podagogy: Incorporating podcasting into journalism education." Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, v.61 n.4, 397-410.
Huntsberger, Michael W. (Fall 2006). "Creativity, free expression, and professionalism: Value conflicts in U.S. community radio." Southern Review, v.39 n.2, 44-60.
Courses at Linfield:
Broadcast Practices
Electronic Media Writing
Introduction to Mass Communication
Visual Communication: Digital
Visual Communication: Electronic
Mass Communication Ethics
Mass Communication History
Susan Currie Sivek - Assistant Professor
Renshaw 205
1-503-883-2521
ssivek@linfield.edu
Education:
Ph.D. and M.A., University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism
B.A., English, Trinity University
Professional experience as a freelance writer for magazines and websites, and as a copy editor. Magazine industry correspondent for PBS MediaShift.
Academic interests:
Magazine journalism
Media sociology
Media technology
Political communicaton
Publications:
Sivek, S.C. (2013). Packaging inspiration: Al Qaeda's digital magazine and self-radicalization. International Journal of Communication, v.7.
Sivek, S.C. (2011). "We need a showing of all hands": Technological utopianism in MAKE magazine. Journal of Communication Inquiry, v.35 n3, 187-209.
Sivek, S.C. (2010). Social media under social control: Regulation of social media and the future of socialization. Electronic News, v.4 n.3, 146-164.
Sivek, S.C. (2008). Editing conservatism: How National Review magazine framed and mobilized a political movement. Mass Communication & Society v. 11 n.3, 248-274.
Johnson, S. & Sivek, S.C. (2008). Framing sex, romance and relationships in Cosmopolitan and Maxim. Southwestern Mass Communication Journal, V.24 n.2, 1-16.
Courses at Linfield:
Introduction to Mass Communication
Introduction to Media Writing
Mass Media and Society
Mass Media, Politics and Public Opinion
Media, War, and Culture
Mass Media and Popular Culture
Brad Thompson - Associate Professor; Department Chair
Renshaw 203
503-883-2291
bthomps@linfield.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Communications, University of Colorado at Boulder
M.A., Journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia
B.A., University of Denver
Brad Thompson joined the Linfield College faculty in 2003. Before earning his Ph.D. in communications from the University of Colorado at Boulder, he worked as a full-time newspaper reporter and editor for 16 years, most of that time at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver. He also has worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Oregonian and elsewhere. Before joining Linfield College, he taught full- and part-time at Penn State and Metropolitan State College in Denver and elsewhere and was a Fulbright Scholar for a year in Bulgaria.
Courses at Linfield:
Information Gathering
Introduction to Media Writing
Mass Media
Mass Media Law
Mass Media and Society
Photojournalism
Politics and Public Opinion
Lisa Weidman - Assistant Professor
Renshaw 102A
1-503-883-2219
lweidma@linfield.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Mass Communications, Syracuse University
M.S., Media Administration, Syracuse University
B.A., English/Writing Sequence, University of California at Davis
Academic Interests:
Popular communication (including sports media, tabloid newspapers, magazines and alternative media for adolescents)
Influences on mass-media content
Hegemony theory
Feminist theory
Diffusion theory
Publications
Weidman, Lisa M. (in press) “Homophobia, Heterosexism, and Ambivalence in the Premier Issue of Sports Illustrated Woman|Sport,” chapter accepted by editor for publication in a refereed book, L. K. Fuller, (Ed.) Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Global and Universal Contexts. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
Scharrer, Erica; Weidman, Lisa M., & Bissell, Kimberly (August 2003). “Pointing the Finger of Blame: News Media Coverage of Popular-Culture Culpability,” Journalism & Communication Monographs.
Beal, Becky, & Weidman, Lisa M. (2003). “The Authentic Skateboarder Identity,” (a chapter about how skateboarders formulate their identities through the messages they receive from advertisements in a popular skateboarding magazine), invited chapter in a refereed book, R. Rinehart & S. Sydnor, (Eds.), To the Extreme: Alternative Sports Inside and Out. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Weidman, Lisa M. (2001). “Tales from the Testosterone Zone,” invited chapter in a refereed book, E. L. Toth & L. Aldoory (Eds.), The Gender Challenge to Media: Diverse Voices from the Field, pp. 61-103. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Susan Barnes Whyte - Library Director, Associate Professor Mass Communication Department
Nicholson Library 181
503-883-2517
swhyte@linfield.edu
Education:
M.Ln., Emory University
B.A., Earlham College
Academic Interests:
Technology and teaching, how data is transformed into knowledge, how we live in technology and against technology.
Publications
Essays about technology and teaching/learning, how computers affect who we are as people, who we are as communities, and how we teach and learn. Many presentations about information literacy, how we think about information.