Matt Carlson
Work Address: 3733 West Pine Blvd., Xavier Hall 300, St. Louis, MO 63108
Work Phone: 314-977-3344
Cell Phone: 314-223-6451
Email: mcarls10@slu.edu
Web Site: drmattcarlson.wordpress.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (2007) Annenberg
School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation: “On the Condition of Anonymity: Unnamed Sources and Journalistic Authority.” Advisor: Dr. Barbie Zelizer
M.A. (2002) Annenberg School for
Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Thesis: “Adversarial or Advantageous: Digital Video Recorders’ Relationship to Existing Media.” Advisor: Dr. Joseph Turow
B.A. (2000) Loyola University Chicago
Magna Cum Laude. Major: Communication; Minor: English
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Saint Louis University, Department of Communication
Associate Professor, 2013 - present
Assistant Professor, 2007 - 2013
University of Pennsylvania, College of General Studies
Instructor, Summer 2006
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Journalism studies, new media technology, journalistic authority, mass media, media criticism, collective memory,
news sources, photojournalism, political communication
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Carlson, Matt (2011)
On the Condition of Anonymity: Unnamed Sources and the Battle for Journalism. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. Paperback released in 2012
Reviewed in: Journalism, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Library Journal, ALA Choice, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Franklin, Bob & Carlson, Matt (Eds.) (2011)
Journalists, Sources, and Credibility: New Perspectives. London: Routledge. Paperback released in 2013
Reviewed in:
Journalism Practice
PUBLICATIONS (Continued)
Refereed Journal Articles
Carlson, Matt (2014) Gone, But Not Forgotten: Memories of Journalistic Deviance as Metajournalistic Discourse.
Journalism Studies, forthcoming.
Carlson, Matt & Berkowitz, Dan (2013) ‘The Emperor Lost His Clothes’: Rupert Murdoch,
News of the World and Journalistic Boundary Work in the UK and the USA.
Journalism, forthcoming.
Carlson, Matt (2013) Journalistic Change in an Online Age: Disaggregating Visibility, Legitimacy, and Revenue.
JOMEC, 3. http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/jomecjournal/3-june2013/Carlson_Change.pdf
Carlson, Matt & Peifer, Jason (2013) The Impudence of Being Earnest: Jon Stewart and the Boundaries of Discursive Responsibility.
Journal of Communication, 63(2), 333-350.
Carlson, Matt & Berkowitz, Dan (2012) Twilight of the Television Idols: Collective Memory, Network News, and the Death of Walter Cronkite.
Memory Studies, 5(4), 408-422.
Carlson, Matt (2012) Rethinking Journalistic Authority: Walter Cronkite and Ritual in Television News.
Journalism Studies, 13(4), 483-498.
Carlson, Matt & Ben-Porath, Eran. N. (2012) “The People's Debate:” The CNN/YouTube Debates and the Demotic Voice in Political Communication.
Journalism Practice, 6(3), 302-316.
Carlson, Matt (2012) ‘Where Once Stood Titans’: Second-Order Paradigm Repair and the Vanishing U.S. Newspaper.
Journalism, 13(3), 267-283.
Carlson, Matt (2010) Embodying Deep Throat: Mark Felt and the Collective Memory of Watergate.
Critical Studies in Media Communication, 27(3), 235-250.
Carlson, Matt (2009) Dueling, Dancing, or Dominating? Journalists and their Sources.
Sociology Compass, 3(4), 526-542.
Carlson, Matt (2009) Media Criticism as Competitive Discourse: Defining Reportage of the Abu Ghraib Scandal.
Journal of Communication Inquiry, 33(3), 258-277.
Carlson, Matt (2009) The Reality of a Fake Image: News Norms, Photojournalistic Craft, and Brian Walski’s Fabricated Photo.
Journalism Practice, 3(2), 125-139.
Carlson, Matt (2007) Order Versus Access: News Search Engines and the Challenge to Traditional Journalistic Roles.
Media, Culture & Society, 29(6), 1014-1030.
