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- Jeffrey Jones
- Associate Professor
- 3042 Batten Arts and Letters
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-3719
- jpjones@odu.edu
- Web Page
- Director, Institute of Humanities
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Education
- University of Texas - Austin,
1999
- Major: Radio-Television-Film
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Auburn University,
1993
- Major: Political Science
- Degree: M.A.
- Auburn University,
1985
- Major: Political Science
- Degree: B.A.
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Research Interests
- Media and Politics, Television Studies
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Expertise
- Communication
- Popular Culture and Political Communication,Television Talk Shows, Populism, Civic engagement via media
- Theatre
- Popular Culture and Political Communication,Television Talk Shows, Populism, Civic engagement via media
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Books
- Gray, J., Jones, J. P., and Thompson, E. Satire TV: Politics and comedy in the post-network era. New York: NYU Press.
- Edgerton, G. R., and Jones, J. P. (2008). The Essential HBO Reader. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.
- Jones, J. P. (2005). Entertaining politics: New political television and civic culture. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield.
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Book Chapters
- Jones, J. P. Believable fictions: Redactional culture and the will to truthiness.. New York: Routledge.
- Jones, J. P. I want my talk TV: Network talk shows in a digital universe.. New York: Routledge.
- Jones, J. P. Moore muckraking: The reinvention of TV newsmagazines in the age of spin and entertainment.. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
- Jones, J. P. Pop goes the candidates: Popular culture in campaign ’08.. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Gray, J., Jones, J. P., and Thompson, E. The State of satire, the satire of state.. New York: New York University Press.
- Jones, J. P. (2008). Comedy talk shows. (pp. 172-182). Lexingon, KY: University Press of Kentucky.
- Jones, J. P. (2008). Erotica. (pp. 274-287). Lexingon, KY: University Press of Kentucky.
- Jones, J. P. (2008). HBO’s ongoing legacy. (pp. 315-330). Lexingon, KY: University Press of Kentucky.
- Jones, J. P. (2007). A cultural approach to the study of mediated citizenship. (pp. 161-179). London: Routledge.
- Jones, J. P. (2007). Audiences for Politically Incorrect. (pp. 220-224). London: Routledge.
- Jones, J. P. (2007). ‘Fake’ news versus ‘real’ news as sources of political information: The Daily Show and postmodern political reality.. (pp. 129-149). New York: Peter Lang Publishers.
- Jones, J. P. (2006). From insiders to outsiders: The advent of new political television.. (pp. 408-437). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Jones, J. P. (2005). Beyond genre: Cable’s impact on the talk show. (pp. 156-175). Lexingon, KY: University Press of Kentucky.
- Jones, J. P. (2005). The shadow campaign in popular culture. (pp. 195-216). Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Jones, J. P. (2001). Forums for citizenship in popular culture. (pp. 193-210). Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Hart, R. P., and Jones, J. P. (2000). The people’s voice. (pp. 199-225). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Jones, J. P. (1999). Rethinking hegemonic common sense in media studies. (pp. 61-82). National University of Singapore.
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Articles
- Jones, J. P. (2007). "Punk-rock presidency: The state of presidential satire on television,”. FLOW: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture, 6 (6),
- Jones, J. P. (2007). "The joys of ‘Civic TV,’ or TV you probably don’t watch,”. FLOW: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture, 6 (3),
- Jones, J. P. (2007). “Institutions that fail, narratives that succeed: Television’s community realism versus cinema’s neo-liberal hope,”. FLOW: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture, 6 (9),
- Jones, J. P. (2006). A cultural approach to the study of mediated citizenship. Social Semiotics, 16 (2), (pp. 365-383).
- Jones, J. P. (2006). “The ESPN effect,”. Media Res, Media Commons: A Digital Scholarly Network
- Jones, J. P. (2003). Vox Populi as cable programming strategy. Journal of Popular Film & Television, 31, (pp. 18-28).
