Profiles – Page 23 – Center for Intercultural Dialogue

Qin Zhang Profile

Qin Zhang (Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2005) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Fairfield University, USA.

Her research interests span across intercultural, instructional, and interpersonal communication. She has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Communication Education, Communication Quarterly, Western Journal of Communication, Communication Research Reports, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, Business Communication Quarterly, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, China Media Research, Ohio Communication Journal, Journal of International Communication, Pennsylvania Communication Annual, Texas Speech Communication Journal, and Human Communication. She also has articles in press in Human Communication Research and International Journal of Communication. She has won the Outstanding Article of the Year (2009) Award in Business Communication Quarterly, as well as several top paper awards or top-four paper awards in intercultural communication, instructional communication, and organizational communication at ECA or NCA. She serves on the editorial board of Communication Education, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, and Communication Teacher. She was the 2012-2013 President of the Association for Chinese Communication Scholars (ACCS) affiliated with the NCA.

Selected Publications

Zhang, Q., Ting-Toomey, S., & Oetzel, J. G. (in press). Linking emotion to the conflict face-negotiation theory: A U.S.-China investigation of the mediating effects of anger, compassion, and guilt in interpersonal conflict. Human Communication Research.

Zhang, Q., Andreychik, M., Sapp, D. A., & Arendt, C. (in press). The dynamic interplay of interaction goals, emotion, and conflict styles: Testing a model of intrapersonal and interpersonal effects on conflict styles. International Journal of Communication.

Zhang, Q. (in press). A U.S.-China investigation of the effects of perceived partner conflict styles on outcome satisfaction: The mediating role of perceived partner conflict competence. Communication Quarterly.

Zhang, Q. (in press). Emotion matters in serial arguments: The effects of anger and compassion on perceived resolvability and relationship confidence. Communication Research Reports.

Zhang, Q. (2014). Assessing the effects of instructor enthusiasm on classroom engagement, learning goal orientation, and academic self-efficacy. Communication Teacher, 28, 44-56.

Zhang, Q., & Zhang, J. (2013). Instructors’ positive emotions: Effects on student engagement and critical thinking in U.S. and Chinese classrooms. Communication Education, 62, 395-411.

Zhang, Q. (2010). Asian Americans beyond the model minority stereotype: The nerdy and the left out. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 3, 20-37.

Zhang, Q. (2009). Perceived teacher credibility and student learning: Development of a multi-cultural model. Western Journal of Communication, 73, 326-347.

Zhang, Q. (2007). Teacher misbehaviors as learning demotivators in college classrooms: A cross-cultural investigation in China, Germany, Japan, and the United States. Communication Education, 56, 209-227.

Qi Wang Schlupp Profile

Qi Wang Schlupp earned her bachelor’s degree in English at Beijing University (1997). Her master’s (Kent State University, 2001) and doctoral degrees (University of Maryland, 2006) were both in communication. She is currently Professor of Communication at Villanova University and Area Coordinator in the Interpersonal Communication specialization.

Her teaching and research interests include intercultural and interpersonal communication, with a focus on conflict management. Recently, she has also conducted and published studies in social media use and its influences on interpersonal communication. She has published research in various key communication journals and books (e.g., The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Communication, Human Communication Research, Journal of Public Relations Research, Communication Quarterly, China Media Research, etc.), and presented conference papers annually at the major scholarly communication organizations such as National Communication Association (NCA) and International Communication Associations (ICA). Her papers have won several Top Paper Awards at NCA. Her doctoral dissertation that theorized conflict avoidance strategies won the 2007 Outstanding Dissertation Award at the International Association for Conflict Management at Budapest, Hungary. She has conducted several funded research projects. Her most recent research that investigates the multinational mining industry in Peru has won the scholarship from the Arthur Page Legacy Center at PSU. She has been named as the 2013-2014 Page Legacy Scholar.

