Education:

• PhD, Communication, Temple University, 1997

Research Interests:

• Journalism Studies
• Popular Culture
• Mass Media Effects
• Sociology of Sports and Fame  

Bio:

Ron Bishop is a one-time sportswriter, one-time newspaper editor, one-time public relations manager who since he was a child growing up in northern New Jersey knew he'd find his way into a classroom. A chance meeting with current Department of Communication colleague Ernie Hakanen at an academic conference in 1994, combined with his boss' decision to outsource his PR job, was the catalyst for his career at Drexel.

Called the "fun and games professor" by his Dean, Ron has cobbled together an eclectic research program, inspired by one of his professors at Fordham University in the 1980s who suggested the study of communication is at times like foraging through a junkyard. Communication researchers comb through the glut of messages we receive from a glut of sources, looking for clues as to how we make meaning from our experiences.

Ron's fourth book, Community Newspapers and the Japanese-American Incarceration Camps: Community, Not Controversy, was published in June 2015 by Lexington Books. Written with three of his former undergraduate students, the book explores how journalists for the local newspapers nearest to the incarceration camps treated their construction as a potential economic boon to their regions – and completely avoided discussion of how the incarcerees' civil rights were trampled by the government and military.

This follows More!: The Vanishing of Scale in an Over-the-Top Nation, published in 2011. In it, Ron explores the narrative offered up by the media which suggests that we must engage in every activity – from having a baby to attending school to aging and dying – with zeal, elan, and gusto. More! follows books on the cultural importance of pick-up games and on the news media's coverage of the court battle to remove the words "Under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance. Along the way, Ron has explored everything from coverage of gastric bypass surgery to why folks take up genealogical research.

From 2003 until May 2015, Ron proudly served as faculty advisor of The Triangle, Drexel's independent – and excellent – student newspaper. He also keeps his baseball mitts, a Frisbee (appropriate since Ultimate Frisbee was invented in the parking lot behind his alma mater, Maplewood, NJ's Columbia High School), and a regulation NFL football in his car at all times in case you want to have a catch.

Specialization:

Investigative reporting, sports journalism, journalism history, journalism sourcing patterns, textual narrative and ideological analysis, cultural history of fame.

Selected Publications:

• “The Professional Protester: Emergence of a New News Media Protest Coverage Paradigm in Time Magazine’s 2011 Person of the Year Issue.” Journal of New Media and Magazine Research, 14,1 (Spring 2013): Available: http://aejmcmagazine.arizona.edu/Journal/Summer2013/Bishop.pdf. 
• “A Textual Analysis of Ford’s ‘Drive One’ Ad Campaign: Introduction of the Domesticated Journalist.” Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture Journal, Fall 2012/Spring 2013. Available: http://ijpc.uscannenberg.org/journal/index.php/ijpcjournal/issue/view/28. 
• “The Least Anxious Person in a Boat: Journalists Perform a Status Degradation Ceremony as They Mourn Walter Cronkite,” Electronic Journal of Communication, 21, 3-4 (2012). Available: http://www.cios.org/www/ejc/v21n34toc.htm.

Education:

• BA, Pennsylvania State University
• MA Courses: Drexel University
• CE Courses: University of Pennsylvania, Temple University

Research Interests:

• Publishing
• Epublishing
• Mass Media and Society
• Public Speaking

Bio:

Professor Blumberg has vast experience in most types of publishing and has held top executive positions in some of the world’s foremost professional publishing companies and organizations including WB Saunders (now part of Elsevier) and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins. She serves and has served on several highly prestigious boards and committees including the American Association of Publishers, Royal Pharmaceutical Society Publishing, American Academy of Neurology Publishing, and the American Medical Publishers Association.

Topic research and teaching interests include ePublishing and Marketing, Publishing New Products, Market Behavior Analysis and Projections, Media Effects, Historical Media Effects, Public Speaking, Key Speeches and Political Behavior.

Professor Blumberg is continually interested in ways that her classes can make a lasting impact upon students’ lives and accomplishments.

Specialization:

Publishing, electronic publishing, publishing and communications, publishing and mass-media

Education:

• MA, Journalism, Temple University, 1994

Research Interests:

• Journalism
• Medical writing
• Feature writing
• Copy editing
• Mass media and society

Bio:

Karen Cristiano specializes in media writing and has a particular interest in medical journalism, feature writing, and copy editing. She earned her master’s in journalism from Temple University.

She serves as co-director of the capstone course for senior communication students.

Professor Cristiano spent 13 years working in daily newspapers as an editor and writer, the last seven as a medical writer for The Express in Easton, Pennsylvania. Until mid-2010, she was editor for six years of Communication Abstracts. She also served as a proofreader and associate editor for nine years.

Previous to Drexel she taught at Ursinus College and Temple University.

Specialization:

Journalism, medical writing, feature writing, copy editing, mass media and society.

