Oscar H. Gandy Jr.

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Oscar H. Gandy Jr. is the Herbert Schiller Professor of Communication studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Gandy is a world-renowned scholar of the political economy of information. His work spans many subjects, including privacy, race, information technology, media framing, media development, and educational subsidy.

1 Biography
2 Bibliography
3 Sources
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Gandy received his associate's degree from Nassau Community College (1965) and his bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of New Mexico (1967). From 1969 to 1971, he wrote and produced Right On!, a public affairs television series for WCAU-TV. During this period, he also received his master's degree in Communication Behavior from the University of Pennsylvania, where Gandy grew close to his mentor, George Gerbner.

In 1971, Gandy began lecturing at Third College (now the Thurgood Marshall College), University of California San Diego. In 1973, he enrolled at Stanford University as a Ph.D. student in communication, where he was a Ford Foundation Fellow. Gandy earned his doctorate in public affairs communication in 1976.

From 1977 to 1987, Gandy was an assistant and then an associate professor of communication at Howard University. Gandy joined the faculty at Annenberg in 1987, where he taught until his retirement in the Spring of 2006.

[edit] Bibliography

Gandy has written or co-authored four books, edited or co-edited three more, and published dozens of scholarly journal articles. His books include:

Stephen Reese, Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., and August Grant (Eds.). Framing Public Life. Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, 2001.
Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. Communication and Race: A Structural Perspective. Edward Arnold and Oxford University Press, 1998.
Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information. Westview Press, 1993.
Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. (Ed.) Communications: A Key to Economic and Political Change. Selected Proceedings from the 15th Annual Communications Conference. Center for Communications and Research, Howard University, 1986.
Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., Paul Espinosa, and Janusz Ordover (Eds). Proceedings from the Tenth Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. Ablex Publishers, 1983.
Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. Beyond Agenda Setting: Information Subsidies and Public Policy. Ablex Publishers, 1982.
Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., William L. Rivers, Susan Miller, and Gail Rivers. Government and Media: An Annotated Bibliography. Institute for Communications Research, 1975.