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Steven D. Classen
- sclasse@calstatela.edu
- Telephone
- 323-343-6041
- Personal website
- http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/comstud/sclassen/
- Interests
- Theory, Media History, Media and Communications Policy
- Role(s)
- Researcher
Discipline(s)
- Communications
Biography
I joined the Communication Studies Department at Cal State LA in 2000 after teaching at Cal State San Bernardino and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. I sincerely enjoy teaching and working with students to better understand popular media texts, practices, and regulation. My research and teaching are strongly influenced by the theories and scholarship of cultural studies.
I am interested in examining the relationship of media law/policy and American social history. My research has concentrated on the social unrest and struggles of the fifties and sixties and the ways such tensions were taken up and reproduced in popular television texts and regulations. I'm also interested in intellectual property law and religious broadcasting in the United States.
Publications and Resources
Books
- Steven D. Classen. Watching Jim Crow: The struggles over Mississippi TV, 1955-1969. Duke University Press, 2004
Journal Articles
- Steven D. Classen. Standing on unstable grounds: A reexamination of the WLBT-TV case. Critical Studies in Mass Communication. 1991.