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Michael Schudson is Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of
Sociology at the University of California, San Diego where he has taught
since l980. He is also Professor of Communication at the Graduate School
of Journalism, Columbia University, an appointment that began in 2006 and
brings him to Columbia each fall semester. Schudson is the author of six books on the history and sociology of the American news media, advertising, cultural memory, and the history of civic engagement in the United States. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. Schudson's most recent works are The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life, (l998), an original interpretation of the historical transformation of the practices and the ideals of civic participation and The Sociology of News (2003), a synthesis of social scientific views and controversies about the character of contemporary journalism. He is presently writing a history of changes in the nature of public candor in the United States since 1960. | ||
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