Faculty & Staff - Paul Grosswiler
Professor & Chair
443 Dunn Hall
Phone: (207) 581-1287
Fax: (207) 581-1286
E-mail: paul_grosswiler@umit.maine.edu
Professional Experience:
2012-present
Professor, Department of Communication and Journalism. I teach undergraduate International Mass Communication and Media Ethics, and graduate Media Ecology and Freedom of Expression.
2008-present
Chair, Department of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine. I teach one course per semester and administer a department with undergraduate 300 majors and 25 graduate students, nine full-time faculty and two administrative office staff. Term ends in June 2013.
1997-2012
Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication with tenure, Department of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine. I taught undergraduate History of Mass Communication, International Mass Communication and Media Ethics. I taught graduate Media History, Media Ecology and Media Cultures and Expression. I also regularly taught in the Honors College, including a course on Taoism and tai chi.
2006-2011
Fulbright Senior Specialist. I was selected as a Fulbright specialist in journalism and communication eligible for short-term projects at international universities upon request.
2000
Fulbright Senior Scholar in Communication and Journalism, Department of Journalism, School of Mass Communication, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, during the spring 2000 semester. I taught graduate courses in Media Ethics and Critical Studies in Mass Communication, visited four other universities in China for invited professional presentations, and conducted a University of Maine summer research grant project centering on media ethics in China.
1999
Visiting Professor, School of Journalism Graduate Studies Program, University of Missouri, Columbia, during the spring 1999 semester. I taught a seminar on the works of Marshall McLuhan, and advised graduate research during sabbatical leave.
1991-1997
Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, Department of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine. I regularly taught History of Mass Communication, International Mass Communication, Alternative News Media, Editorial and Opinion Writing, Public Affairs Reporting, News Reporting and Writing, and Copy Editing.
1990-1991
Assistant Professor, Department of Speech and Mass Communication, Towson State University, Towson, Md. I taught Introduction to Journalism and News Writing.
1987-1989
Assistant Professor, Department of Television and Radio, School of Communication, Ithaca College, Ithaca, N.Y.. I developed courses in News Writing, Public Affairs Reporting, and Editing. I also taught Media Writing, Introduction to Mass Communication, and a peace studies course, Introduction to Global Issues in Mass Communication.
1985-1987
Assistant Instructor and Assistant News Editor, School of Journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia. I taught classroom sections of News Editing and Copy Editing for undergraduate and graduate students. I also supervised editing and layout students working on the copy desk of the Columbia Missourian, a 7,500-circulation daily newspaper.
1983-1985
Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism and Broadcasting, University of Maine, Orono, Maine. I taught Newspaper Lab, an advanced reporting and production class, Copy Editing, the introductory reporting and public affairs reporting courses, and advised the student newspaper, The Maine Campus.
1982-1983
Editor, Maine Event, a weekend arts and media supplement to the Bangor Daily News, Bangor, Maine. I was the principal writer and layout designer for section of arts reviews, media commentary and media schedules.
1979-1982
Copy Editor, Bangor Daily News, Bangor, Maine. I edited local and news service copy, wrote headlines and laid out Page One and inside news pages for the 80,000-circulation morning daily newspaper.
1976-1979
Reporter, Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau, Missouri. I covered police and general assignment news for the 20,000-circulation afternoon daily newspaper.
Education:
1985-1990
Ph.D., Journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1990. My dissertation is titled The shifting sensorium: A Q-methodology and critical theory exploration of Marshall McLuhan’s visual and acoustic typologies in media, aesthetics and ideology.
1975-1976
M.A., Journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1976. I completed a professional graduate degree project in state government reporting in the Jefferson City, Missouri, program.
1971-1974
B.A., Creative Writing and Humanities, Baltimore-Washington Campus, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1974.
Publications: (* = refereed; + = invited)
Books:
*Grosswiler, P. (Under contract). Old new media: From oral to virtual environments. (New York: Peter Lang.) Publication expected in early 2013.
*Grosswiler, P. (Under contract). Defending thought we hate: Freedom of expression in changing media environments. (New York: Peter Lang.) Final manuscript due in 2014.
*Grosswiler, P. (Ed.). (2010). Transforming McLuhan: Cultural, critical and postmodern perspectives. (New York: Peter Lang.)
*Grosswiler, P. (1998). Method is the message: Rethinking McLuhan through critical theory. (Montréal: Black Rose Books.)