She was the 2013-2014 President of the Association for Chinese Communication Scholars (ACCS) affiliated with NCA. She also served as the Student Board Member at ICA in 2005-2006. She has launched the internship program in Shanghai for the Department of Communication at Villanova University in 2014, and also serves as the vice director of the Center for the Cross-Cultural Education and Communication for the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. And she served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Negotiation and Conflict Management Research from 2019 to 2022.

Key publications

Books

Ni, L., Schlupp, Q. W., & Sha, B.-L. (Eds.). (2022). Intercultural public relations: Realities and reflections in practical contexts. Routledge.
Ni, L., Wang, Q., & Sha, B.-L. (2018). Intercultural public relations: Theories for managing relationships and conflicts with strategic publics. Routledge.

Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Ni, L., De la Flor, M., Wang, Q., & Romero, V. (2021). Engagement in context: Making meaning of the Latino community health engagement process. Public Relations Review, 47(2).

Wang, Q. (2020). Soong Ching-ling and Soong Mei-ling: For the love of one motherland. In C. C. Chao & L. Ha (Eds.), Asian women entrepreneurship (pp. 93-106). Routledge.

Ni, L., Xiao, Z., Liu, W., & Wang, Q. (2019). Relationship management as antecedents to public communication behaviors: Examining empowerment and public health among Asian Americans. Public Relations Review, 45(5).

Ni, L., Wang, Q., & Gogate, A. (2018). Understanding immigrant internal publics of organizations: Immigrant professionals’ adaptation and identity development. Journal of Public Relations Research, 30(4), 146-163.

Ni, L., Wang, Q., De la Flor, M., & Peñaflor, R. (2015). Ethical community stakeholder engagement in the global environment: Strategies and assessment. Public Relations Journal, 9(1), 1-22.

Ni L., Wang, Q., & De la Flor, M. (2015). Intercultural communication competence and preferred public relations practices. Journal of Communication Management, 19(2), 167-183.

Wang, Q., Fink, E. L., & Cai, D. A. (2015, February). Parasocial Interaction. Comm365: Celebrating 100 years of research. NCA Centennial Special Edition.

Wang, Q., & Bowen, S. P. (2014). The limits of beauty: The impact of physician sex and attractiveness on patient communication perceptions. Communication Research Reports, 31(1), 72-81.

Wang, Q., Ni, L., & De la Flor, M. (2014). An intercultural competence model of strategic public relations management in the Peru mining industry context. Journal of Public Relations Research, 26(1), 1-22.

Wang, Q., & Bowen, S. P. (2014). The limits of beauty: The impact of physician sex and attractiveness on patient communication perceptions. Communication Research Reports, 31(1), 72-81.

Wang, Q., Ni, L., & De la Flor, M. (2013). An intercultural competence model of strategic public relations management in the Peru mining industry context. Journal of Public Relations Research, 0, 1-22. doi: 10.1080/1062726X.2013.795864

Fink, E. L., & Cai, D. A., with Wang, Q. (2013). Quantitative methods for conflict communication research. In J. Oetzel & S. Ting-Toomey. (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of conflict communication: Integrating theory, research, and practice (2nd ed., pp. 41-66). Thousands Oak, CA: Sage.

Wang, Q., Fink, E. L., & Cai, D. A. (2012). The effect of conflict goals on avoidance strategies: What does not communicating communicate? Human Communication Research, 38, 222-252. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2958.2011.01421.x

Ni, L., & Wang, Q. (2011). Anxiety and uncertainty management in an intercultural setting: The impact on organization-public relationships. Journal of Public Relations Research, 23, 269-301. doi: 10.1080/ 1062726X.2011.582205

Cai, D. A., Fink, E. L., & Wang, Q. (2010). Methods for conflict communication research, with special reference to culture. In D. A. Cai (Ed.) Intercultural communication: Sage benchmarks in communication (Vol. 2, pp. 99-120). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage [Reprint from 2006].

