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Jonathan David Tankel
Home Address:
5110 Tacoma Avenue
Fort Wayne, IN 46807-3030
219-456-5054
Business Address:
Department of Communication
Indiana U-Purdue U Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499
219-486-5789
tankel@ipfw.edu

Ph.D.University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Communication Arts, 1984
M.A.University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Department of Radio, Television and Motion Pictures, 1976
B.A.Bard College
Department of History, 1973

Academic Employment:

1995-presentAssociate Professor (tenured August 1998)
Director of Graduate Studies (1998-present)
Director of Internships (1997-present)
Undergraduate Lead Advisor (1996-present)
Department of Communication
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne, IN
1989-1995 Associate Professor with tenure
Department of Television-Radio
Roy H. Park School of Communications
Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY
1985-1989 Assistant Professor
Department of Television-Radio
School of Communications
Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY
Summer 1987-
Summer 1993
Visiting Associate Professor
Department of Communication
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
1981-1985 Assistant Professor
Interim Chairperson (1984-85)
Faculty Advisor, WMEB-FM
Department of Journalism and Broadcasting
University of Maine, Orono, ME

Professional Employment:


October-November 1999 Expert Witness
Steinhart & Falconer, LLP
San Francisco, CA
January-August 1998Co-host, Live 3 to 5
WGL-AM, Fort Wayne, IN
March-June 1997Expert Witness
Steinhart & Falconer, LLP
San Francisco, CA
In re: Milutinovich, et al. Henry Broadcasting Co, et al.
1996
1992-3
Host, Windows
WGL-AM-FM, Fort Wayne, IN
Call-in talk radio program


Publications
Banks, J. & Tankel, J. D. (1998). Setting the margins: Television talk shows and the genrefication of sexuality. In L. Vande Berg, L. Wenner, & B. Gronbeck (Eds.). Critical approaches to television (pp. 110-123). Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Company.
Tankel, J.D. (1998). Rush Limbaugh, Bruce Morrow, Rick Sklar, WABC-AM (entries), In D. Godfrey & F. Leigh, Historical Dictionary of American Radio (pp. 239-240, 264, 364, 407), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
Tankel, J. D. (1998). Broadcast indecency and the suppression of free speech: In the case of Howard Stern. Free Speech Yearbook 35, 136-143. Annandale, VA: National Communication Association
Tankel, J. D. (1998). Reconceptualizing call-in talk radio as listening. Journal of Radio Studies 5 (1) 36-48.
Tankel, J. D & Murphy, B. K . (1998). Collecting comic books: A study of the fan and curatorial consumption. In Cheryl Harris & Alison Alexander (Eds.). Theorizing fandom (pp. 55-68). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Tankel, J. D. & Williams, W. (1998). The economics of contemporary radio. In A. Alexander, J. Owers, & R. Carveth, (Eds.). Media economics: theory and practice (pp. 185-195). Second Edition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Tankel, J.D. and Banks, J. (1996). Lifetime Television and women: Narrowcasting as Electronic Space. In Susan Drucker and Gary Gumpert (Eds.). Voices in the street: Gender and the construction of space (pp. 255-269. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press
Tankel, J. D., and Williams, W., Jr. (1993). Resource interdependence: Radio economics and the shift from AM to FM. In A. Alexander, J. Owers, and R. Carveth (Eds.). Media economics: Theory and practice (pp. 157-178). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Tankel, J. D. (1992). Audio production. In A. Richardson, (Ed.). Corporate and organizational video (pp. 141-154). New York: McGraw Hill.
Tankel, J. D. (1990). Program production for export and the domestic market: Authorship in The Avengers. In R. Thompson and G. Burns (Eds.). Making television: Authorship and the production process (pp. 81-91). New York: Praeger.
Tankel, J. D. (1990). The practice of recording music: Remixing as recording. Journal of Communication 40(3):34-46.
Banks, J. and Tankel, J. D. (1990). Science as fiction: Technology in prime time television. Critical Studies in Mass Communication 7:24-36.
Tankel, J. D. and Banks, B. J. (1990). The boys of prime time: An analysis of þnewþ male roles in television. In S. Thomas and W. Evans (Eds.). Communication and culture: Language, performance, technology, and media (pp. 285-290). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Tankel, J. D. (1978). The impact of The Jazz Singer on the conversion to sound. Journal of the University Film Association. XXX (Winter) 1:21-26.


