A Century of Transformation Podcast
James W. Chesebro is Distinguished Professor of Telecommunications in the Department of Telecommunications at Ball State University. Dr. Chesebro
served as president of the Eastern Communication Association in 1983 and
president of the National Communication Association in 1996. He has served as
the editor of several journals including
Review
of Communication,
Critical Studies in
Media Communication, and
Communication
Quarterly. Among several honors, he has been awarded NCA’s Golden
Anniversary Award and the Samuel L. Becker Distinguished Service Award, and
twice received ECA’s Everett Lee Hunt Scholarship Award. He also received the
Distinguished Research Fellow, Distinguished Teaching Fellow, Distinguished
Service Award, and the Ecroyd Distinguished Teaching Award from ECA. Dr.
Chesebro has published over 100 articles in communication journals and
published several books including:
Analyzing
Media: Communication Technologies as Symbolic and Cognitive Systems,
Extensions of the Burkeian System,
Computer-Mediated Communication: Human
Relationships in a Computerized World,
Public
Policy Decision-Making,
Orientations
to Public Communication, and coedited the third edition of
Methods of Rhetorical Communication. For
the 100
th Anniversary of the Eastern Communication Association, Dr. Chesebro
edited a collected volume about the impact the association has had on the field
of human communication for Oxford University Press titled
A Century of Transformation: Studies in Honor of the 100th
Anniversary of the Eastern Communication Association.
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