Ernest A. Hakanen

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Ernest A. Hakanen (born 1958) is a social theorist.[1] He is currently a professor of communication[2] at Drexel University, specializing in media effects and history, and was the founding director of the Communication, Culture and Media graduate programs. His scholarly articles have appeared in journals such as Journalism Quarterly, Popular Music, Explorations in Media Ecology, the Journal of Social Semiotics, the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, and the Journal of Information Science.[3][4]

Early life and education[edit]

Hakanen earned a PhD in Communication from Temple University in 1989.[5]

Career[edit]

From 1990 to 1992 Hakanen was an Assistant Professor of Broadcast and Electronic Communication at Marquette University.[6] He researched the connection between popular music and emotion in adolescents.[1][7] He has continued that research applying it to video games and streaming technologies. He was an Annenberg Scholar in 1991, a fellow at the Critical Theory Institute in 1997, and is currently a visiting scholar for 2017 at the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Scientific Structures in Vienna, Austria.

Hakanen has written and edited several books about the media, including 2006's Branding the Teleself: Media Effects Discourse and the Changing Self. He also co-edited Signs of War: From Patriotism to Dissent with Anne-Marie Obajtek-Kirkwood, and Leading to the 2003 Iraq War: The Global Media Debate with Alexander G. Nikolaev. He has conducted studies[8][9] and written social analysis of various aspects of popular culture.[10][11][12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Carol K. Ingall (1997). Metaphors, Maps, and Mirrors: Moral Education in Middle Schools. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 183–. ISBN 978-1-56750-302-9.
  2. ^ Chair and Professor of Mass Communication John Allen Hendricks; John Allen Hendricks; Bruce Mims (7 August 2014). The Radio Station: Broadcast, Satellite, and Internet. CRC Press. pp. 28–. ISBN 978-1-136-02786-4.
  3. ^ Ryan Lizardi (6 November 2014). Mediated Nostalgia: Individual Memory and Contemporary Mass Media. Lexington Books. pp. 8–. ISBN 978-0-7391-9622-9.
  4. ^ Peddiboyina Vijayalakshmi (1 January 2005). Foreign Television and Indian Youth: Changing Attitudes. Concept Publishing Company. pp. 152–. ISBN 978-81-8069-079-2.
  5. ^ "ERNEST HAKANEN". Drexel University College Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  6. ^ Future Survey Annual. World Future Society. 1993. p. 148.
  7. ^ Jib Fowles (23 January 1996). Advertising and Popular Culture. SAGE Publications. pp. 120–. ISBN 978-0-8039-5483-0.
  8. ^ Gina Arnold (22 May 2014). Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 51–. ISBN 978-1-62356-732-3.
  9. ^ David MacFarland (18 October 2013). Future Radio Programming Strategies: Cultivating Listenership in the Digital Age. Taylor & Francis. pp. 179–. ISBN 978-1-136-68684-9.
  10. ^ It was and it Isn't: A Rhetorical Exploration of Simulacra in Emerging Church Vintage Worship. ProQuest. 2008. pp. 50–. ISBN 978-0-549-50143-5.
  11. ^ International Communication Association (1996). ICA Newsletter. International Communication Association. p. 17.
  12. ^ "Can a Song Save the World? The Dynamics of Protest" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. University of Ottawa, LM Levesque Dec 31, 2012

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