Communication

Courses

  • Introduction to Mass Communication
  • Introduction to Television Studies
  • Critical Analysis of Media
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Alternative Journalism
  • Media Histories
  • Advanced Television Studies
  • Theories of Consumption and Production

Research Interests

  • Media Audiences
  • Production Studies
  • Communication Labor
  • Citizenship and Culture
  • Latin American and Latino Media
  • Alternative and Community Media

Publications

  Below the Line: Television Producers and Production Studies in New
  Economy. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.

  (with Tanya Goldman)  "Hollywood Handouts: Tax Credits in the Age of
  Economic Crisis."  Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media 54
  (2010): http://www.ejumpcut.org/home.html. 

Education

  University of California, San Diego
  Ph.D.

Contact

  Ph:  (504) 862-3035
  Fax:  (504) 862-3040
  Email:  vmayer@tulane.edu
  Office:  205 Newcomb Hall
  Office Hours:  on leave through 12/2011
  Websites:  MediaNOLA
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