Faculty Member, Advertising and Public Relations
Associate Professor
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
About
My work for the past 15 years has engaged problems of democratic communications in ways that generate important new questions and issues. A central goal of this project is, first, to develop a historicizing critique not only of specific practices of democratic communications but also of their conceptualizations and forms. Second, but equally central, the project seeks to recontextualize, retheorize, and thus reconstitute the possibilities of democratic communications in the current era of digital media, globalization, and perpetual political, economic, and ecological crises. Among works published are Democratic Communications; Formations, Projects, Possibilities (Lexington Books, 2008; paperback 2009) and, with Chris Atton, Alternative Journalism (Sage, 2009).
Right now, I'm writing articles on graphic designers as activists (or not); on Current TV as embodying new kinds of media participation (or not); and on rethinking the goal of 'alternative media' in the digital era (at least) as not one of autonomy (a celebration of self-contained Cartesian subjectivity as though people can stand outside history) but autonomism as a creative agency that is fully historicized.
Contact Information
http://hamilton.myweb.uga.edu/
120 Hooper Street
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-3018
USA
706.542.3556
Skype: jayhamilton