Feeny, K., & Wang, Q. (2010). Comparing the perceptions of success, attributions, and motivations between the Chinese and the U.S. cultures. China Media Research, 6, 56-66.

Wang, Q. (2010). Cultural individualism-collectivism, self-construal, and multiple goal concerns in interpersonal influence situations: A cross-cultural investigation. In Y. Sun (Ed.), Intercultural studies: New frontiers (pp. 197-217). Beijing, China: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

Wang, Q., Fink, E. L., & Cai, D. A. (2008). Loneliness, gender, and parasocial interaction: A uses and gratifications approach. Communication Quarterly, 56, 87-109. doi: 10.1080/01463370701839057

Cai, D. A., Fink, E. L., & Wang, Q. (2006). Quantitative methods for conflict communication research, with special reference to culture. In J. G. Oetzel & S. Ting-Toomey (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of conflict communication: Integrating theory, research, and practice (pp. 33-64). Thousand Oak, CA: Sage.

Work for CID:

Qi Wang wrote KC53: Conflict Management and then translated it into Simplified Chinese. She also has served as a reviewer for Chinese.

Lily A. Arasaratnam-Smith Profile

Lily A. Arasaratnam-Smith, PhD, is Professor and Deputy Vice President Faculty at Alphacrucis College, Sydney, Australia. Her primary area of expertise is in intercultural communication competence, along with interests in multiculturalism, the role of social cognition in intercultural communication, and the relationship between sensation seeking and intercultural contact-seeking behavior.

In addition to experience in teaching/training in a variety of institutions, such as Macquarie University (Australia), Alphacrucis College (Australia/New Zealand), Oregon State University (USA), Rutgers University (USA) and the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication (USA), Lily also has personal experience living in different countries such as Sri Lanka, Maldives, the United States, and Australia.

A few of Lily’s publications are provided below for those who are interested:

Arasaratnam, L. A. (2011). Perception and Communication in Intercultural Spaces. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

Arasaratnam, L. A. (2013). A review of articles on multiculturalism in 35 years of IJIR. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 676-685.

Arasaratnam, L. A. (2012). Intercultural Spaces and Communication within: An Explication. Australian Journal of Communication, 39(3), 135-141.

Arasaratnam, L. A., & Banerjee, S. C. (2011). Sensation seeking and intercultural communication competence: A model test. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 35, 226-233.

Arasaratnam, L. A., Banerjee, S. C., & Dembek, K. (2010). The integrated model of intercultural communication competence (IMICC): Model test. Australian Journal of Communication, 37(3), 103-116.

Arasaratnam, L. A. (2006). Further testing of a new model of intercultural communication competence. Communication Research Reports, 23, 93 – 99.

Arasaratnam, L. A., & Doerfel, M. L. (2005). Intercultural communication competence: Identifying key components from multicultural perspectives. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 29, 137-163.

Work for CID:
Lily Arasaratnam-Smith wrote KC3: Intercultural Competence.

Wenshan Jia Profile

Wenshan Jia is Ph.D. and Professor of Communication and China Studies, Department of Communication Studies, Chapman University, Orange County, California. He is also Distinguished Adjunct Professor, School of Journalism & Communication, Research Associate, the National Academy of Development & Strategy, Renmin University, China.

His areas of research are intercultural/global communication, ethnic relations in China and Chinese media. He has published “Ethnic conflicts in China” in Handbook of Ethnic Conflict: International Perspectives, winner of the Gudykunst Award among others. A winner of IAIR Early-Career Award, Wang-Fradkin Professorship award, and author of Choice “Outstanding Book” titles such as The Remaking of Chinese Character and Identity in the 21st Century: The Chinese Face Practices, he is editorial board member of International Journal for Intercultural Relations and Asian Journal of Communication and served as a content expert at the 4th World Cyberspace Cooperation Summit and a guest speaker of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Selected Publications:

Jia, W. (Ed.). (2018). Intercultural communication: Adapting to emerging global realities (2nd ed.). San Diego, CA: Cognella.

