Background
Kevin G. Barnhurst was born on December 22, 1951, in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. He was the son of Durward J. and Madge Aileen Martin Barnhurst.
Provo, UT 84602, United States
In 1975 Kevin G. Barnhurst received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University. In 1979 he obtained a Master of Arts degree from this university.
1012 WX Amsterdam, Netherlands
In 1997 Kevin G. Barnhurst gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Amsterdam.
Provo, UT 84602, United States
In 1975 Kevin G. Barnhurst received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University. In 1979 he obtained a Master of Arts degree from this university.
1012 WX Amsterdam, Netherlands
In 1997 Kevin G. Barnhurst gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Amsterdam.
(In these days of tabloid television and slick magazines, ...)
In these days of tabloid television and slick magazines, the daily newspaper may seem old-fashioned and predictable. Here Kevin G. Barnhurst takes a second glance at the "look" of the newspaper: the architecture of the page. Seeing the Newspaper explores the history and meaning of the visual and graphic elements of the page, including the use of charts, type, and white space. The book points out that layout and design may appear secondary in importance to content, but can actually shape our impressions of the news as much as the words we read. The organization of the front page, for example, influences the order in which we read stories and how we rank news events and issues. Barnhurst, a former graphic designer, writes in an anecdotal style that will appeal not only to graphic arts enthusiasts but to everyone who finds joy in the early-morning ritual of reading the paper.
https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Newspaper-Kevin-G-Barnhurst/dp/0312108001/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Seeing+the+Newspaper+Barnhurst&qid=1610540870&s=books&sr=1-1
1994
(This book takes a fresh look at the role of the newspaper...)
This book takes a fresh look at the role of the newspaper in United States civic culture. Unlike other histories which focus only on the content of newspapers, this book digs deeper into ways of writing, systems of organizing content, and genres of presentation, including typography and pictures. The authors examine how these elements have combined to give newspapers a distinctive look at every historical moment, from the colonial to the digital eras. They reveal how the changing "form of news" reflects such major social forces as the rise of mass politics, the industrial revolution, the growth of the market economy, the course of modernism, and the emergence of the Internet. Whether serving as a town meeting, court of opinion, marketplace, social map, or catalog of diversions, news forms are also shown to embody cultural authority, allowing readers to see and relate to the world from a particular perspective. Including over 70 illustrations, the book explores such compelling themes as the role of news in a democratic society, the relationship between news and visual culture, and the ways newspapers have shaped the meaning of citizenship.
https://www.amazon.com/Form-News-Kevin-G-Barnhurst/dp/1572306378/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Form+of+News%3A+A+History+Barnhurst&qid=1610540943&s=books&sr=1-1
2001
(Media Queered is a groundbreaking assessment of minoritie...)
Media Queered is a groundbreaking assessment of minorities and the media. Authorities including Larry Gross, Edward Alwood, Lisa Henderson, and Marguerite Moritz join several new scholars to examine four aspects of visibility: history, expertise, popularity, and technology. To supplement this research, media practitioners including journalists working in the gay and mainstream press contribute a unique series of interludes. The first is by Studs Terkel, who interviewed founders of the U.S. homophile movement. Written for scholars, students, and instructors of media and gender studies, Media Queered is also accessible for general readers intrigued by the recent flowering of queer characters, themes, and images in popular culture.
https://www.amazon.com/Media-Queered-Visibility-its-Discontents/dp/0820495336/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Media+Queered&qid=1610548121&s=books&sr=1-1
2007
(A spidery network of mobile online media has supposedly c...)
A spidery network of mobile online media has supposedly changed people, places, time, and their meanings. A prime case is the news. Digital webs seem to have trapped "legacy media," killing off newspapers and journalists' jobs. Did news businesses and careers fall prey to the digital "Spider"? To solve the mystery, Kevin Barnhurst spent thirty years studying news going back to the realism of the 1800s. The usual suspects - technology, business competition, and the pursuit of scoops - are only partly to blame for the fate of news. The main culprit is modernism from the "Mister Pulitzer" era, which transformed news into an ideology called "journalism." News is no longer what audiences or experts imagine. Stories have grown much longer over the past century and now include fewer events, locations, and human beings. Background and context rule instead. News producers adopted modernism to explain the world without recognizing how modernist ideas influence the knowledge they produce. When webs of networked connectivity sparked a resurgence in realist stories, legacy news stuck to big-picture analysis that can alienate audience members accustomed to digital briefs.
https://www.amazon.com/Mister-Pulitzer-Spider-Realism-Communication-ebook/dp/B0189EHCQ8/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Mister+Pulitzer+and+the+Spider%3A+Modern+News+from+Realism+to+the+Digital+Barnhurst&qid=1610541136&s=books&sr=1-1
2016
Kevin G. Barnhurst was born on December 22, 1951, in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. He was the son of Durward J. and Madge Aileen Martin Barnhurst.
In 1975 Kevin G. Barnhurst received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University. In 1979 he obtained a Master of Arts degree from this university. In 1997 Barnhurst gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Amsterdam.
Kevin Barnhurst began as an instructor, became an assistant professor of arts and humanities at Keene State College, serving from 1982 to 1986. From 1986 to 1991 he was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1988 to 1989 Barnhurst served as a visiting faculty member at Poynter Institute for Media Studies. From 1991 to 1998 he worked as an associate professor of communication at Syracuse University.
He became a University of Illinois at Chicago faculty member in 1998 as an associate professor in the department of communication and was promoted to full professor in 2004. He was appointed interim head of the department in 2002 and served as head from 2005 to 2008. After retiring in December 2012, he joined the University of Leeds’ Institute of Communications Studies as chair of Communication in the Digital Era.
He is the author of Seeing the Newspaper, co-author of The Form of News: A History, and editor of Media Queered: Visibility and Its Discontents. Barnhurst’s latest book, Mister Pulitzer and the Spider: Modern News from Realism to the Digital, covers the evolution of news ideology from the 19th century to today.
He was also a frequent speaker at universities and conferences in Europe, Latin America, and North America. In addition to more than 100 contributions to leading scholarly publications, his op-ed pieces and commentaries were published by Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, Houston Post, Commentary, and American Scholar.
Kevin G. Barnhurst is best remembered as the author of Seeing the Newspaper and The Form of News: A History. His works received high praise from critics. In 1989, he received a senior Fulbright award in support of research and teaching in Peru. He also held fellowships at Columbia and Harvard universities.
(In these days of tabloid television and slick magazines, ...)
1994(A spidery network of mobile online media has supposedly c...)
2016(This book takes a fresh look at the role of the newspaper...)
2001(Media Queered is a groundbreaking assessment of minoritie...)
2007Beyond his professional life, Kevin G. Barnhurst was a great conversationalist, a cosmopolitan humanist, and an energetic campaigner for gay rights.
Kevin G. Barnhurst was a member of the International Communication Association, the International Visual Sociology Association, the American Political Science Association, the American Sociological Association, the National Communication Association, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
On March 11, 1978, Kevin G. Barnhurst married Lucinda Anne Nightingale. They have three children: Joel, Andrew, Matthew. In 1986 the couple divorced. Later, he married Richard Doherty, an environmental educator, and consultant.