Journal Articles:
*Grosswiler, P. (2011). The subjective experience of the self, the body and technology. Journal of Human Subjectivity, 9(2): 5-22.
*Grosswiler, P. (2006). The transformation of Carey on McLuhan: Admiration, rejection, and redemption. Explorations in Media Ecology. 5 (2): 137-148.
*Grosswiler, P. (2006). Mapping the full spectrum of values: A Q study of Chinese journalism ethics. Journal of Human Subjectivity, 4 (1): 5-32.
*Grosswiler, P. (2005). Instant steal! The media ecology of plagiarism. Explorations in Media Ecology, 4 (3-4): 305-314.
*Grosswiler, P. (2005). Subjectivity or the death of the subject: Q theory vs. postmodern theory. Journal of Human Subjectivity, 3 (1): 39-58.
+*Grosswiler, P. (2004). Dispelling the alphabet effect. Canadian Journal of Communication, 29 (2): 145-158.
*Grosswiler, P. (2004). Neural network analysis as an alternative to factor analysis in the mapping of intersubjectivity in Q-methodology communication research. Journal of Human Subjectivity, 2 (1): 109-134.
+Grosswiler, P. (2004). The dialectical methods of Marshall McLuhan, Marxism, and critical theory. In Genosko, G. (Ed.) Marshall McLuhan major work: Critical evaluations in cultural theory. London: Routledge. Originally published in Canadian Journal of Communication, 21(1) 1996: 95-124.
+*Grosswiler, P. (2000). The hated and the cherished: Technology and print culture concepts of free speech. The Maine Scholar, 13: 139-160.
*Grosswiler, P. (1998). Historical hopes, media fears and the electronic town meeting concept: Where technology meets democracy or demagogy. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 22 (2): 133-151.
*Grosswiler, P. (1997). Symbolic labeling, the media, and foreign policy: Images of Cuba and Vietnam in the Post-Cold War era. Journal of International Communication, 4 (1): 11-29.
*Dooley, P. and Grosswiler, P. (1997). “Turf wars”: Journalists, new media and the struggle for control of political news. Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 2 (3): 31-51.
*Grosswiler, P. (1997). A Q-methodology study of media and ideology orientations: Exploring medium theory, critical theory and cultural studies. Canadian Journal of Communication, 22 (2): 261-287.
*Grosswiler, P. (1996). The electric town meeting concept: Framing in the 1992 election campaign. Mass Comm Review, 23 (1-4): 65-76.
*Grosswiler, P. (1996). A Q-methodology study of media worker attitudes toward changing roles of the media in Tanzania. Ecquid Novi: Journal for Journalism in Southern Africa, 17 (1): 88-105.
*Grosswiler, P. (1996). The dialectical methods of Marshall McLuhan, Marxism, and critical theory. Canadian Journal of Communication, 21(1): 95-124.
*Grosswiler, P. (1994). The convergence of William Stephenson’s and Marshall McLuhan’s communication theories. Operant Subjectivity: Journal of the International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity, 17 (3/4): 2-16.
*Grosswiler, P. (1992). Some methodological considerations on the use of multimedia Q-sample items. Operant Subjectivity: Journal of the International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity, 15 (3): 65-80.
Book Chapters:
*Grosswiler, P. (2010). Introduction. In Grosswiler, P. (Ed.) Transforming McLuhan: Cultural, critical, and postmodern perspectives. (New York: Peter Lang), xi-xxiv.
*Grosswiler, P. (2010). McLuhan and Marxisms past and present. In Grosswiler, P. (Ed.) Transforming McLuhan: Cultural, critical, and postmodern perspectives. (New York: Peter Lang), 109-132.
+Grosswiler, P. (2009). Continuing media controversies. In de Beer, A., and Merrill, J. (Eds.) Global journalism: Topical issues and media systems. 5th Ed. (Boston: Allyn & Bacon), 115-130.
+Grosswiler, P. (2005). Tao of media ecology: An intercultural communication theory. In Shan, B. and Shi, Y. (Eds.) New thoughts on intercultural communication. (Wuhan, China: Wuhan University Press), 31-37. (In Chinese.)
+*Grosswiler, P. (2005). Retrieving McLuhan for cultural studies and postmodernism. In Strate, L., and Wachtel, E. (Eds.) Legacy of McLuhan. (Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press), 245-258.
+Grosswiler, P. (2004). Continuing media controversies. In de Beer, A., and Merrill, J. (Eds.) Global journalism: Topical issues and media systems. 4th Ed. (Boston: Allyn & Bacon), pp. 112-127.
