James F. (Jay) Hamilton

Department of Advertising
and Public Relations
Grady College of Journalism
and Mass Communication
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-3018
Tel 706.542.3556
Fax 706.542.2183
hamilton(AT)uga.edu

Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1993. My work engages problems of democratic communications in ways that generate important new questions and issues. A central goal of this project is, first, to develop a historicizing critique not only of specific practices of democratic communications but also of their conceptualizations and forms. Second, but equally central, the project seeks to recontextualize, retheorize, and thus reconstitute the possibilities of democratic communications in the current era of digital media, globalization, and perpetual political, economic, and ecological crises.

Selected recent work

Hamilton, James F. (2011.) "Radical media, stop fighting the mainstream - instead, let's build the future." openDemocracy.net, 25 October.

Hamilton, James F. (2011.) "Selling to Ourselves; User-Generated Advertising." Presented to “Voices for Sale: Monetizing Social Media,” Critical and Cultural Studies Division, National Communication Association annual convention, New Orleans, 16–19 November.

Hamilton, James F. and Kristen M. Heflin. (2011.) "User Production Reconsidered; From Convergence, to Autonomia and Cultural Materialism." New Media and Society.

Hamilton, James F. (2011.) "Contesting Democratic Communications; The Case of Current TV." Chapter in Moment of Danger; Critical Visions of U.S. Communications History, edited by Janice Peck and Inger Stole. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2011, pp. 331-354.

Hamilton, James F. (2010.) "Media Democratization: Challenges to/from the Inside." Keynote address, "Making Media Public: Global Crises and Local Opportunities," York University and Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, 6-8 May. [Keynote video produced by Rabble.ca.] [Keynote text (PDF)]

Atton, Chris, and James F. Hamilton (2008.) Alternative Journalism. London and Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage. [Link to catalog listing.]

Hamilton, James F. (2008.) Democratic Communications; Formations, Projects, Possibilities. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. [Link to catalog listing.]

Links to other profiles

Academia.edu | Social Science Research Council Media Hub

Legal information as required by the Board of Regents of the State of Georgia:
The content and opinions expressed on this web page do not necessarily reflect the views of nor are they endorsed by the University of Georgia or the University System of Georgia.