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Maria Elizabeth Grabe

Professor,
Department of Telecommunications.
Research Associate, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Radio-TV Center, Room 323
(812) 856-2460

mgrabe 'at' indiana.edu

Joined IU in 1995 as a faculty member in the School of Journalism and moved to the Department of Telecommunications in 2006. Member of the Graduate Faculty with the endorsement to direct doctoral dissertations.

Education:

B.A. Communication/English from The University of Johannesburg
Honors degree Communication (with distinction) from The University of Johannesburg
M.A. Communication (with distinction) from University of Johannesburg
M.A. International Journalism from Baylor University
Ph.D. Mass Media and Communication from Temple University

Teaching interests:

Mass communication theory and research methods.

Research interests:

Experimental research in the information processing area: Tabloid news, differences between new and traditional media, and gender and social class of the audience
Content analysis of mostly news narratives: Crime and politics

Most recent publications:

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Grabe, M. E. & Samson, L. (forthcoming). Sexual cues emanating from the anchorette chair: Implications for perceived professionalism, fitness for beat, and memory for news. Communication Research.

Yang, J. & Grabe, M. E. (forthcoming). Knowledge acquisition gaps: A comparison of print versus online news sources.New Media & Society.

Grabe, M. E. (forthcoming). News as reality-inducing, survival-relevant, and gender-specific stimuli. In S. Craig Roberts (Ed.) Applied Evolutionary Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Grabe, M. E. & Bucy, E. P. (2009). Image Bite Politics: News and the Visual Framing of Elections. Oxford University Press.

Grabe, M. E., Kamhawi, R. & Yegiyan, N. (2009). Informing citizens: How people with different levels of education process television, newspapers, and web news. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 53(1), 90-111.

Bucy, E. P. & Grabe, M. E. (2008). “Happy Warriors” Revisited: Hedonic and Agonic Display Repertoires of Presidential Candidates on the Evening News. Politics and the Life Sciences, 27(1), 78-98.

Grabe, M. E., Yegiyan, N., & Kamhawi, R. (2008). Experimental evidence of the knowledge gap: Message arousal, motivation, and time delay. Human Communication Research, 34 (4), 550-571.

Wise, K., Lee, S., Lang, A., Fox, J. R. & Grabe, M. E. (2008). Responding to change on TV: How viewer-controlled changes in content differ from programmed changes in content. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 5 2(2), 182-199.

Kamhawi, R. & Grabe, M. E. (2008). Engaging the female audience: An evolutionary psychology perspective on gendered responses to news valence frames. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 52 (1), 1-19.

Service:

Editorial board member of Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, The Web Journal of Mass Communication Research, and Ecquid Novi
Former chair of the Journalism Studies Division of the International Communication Association

Professional experience:

Documentary news producer at the South African Broadcasting Corporation, South Africa (1985-1990) and KCTF Public Television in 1992.