Reviews
J.D. Tankel (1999). Review of The Avengers by Toby Miller, Journal of Communication, 49 (Summer) 3, 302-5.
Tankel, J.D. ( Review of Big Dream, Little Screen (PBS documentary on Philo Farnsworth). Journalism History 23 2, p93 .
Tankel, J.D. (1997). On recorded sound (review essay). Journal of Communication, 47 (Spring) 2, pp. 134-39.
Tankel, J. D. (1991). Review of Contemporary radio programming strategies by D. T. MacFarland. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. 35, 1, 125-126.
Tankel, J. D. (1989). Review of Inventing American broadcasting, 1899-1922 by S. Douglas and When old technologies were new: Thinking about communications in the late nineteenth century by Carolyn Marvin. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media 33, 2, 217-219.
Tankel, J. D. (1989). Review of Tarnished gold: The record industry revisited by R. S. Denisoff with W. Shurck. Journal of Communications 38, 4, 154-156.
Tankel, J. D. (1987). Review of Electronic Media Management by W. McCavitt and P. Pringle; Broadcast and Cable Management by N. Marcus; Radio in Search of Excellence by NAB. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 31, 1, 110-112.


Conference Papers
Tankel, J.D. The politics of the popular: Corpus Christi comes to Fort Wayne. Presented to the 51st Annual Conference of the International Communication Association at Washington, DC, USA, 27 May 2001.
Tankel, J.D. and Scher, M. "Friends of the court:" Group presentations in a communication law course. Presented to the Annual Conference of the National Communication Association at Seattle, WA, USA, 11 November 2000
Tankel, J.D., Aristotle in a Wheelchair: Narrative strategies in Oz. Presented to the 50th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association at Acapulco, Mexico, 4 June 2000
Tankel, J.D., Reconceptualizing libel in the context of call-in talk radio. Presented to the 30th Annnual Conference of the Popular Culture Association at New Orleans, LA, USA, 21 April 2000
Tankel, J. D., Reclaiming the popular: Pedagogy and popular communication. Presented to the 48th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association at Jerusalem, Israel, 24 June 1998.
Tankel, J.D. WOWO; Twilight of a radio god? Presented to the 47th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association at Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 23 May 1997
Tankel, J.D. Talk radio: The listener: Talk radio and the forgotten. Presented to the Annual Meeting of Speech Communication Association at San Antonio, TX, 21 November 1995.
Tankel, J.D. Hosts, callers, and listeners: The development of syndicated call-in talk radio. Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association at Philadelphia, PA, 13 April 1995.
Tankel, J. D. Private Morality and Public Policy: In the Case of Howard Stern. Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Speech Communication Association at New Orleans, LA, 21 November 1994.
Banks, J. and Tankel, J. D. Lifetime Television and women: Narrowcasting as electronic space. Presented to the 43rd Conference of the International Communication Association at Washington, DC, 30 May 1993.
Murphy, B.K. and Tankel, J. D. The comic book as þmicro-narrative: Superman and The Crisis at Hand. Presented to Narrative Horizons: The First Kentucky Conference on Narrative at Lexington, KY on 3 October 1992.
Banks, J. & Tankel, J. D. A tube of one's own: Lifetime as electronic space for women. Presented to the XVIIIth Conference of the International Association for Mass Communication Research at Sao Paulo, Brazil, 19 August 1992.
Murphy, K., Tankel, J. D. & Smead, J. Collecting comic books: A study of the fan and curatorial consumption. Presented to the 42nd Conference of the International Communication Association at Miami, FL, 24 May 1992.
Banks, J. & Tankel, J. D. Constructions of sexuality on television talk shows. Presented to the 42nd Conference of the International Communication Association at Miami, FL, 23 May 1992.
Tankel, J. D. The diffusion of house music: Technology and cultural authenticity in popular music. Presented to the 41st Annual Conference of the International Communication Association at Chicago, IL, 24 May 1991.
Tankel, J. D. Talk radio, technology and the making of national communities. Presented to the Annual Conference of the Eastern Communication Association at Pittsburgh, PA, 25 April 1991
Tankel, J. D. The producer's mix: Record mixing across cultures. Presented to the Seventh International Conference on Culture and Communication at Philadelphia, PA, 6 October 1989.
Banks, J. & Tankel, J. D. Science as fiction: Technology in prime time television. Presented to Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association at San Francisco, CA, 27 May 1989.
Tankel, J. D. Critical approaches in a professional context: The radio-television curriculum in transition. Presented to the Society for Cinema Studies Conference at Iowa City, IA, 15 April 1989.
Williams, W., Jr. & Tankel, J. D. The dependency model and the syndication rule. Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Speech Communication Association at New Orleans, LA, 6 November 1988.
Tankel, J. D. Ratings sweeps: The ethics of television economics. Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Speech Communication Association at New Orleans, LA, 6 November 1988.
Tankel, J. D. & Williams, W., Jr. From AM to FM: A resource dependence analysis of FM radio, 1965-1978. Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Speech Communication Association at Boston, MA, 6 November 1987.
Tankel, J. D. & Williams, W., Jr. The convergence of popular culture and radio: A resource dependence analysis of underground FM radio (1967-1972). Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association, Montreal, Canada, 26 March 1987.
Tankel, J. D. & Banks, B. J. The boys of prime time: An analysis of the new male role in prime time television. Presented to the Sixth International Conference on Culture and Communication, Philadelphia, PA, 8 October 1986.
Tankel, J. D. I Spy on CBN: Program context and the making of meaning. Presented to the Society for Cinema Studies Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 5 April 1986.
Tankel, J. D. Production for export and the domestic audience. Presented to Broadcast Education Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, 12 April 1985.
Tankel, J. D. British television films of the 1960s: The interaction of media systems and popular culture. Presented to 1985 Iowa Symposium and Conference on Television Criticism, University of Iowa, 26 April 1985.