*Grosswiler, P. (1997). The impact of media and images on foreign policy: Elite U.S. newspaper editorial coverage of surviving communist countries in the post-cold war era. In Malek, A. (Ed.) News media and foreign relations: A multifaceted perspective. (Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex), 195-210.
*Grosswiler, P. (1997). Changing perceptions of press freedom in Tanzania. In Eribo, F. and Jong-Ebot, W. (Eds.) Press freedom and communication in Africa. (Lawrenceville, New Jersey: Africa World Press), 101-119.
+Grosswiler, P. (1995). Continuing media controversies. In Merrill, J. (Ed.) Global journalism: Survey of international communication. 3rd Ed. (White Plains, New York: Longman Publishers), 103-120.
Conference Proceedings:
*Grosswiler, P. (In Press). The Global Village: A Place of Pain, Not Peace. Proceedings of the 2011 McLuhan’s Philosophy of Mind conference, Brussels, Belgium.
*Grosswiler, P. (2005). Jurgen Habermas: Media ecologist? Media Ecology Association 2001 Proceedings, 2: 22-31.
*Grosswiler, P. (2000). Anarchy in a technological society: An Ellulian perspective. New Dimensions in Communication, 13: 29-45.
*Grosswiler, P. (1999). Cross-breeding media ecology and social ecology for social change. New Dimensions in Communication, 12: 45-61.
Edited Publications:
*Grosswiler, P. (2012). Critical Theory: Culture Industries & Frankfurt School. In Kosut, M., and Golson, J.G. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of gender in media. (Thousand Oaks, Cal.: Sage Publications), 44-46.
*Grosswiler, P. (2012). Kellner, Douglas. In Kosut, M., and Golson, J.G. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of gender in media. (Thousand Oaks, Cal.: Sage Publications), 187-188.
*Grosswiler, P. (2012). Postmodernism. In Kosut, M., and Golson, J.G. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of gender in media. (Thousand Oaks, Cal.: Sage Publications), 283-285.
*Grosswiler, P. (2012). You Tube. In Kosut, M., and Golson, J.G. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of gender in media. (Thousand Oaks, Cal.: Sage Publications), 449-451.
*Grosswiler, P. (2011). Media greenwashing. In Robbins, P., Wher, K., and Golson, J. G. (Eds.) Green culture: An A-to-Z guide. (Thousand Oaks, Cal.: Sage Publications), 285-289.
*+Grosswiler, P. (2002) Cultural studies. In Schement, J. R. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of communication and information. (New York: Macmillan), 199-206.
*+Grosswiler, P. (2002) Harold Innis. In Schement, J. R. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of communication and information. (New York: Macmillan), 437-439.
*+Grosswiler, P. (2002) Marshall McLuhan. In Schement, J. R. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of communication and information. (New York: Macmillan), 593-595.
Professional Presentations
*Grosswiler, P. (2012). Anthony Trollope’s plea for typographic time. Paper presented to the Media Ecology Association Annual Convention, New York, N.Y.
*Grosswiler, P. (2012). The Virtualizing of the Word. Paper Presented to the Media Ecology Asotion Annual Convention, New York, N.Y.
*Grosswiler, P. (2011, November). The “great pain” of “hurtful speech”: New York Times reader responses to Snyder v. Phelps. Paper presented to the National Communication Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, La.
*Grosswiler, P. (2011, November). Virtual media voices: “Isn’t it nice to have a computer that will talk to you?” Paper presentated to the National Communication Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, La.
*Grosswiler, P. (2011, November). Giving voice to silence in the Chinese spiritual concept of “wu wei.” Paper presented the National Communication Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, La.
+Grosswiler, P. (2011, October). Understanding the global village: A place of pain not peace. Paper presented to the McLuhan’s Philosophy of Media Centennial Conference, Free University of Brussels, Belgium.
+Grosswiler, P. (2011, September). Media at the center. Invited panel presentation at the Marshall McLuhan Centenary Symposium. Fordham University, New York, N.Y.
*Grosswiler, P. (2011, June). Frankenstein and Narcissus: The dialectical place of the body in technological space. Paper presentation to the Media Ecology Association Annual Convention, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
*Grosswiler, P. (2011, June). “Is Google making us stupid?” Reflections on digital technology and cognition. Panel presentation to the Media Ecology Association Annual Convention, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
*Grosswiler, P. (2011, June). The Phaedrus Effect: Writing already made us stupid. Paper presentation to the Canadian Communication Association Annual Convention, Fredericton, N.B, Canada.
