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Education
Ph.D. Sociology, Boston
University, 1984
M. A. Sociology, Boston
University, 1978
B. A. Sociology, Boston
College, 1976
Background:
Professor Jalbert received his Ph.D. from Boston
University. He is well published with research
emphasis on explicating U.S. mass media expressions
of international affairs: notably Haiti, Cuba,
Zaire, and the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict. He
is the recipient of a CT Humanities Council grant,
used to fund "The Changing Nature of Poverty
In Southern Connecticut," Conference.
Expertise:
Mass Media Discourse Analysis, Practical Reasoning,
Interpersonal Communication, Propaganda
Teaching and Research Interests
- Collective Behavior and Social Movements
- Protest and Communication
- Juvenile Delinquency
- Interpersonal Communication
- Qualitative Research Methodologies
- Organizational Communication
Research
- Qualitative Theories
- Ethnomethodology/Practical Reasoning
- Philosophy of Language
- Analysis of Discourse
Funded Research Projects
1993.
University of Connecticut Research Foundation Grant
to fund travel to and research in Romania; to study
the language of crisis and alternative media expression
in this country and neighboring former Yugoslavia-
presented paper entitled: "Education
through the Mass Media" at the Institute of Education
Sciences, Bucharest, Romania, July
1989, Co-Director of Grant awarded by the Connecticut
Humanities Council to fund a conference on "The
Changing Nature of Poverty in Southern Connecticut",
sponsored by Women's Studies, Stamford Regional
Campus.
Publications
Books
Media Studies: Ethnomethodological Approaches-
Editor, collection of original articles on the workings
of mass mediated texts; University Press of America,
by the International Institute for Ethnomethodology
and Conversation Analysis; Series Editor: George
Psathas, forthcoming, 1995.
Journal Articles
"Critique and Analysis in Media Studies: Media Criticism
as Practical Action" (1995) Discourse & Society,
Vol. 6 (1), pp. 7-26.
"Structures of the 'Unsaid"', Theory, Culture
and Society (1994) Vol. 11 (4), pp. 127-160
"Charting the Logical Geography of the Concept
of '"Cease-fire". (1992) Human Studies: A Journ'alfor
Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Vol. 15 (2),
pp. 265-290
"'News Speak' About the Lebanon War", Journal
of Palestine Studies (1984) Vol. 14, Num. 1, (53),
pp. 16-35
Book Chapters
"Qualitative Methodologies" (1995) in Jim Watt and
Sjef van den Berg, Research Methods for Communication
Sciences, Allyn & Bacon, pp. 411-30.
"Categorization and Beliefs: News Accounts of
Haitian and Cuban Refugees" (1989) in David T.
Helrn, W. Tim Anderson, A. Jay Meehan, and Anne
Rawls (Eds.), The Interactional Order: Vew Directions
in the Studv ofsocial Order, New York: Irvington
Publishers Inc., pp. 231-48
"Some Constructs for Analvzing News" (1983) in
Howard Davis and Paul Walton (Eds.)-Language, Image,
Media, London: Basil Blackwell Publishers, pp.
282-99
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