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Presentations
- Talking Through The Wire
- Conference Name: FLOW TV
- Sponsoring Organization: FLOW TV
- Location: University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
- Date: October, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- Beyond Moore: Considering the Resurgence of Political Documentary Films
- Conference Name: International Communication Association
- Sponsoring Organization: International Communication Association
- Location: Montreal, Canada
- Date: May, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- The Punk-Rock Presidency of Lil’ Bush
- Conference Name: International Communication Association
- Sponsoring Organization: International Communication Association
- Location: Montreal, Canada
- Date: May, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- Believable Fictions and the Will to Truthiness
- Conference Name: The Scholars Program in Culture and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
- Sponsoring Organization: The Scholars Program in Culture and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Date: November 30, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- Citizens, Politics, and Television
- Conference Name: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Sponsoring Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Date: November, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- The Loyless/Peabody State of Television Symposium
- Conference Name: The University of Georgia
- Sponsoring Organization: The University of Georgia
- Location: Athens, Georgia
- Date: October, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- From ‘effects’ to ‘culture’ in the study of political-entertainment television
- Conference Name: International Communication Association
- Sponsoring Organization: International Communication Association
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Date: May, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- Moore muckraking: The reinvention of the newsmagazine in the age of spin and entertainment
- Conference Name: International Communication Association
- Sponsoring Organization: International Communication Association
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Date: May, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- The Monitorial Citizen: Toward a Theoretical Model
- Conference Name: International Communication Association
- Sponsoring Organization: International Communication Association
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Date: May, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- Television and the American Dream
- Conference Name:
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- HBO’s ongoing legacy
- Conference Name: FLOW
- Sponsoring Organization: FLOW
- Location: University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
- Date: October, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
Edgerton, G. R.
- A cultural approach to the study of mediated citizenship
- Conference Name: International Communication Association
- Sponsoring Organization: International Communication Association
- Location: Dresden, Germany
- Date: June, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- ‘Fake’ news versus ‘real’ news as sources of political information: The Daily Show and postmodern political reality
- Conference Name: International Communication Association
- Sponsoring Organization: International Communication Association
- Location: Dresden, Germany
- Date: June, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- Television and the American Dream
- Conference Name:
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- Getting news from late night television: The Daily Show's reality politics
- Conference Name: Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Sponsoring Organization: Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Location: London, England
- Date: April 1, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- Do You Want Democracy with Those Fries? The Role of Popular Culture in Supporting Democratic Values
- Conference Name: Old Dominion University
- Sponsoring Organization: Old Dominion University
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: January 18, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- Television and the American Dream
- Conference Name:
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- Entertaining Politics: The Legitimacy of Humorous Political Talk Shows on Television
- Conference Name: Old Dominion University
- Sponsoring Organization: Old Dominion University
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: April 1, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- Political mythology in film: Recurrent hopes and fears of the media populist
- Conference Name: Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Sponsoring Organization: Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Location: Atlanta, GA
- Date: March, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- The comedian-host as political commentator
- Conference Name: National Communication Association
- Sponsoring Organization: National Communication Association
- Location: Miami, FL
- Date: November 20, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- Popular media, political cognition, and civic engagement: A media studies perspective
- Conference Name: American Political Science Association
- Sponsoring Organization: American Political Science Association
- Location: The Annenberg School for Communication, Philadelphia, PA
- Date: August 27, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- Vox Populi as cable programming strategy
- Conference Name: International Communication Association
- Sponsoring Organization: International Communication Association
- Location: Acapulco, Mexico
- Date: June, 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- Violence in the new frontier: Transformations of the frontier myth in The Matrix
- Conference Name: Popular Culture Associaion and American Culture Association
- Sponsoring Organization: Popular Culture Associaion and American Culture Association
- Location: New Orleans, LA
- Date: April, 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- Uncloseted Christians: New media and the shifting boundaries of community and organizational church structures in cyberspace
- Conference Name: Popular Culture Association
- Sponsoring Organization: Popular Culture Association
- Location: San Diego, CA
- Date: April, 1999
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- The press in service of the Soviet state: A semiotic analysis of Moscow News in the Glasnost era
- Conference Name: National Communication Association
- Sponsoring Organization: National Communication Association
- Location: New York, NY
- Date: November, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- Writing the class narrative: The discursive potential of electronic discussion forums in large lecture classes
- Conference Name: National Communication Association
- Sponsoring Organization: National Communication Association
- Location: New York, NY
- Date: November, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- Creating political common sense: Politically Incorrect and lay political discourse
- Conference Name: National University of Singapore
- Sponsoring Organization: National University of Singapore
- Location: Singapore
- Date: September, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- Regulating the Internet in Asia: An international political economy perspective
- Conference Name:
- Location: Miami, FL
- Date: February, 1997
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- Sustaining impatience: Rush Limbaugh’s rhetoric in the context of social movements
- Conference Name: Speech Communication Association
- Sponsoring Organization: Speech Communication Association
- Location: San Diego, CA
- Date: November, 1996
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- The aetherial Rush: Limbaugh’s ‘textual’ movement on the Internet
- Conference Name: Speech Communication Association
- Sponsoring Organization: Speech Communication Association
- Location: San Diego, CA
- Date: November, 1996
- Authors/Presenters:
Jones, J. P.
- 2005: Most Inspirational Faculty Member, Old Dominion University
- 2006: Top Four Paper in Political Communication, International Communication Association Annual Meeting
- 1996: Top Four Paper in Political Communication, Speech Communication Association Annual Meeting
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