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 Jack Lule
Jack Lule
is a Professor and Chair of Journalism & Communication and
Director of Global Studies at Lehigh University. His research
and teaching interests include globalization and media, international
communication, media and sports, and cultural and critical studies
of news.
He is the author of Globalization
and Media: Global Village of Babel (Rowman & Littlefield,
2012). The book argues that globalization could not have occurred
without media. From earliest times, humans have used media to
explore, settle, and globalize their world. Decades ago Marshall
McLuhan prophesied that media technology would transform the
world into a "global village." Slowly, fitfully, his
vision is being fulfilled. The global village, however, is not
the blissful utopia that McLuhan predicted. Instead, Lule argues,
globalization and media are combining to create a divided world
of gated communities and ghettos, borders and boundaries, suffering
and surfeit, beauty and decay. Lule is also the author of the
award-winning Daily News, Eternal Stories: The Mythological
Role of Journalism (Guilford Press, 2001). Called "a
landmark book in the sociology of news," the book argues
that ancient myths can be found daily in the language of the
news.
The author of more than 50 scholarly
articles and book chapters, Lule is also a frequent contributor
to numerous newspapers and periodicals, and has served as a commentator
about the news on National Public Radio, BBC and other media
outlets. He is a member of the editorial board of Journalism
and Mass Communication Quarterly and Critical Studies
in Media Communication. He has been awarded grants from The
New York Times Company Foundation, the National Endowment for
the Humanities and others.
He is an award-winning teacher
and is the recipient of four Lehigh teaching awards: the Lehigh
University Distinguished Teaching Award for junior faculty; the
Donald B. and Dorothy L. Stabler Foundation Award for excellence
in teaching; the Faculty Scholar Award from the Phi Beta Delta
Honor Society for International Scholars, and the Deming Lewis
Faculty Award, which was given by the class of 1994 during their
10-year reunion celebration, to the faculty member who most significantly
influenced their educational experience.
A former reporter, Lule earned
his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and received the Distinguished
Alumni Scholar Award from the university's Henry W. Grady College
of Journalism and Mass Communication. He has been teaching at
Lehigh since 1990. |
