Faculty & Staff
Paul Grosswiler
Associate Professor
443 Dunn Hall
University of Maine
Phone: (207) 581-1287
Fax: (207) 581-1286
E-mail:
paul_grosswiler@umit.maine.edu
Ph.D., Journalism, University of
Missouri, 1990
Professor Grosswiler has been awarded a
Senior Scholar Fulbright to teach for a semester at Wuhan University
School of Journalism in China. He recently spent a semester as Visiting
Professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, where he
offered a graduate course on Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan's work.
Professor Grosswiler has published a book revisiting McLuhan's media and
social theories. He also has published a dozen journal articles and book
chapters. Professor Grosswiler's research focuses on technology and
culture, mass communication and social theory, cultural studies,
postmodern media theories, international mass communication, and
political mass communication. He has presented research papers at more
than twenty national and international professional conferences,
including the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication, the International Communication Association, the Canadian
Communication Association, and the Annual Conference of Cuban and North
American Philosophers. He conducted research in Tanzania and traveled to
Cuba before being selected for the Senior Scholar Fulbright in China.
Before joining the faculty in 1991, Professor Grosswiler held positions
at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Ithaca College, and
Towson State University. He previously worked as a newspaper police
reporter in Missouri and a features editor and media columnist in Maine.
Professor Grosswiler teaches mass communication history, international
mass communication, and media ethics. He is program coordinator for
Journalism and Mass Communication.
Publications
- Grosswiler, P. (1997). The method is
the message: Rethinking McLuhan through critical theory. (Montréal:
Black Rose Books.)
Journal Articles
- 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). 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.
Book Chapters:
- 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. (1996). 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 Publishing Corp.), 195-210.
- 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.
Mailing Address
Department of Communication and Journalism
5724 Dunn Hall, Room 443
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469
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