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4119 CHASS INT SOUTH
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Whitney, Charles

Professor, Creative Writing/Dept. Chair
Professor of Media and Cultural Studies

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Creative Writing


Biography

D. Charles (Chuck) Whitney is professor and chair of the Department of Creative Writing and professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. A former newspaper and wire service journalist, Whitney was, before joining the University of California faculty, on the journalism or mass communication faculties at the University of Texas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ohio State University and Stanford University. The author or editor of six books and more than 80 book chapters, journal articles, technical papers and reports, Whitney is also an editor of the Encyclopedia of Journalism, to be published in 2009 by Sage Publications and is a current or former member of the editorial boards of 12 academic journals.

Former Institution

University of Texas at Austin

Degrees

BA English 1968

Clemson University

PhD Mass Communication 1978

University of Minnesota

Awards

Editor, 1993-1997, Critical Studies in Mass Communication
Former president, Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research.


Research Area

Journalism, Media studies, sociology of media organizations, individual and social effects of mass communication

Publications

Books:
Lawrence Grossberg, Ellen Wartella, D. Charles Whitney and J. McGregor Wise, MediaMaking: Mass Media in a Popular Culture, 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage Publications, 2006 (First edition: Grossberg, Wartella & Whitney, Sage, 1998).

James S. Ettema & D Charles Whitney, Eds., AudienceMaking: How the Media Create the Audience. Vol. 21, Sage Annual Reviews of Communication Research. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 1994.

Ellen Wartella & D. Charles Whitney with Sven Windahl, Eds., Mass Communication Review Yearbook Vol. 4. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1983.

D. Charles Whitney & Ellen Wartella, with Sven Windahl, Eds., Mass Communication Review Yearbook Vol. 3. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1982.

James S. Ettema & D. Charles Whitney (Eds.), Individuals in Mass Media Organizations: Creativity and Constraint. Vol. 10, Sage Annual Reviews of Communication Research. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, l982.

Recent Book Chapters and Journal Articles:

Child Exposure to Violence in Media. Pp. 106-108 in Claire M. Renzetti & Jeffrey L. Edleson, eds., Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence, Vo. 1. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2008. With Michael Robb.

Violence Exposure in Video Games. Pp. 744-747 in Claire M. Renzetti & Jeffrey L. Edleson, eds., Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence, Vol. 2. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2008. With Michael Robb.

The Audiences for Content Analysis. Pp. 233-245 in D. Kunkel, A. Jordan, J. Manganello & M. Fishbein, eds., Media Messages and Health: A Decisions Approach to Content Analysis. In press: London & New York: Routledge / Taylor & Francis Group, 2009. With Ellen Wartella and Dale Kunkel.

D. Charles Whitney, Randall S. Sumpter & Denis McQuail, News Media Production: Individuals, Organizations and Institutions, pp. 393-410 in D. McQuail, J. Downing, P. Schlesinger & E. Wartella (Eds.) Sage Handbook of Media Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004.

D. Charles Whitney & James S. Ettema, Media Production: Individuals, Organizations, Institutions, Pp. 157-186 in Angharad Valdivia (Ed.), A Companion to Media Studies. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.

D. Charles Whitney & Ellen Wartella, Violence and Media. Pp. 16187-92 in Neil J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Vol 24. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Science, 2001.

Ellen Wartella & D. Charles Whitney, Violence and U.S. Television. Pp. 281-289 in B. Bachmair, A. Cavicchia Scalamonti, & G. Kress, eds., Media, Culture and Social Worlds. Naples: Liguori Editore, 2002.