{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Architects of Communication Scholarship","title":"Architects of Communication Scholarship - Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach, on Communication Infrastructure Theory","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1437,"description":"In this episode, Barbara Osborn interviews Professor Emerita Sandra Ball-Rokeach about her struggles and triumphs working as a woman in sociology and communication theory since the 1960s. Professor Ball-Rokeach tells anecdotes about her time serving on the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence under President Lyndon B. Johnson. This experience led her to develop media system dependency theory, a multi-level analysis from the psychological to the sociological. Professor Ball-Rokeach also discusses how she brought theory to practice through her Metamorphosis project, which focused on civic engagement in 11 major communities in Los Angeles County.\n \nClick here for the episode transcript\n \nFeaturing\nEllen Wartella\nBarbara Osborn\nSandra Ball-Rokeach\n \nSponsor:\nWee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore\n\nMore from the host & speakers: \n\nEllen Wartella \nSheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences\nNorthwestern University \nDirector, Center on Media and Human Development\nTwitter: @CMHD_NU\n\nBarbara Osborn\nSenior Strategist at Wow The Crowd\nLinkedIn: Barbara Osborn, Ph.D.\nTwitter: @Bosborn  \n\nSandra Ball-Rokeach\nProfessor, Emerita of Communication at USC Annenberg\n\nWorks referenced in episode: \nDeFleur, M. L., & Ball-Rokeach, S. (1989). Theories of mass communication (Vol. 5). New York: Longman.\nBall-Rokeach, S. J. (1998). A theory of media power and a theory of media use: Different stories, questions, and ways of thinking. Mass Communication and Society, 1(1-2), 5-40.\n\nCopy and Audio Editors:\nDominic Bonelli\n\nExecutive Producer:\nDeVante Brown","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/IXBkVZyFWDnvD3J35MpSVu9cN9W3JsHK5HiOaZbLMBs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI2MzI5LzE2NDU0/ODE3OTMtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}