Faculty & Staff
William E. Loges, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
New Media Communications
Oak Creek Building, 218
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-3703
Phone: 541-737-9855
E-mail: bill.loges@oregonstate.edu
On the web at: http://home.earthlink.net/~logesw/index.htm
Areas of Interest:
- Media Communication: Communication infrastructures, media effects, politics, critical studies of media systems, interpersonal networks
- Sociology: Social effects of media structures, cultural studies, network theory
- Social Psychology: Belief systems and human value systems
Current Projects:
- "The Internet's Effect on the Centrality and Density of Social Networks."
- Communication Technology and Community Program (http://www.metamorph.org/.)
- Neighborhood Participation Project
Brief Vita
Education:
- Ph.D. - Communication Theory and Research, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California 1992
- M.A. - Communication Theory and Research, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California 1989
- B.A. - Communications, (cum laude), University of California, San Diego 1983
Recent Publications:
- Carpusor, A. and W.E. Loges, Forthcoming. "Testing rental discrimination in Los Angeles: Stereotypes and perceptions of ethnicity in names." Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
- Hardyk, B. and W.E. Loges, & Ball-Rokeach, S.J. Forthcoming. "Radio as a Successful Local Storyteller in Los Angeles: A Case Study of KKBT and KPCC." Journal of Radio Studies.
- Bruschke, Jon and W.E. Loges (2004). Free Press vs. Fair Trials: Examining Publicity's Role in Trial Outcomes. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Barge, J.K. and W.E. Loges (2003). "Parent, student, and teacher perceptions of parental involvement." Journal of Applied Communication Research, 31(2), 140-163.
- Loges, W.E. and S.J. Ball-Rokeach (2001). Mass Media and Crime. In J. Dressler et al. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, Second Edition. NY: Macmillan Reference, pp. 988-995.
- Loges, W.E. and Joo-Young Jung (2001). "Exploring the Digital Divide: Internet connectedness and age." Communication Research, 28(4), 536-562.
- Ball-Rokeach, S.J. and W.E. Loges (2000). "Ally or Adversary? Using Media Systems for Public Health." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 15(4), 188-195.
- Loges, W.E., and R.M. Kidder(2000). Reaching Out: Broadening College-Student Constituencies for Environmental Protection. Camden, ME: The Institute for Global Ethics.
- Loges, W.E., R.M. Kidder, and C.R. Novak (1999). Leadership and Values: The People of Illinois and Their Community Colleges. Camden, ME: The Institute for Global Ethics.
- Bruschke, Jon and W.E. Loges (1999). Relationship between pretrial publicity and trial outcomes. Journal of Communication, 49(4), 104-120.
- Baird, R., W.E. Loges, and S. Rosenbaum (Eds.) (1999). The Media and Morality. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Press.
Recent Grants:
- Community Radio in Los Angeles: A Case Study. $10,000 from the University of Southern California's Office for Undergraduate Research, October, 2002.
- Communications Technology and Urban Governance Reform. $435,478 from National Science Foundation, July 2001-present. Research Associate. NSF org, IIS 0112899 (Juliet Musso et al., PIs)
Honors & Awards:
- 2001 Top 2 paper, AEJMC: Loges, W. E. and Jung, Joo-Young. Exploring the Digital Divide: Internet Connectedness and Age. Presented to the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, D.C.
- 1998 Beverly B. and James K. Baker Research Fellow. Awarded by The Institute for Global Ethics for scholarly research in areas of primary interest to the Institute