*Grosswiler, P. (2010, November). Frankenstein and Narcissus: Technologizing the body, embodying technology. Paper presentation to the National Communication Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, Calif.
*Grosswiler, P. (2010, November). From deviance to consensus: Building a bridge from hate speech to free speech. Paper presentation to the National Communication Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, Calif.
*Grosswiler, P. (2010, November). Building a bridge between the body and spirit through the “I Ching.” Paper presentation to the National Communication Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, Calif.
*Grosswiler, P. (2010, June). Technobodycology: Embodying technology, technologizing the body. Paper presententation to the Media Ecology Association Annual Convention. Orono, Me.
Grosswiler, P. (2010, April). [Tech(no]body)cology. Paper presentation to the Department of Communication and Journalism Research Colloquium, University of Maine, Orono, Maine.
*Grosswiler, P. (2009, November). Taoism, tai chi and biospirituality. Paper presentation to the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Ill.
*Grosswiler, P. (2009, November). “Burn the flag! Earn extra credit!” Moral panic and the blogosphere. Paper presentation to the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Ill.
*Grosswiler, P. (2009, November). McLuhan in the rear-view mirror: Still relevant after all these years. Panel presentation to the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Ill.
*Grosswiler, P. (2009, June). Technobody/Ecology. Paper presentation to the Media Ecology Association Annual Convention, St. Louis, Mo.
*Grosswiler, P. (2009, May). Mary Elisabeth “Liss” Jeffrey, 1951-2008, memorial panel: Canadian roots from the margins to the centre: Media ecological approaches to studies of communication. Roundtable presentation to the Canadian Communication Association Annual Convention, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
*Grosswiler, P. (2008, November). Media ecology. Pre-conference panel presentation to the National Communication Association Annual Convention, San Diego, Calif.
Grosswiler, P. (2008, October). ‘Burn the flag! Earn extra credit!’ A media ecology perspective on free expression, moral panic, and the blogosphere. Paper presented to the Department of Communication and Journalism Research Colloquium, University of Maine, Orono, Maine.
*Grosswiler, P. (2008, June). The blogos-fear: A case study of the sacred and profane. Paper presented to the Media Ecology Association Annual Convention, Santa Clara, Ca.
*Grosswiler, P. (2008, June). William Stephenson, media ecologist: Applying Q-methodology to media ecology. Paper presented to the Media Ecology Association Annual Convention, Santa Clara, Ca
+*Grosswiler, P. (2007, June). Media ecology research methods from dialectics to Q. Paper presented to the Media Ecology Association Annual Convention, Mexico City, Mexico.
*Grosswiler, P. (2006, November). Freedom to explore Eastern thought in honors. Panel presentation to the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, Philadelphia, Pa.
*Grosswiler, P. (2006, November). Seeking freedom from stress with tai chi. Presentation to the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, Philadelphia, Pa.
*Grosswiler, P. (2006, June). Media ecology in world history narratives: From the “shrunken world” to the “global web.” Paper presented to the Media Ecology Association Annual Convention, Boston College, Boston, Mass.
*Grosswiler, P. and Ji, L. (2006, June). McLuhan’s reception in China. Presented to the Canadian Communication Association Annual Convention, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
*Grosswiler, P. (2005, November). Reading Trollope as a plea for typographic time. Paper presented to the National Communication Association Convention, Boston, Mass.
*Grosswiler, P. (2005, November). McLuhan, media ecology and Marxism. Paper presented to the Preconference Program on Marxism in Communication Studies at the National Communication Association Convention, Boston, Mass.
*Grosswiler, P. (2005, October). Faculty gateways to honors. Panel presentation to the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, St. Louis, Mo.
*Grosswiler, P. and Ji, L. (2005, June). “Mike the Lu Chinese”: McLuhan and media ecology in China. Paper presented to the Media Ecology Association Convention, New York, N.Y.
*Grosswiler, P. (2004, October). Eastern thought in media ecology. Panel presentation to the New York State Communication Association Annual Conference, Kerhonkson, N.Y.
*Grosswiler, P. (2004, June). Tao of media ecology. Paper presented to the Media Ecology Association Annual Convention, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, N.Y.
+Grosswiler, P. (2004, June). Tao of media ecology: An intercultural communication theory. Paper presented to the International Conference on Intercultural Communication. School of Journalism and Communication, Wuhan University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China.