Jia, W., Jiang H., & Zhao, L. (2017). Intercultural communication and dialogic civilization for the creation of a global community. Journal of Renmin University of China, 31(5), 100-111.

Jia, W. (June 6, 2017). Now, globalization with Chinese characteristics. YaleGlobal Online.

Jia, W., & Tian, D. (2016). Chinese conceptualizations of communication: Chinese terms for talk and practice. In D. Carbaugh (Ed.), The handbook of communication in cross-cultural perspective (pp. 244-253). New York: Routledge.

Jia, W., H. Liu, R. Wang, & X. Liu (2014). Contemporary Chinese communication scholarship: An alternative emerging paradigm. In R. Fortner & P. M. Fackler (Eds.), Handbook of media and mass communication theory. Malden, MA: Wiley.

Jia, Wenshan, Y. Lee, H. Zhang (2012). Ethnic conflicts in China. In D. Landis & R. A. Roberts (Eds.) Handbook of ethnic conflict: International perspectives (pp. 177-198). Springer.

Jia, W. (2011). On the discourse of cultural China. Journal of Asia Pacific Communication, 21(2), 165-176.

Jia, W., Tian, D. & Jia, X. (2010). Chimerica: US-China communication in the 21st century. In Larry. A. Samovar, Richard E. Porter, & Edward R. McDaniel (Eds.), Intercultural Communication: A Reader (13th ed., pp. 161-170). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Jia, W. (2009). An intercultural communication model of international relations: The case of China. In Y. Hao & G. Wei (Eds.), Challenges to Chinese foreign policy: Diplomacy, globalization and the next world power (pp. 319-333). Louisville, KT: University Press of Kentucky.

Jia, W., et al. (2002). Chinese communication theory and research: Reflections, new frontiers, new directions. CT: Greenwood.

Jia, W. (2001). The Remaking of the Chinese character and identity in the 21st century: The Chinese face practices. CT: Greenwood.

Work for CID:
Wenshan Jia wrote the guest post, Intercultural Neologisms for a New Revolution.

Marieke de Mooij Profile

Marieke de Mooij, Ph.D. (Netherlands), Doctor in Communications, is a retired profesora asociada at the University of Navarre (Spain), worked as a consultant in cross cultural communications, and has been visiting professor at various universities around the world.

Her research has been focused on the influence of culture on communication, media, advertising and consumer behavior in a broadest sense. Since the 1990s she has analyzed an enormous amount of data on communication and media behavior, including the new media. One of her main conclusions is that globalization does not lead to converging communication behavior. Instead, communication behavior across cultures is diverging instead of converging.

She is the author of several publications on the influence of culture on marketing and advertising and communications. Her books Global Marketing and Advertising, Understanding Cultural Paradoxes (fourth edition, 2014), Consumer Behavior and Culture. Consequences for Global Marketing and Advertising (second edition, 2011), both by Sage Publications (USA and UK) are used at universities worldwide.

A new book on communication theory around the world is published by Springer International (2014): Human and Mediated Communication around the World: A Comprehensive Review and Analysis. This book offers a comprehensive review and analysis of human communication and mediated communication around the world. It challenges the assumption that Western theories of human communication and mass communication have universal applicability. The book covers the influence of culture on interpersonal communication, all sorts of mediated communication and mass communication. It presents communication theories from around the world, incorporating a vast body of literature from north America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. It also offers an integrated approach to understanding the working of electronic means of communication that are hybrid media combining human and mediated communication.

For more information, and access to publications, see her website.

Igor Klyukanov Profile

Igor E. Klyukanov is Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication Studies at Eastern Washington University.

