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Associate Professor,
Dept. of Telecommunications.
Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Department of
Political Science
Visiting Associate Professor, 2007-08
Department of Communication Studies
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Radio-TV Center, Room 327
(812) 856-5207
ebucy 'at' indiana.edu
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Education
PhD, University of Maryland, College Park, Mass Communication,
1998
MA, University of Southern California, Print Journalism,
1989
BA, University of California, Los Angeles, English
Literature, 1986
Teaching and Research Interests
Teaching interests : political communication,
social impact of new information and communication technologies,
interactivity and communication theory.
Research interests : political appropriateness,
psychological responses to emotion-laden images in the
news, media access, news credibility, normative theories
of media and democracy.
In the study of media and democracy, a problem arises
from the tendency to assess the imperfect processes of
politics and communication in relation to an idealized
system in which citizens are presumed to be interested
in, attentive to, and supportive of the political system
and media institutions are held to be comprehensive, accurate,
and politically balanced. This view of democracy approaches
political information and involvement from the perspective
of political elites, in other words, from the top or power
center, rather than from the bottom or periphery of the
system. My research takes a different approach, investigating
civic involvement from the point of view of the "typical" citizen
or audience member who, in general, is not very attentive
to the news or politics but who manages to make reliable
assessments about events in the public sphere through information
gleaned largely from mass media and who feels some sense
of connection to the political system through communication
technology. Importantly, information from news can take
the form of verbal narratives or visual images. Both play
a vital role in informed citizenship, although images are
rarely appreciated for their information value.
Using this observation as a departure point, the studies
I have conducted can be categorized into three streams
of research. First, several of my experimental studies
have examined the cognitive, emotional, and physiological
consequences of leader portrayals on television news, particularly
the nonverbal component of those portrayals. From this
research I have derived a model of viewer processing of
traumatic news. In current work I am elaborating the related
concept of political appropriateness. In a second stream
of research, I have investigated how new communication
technologies and media formats affect civic participation
and assessments of news credibility. These studies address
the interplay between media content and media technology.
A third interest of mine, which pulls back from individual-level
processes to consider larger civic and journalistic concerns,
involves normative theories of media and democracy. Here,
I have examined the intellectual assumptions of political
communication research and the purported crisis surrounding
the news media's increasing structural role in campaigns,
elections, and civic life generally.
Funded Research
My research on media credibility and synergy effects between
on-air and online news has been funded with grants from
the National Association of Broadcasters and the Office
of Research at Indiana University. A longitudinal study
of visual bias and nonverbal communication in network news
coverage of the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 presidential
elections has been supported, in part, with awards from
the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public
Policy at Harvard University and the Office of Academic
Affairs at Indiana University.
Primary Courses
- I202: Social Informatics
- T101: Living in the Information Age
- T312: Politics & the Media
- T451: Film & Politics
- T512: Communication & Politics
- T551: Communication, Technology, & Society
- T585: Interactivity & New Media
- T602: Political Psychology
Teaching Awards
- Human Biology Seminar Faculty Fellowship, 2006 Human
Biology Summer Institute, Department of Biology, Indiana
University, Bloomington.
- Trustees Teaching Award, College of Arts & Sciences,
Indiana University, 2001
- Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, Dept. of Telecommunications,
2000
- Course Development Summer Fellowship, Dept. of Telecommunications,
2002, and School of Informatics, 2000
Selected Papers
- Bucy, E. P., & Grabe, M. E. (in press). Taking
Television Seriously: A Sound and Image Bite Analysis
of Presidential Campaign Coverage, 1992-2004. Journal
of Communication. [abstract]
- Song, I., & Bucy, E. P. (in press). Interactivity
and Political Attitude Formation: A Mediation Model
of Online Information Processing. Journal
of Information Technology and Politics. [abstract]
- Tao, C.-C., & Bucy, E. P. (in press). Conceptualizing
Media Stimuli in Experimental Research: Psychological
versus Attribute-Based Definitions. Human
Communication Research. [abstract]
- Bucy, E. P., & Tao, C.-C. (2007). The Mediated
Moderation Model of Interactivity. Media
Psychology,
9(3), 647-672. [abstract]
- Bucy, E. P. (2005). The Media Participation Hypothesis.
In M. S. McKinney, L. L. Kaid, D. G. Bystrom, & D.
B. Carlin (Eds.), Communicating Politics: Engaging
the Public in Democratic Life (pp. 107-122). New York:
Peter Lang Publishing.
[abstract]
- Bucy, E. P. (2004). Interactivity in Society: Locating
an Elusive Concept. The Information Society,
20 (5).
[abstract]
- Bucy, E. P., & D'Angelo, P. (2004). Democratic
Realism, Neoconservatism, and the Normative Underpinnings
of Political Communication Research. Mass Communication & Society,
7 (1), 3-28. [abstract]
- Bucy, E. P., & Bradley, S. D. (2004). Presidential
Expressions and Viewer Emotion: Counterempathic Responses
to Televised Leader Displays. Social Science
Information/ Information sur les Sciences Sociales,
43 (1), 59-94.
[abstract]
- Bucy, E. P. (2003). Emotion, Presidential Communication,
and Traumatic News: Processing the World Trade Center
Attacks. Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics,
8 (4), 76-96. [abstract]
- Bucy, E. P. (2003). Media Credibility Reconsidered:
Synergy Effects Between On-Air and Online News. Journalism & Mass
Communication Quarterly, 80 (2), 247-264. [abstract]
Edited Books
- Bucy, E. P., & Holbert, R. L. (under contract).
Sourcebook for Political
Communication Research: Methods, Measures, and Analytical
Techniques. New York: Routledge.
- Bucy, E. P. (Ed.) (2005). Living in the Information
Age: A New Media Reader, 2e . Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
- Bucy, E. P., & Newhagen, J. E. (Eds.) (2004). Media
Access: Social and Psychological Dimensions of New
Technology Use . Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Newsletter Articles
- Bucy, E. P. (2007, Winter). Appropriate Emotion in
Politics: A Communication Perspective. Political
Communication Report, APSA/ICA. [html
link]
- Bucy, E. P., & Newhagen, J. E. (2007). Author’s
response to a review of my co-edited book, Media
Access: Social and Psychology Dimensions of New Technology
Use (Erlbaum, 2004). Resource
Center for Cyberculture Studies, January 2007. [html
link]
- Bucy, E. P. (2003, Summer). Embedded
Reporting and Narrow News: A Matter of Professional
Freedom and Responsibility . CT&M Concepts ,
AEJMC, 32(3), 3-5. [pdf]
- Bucy, E. P. (2002, Summer). Media
Participation vs. Civic Decline . Political
Communication Report , APSA/ICA, 12(3).
- Bucy, E. P. (2001, Summer). Privacy,
Technology, and the Meaning of the Kelley Cam . Telecomment,
11 (1), 3-4. Dept. of Telecommunications, Indiana
University. [pdf]
Editorial
Board Memberships
- Associate Editor
- The Information Society: An International Journal
- Editorial Board Member
- Communication Monographs
- Explorations in Media Ecology
- Human Communication Research
- Mass Communication and Society
Campus Service (past and present)
- Coordinator, Colloquium
on Political Communication Research, Schuessler
Institute for Social Research
- Elected member, Policy Committee, College of Arts and
Sciences
- Elected member, Bloomington Faculty Council and University
Faculty Council
- Co-chair, Long Range Planning Committee, Bloomington
Faculty Council
- Member, Grant-in-Aid Committee, BFC Faculty Affairs
Committee
- Community advisory board member, WTIU-TV, public television
for south-central Indiana
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