Elfriede Fürsich

Associate professor, communications Education: Ph.D., mass communication, University of Georgia

Specialization: Media globalization and media criticism

Representative Publication: “How Can Global Journalists Represent ‘The Other?’ A Critical Assessment of the Cultural Studies Concept for Journalistic Practice,” Journalism, April, 2002

Honors: Faculty Fellow, National Association of Television Program Executives, 2002

Projects: I am interested in the impact of globalization on journalism in the United States and abroad. I will spend my sabbatical year out of the country with my husband and 19-month-old son. In the fall, we will live in Hyderabad, India, where I will study the fate of journalists in India in the face of rapid global media commercialization. Then, in the spring of 2006, we will live in Barcelona and London. I will use this time to reconnect to the European media—I’m originally from Germany—and evaluate the shifting professional boundaries of journalists in an increasingly competitive environment.

Read Elfriede Fürsich’s “How Can Global Journalists Represent ‘The Other?’ A Critical Assessment of the Cultural Studies Concept for Journalistic Practice.”