Pockrass Memorial Lecture
Living in Media = Creating Art With Life
Monday, April 2 / 7 p.m. / Foster Auditorium, Pattee Library
Presented by Mark Deuze, Indiana University
Mark Deuze is an associate professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., with courtesy appointments at the Lisbon University Institute and Leiden University.
He has published more than 50 journal articles and seven books, including "Media Life" (2012, Polity Press). His work has been translated in Chinese, German, Portuguese, Greek and Hungarian. He has served as a Research Fellow at the Center for International Communications Research at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom and as a visiting Fulbright Scholar at USC.
The Pockrass Lecture was named after the late Professor Robert M. Pockrass, a member of Penn State's journalism faculty from 1948 to 1977. Pockrass, who specialized in public opinion and popular culture, served as the graduate officer and taught radio news writing for the School of Journalism, which later became the College of Communications.
Upcoming Speakers
- TBA
Previous Speakers
Fall 2011: Joshua Meyrowitz, University of New Hampshire -- "Life in an Age of Digital Transparencies: Surveillance, Sousveillance and Peerveillance"
2011: Arthur Raney, Florida State -- "The Ongoing Morality Play: Media Entertainment and Our Sense of Right and Wrong"
2010: ZiZi Papacharissi, University
of Illinois-Chicago -- "Social Media, Social People"
2009: Isabel Molina, University of Illinois
2009: Stephen Prince, Virginia Tech
2008: Dafna Lemish, Tel Aviv University, and Lynn Spigel, Northwestern University
Other previous visitors for the lecture include: Joseph Turow of the University of Pennsylvania, Michael Schudson of the University of California-San Diego, William Safire of The New York Times and Richard Cole of the University of North Carolina.

