Background
Peterson, Mark Allen was born on June 28, 1961 in Mason City, Iowa, United States. Son of Richard John and Yvonne Claire Peterson.
(Anthropological interest in mass communication and media ...)
Anthropological interest in mass communication and media has exploded in the last two decades, engaging and challenging the work on the media in mass communications, cultural studies, sociology and other disciplines. This is the first book to offer a systematic overview of the themes, topics and methodologies in the emerging dialogue between anthropologists studying mass communication and media analysts turning to ethnography and cultural analysis. Drawing on dozens of semiotic, ethnographic and cross-cultural studies of mass media, it offers new insights into the analysis of media texts, offers models for the ethnographic study of media productio and consumption, and suggests approaches for understanding media in the modern world system. Placing the anthropological study of mass media into historical and interdisciplinary perspectives, this book examines how work in cultural studies, sociology, mass communication and other disciplines has helped shape the re-emerging interest in media by anthropologists. A former Washington D.C. journalist, Mark Allan Peterson is currently Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He has published numerous articles on American, South Asian and Middle Eastern media, and has taught courses on anthropological approaches to media t at he American University in Cairo, the University of Hamburg, and Georgetown University.
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Peterson, Mark Allen was born on June 28, 1961 in Mason City, Iowa, United States. Son of Richard John and Yvonne Claire Peterson.
Bachelor in religion study, University of California at Los Angeles, 1984. Master of Arts in Anthropology, Catholic University America, District of Columbia, 1998. Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1989—1996.
Assistant editor The Stars and Stripes, District of Columbia, 1986—1989. Public relations officer Haffenreffer Museum Anthropology, Bristol, Rhode Island, 1990—1991. Managing editor The Stars and Stripes, District of Columbia, 1994—1997.
Assistant professor American University, Cairo, 1997—2002. Visiting lecturer University Hamburg, Germany, 1998. Visiting assistant professor Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, 2002—2003.
Adjunct associate professor Georgetown University, District of Columbia, 2002—2003. Assistant professor anthropology and international studies Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 2003—2007, associate professor anthropology & international studies., since 2007.
(Anthropological interest in mass communication and media ...)
Foster parent Butler County Child and Family Services, Hamilton, Ohio, 2004—2007. Member of American Anthropological Association, Society Linguistic Anthropology (co-editor since 2002).
Married Dawna Dee Miller, April 7, 1984. Children: Madison Ariana, Thea Abigail, Sophie Amelia, Jaden Thomas.