*Grosswiler, P. (2003, October). Instant Steal! The media ecology of plagiarism. Paper presented to the New York State Communication Association Conference, Kerhonkson, N.Y.
*Grosswiler, P. (2003, June). Understanding media anti-environments. Paper presented to the Media Ecology Association 4th Annual Convention, Hofstra University, New York, N.Y..
*Grosswiler, P. (2003, June). Dispelling the alphabet effect. Paper presented to the Canadian Communication Association Annual Convention, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
+Grosswiler, P. (2002, April). The Six C’s: Global media obstacles to building community. Panel presentation to the Eastern Communication Association Convention, New York, N.Y.
*Grosswiler, P. (2002, April). Our top stories today: Symbolic annihilation and global news providers. Panel presentation to the Eastern Communication Association Annual Convention, New York, N.Y.
*Grosswiler, P. (2001, November). Resisting power in technological culture. Paper presented to the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, Ga.
*Grosswiler, P. (2001, September). The Black Period, the Morse Millennium and the New Phoenicians. Paper presented to the New York State Communication Association Annual Convention, Monticello, N.Y.
*Grosswiler, P. (2001, June). Culture, technology, history: Some thoughts from China. Paper presented to the Canadian Communication Association Annual Convention, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
*Grosswiler, P. (2001, June). Jurgen Habermas, media ecologist? Paper presented to the Media Ecology Association Annual Convention, New York, N.Y.
+Grosswiler, P. (2001, April). Contradictions of media ecology in China. Paper presented to the Eastern Communication Association, Portland, Maine.
+Grosswiler, P. (2000, September). Impressions of transmission and ritual communication in China. Paper presented to the New York State Communication Association’s 58th annual convention, Monticello, N.Y.
+Grosswiler, P. (2000, June). Media ethics in cultural context. Visiting Fulbright Scholar presentation to the students and faculty, Department of Journalism, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
+Grosswiler, P. (2000, June). Global media issues. Visiting Fulbright Scholar presentation to the students and faculty, Department of Journalism, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
+ Grosswiler, P. (2000, May). Culture and technology. Visiting Fulbright Scholar presentation to the students and faculty, Lingnan Business College, Zhangshan University, Guangzhou, China.
+ Grosswiler, P. (2000, May). Global media issues. Visiting Fulbright Scholar presentation to the students and faculty, Lingnan Business College, Zhangshan University, Guangzhou, China.
+ Grosswiler, P. (2000, May). Culture and technology: Media cultures and free expression. Visiting Fulbright Scholar presentation to the students and faculty, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China.
+ Grosswiler, P. (2000, May). Global media issues: The telegraph to the Internet. Visiting Fulbright Scholar presentation to the students and faculty, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China.
+ Grosswiler, P. (2000, May). Culture and technology: Media cultures and free expression. Visiting Fulbright Scholar presentation to the students and faculty, Journalism Department, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
+ Grosswiler, P. (2000, May). Global media issues: Technology against technology. Visiting Fulbright Scholar presentation to the students and faculty, Journalism Department, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
*Grosswiler, P. (1999, October). Anarchy in a technological society: An Ellulian perspective. Paper presented to the New York State Communication Association’s 57th annual convention, Monticello, N.Y.
*Grosswiler, P. (1999, October). The activist roots of media ecology: Mumford, Innis, and Ellul. Panel presentation to the New York State Communication Association’s 57th annual convention, Monticello, N.Y.
+Grosswiler, P. (1999, August). From Ross Perot to Matt Drudge: Media framing of new technology, democracy, and journalism in the new media age. Panel presentation titled Crafting Media Credibility: Journalism’s Role in Media Credibility Challenges of the New Media in the 1990s, Mass Communication and Society Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication national convention, New Orleans, La.
*Grosswiler, P. (1999, June). McLuhan and diversity in electronic media culture. Panel presentation to the Canadian Communication Association, Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
*+Grosswiler, P. (1998, October). The Marriage of McLuhan and Marx: Hold the wedding, or the odd couple? Paper presented to the Many Dimensions: Extensions of Marshall McLuhan conference. McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto, Canada.
*+Grosswiler, P. (1998, October). Cross-breeding media ecology and social ecology for social change. Paper presented to the New York State Communication Association’s 56th annual convention, Monticello, N.Y.
