Silvio R. Waisbord
Professor of Media and Public Affairs, Associate Director

Phone – (202) 994-1464
Fax – (202) 994-5806
E-mail – waisbord@gwu.edu
Office – MPA 419
Office Hours – Fall: Mon 2:00pm – 4:00pm

Expertise

Global media; press and politics; health communication, development, and social change

Education

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

Courses Taught

SMPA 6101 Journalism: Theory and Practice

SMPA 6205 Media and Globalization

Background

See his full CV here.

Silvio Waisbord is Professor and Associate Director in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Press/Politics. Previously, he was associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University (1995-2002), and director of the Journalism Resource Institute (2001-2002). He is the author of Reinventing Professional Journalism (Polity, forthcoming), Watchdog Journalism in South America (Columbia University Press, 2000), and El Gran Desfile (The Great Parade, Sudamericana, 1995), and co-editor of Global Health Communication (Wiley, forthcoming 2012), Media and Globalization: Why the State Matters (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001) and Latin Politics, Global Media (University of Texas Press, 2002). He also wrote the novel Duelo (Biblos Argentina 2009). He was a fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication (1993-4), and the Media Studies Center (1998). His areas of interest are journalism and politics, and media and communication in aid, development and social change. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology (University of California, San Diego) and a Licenciatura in Sociology (Universidad de Buenos Aires).

Selected Works

The Anarchist and the President. Project Syndicate, 2012.

Press and the public sphere in contemporary Latin America. In Pippa Norris eds., Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform. Washington: World Bank, 2009.

(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.

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.