Jeffrey P. Jones
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 Dr. Jones at the 74th Annual Peabody Awards |
Jeffrey P. Jones, PhD, is Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabodys and Director of the George Foster Peabody Awards.[1] Appointed July 2013 as the 5th Director of the Peabody Awards, he is author and editor of five books including Entertaining Politics: Satirical Television and Political Engagement and Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era. Under Jones's tenure, the Peabody Awards announced in the spring of 2014 a three-year deal with Pivot TV/Participant Media to air a prime-time special of the Peabody Awards Luncheon Ceremony,[2] the first time the Peabody Awards have appeared on television in over a decade. The 73rd Peabody Award Winners were also announced live for the first time on CBS This Morning on April 2, 2014.[3]
Education
Jones hails from Auburn, Alabama, where he earned a BA and MA at Auburn University in political science before receiving his PhD in radio-TV-film from the University of Texas at Austin.
Career
Academic Positions
Jeffrey P. Jones is Professor, Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabody family, and Director of the Peabody Awards at the University of Georgia.[4] Previously, Jones was director of the Institute of Humanities at Old Dominion University[5] in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. He is the author and co-editor of five books and over thirty scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries. His research has focused on the intersections of politics and popular culture, in particular, political entertainment television. He has also written extensively on cable news, television talk shows, popular culture, and citizenship. He is currently writing a new monograph, Television and Politics in the Digital Age: Performing American Public Life. He has taught at universities and colleges in Texas, Alabama, Maryland, and Virginia, where he has offered courses in television, journalism, documentary, new media, and popular culture.
Research
Jones, author and editor of five books, was a pioneer in the field of political entertainment studies, penning one of the first books on the political satire’s resurgence and importance on American television.
Publications
Books
- Baym, Geoffrey; Jones, Jeffrey P., eds. (2012). News Parody and Political Satire Across the Globe. London, UK: Routledge. p. 200. ISBN 0-415-69293-8.
- Jones, Jeffrey P. (2010). Entertaining Politics: Satiric Television and Political Engagement (2nd. ed.). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. p. 328. ISBN 0-742-56528-9.
- Gray, Jonathan; Jones, Jeffrey P.; Thompson, Ethan (2009). Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era. New York, NY: NYU Press. p. 288. ISBN 0-814-73199-6.
- Edgerton, Gary R.; Jones, Jeffrey P., eds. (2008). The Essential HBO Reader. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. p. 372. ISBN 0-813-19248-X.
- Jones, Jeffrey P. (2005). Entertaining Politics: New Political Television and Civic Culture. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. p. 264. ISBN 0-742-53088-4.
Selected Articles
- Jones, Jeffrey P. (2013). "Toward a New Vocabulary for Political Communication Research: A Response to Michael X. Delli Carpini". International Journal of Communication 7: 510–530.
- Jones, Jeffrey P. (2012). "The 'New' News as No 'News': U.S. Cable News Channels as Branded Political Entertainment Television". Media International Australia (Special Issue: "The 'New' News." ed.). 144 (August): 146–155.
- Jones, Jeffrey P.; Baym, Geoffrey; Day, Amber (2012). "Mr. Stewart and Mr. Colbert Go to Washington: Television Satirists Outside the Box". Social Research (Special Issue: "Politics and Comedy." ed.) 79 (1): 33–60.
- Jones, Jeffrey P.; Baym, Geoffrey (2010). "A Dialogue on Satire News and the Crisis of Truth in Postmodern Political Television" (PDF). Journal of Communication Inquiry 34 (3): 278–294. doi:10.1177/0196859910373654.
- Jones, Jeffrey P. (2009). "I Want My Talk TV: Network Talk Shows in a Digital Universe.". In Amanda, Lotz. Beyond Prime Time: Television Programming in the Post-Network Era. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 14–35.
- Jones, Jeffrey P. (2006). "A Cultural Approach to the Study of Mediated Citizenship". Social Semiotics 16 (2): 550–562.
References
- ↑ "Who We Are". Grady College and University of Georgia. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- ↑ http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/participant-medias-pivot-to-broadcast-peabody-awards-through-2016-1201136537/
- ↑ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/peabody-awards-recipients-announced-on-ctm/
- ↑ Holsten, Noel W (March 13, 2013). "Jeffrey P. Jones picked to guide UGA’s Peabody Awards". UGA Today. University of Georgia. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- ↑ "Department Faculty & Staff". Old Dominion University, Department of Communication and Theater Arts. Retrieved April 23, 2014.