Connie Perkins (presenter), founding director of St. Bonaventure University’s RN to B.S. in Nursing Program Charlie Specht, Chief Investigative Reporter, WKBW-TV, St. Bonaventure journalism graduate Pauline Hoffmann, Associate Professor, Jandoli School of Communication, St. Bonaventure University Denny Wilkins, Professor, Jandoli… Read More ›
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Identity over Information
A sociological explanation to why President Trump can get away with saying anything By Benjamin Gross Introduction: The Importance of Social Identities Sociology has always been interested in how human beings socially construct their perceptions of reality and have for… Read More ›
The roles of pandemics in the 1920 and 2020 presidential campaigns
Phillip Payne (presenter), History Chair, St. Bonaventure University Louis Jacobson, Senior Correspondent, PolitiFact Brad Lawrence, Political Consultant and Strategist, owner of Message & Media Joseph Marren, Professor, Communication Department, Buffalo State University Richard Lee (moderator), Jandoli Institute Executive Director
Dylan’s ‘twenty pounds of headlines’ delivers a lesson
By Richard A. Lee Before the pandemic shut down our campus radio station, I was the host of a weekly program that mixed music and current events. Since I am a journalism professor, it’s not surprising that songs about the… Read More ›
Bucking the Trend: A Sustainable Model for Local News
By Michael Shapiro Trouble in the local news industry has been smoldering for some time. The Coronavirus pandemic came along and doused it with gasoline, accelerating consolidation, cutbacks in coverage, sharp declines in advertising and in some cases, the shuttering… Read More ›
Greg Mitchell book on Hiroshima arrives today
Greg Mitchell’s new book marking the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima arrives today. The book, The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood–and America–Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, is published by The… Read More ›
Sociology Profs See Greater Focus on Environment During Pandemic
Not all of the news emerging from the coronavirus pandemic is bleak, according to two faculty members of the Department of Sociology and Criminology at St. Bonaventure University. “Recent news has hinted at something of a shift, a move in… Read More ›
Status Quo or Silver Lining? Environmental Changes in a Pandemic
“Life [now] is somewhat more complicated than it was in the Middle Ages, but in many ways it is so much the same — violent, terrifying, full of chaos and plague, murderers and thieves. So the acknowledgement that in the… Read More ›
True Falsehoods
By Barry L. Gan Just as newspapers have long been concerned with reporting the truth, philosophers at least since the time of Socrates have also been concerned with matters of truth and falsity. Socrates himself, however, was less concerned with,… Read More ›
Jandoli Institute Will Launch ‘Media Studies Across Disciplines’ Project
The Jandoli Institute will launch Media Studies Across Disciplines, a collection of research essays by St. Bonaventure University faculty members, this week. The essays connect different academic disciplines with the field of communication. Faculty members used their knowledge and expertise… Read More ›
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