Steven E Clayman
PROFESSOR
Ph. D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Office: 241B HAINES HALL
Phone: 310 825-2090
Fax:
310-206-9838
E-mail:
clayman@soc.ucla.edu
Mailing Address:
264 Haines Hall - Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
Subfield
Language/Social Linguistics, Mass Communication/Public Opinion, Ethnomethodology
Research Interests
My research concerns the organization of spoken interaction, with an emphasis on interactions involved in the practice of journalism, politics, and mass communication. To this end, I have studied broadcast news interviews, presidential press conferences, political speeches, and various aspects of journalistic gatekeeping.
Selected Publications
"The Diversity of Ethnomethodology," Annual Review of Sociology, 1991 (with Douglas W. Maynard).
"Booing: The Anatomy of a Disaffiliative Response." American Sociological Review, 1993.
"Gatekeeping in Action: Editorial Conferences and Assessments of Newsworthiness." American Sociological Review, 1998.
The News Interview: Journalists and Public Figures on the Air. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002 (co-authored with John Heritage).
"Questioning Presidents: Journalistic Deference and Adversarialness in the Press Conferences of U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and Reagan." Journal of Communication, 2002 (co-authored with John Heritage).
"Arenas of Interaction in the Mediated Public Sphere." Poetics, 2004.
"Historical Trends in Questioning Presidents 1953-2000." Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2006 (co-authored with Marc Elliott, John Heritage, and Laurie McDonald).
"When Does the Watchdog Bark: Conditions of Aggressive Questioning in Presidential News Conferences." American Sociological Review, 2007 (co-authored with John Heritage, Marc Elliott, and Laurie McDonald).
Grants
National Science Foundation 2001-2003
Project Title: The Evolution of Questioning in Presidential News Conferences
Goal: To chart historical trends in president-press relations over the last half-century, and to isolate the social factors that explain variations in the aggressiveness with which journalists question the president.
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