He defended his doctoral dissertation, Dynamics of Intercultural Communication: Towards a New Conceptual Framework, at Saratov State University (Russia). He has served as Chair of the NCA Taskforce on Enhancing the Internationalization of Communication, Chair of the NCA Philosophy of Communication division, and as a member of the Russian Communication Association Steering Committee. He served as an Associate Editor of The American Journal of Semiotics and is the Founding Editor of the Russian Journal of Communication (Taylor & Francis). He organized the First International Communicology Institute Colloquium at Eastern Washington University in May 2014.

He is interested in intercultural and global communication issues as well as communication theory, philosophy of communication, semiotics, general linguistics, and translation studies. His works have been published in U.S., Russia, England, Spain, Costa Rica, Serbia, Bulgaria, India, and Morocco.

Klyukanov, I. (2017). Semiotics of cultural communication. The international encyclopedia of intercultural communication. Wiley Blackwell.

Klyukanov, I. (2017). Intercultural communication study in Russia. The international encyclopedia of intercultural communication. Wiley Blackwell.

Klyukanov, I., & Leontovich, O. (2017). Russian perspectives on communication. In D. Carbaugh (Ed.), The handbook of communication in cross-cultural perspective (pp. 29-41). New York : Routledge.

Klyukanov, I., & Sinekopova, G. V. (2016). Beyond the binary: Toward the paraconsistencies of Russian communication codes. International Journal of Communication 10, 2258–2274.

Klyukanov, I. (2010). A communication universe: Manifestations of meaning, stagings of significance. Lanham, MA: Lexington Books.

Klyukanov, I. (2005). Principles of intercultural communication. Boston: Pearson Education.

Gonen Dori-Hacohen Profile

Gonen Dori-Hacohen is a discourse analyst and a communication scholar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, studying both interactions in the media and in mundane situations, focusing on the intersection of culture, politics, and the media.

Currently he studies civic participation in Israeli radio phone-ins, American Political Radio Talk, and other arenas of public participation, such as online comments. In one current project, he compares American talk radio and Israeli Radio talk, and will be happy to widen this comparison to include other countries and cultures. Additionally, he works on online comments in Israel, and will be happy to compare this phenomenon to similar phenomenon in other countries.

Selected publications:

Van Over, B., Dori-Hacohen, G. & Winchatz, M. R. (2019). Policing the boundaries of the sayable: The public negotiation of profane, prohibited and proscribed speech. In M. Scollo & T. Milburn (Eds.), Engaging and transforming global communication through cultural discourse analysis: A tribute to Donal Carbaugh (pp. 195-217). Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Livnat, Z., Dori-Hacohen, G., (2018). Indexing membership via responses to irony: Communication competence in Israeli radio call-in shows, Language & Communication, 58, 62-79.

Assouline, Dalit, & Dori-Hacohen, G. (2017). Yiddish across borders: Interviews in the Yiddish ultra-Orthodox Jewish audio mass medium.Language and Communication, 56, 68-81.

Weizman, E. & Dori-Hacohen, D. (2017). Commenting on opinion editorials in on-line journals: A cross-cultural examination of face work in The Washington Post (USA) and Nrg (Israel). Discourse, Context, Media, 19, 39-48.

Dori-Hacohen, G. (2016). HaTokbek Kemilat Mafteakh: hapotentzial ledemotratya karnavalit hademokrati vehamtziut hademokratithamugbelet. [The tokbek as an Israeli term for talk: The potential for democratic carnival and the defective democratic reality]. Israel Studies in Language and Society, 9(1-2), 164-183. [Hebrew]

Dori-Hacohen, G. (2016). Tokbek, Israeli speech economy, and other non-deliberative terms for political talk. In D. Carbaugh (Ed.), Communication in cross-cultural perspective (pp. 299-311). New York: Routledge.