*+Grosswiler, P. (1998, October). Connecting medium theory and world-systems theory: Marshall McLuhan meets Immanuel Wallerstein. Paper presented to the New York State Communication Association’s 56th annual convention, Monticello, N.Y.
*Grosswiler, P. (1998, June). McLuhan, Habermas, and the mediated shape of the public sphere. Paper presented to the Canadian Communication Association, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
*Grosswiler, P. (1998, April). The modernist concept of free speech in a postmodern world. Paper presented to the New Media, Free Speech: Challenges for the Future Conference, sponsored by the Mass Communication and Society Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla.
*+Grosswiler, P. (1998, March). Retrieving McLuhan for cultural studies and postmodernism. Paper presented to “The Legacy of McLuhan: A Symposium,” Fordham University, New York, N.Y.
*Grosswiler, P. (1997, October). Subjectivity or the death of the subject: Q theory vs. postmodern theory. Paper presented to the International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity annual conference, Syracuse University, N.Y.
*Grosswiler, P. (1996, October). Neural network analysis as an alternative to factor analysis in mapping intersubjectivity in Q-methodology communication research. Paper presented to the International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity annual conference, Columbia, Mo.
*Grosswiler, P. (1996, May). Symbolic labeling of Cuba and Vietnam in selected U.S. newspaper editorials, 1991-1994. Paper presented to the International/ Intercultural/ Development Communication Division of the International Communication Association national convention, Chicago, Ill.
*Grosswiler, P. (1995, November). A Q-method study of electronic media culture and modes of consciousness: Orality, literacy and secondary orality. Paper presented to the Mass Communication Division, Speech Communication Association national convention, San Antonio, Texas.
Grosswiler, P. (1995, October). Symbolic labeling, the media and foreign policy: Images of surviving communist countries in the post-Cold War era. Poster presentation to the Peace Studies Research Symposium. University of Maine, Orono, Maine.
*Dooley, P. and Grosswiler, P. (1995, August). “Turf Wars”: Journalists’ claims to political communication jurisdiction in the new media era. Paper co-presented to the Mass Communication and Society Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication national convention, Washington, D.C.
*Grosswiler P. (1995, May). Selected media framing of the electronic town meeting concept during the 1992 presidential campaign. Paper presented to the Political Communication Division, International Communication Association national convention, Albuquerque, N.M.
*Grosswiler, P. (1995, April). Elite U.S. newspaper editorial coverage of U.S. Cuba policy, 1991-1994: A case study of the media, foreign policy, and surviving communist countries in the post-Cold War era. Paper presented to the Media, Government and Public Policy Conference, sponsored by the Mass Communication and Society Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Syracuse University, N.Y.
*Grosswiler, P. (1994, August). A Q-study of media and ideology orientations: Exploring medium theory, critical theory and cultural studies. Paper presented to the Mass Communication and Society Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication national convention, Atlanta, Ga.
*Grosswiler, P. (1993, October). Challenging third world media theory through subjectivity: A Q-study of Tanzanian media worker perceptions. Paper presented to the International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity annual conference, Columbia, Mo.
*Grosswiler, P. (1993, August). Emergence of a private press in socialist Tanzania: A study of media worker perceptions. Paper presented to the International Communication Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication national convention, Kansas City, Mo.
*Grosswiler, P. (1993, June). Constructing socialism in Tanzanian media: A study of media worker perceptions. Paper presented to the Fifth Conference of North American and Cuban Philosophers, Havana, Cuba.
*Grosswiler, P. (1992, October). The convergence of William Stephenson’s and Marshall McLuhan’s communication theories. Paper presented to the International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity annual conference, Columbia, Mo.
*Grosswiler, P. (1991, October). Use of multimedia stimulus items in Q-methodology. Paper presented to the International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity annual conference, Columbia, Mo.
*Grosswiler, P. (1991, May). A synthesis of the dialectical methods of Marshall McLuhan and critical theory. Paper presented to the Philosophy of Communication Division, International Communication Association national convention, Chicago, Ill.
Other Scholarly Activity:
Editor, Explorations in Media Ecology. 2012-2013; co-editor, 2011.
Board of Directors, Media Ecology Association, Term began January 2011.
Co-coordinator, Media Ecology Association Annual Convention, University of Maine, Orono, Maine. 2010.
Editorial Board Member, Explorations in Media Ecology, 2005-2011.
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Human Subjectivity, 2006-present.
Associate Editor, Explorations in Media Ecology, 2003-2005.