silvio r. waisbord
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs
Phone: (202) 994-1464
Fax: (202) 994-5806
E-mail: waisbord@gwu.edu
Office: MPA 419
Expertise
International news and politics, communication and development/global health.
Courses Taught SMPA 205 Comparative media systems SMPA 206 Media and globalization
Selected Works (with E. Peruzzotti) The environmental story that wasn’t: Advocacy, journalism, and the asambleismo movement in Argentina, Media, Culture & Society, 31(4): 2009.
Bridging the press-civic society divide: Civic media advocacy in Latin America, Nordicom Review 30: 105-116, 2009.
Research directions for global journalism studies: Ideas from Latin America, Journalism, 10 (3), 2009.
The institutional challenges of participatory communication in international aid, Social Identities, 14(4): 505-522, 2008.
>Advocacy journalism in a global context: The ‘journalist’ and the ‘civic’ model. In Karin Wohl-Jorgensen and Thomas Hanitzsch eds., Handbook of Journalism Studies, 371-385. London: New York, 2008.
Democratic journalism and “statelessness,” Political Communication, 24:115-129, 2007.
Background
Education
SMPA 101 Journalism: Theory and Practice
Press and the public sphere in contemporary Latin America. In Pippa Norris eds., Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform. Washington: World Bank, 2009.
McTV: Understanding the global popularity of television formats, Television and New Media, 5 (4): 359-383, 2004. Re-published in Horace Newcomb (Ed.), Television: A Critical View, 8th edition, Oxford University Press, 2006.
Watchdog Journalism in South America: News, Accountability and Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press.
Silvio Waisbord is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. He is also the Editor of the International Journal of Press/Politics. Previously, he was Senior Program Officer at the Academy for Educational Development, and Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies and Director of the Journalism Resources Institute at Rutgers University. He was a fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at Notre Dame University, and the Media Studies Center. His current work focuses on civic society organizations and the press.
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, San Diego, 1993
M.A., Sociology, University of California, San Diego, 1990
Licenciatura, Sociology, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1985