David L. Paletz, Professor, Political Science
| Office Location: | 501 Perkins Lib |
| Office Phone: | +1 919 660 4321 |
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Teaching (Fall 2009):
- POLSCI 203S.01, POLITICS/MEDIA IN U S
Synopsis
- Perkins 307, Tu 07:15 PM-09:45 PM
- POLSCI 187S.01, POLITICS AND THE LIBIDO
Synopsis
- Social Sciences 107, Tu 06:15 PM-08:45 PM
- Office Hours:
- Currently on sabbatical.
- Education:
PhD University of California, Los Angeles 1970 M.A. University of California, Los Angeles 1963 B.A. University of California, Los Angeles 1961
- Specialties:
- Political Science/Public Policy & Media
- Research Interests: Politics and the Media, Film and Politics
Professor of Political Science and editor of Political Communication.
His degrees are all from UCLA. Dr. Paletz's specializes in political
communication both in the US and internationally. His research focuses
on the relationship between the media (defined broadly to include both
news and entertainment) and American government and politics (defined
broadly to include the public, institutions, and processes). He teaches
courses on "Politics and the Media," "Film and Politics,"
"International Communication," "American Government," and "Politics and
the Libido." He is the author of The Media in American Politics:
Contents and Consequences, 2nd ed. (Addison-Wesley Longman, 2002),
co-author of Media Power Politics (Free Press, 1981 and 1983), and of
Politics in Public Service Advertising on Television (Praeger, 1977);
2003), editor of and contributor Political Communication in Action
(Hampton Press, 1996); and of Political Communication Research, Vol. II
(Ablex 1996), and Vol. I (Ablex, 1987); co-editor and contributor to
Business as Usual (Hampton Press, 2003), Glasnost and After: Media and
Change in Eastern/Central Europe (Hampton Press, 1995), Taken By Storm:
Media, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Gulf War
(University of Chicago Press, 1994), and of Terrorism and the Media
(Sage, 1992); and author of some sixty other publications. He has been
Chair of the Political Communication Research Section of the
International Association for Media and Communication Research, Chair
of the Political Communication Section of the American Political
Science Association, and a Founding Member of the International Journal
of Political Socialization and Political Psychology. Among his research
and teaching awards are a Congressional Fellowship from the American
Political Science Association, Humanities Fellowship from the
Rockefeller Foundation, two Fulbright Scholarships, and the Alumni
Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award from Duke University. He
chairs the Selection Committee of the Full Frame Documentary Film
Festival.
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- D.L. Paletz, Sherman's March: Romantic Love in Documentary Films (Submitted, Forthcoming), Oxford University Press [DOC] .
- D.L. Paletz, Communicating Politics Through the Media: What's Wrong and How Can We Fix It, in Communicating Politics, edited by Mitchell S. McKinney (2005), pp. 95-106, New York: Peter Lange Publisher .
- D.L. Paletz and Jill Rickershauser, Media, Violence and Terrorism in North America 1998-2002, in Media, Violence and Terrorism (2004), pp. 119-124, UNESCO .
- Amy McKay and D.L. Paletz, The Presidency and the Press, in Handbook of Political Communication Research, edited by Lynda Lee Kaid (2004), pp. 315-337, Lawrence Erlbaum .
- Business as Usual: Continuity and Change in Central and Eastern European Media, edited by D.L. Paletz and Karol Jakubowicz (2003), pp. 438, Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press .