PUBLICATIONS (Continued)
Carlson, Matt (2007) Making Memories Matter: Journalistic Authority and the Memorializing Discourse Around Mary McGrory and David Brinkley.
Journalism, 8(2), 165-183.
Carlson, Matt (2007) Blogs and Journalistic Authority: The Role of Blogs in US Election Day 2004 Coverage.
Journalism Studies, 8(2), 264-279.
Carlson, Matt (2006) War Journalism and the “KIA Journalist”: The Cases of David Bloom and Michael Kelly.
Critical Studies in Media Communication, 23(2), 91-111. [Focus of CSMC Critical Forum]
Carlson, Matt (2006). Transnational Journalism and Cultural Norms: How the New York Times Talks About Al Jazeera.
Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture, 39(1), 54-69.
Carlson, Matt (2006) Tapping into TiVo: Digital Video Recorders and the Transition from Schedules to Surveillance in Television.
New Media & Society, 6 (1), 97-116.
Campbell, John Edward & Carlson, Matt (2002) Panopticon.com: Online Surveillance and the Commodification of Privacy.
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 46(4), 586-606.
Book Chapters
Carlson, Matt & Ben-Porath, Eran. N. (2013) “The People's Debate:” The CNN/YouTube Debates and the Demotic Voice in Political Communication. In E. Thorsen (Ed),
Online Reporting of Elections. London: Routledge. Forthcoming
Carlson, Matt & Berkowitz, Dan. (2013) The Late News: Memory Work as Boundary Work in Commemoration of Television Journalists. In B. Zelizer & K. Tenenboim-Wienblatt (Eds),
Journalism and Memory. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming.
Carlson, Matt & Bergen, Lori (2012) Anonymous Sources. In D. Sloan (Ed),
Contemporary Media Issues (3
rd ed.) (219-316). Northport, AL: Vision Press.
Carlson, Matt (2011) Introduction. In B. Franklin & M. Carlson (Eds),
Journalists, Sources, and Credibility: New Perspectives (1-18). London: Routledge.
Carlson, Matt (2011) Whither anonymity? Journalism and Unnamed Sources in a Changing Media Environment. In B. Franklin & M. Carlson (Eds),
Journalists, Sources, and Credibility: New Perspectives (37-48). London: Routledge.
Carlson, Matt (2010) Making Memories Matter: Journalistic Authority and the Memorializing Discourse Around Mary McGrory and David Brinkley. In D. Berkowitz (Ed),
Cultural Meanings of News (337-350). Los Angeles: Sage.
PUBLICATIONS (Continued)
Carlson, Matt (2010) War Journalism and the “KIA Journalist”: The Cases of David Bloom and Michael Kelly. In D. Berkowitz (Ed),
Cultural Meanings of News (119-136). Los Angeles: Sage.
Peer-Reviewed Reference Works
Carlson, Matt (2011) Journalism.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Communication. http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/view/document/obo-9780199756841/obo-9780199756841-0067.xml
Carlson, Matt (2009) Broadsheet Newspapers. In
The Sage Encyclopedia of Journalism (Vol. 1, pp. 223-225). Los Angeles: Sage.
Carlson, Matt (2009) Trade Magazines. In
The Sage Encyclopedia of Journalism (Vol. 4, pp. 1399-1401. Los Angeles: Sage.
Book Reviews
Carlson, Matt. Book Review of Can Journalism Survive?
Political Communication, forthcoming.
Carlson, Matt (2010) Book Review of Sourcing the News.
Journalism Practice, 4 (4), 535-536.
Carlson, Matt (2009) Book Review of The Pursuit of Public Journalism.
Journal of Communication, 59 (2), E25-E27.
Carlson, Matt (2008) Book Review of When the Press Fails.
Journalism, 9 (5), 665-667.
Carlson, Matt (2007) Book Review of Internet television.
New Media & Society, 9 (2), 374-376.
Other Publications
Carlson, Matt (2008) Die bloggendenBlattmacher,
Message, 26-30. [German translation by Rebecca Phle]
Carlson, Matt (2001, October) Boardroom Brothers: Interlocking Directorates Indicate Media's Corporate Ties.
