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Dr. Brian Monahan • Assistant Professor
My substantive interests span deviance, crime, mass media, and social problems. I use a symbolic interactionist framework to explore topics in these areas, often incorporating a social constructionist perspective in my work. My research draws primarily upon qualitative methodologies, such as content analysis and interviews. |
What's New with Dr. Monahan ISU sociologist authors book on media coverage and making of 9/11 "public drama"
AMES, Iowa -- Hear the numbers "9/11" and you immediately conjure up horrific images of New York's World Trade Center towers being struck by commercial jetliners, hijacked by terrorists. That's because the media devoted more resources to covering the 9/11 attacks than any other news event, and audiences were understandably riveted to that coverage for weeks. More
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