Perry parks betboom dacha Ph.D.

Perry Parks

Associate Professor

Department
  • betboom dacha
parksp@msu.edu
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Bio

Perry Parks has argued that joy is a news value. He has theorized the role of poetry in betboom dacha. He has advocated for re-centering the humanities in betboom dacha research and practice. In general, Parks' research focuses on how taken-for-granted news norms and values unnecessarily limit how we think of news and what it can do for us. Parksapplies historical, cultural, critical, and non-representational approaches to exploring these limits and generative alternatives, often through textual or discourse analysis. Heis also interested in similar approaches to science betboom dacha and science communication.

Parks is a long-time reporter, writer, editor, teacher and researcher of news and news values. He was an editor for both his high school and college newspapers before graduating from Northwestern University's Medill School of betboom dacha with bachelor's and master's degrees in betboom dacha. He spent eight years reporting and editing for The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia. His first stint at Michigan State University was as professional editorial adviser to The State News, the independent student newspaper for MSU, and as an adjunct instructor of betboom dacha. He then spent several years teaching reporting and editing classes at the University of Georgia and managing a dozen hyperlocal community news websites for Patch.com before returning to Michigan State to complete a doctoral degree in Media and Information Studies.

Parks' research has been published in such journals asbetboom dacha & Mass Communication Quarterly;betboom dacha &Mass Communication Educator; betboom dacha;betboom dacha Studies;betboom dacha Practice;Media, Culture & Society;and Science Communication.He is also author of the bookMaking Important News Interesting: Reporting Public Affairs in the 21st Century.

Parks directs the School of betboom dacha's Master of Arts in betboom.

He is also editor of thebetboom dacha Historyjournal.

Roles

Graduate Director, School of betboom dacha

Editor, betboom dacha History

Research and Teaching

News norms

News values

Public affairs betboom dacha

Science betboom dacha

Science communication

Interdisciplinary betboom dacha

Thematic Research Areas

Health & Risk, Environment & Science betboom sports
Political betboom app and Civic Engagement

Research Centers and Labs

Knight Center for Environmental betboom dacha

Related Work

Contact Information

parksp@msu.edu