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

(In press.) Review of Digital Media and Democracy; Tactics in Hard Times, edited by Megan Boler; and Communication Activism (2 vols.), edited by Lawrence R. Frey and Kevin Carragee. Social Movement Studies.

(2008.) Review of Community Media; People, Places, and Communication Technologies, by Kevin Howley. Democratic Communique 22, no. 2 (Fall). [Link to journal holdings.]

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

(2008). Atton, Chris, and James F. Hamilton. "Why Alternative Journalism Matters." Coldtype Reader, Issue 31, November. [Link to PDF.]

(2008.) "Contradictions in Practice; Historicizing Citizen Journalism and User-Generated Content." Presented as part of a panel titled "Visions Of The Past, Lessons For The Present: Reconceiving Journalism And Communications History" to the American Journalism Historians Association annual convention, Seattle, October 1-4.

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

(2007.) "From Critique of Class to the Critique of Taste: The Laboring of Community Media in the U.S." Presented to the International Conference of the Union for Democratic Communications, Vancouver, B.C., 25-28 October.

(2007). "The Roots of Broadcasting in the Anglophone World." In Residual Media, edited by Charles Acland, 283-300. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press.

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