Conference Panels
Organizer, chair. "We're not in Kansas anymore;" HBO's Oz and the changing landscape for dramatic television series. Presented to the 50th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association at Acapulco, Mexico, 4 June 2000
Organizer. Public Interest, Public Airwaves, and Popular Communication: The Fate of the clear channel radio giants. Presented to the 47th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association at Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 22 May 1997.
Organizer. Negotiation and Constraint in Broadcast Production. Presented to the Annual Conference of the Speech Communication Association at New Orleans, LA, 21 November 1994.
Organizer, chair. The plasticity of media artifacts: record mixing, colorization and promotion. Seventh Annual Conference and Communication at Philadelphia, PA, 6 October 1989.
Organizer, chair . Perspectives on media economics. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Speech Communication Association at New Orleans, LA, 6 November 1988.


Editorial Work
Member, Editorial Board, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1990-1992.
Reviewer for Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 1988-present.
Reviewer for Journal of Communication, 1988, 1990.
Reviewer for Emery & Smythe, Readings in Mass Communication, 6th edition, Dubuque, IA: William C. Brown & Co.
Reviewer for Busby & Parker, The Art and Science of Radio, Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Co.

Professional Conferences
N.A.T.P.E Fellow 1998: Attended 1998 National Association of Television Program Executives Convention (January, 1998) as an Academic Fellow
I.R.T.S. Faculty/Industry Seminar, 1999,1995, 1986, 1984, 1982
B.E.A. Autumn Seminar, 1982

Recent Professional Services
Program Planner, Popular Communication Division, International Communication Association, Seoul, KOREA, 2002
Vice-chair (chair 2002-3), Popular Communication Division, International Communication Association, 2000-2003
Consultant, Department of Communication Curriculum Revision Committee, Cornell University, October-December, 1991.
Conference organizer, Popular Communication Interest Group, International Communication Association, 1991.
Member, Conference Organizing Committee, University Film and Video Association, 1989-90.
Referee, Competitive papers for Mass Communication Division, Eastern Communication Association, 1989, 1991.
Referee, Competitive papers for Popular Communication Division, International Communication Association, 1989-present.
Referee, Competitive papers for Mass Communication Division, Speech Communication Association, 1994.

Community Service
President, Fort Wayne Dance Collective (Non-profit arts organization with a $300,000 annual budget), 1999-present
Presenter, Monthly workshops on Media Literacy for cable tv acccess producers, Access Fort Wayne (Allen County Public Library), 1996-2000.


Teaching and Research Areas
Social Context of Mass Communication (emphasis on history)
Undergraduate Courses:
Introduction to Mass Communication, Survey of Telecommunication, History of Broadcasting, History of Film, The Literature of Mass Communication (Honors Tutorial), History of U.S. Mass Media, Issues in Telecommunications Management, Government and Media. The Law of Mass Communication, Theories of Mass Communication
Graduate Courses:
Public Policy in Telecommunications, Communication in Politics, Historical/Critical Research Methods in Communication, Special Topics: Technology, Culture and Communication, Special Topics: Old Media/New Media, Reporting Communication Research, Telecommunication Systems Management
Media Aesthetics
Courses: Electronic Media Criticism, British Media Criticism, Media Aesthetics and Analysis, Introduction to Electronic Media
Audio Production and Theory
Courses: Radio Production and Programming, Audio Production, Advanced Audio Production, Audio Workshop, The Recording Music Industry
Writing
Courses: Media Writing, Writing for News and Public Affairs, Scriptwriting
Basic Course
Course: Fundamentals of Speech Communication


References
Dr. David Switzer
Chair, Department of Communication
Indiana U-Purdue U Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499
219-481-6825
switzer@ipfw.edu
Dr. Patricia R. Zimmermann
Professor
Department of Cinema and Photography
Roy H. Park School of Communications
Ithaca College
953 Danby Road
Ithaca, NY 14850-7251
607-274-3431
patty@ithaca.edu
Dr. Alison Alexander
Chair, Department of Telecommunications
Henry Grady School of Mass Communication & Journalism
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
706-542-3785
alison@uga.cc.uga.edu

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