Maschler, Y., & Dori-Hacohen, G. (2016). Hebrew nu: Grammaticization of a borrowed particle. In P. Auer & Y. Maschler (Eds.), NU and NÅ: Family of discourse markers across the languages of Europe and beyond (pp. 162-212). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

Dori-Hacohen, G. (2014). Establishing social groups in Hebrew: ‘We’ in political radio phone-in programs. In T.-S. Pavlidou (Ed.), Constructing collectivity: ‘We’ across languages and contexts (pp. 187-206). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Dori-Hacohen, G. (2014). Spontaneous or controlled: Overall structural organization of phone-ins in two countries and their relations to societal norms. Journal of Pragmatics, 70, 1-15.

Dori-Hacohen, G., & White, T. T. (2013). “Booyah Jim”: The construction of hegemonic masculinity in CNBC Mad Money phone-in interactions. Discourse, Context and Media, 2,175-183.

Dori-Hacohen, G. (2012). The commercial and the public “public spheres”: Two types of political talk-radio and their constructed publics. Journal of Radio and Audio Media, 19(2), 134-51.

Dori-Hacohen, G. (2012). Types of interaction on Israeli radio phone-in programs and the public sphere. Javnost-The public, 19(3), 21-40.

Thompson, G., & Dori-Hacohen, G. (2012). Framing selves in interactional practice. Electronic Journal of Communication, 22(3-4).

Dori-Hacohen, G. (2011). Integrating and divisive discourses: The discourse in interactions with non-Jewish callers on Israeli radio phone-in programs. Israel Studies in Language and Society, 3(2), 146-165 [Hebrew]

Work for CID:
Gonen Dori-Hacohen has reviewed translations into Hebrew.

Alex Frame Profile

Alex Frame is currently Associate Professor in Communication at the University of Burgundy (Dijon, France).

After a degree in Modern Languages from St Catherine’s College, Oxford, he permanently moved to France at postgraduate level and has been lecturing at university (in Business English, Intercultural Communication, New Media and Political Communication, among others) since the year 2000. He is a member of the “Text – Image – Language” Research Group (EA 4182). In his PhD (2008), he developed a symbolic interactionist approach to intercultural dialogue, taking into account the possible mobilisation of various cultures and identities in face-to-face interactions. He insists on the importance of the situation, the immediate context, existing relationships and underlying tensions in understanding the way people negotiate meanings and go about seeking to make sense of and for one another, despite cultural differences.

Alex’s current research interests stem from critical approaches to interculturality, factoring in questions of identities, othering and power relations to look at the ways in which cultural dynamics underpin and are referred to by individuals in their interactions. His main focus is on the cultural dynamics of communication processes both locally and globally, as they manifest themselves in intercultural dialogue, in mediated/mediatized communication and as part of the globalization process. In 2015, he set up an English-taught MA course in (critical approaches to) Intercultural Management at the University of Burgundy.

Key publications (in French or English) include:

Frame, A. (2018). Repenser l’intégration républicaine à l’aune de l’interculturalité. Communiquer: Revue de Communication Sociale et Publique, 24 (1), 59-79.

Frame, A., & Ihlen, Ø. (2018). Beyond the cultural turn: A critical perspective on culture-discourse within public relations. In S. Bowman, A. Crookes, S. Romenti, & Ø. Ihlen (Éd.), Public relations and the power of creativity: Strategic opportunities (Vol. 3, pp. 151-162). New York: Emerald Publishing.

Frame, A. (2017). What future for the concept of culture in the social sciences? Epistémè, 17, 151–172.

Frame, A. (2016). Intersectional identities in interpersonal communication. In K. Ciepiela (Ed.), Studying identity in communicative contexts (pp. 21-38).Warsaw: Peter Lang.

Frame, A. (2015). Quelle place pour l’interculturel au sein des SIC ? Cahiers de la SFSIC, 11, 85–91.

Frame, A. (2015). Étranges interactions : Cadrer la communication interculturelle à l’aide de Goffman ? In P. Lardellier (Ed.), Actualité d’Erving Goffman, de l’interaction à l’institution. Paris: L’Harmattan.

