University of Saint Francis Hosts
Distinguished Media Studies Professor
February 26, 2008, Fort Wayne,
Indiana: The Department of English and Foreign Languages
at the University of Saint Francis will host Dr. Bruce
Gronbeck on Tuesday, March 18 at 6:30 p.m. in the
Doermer Center 156 A and B as he presents his lecture,
“Politics 2.0.”
Dr. Gronbeck, a leading scholar in
the field of political public address, media studies and
“electric rhetoric,” will discuss the role that
“do-it-yourself” politics plays in America. Tracing the
progression of political messages from
candidate-centered to media-centered to
citizen-centered, Dr. Gronbeck will describe how the
computerization of political campaigns and the advent of
“open-source” politics has changed American political
culture and will offer his insights on the social and
moral consequences of this transformation.
Dr. Gronbeck is the A. Craig Baird
Distinguished Professor of Public Address at the
University of Iowa. He works primarily in the area of
rhetorical and media studies, with particular interests
in contemporary television and politics. He teaches and
writes about American cultural studies and the evolution
of rhetorical thought, especially from the 18th
century to the present.
For more information, please
contact Dr. Ted Remington by phone at 260-399-7700 ext.
8109 or e-mail at
tremingston@sf.edu.
The University of Saint Francis,
founded in 1890, is a comprehensive university in the
Catholic Franciscan tradition, offering undergraduate
and graduate programs to more than 2,100 students from a
broad geographic region.
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