Extra! Magazine, 18-9.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Competitive papers
“Gone, but Not Forgotten: Memories of Journalistic Deviance as Metajournalistic Discourse” International
Communication Association, London, June 2013
"The Impudence of Being Earnest: Jon Stewart, the Journalistic Community, and Boundary Traversal” (with Jason Peifer) International Communication Association, Phoenix, May 2012. [Top Faculty Paper – Journalism Studies division]
“Twilight of the Television Idols: Collective Memory, Network News, and the Death of Walter Cronkite” (with Dan Berkowitz) International Communication Association, Boston, May 2011
“‘Where Once Stood Titans’: Second-Order Paradigm Repair and the Vanishing U.S. Newspaper"
International Communication Association, Singapore, June 2010
“Whither anonymity? Journalism and Unnamed Sources in a Changing Media Environment” Future of Journalism Conference, University of Cardiff, UK, September 2009 [Paper delivered by proxy]
“Journalism on Trial” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Boston, August 2009.
“Answering the Talking Snowman: The CNN/YouTube Debates and the Challenge of the Third Voice” (with E. N. Ben-Porath) International Communication Association, Chicago, May 2009
“Embodying Deep Throat: Fitting Mark Felt into the Watergate Narrative” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, August 2008.
“Looking Back to Look Ahead: Anonymous Sourcing in the New York Times’s Prewar Iraq Coverage” International Communication Association, San Francisco, May 2007
“Blogs,
Authority, and Political Communication: Discourse on the Role of Blogs in Election Day 2004 Coverage” National Communication Association, San Antonio, November 2006.
“Media Criticism as a Competitive and Collective Discourse: Defining Reportage of the Abu Ghraib Scandal” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, San Francisco, August 2006. [Top Student Paper – Cultural and Critical Studies division]
“War Journalism and the ‘KIA Journalist’: The Cases of David Bloom and Michael Kelly” International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany, June 2006.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (Continued)
“Expanding the Filter: News Search Engines and the Challenge to Traditional Journalistic Roles” Eastern Communication Association, Philadelphia, April 2006.
“Collective Memory and Journalistic Authority: The Memorialization of Mary McGrory and David Brinkley” National Communication Association, Boston, November 2005.
“Privacy and Surveillance in Interactive Television: The Case of the TiVo Digital Video Recorder” International Communication Association, New York, May 2005.
“Transnational Journalism and Cultural Norms: How the New York Times Talks about Al Jazeera” Media and Belief in an Interdependent World conference, American University of Paris, March 2005.
“News Media as Information Filter: Reconsidering the Role of Journalism in the Personalized Online News Environment” National Communication Association, Chicago, November 2004.
“Recording Strife: The Media Industry’s Legal Reactions to VCR and DVR Technology” International Communication Association, New Orleans, May 2004.
“Taming the Tivo: Television Industry Responses to Digital Video Recorder Technology” National Communication Association, Miami Beach, November 2003.
Panel presentations
“Enlarging the Sphere of Legitimate Controversy: Is that a Good Thing?” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, D.C., August 2013.
“The Boundaries of Participation in Journalism” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, D.C., August 2013.
"Boundaries of Journalism: Approaching Metajournalistic Discourse in the Age of Convergence” International Communication Association, Phoenix, May 2012.
“Revisiting Uncle Walter: Walter Cronkite and the Problems of Television News” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Denver, August 2010.
“The Perils and Prizes of Anonymous Sourcing” National Communication Association, Chicago, November 2007.
OTHER PRESENTATIONS
“Changing Media, Changing Politics?”, The Changing Political Election Landscape panel, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Law, Saint Louis University, November 2012
Author panel, Printers Row Lit Fest, Chicago, June 2011
“A Note on Journalism: Changing Personalities, Perceptions, and Publics,” Department of Communication, Saint Louis University, April 2011
Anonymous Sources discussion, Society of Professional Journalists,
Saint Louis, April 2011
“Twilight of the Television Idols: Collective Memory, Network News, and the Death of Walter Cronkite” Research colloquium, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa, November 2010
Media credibility town hall meeting, Society of Professional Journalists, Saint Louis, May 2009
“Electronic Ways to Communicate” Midwest Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, Saint Louis, October 2007
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses Taught (Number of times taught in parentheses as of Spring 2013)
Saint Louis University:
CMM 100: Introduction to Human Communication (4)
CMM 206: Media & Society (7)
CMM 280: Communication Research (1)
CMM 384: Analysis of Popular Culture (1)
CMM 440: Mass Communication and Society: Media, Politics & the 2008 Campaign (1)
CMM 443: Culture, Technology and Communication (6)
CMM 493: Media, Politics, & and the 2012 Campaign (1)
CMM 510: Studies in Mass Media (2)
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania:
CMM 339: Critical Perspectives on Journalism (1)
Graduate Advising (Saint Louis University)
(Parentheses indicate Ph.D. programs attended after M.A. completion)
M.A. Thesis Committee Adviser
Samantha Johnson, 2012-2013
Katie Starke, 2011-2012
Amy Stockhausen, 2010-11 (Utah)
Caroline Jack, 2009-2010 (Cornell)
M.A. Thesis Committee Member
Christopher Krull, 2012-2013
Jason Peifer, 2010-2011 (Ohio State)
Kerry Wilson, 2010-2011 (Illinois)
Jazmine Williams, 2009-2010
Allyn McCalman, 2008-2009 (Kansas)
Mark Barnett, 2008-2009
M.A. Comprehensive Exam Committee Member
Amy Moore, 2010
Jamie Hendrix, 2009
Shulei Zhu, 2008
Melinda Carney, 2008
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Research Associate and Web Editor, Project for Excellence in Journalism, Washington, DC (June 2002 to August 2004)
Editorial Intern, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York (Summer 2001)
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Annenberg Summer Institute for Methods and Statistics (ASIMS) – June 2006
HONORS AND AWARDS
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Sabbatical leave, 2013-2014
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Top Faculty Paper award, Journalism Studies division, International Communication Association, Phoenix, May 2012
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Nominee, Faculty Commitment to Experiential Learning Award. Saint Louis University, April 2011
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Top Student Paper award, Critical and Cultural Studies division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, San Francisco, August 2006
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Article focus of Critical Forum in Critical Studies in Media Communication, June 2006
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Dissertation Research Fellowship, Annenberg School for Communication, 2006
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Apprenticeship, Annenberg School for Communication, 2000 and 2004
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Phi Beta Kappa honors society, Loyola University Chicago, 2000
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Alpha Sigma Nu, Jesuit honors society, Loyola University Chicago, 2000
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Presidential Scholarship, Loyola University Chicago, 1996
SERVICE
University Service
Saint Louis University
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Member, College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Council, 2012-13
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Member, College of Arts and Sciences academic honesty committee, 2012-13
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Chair, advertising position search committee, 2012-13
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Chair, colloquium organizing committee, 2011-13
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Member, Dan Kelly Scholarship committee, 2011-13
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Member, graduate studies committee, 2007-8, 2009-12
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Member, departmental tenure & promotion revision committee, 2011-12
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Member, chair search committee, 2010-11
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Member, strategic communication search committee, 2010
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Co-Chair, multiplatform journalism search committee, 2009
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Departmental liaison, political communication certificate, 2009-10
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Member, undergraduate studies committee, 2008-9
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Member, College of Arts and Sciences technology committee, 2008-10
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Faculty advisor, Lambda Pi Eta honors society, 2008-09
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Member, digital storytelling search committee, 2008
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Member, undergraduate coordinator search committee, 2007
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Departmental liaison, visual communication certificate, 2007-09
University of Pennsylvania
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Graduate Council member, Annenberg School – 2001-2, 2004-5
SERVICE (continued)
Editorial Positions
Book Review editor,
Journalism, 2012-present
Editorial board member
Journalism Studies, 2012-present
Communication Yearbook, 2011-present
JOMEC, 2011-present
Peer Reviewing
Book manuscript/proposal review
Wiley-Blackwell
Palgrave Macmillan
Journal manuscript reviews (ad hoc)