Frame, A. (2014). Reflexivity and self-presentation in multicultural encounters: Making sense of self and Other. In J. Byrd Clark & F. Dervin (Eds.), Reflexivity and multimodality in language education: Rethinking multilingualism and interculturality in accelerating, complex and transnational spaces (pp. 81-99). London : Routledge.

Frame, A. (2014). On cultures and interactions: Theorising the complexity of intercultural encounters. In S. Poutiainen (Ed.), Theoretical turbulence in intercultural communication studies (pp. 29-44). Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.

Frame, A. (2013). Communication et interculturalité: Cultures et interactions interpersonnelles. Paris : Hermès Lavoisier.

Carayol, V., & Frame A. (Eds.). (2012). Communication and PR from a cross-cultural standpoint: Practical and methodological issues. Brussels, Belgium: Peter Lang.

A full list of Alex’s publications.

Chase Mitchell Profile

Chase Mitchell is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at East Tennessee State University.

Chase Mitchell He teaches courses in multimedia production, media management, branding, and public relations. He also coordinates the department’s Adobe Certified Associate program. Chase has 10+ years of experience in strategic communication and higher education, and has lived and worked in the U.K., Southeast Asia, and the United States. He holds a Ph.D. in Technical Communication & Rhetoric from Texas Tech University, where his dissertation explored the International Coffee Organization’s rhetoric of economic sustainability. Chase’s research interests include brand and media strategy, technical communication, and metaphor.

Zrinjka Peruško Profile

Zrinjka Peruško is professor of sociology and teaches communication and media studies at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Peruško is founder and Chair of its Centre for Media and Communication Research. She holds a PhD (in sociology) from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb. Her research expertise covers media systems democratization dynamics and media cultures in Central and Eastern Europe. She has received research funding from the Croatian Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, the Council of Europe, Open Society Institute (Budapest), Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Croatia), UNESCO (Paris), the Croatian Foundation for the Development of Civil Society (Zagreb), and was involved in major international research networks funded by the EU COST initiative and UNESCO.

Her publications include Assessment of Media Development in Croatia, based on UNESCO Media Development Indicators (UNESCO, Paris, 2011) and Croatian Media System (according to the UNESCO Media Development Indicators) (in Croatian, Zagreb: FPZ, 2011), as well as earlier books (all in Croatian) on Democracy and the Media (Zagreb: Barbat, 1999), Media and Civil Society (Zagreb: Jesenski Turk, 2008), Introduction to Media (Zagreb: Jesenski Turk, 2011). Several articles on CEE & SEE media systems will be published in 2013 (Comparing Post-Socialist Media Systems (in Croatian), Politička misao, Vol. 50, No. 2, 2013; Media Pluralism Policy in a Post-socialist Mediterranean Media System: The Case of Croatia. Central European Journal of Communication, Vol. 6, no. 2.; Rediscovering the Mediterranean Characteristics of the Croatian Media System. East European Politics and Societies and Culture, 2013). She has also published book chapters and journal articles on media policy, television and the public interest, media concentration and pluralism, and media bias. Her current research focuses on comparative understanding of the southeast European media systems development. Her new research interest is in the relationship between popular television and politics.

Peruško was member of the Advisory Panel on Media Diversity (2000-2004), the Group of Specialists on Media Diversity of the Council of Europe (2005-2008) which she chaired in 2006 and 2007, Croatian representative to the UNESCO International Program for Development of Communication (IPDC) (2000-2003, 2005-2008), 2011-2015), Croatian National Commission for UNESCO (2004-2010). She is expert member of the Committee on Information, Informatization and the Media of the Croatian Parliament (2004-2007, 2013-2015), and serves as expert for the Media division of the Council of Europe. She is member of ICA, ECREA, Croatian Sociological Association, Croatian Political Science Association, Centre for Law and Democracy Miko Tripalo, and associate member of ORBICOM.

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this: