Jennifer Rauch
Assistant Professor of Journalism
B.A., The Pennsylvania State UniversityM.J., Temple UniversityPh.D., Indiana University Bloomington
jennifer.rauch@liu.edu
Description
Jennifer Rauch is an assistant professor of journalism at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus. Dr. Rauch teaches courses in news writing and reporting, mass communication, magazine editing and design, online/multimedia journalism and new media and society as well as special topics such as “Not Necessarily the News: Political Entertainment, Youth Audiences & Civic Culture” and “From Boob Tube to YouTube: The Rise & Fall of Network Television.”
Before joining the Campus’ faculty in 2004, she was a professional journalist and publication specialist for seven years at news organizations including the Philadelphia City Paper, China Daily and Morning Call as well as for non-profit and corporate clients such as the American Red Cross, Air Products & Chemicals and Lehigh University. Her words and images have appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Magnet and The Chicago Reader, among other publications.
Dr. Rauch earned a Ph.D. in mass communication at Indiana University Bloomington, where she was a Chancellor’s Fellow. She has won scholarships from the Poynter Institute and the Knight Digital Media Center to study online journalism, an instructional innovation grant from Long Island University’s Office of Academic Affairs and a GIFT Scholar award from the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication.
Her research interests include activist uses of media, audience studies, rituals of media circulation and consumption, independently published “zines” and resistance to new communication technologies. She also has published articles examining alternative forms of journalism such as the UN-sponsored Inter Press Service and civic/citizen journalism, as well as analyzing news coverage of social protests and female criminals.
Her work has appeared in Discourse & Communication; the Journal of Communication Inquiry; Journalism & Mass Communication Educator; Mass Communication & Society; Media, Culture & Society; Popular Communication; and Social Movement Studies. She also is a contributor to the International Encyclopedia of Communication.
Specialties
Alternative & Independent Media; Audience Studies; Rituals of Media Production, Circulation & Consumption; Social Movements & Media Activism; Resistance to New Communication Technologies; Zines; Residual & Slow Media
Publications
- Author, “Activists as Interpretive Communities: Rituals of Consumption and Interaction in an Alternative Media Audience,” published in Media, Culture & Society
- Author, “Clinging to Tradition, Welcoming Civic Solutions: A Survey of College Students’ Attitudes towards Civic Journalism,” published in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator
- Author, “Do Students at Your College Follow the News? How to Foster Youths’ Understanding of Current Events, Survey Methods and Their Own Media Consumption,” published in The Community College Journalist
- Author, “From Seattle 1999 to New York 2004: A Longitudinal Analysis of Journalistic Framing of the Movement for Democratic Globalization,” published in Social Movement Studies
- Author, “Hands-on Communication: Zine Circulation Rituals & the Interactive Limitations of Web Self-Publishing,” published in Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media & Culture
- Author, “Rooted in Nations, Blossoming in Globalization? A Cultural Perspective on the Content of a ‘Northern’ Mainstream and ‘Southern’ Alternative News Agency,” published in Journal of Communication Inquiry
- Author, “Superiority and Susceptibility: How Activist Audiences Imagine the Influence of Mainstream News Messages on Self and Others,” published in Discourse & Communication
- Author, “Zines,” published in The International Encyclopedia of Communication
- Author, “Book review, All the News That’s Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News by James T. Hamilton,” published in the Journal of Communication Inquiry
- Author, “Book review, Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements by John D.H. Downing,” published in the Journal of Communication Inquiry
- Co-author, “Gender in Crime News: A Case Study Test of the Chivalry Hypothesis,” published in Mass Communication & Society
Honors/Awards
- Former Fellow, Knight Digital Media Center, University of California, Berkeley
- Recipient, Chapter Adviser Research Grant, Kappa Tau Alpha
- GIFT Scholar (Great Ideas for Teachers), Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication
- Recipient, Instructional Innovation Grant, Long Island University
- Scholar, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies
- Recipient, Grant-in-Aid of Research Award, Indiana University Bloomington
- Recipient, Top Student Paper Award in Civic & Citizen Journalism, Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication
- Recipient, Frances G. Wilhoit Research Paper Award, Indiana University Bloomington
- Recipient, Chancellor's Fellowship, Indiana University Bloomington
- Recipient, Louise Hess Miller, Mark & Ruth Ferree, Ernie Pyle, Roy W. Howard and Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowships, Indiana University Bloomington
- Recipient, Sheila Robin Even-Tov Scholarship, Temple University
- Member, Kappa Tau Alpha (national journalism honor society)
- Member, Phi Kappa Phi (national honor society)
Professional Affiliations
- Board Member, Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication
- Member, Council of Divisions, Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication
- Head, vice head/program chair, research chair, Commission on the Status of Women, Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication
- Member, Society of Professional Journalists
- Member, International Communication Association
- Member, National Communication Association
- Member, The Deadline Club, Society of Professional Journalists (New York City chapter)