Research Interests:

• Broadcast Journalism Technology
• Effects of new technologies on personal and corporate communication skills
• Effects of Media on Children and Adolescent learning and behavior

Bio:

Specialization:

Education:

• PhD, Rhetoric, Carnegie Mellon University, 1988
• MA, English, Illinois State University, 1979
• BA, English, University of Cape Town (South Africa), 1974

Research Interests:

• Rhetoric
• Document design
• Usability testing
• Written Communication, particularly regarding technologies in the professional writing workplace

Bio:

Alexander Friedlander is currently the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education for the College of Arts and Sciences. As Associate Dean, he oversees the undergraduate curriculum for the College of Arts and Sciences and represents the College on numerous University committees.

He has taught a wide range of graduate and undergraduate writing and communication courses including Document Design and Evaluation, Readings and Research in Communication, Rhetorical Theory, Research Methods, and courses in professional writing, freshman writing and more. He has previously held administrative positions in the Department of Humanities and Communications and the Department of Culture and Communication, including Graduate Program Director (1992-1997), Undergraduate Communication Program Coordinator (1997-2001, 2004-2007), and Assistant Head of Culture and Communication (2002-2007).

His research interests include the nature of cognitive processes in the writing of non-native speakers of English and how computing technologies impact technical writers in their workplaces.

Specialization:

Rhetorical theory and practice, document design, writing and technology.

Education:

• PhD, Communication, Temple University, 1989

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Research Interests:

• Communication history
• Media theory
• Emotions and technology
• Semiotics

Bio:

Ernest Hakanen, PhD, teaches "Theories of Communication and Persuasion," "Media Effects," "History of Electronic Media," and "Mass Communication and American Social Thought." He researches music and emotions, history of our discipline, fandom, and social grid indicators eg. lists, ratings, ranking, reviews, etc., those things that tell us how we think we fit. Hakenen was a fellow at the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Scientific Structures in 2017, is a former Annenberg fellow and fellow at the Critical Theory Institute, UC Irvine. He also served on the editorial board of the Journal of Popular Communication and reviewer for several journals.

Specialization:

Communication history, media theory, emotions and technology, semiotics

Selected Publications:

• Branding the teleself: Mass media effects discourse and the changing self. Lexington Books (Rowman-Littlefield): Lanham, MD, 2007.
• Signs of war: From patriotism to dissent. (Co-Edited with Anne-Marie Obatek-Kirkwood). Palgrave MacMillan: New York, 2007.
• Relationship between emotional intelligence to emotional recognition and mood management. Psychological Reports. 94: 1097-1103, 2004.

Education:

• PhD, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, 1989

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Research Interests:

• Sociolinguistic approaches to second language teaching, learning and assessment
• Second language literacies and academic discourse
• Medicine, communication, and culture; embodiment

Bio:

Barbara Hoekje is an associate professor in the Department of Communication. Her research interests are in second language literacies, academic discourse, speech communities, medicine and culture, and narratives of embodiment. An ongoing research project (with K. Nulton) involves the role of interpersonal and intrapersonal competencies across disciplines in work integrated learning (with K. Nulton); paper to be presented at the WACE Research Symposium, Stuttgart, Germany, June 24-26, 2018).

Specialization:

Sociolinguistic theory, discourse analysis, applied linguistics (language teaching, learning, and testing).

Selected Publications:

• Lee, V., Hoekje, B. & Levine, B. (2018). Introducing technology to immigrant families to support early literacy development and two-generation learning. Language Arts 95, 3: 133-148.
• Hoekje, B. & Steven, S. (2017). Creating a culturally inclusive campus: A guide to supporting international students. New York: Routledge.
• Hoekje, B. (2016). “Language,” “communication,” and the longing for the authentic in LSP testing. Language Testing 33, 2: 289 –299. DOI: 10.1177/0265532215607921
• Hoekje, B. (2016). Establishing a second language learning practice: Continuing professional development for English language teachers. Teacher Educational Interest Section (TEIS) Newsletter, January, 2016, pp. 1-3. Alexandria, VA: Teachers of English for Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).
• Hoekje, B. (2013). Teaching English for medical and health professions. In C. Chapelle (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

Courses taught (2016-2018):

• LING101: Introduction to linguistics
• LING102: Language and society
• COM 400: Seminar in Communication: Cross-cultural issues in media representation
• COM 610: Theories of communication and persuasion
• CCM 802: Seminar in discourse and semiotics
  Discourses of the body (Winter, 2017)
  Narratives of physical and virtual experience (Winter, 2018)

Education:

• PhD, Communication, Culture, and Media, Drexel University
• BA, Anthropology, Drexel University

Research Interests:

• Digital games
• Video games
• Emotion
• Morality
• Online fan communities
• Emerging media
• Convergence

Bio:

Alexander Jenkins received his PhD in Communication, Culture, and Media from Drexel University. He teaches classes in communication and media in the Department of Communication at Drexel University. His research interests center on digital games, digital game players, fan discourses on the Internet, and emerging and converging media. He has specifically examined moral discourse in America, emotion and morality in digital games, and online fan communities.

Specialization:

Selected Publications:

• Douglas Porpora, Alexander Nikolaev, Julia Hagemann May, and Alexander Jenkins (2013). Post-Ethical Society: The Iraq War, Abu-Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular. Chicago University Press.
• James Malazita and Alexander Jenkins (2017) “Digital Games and Moral Packaging: The Impacts of In-Game Decisions on Public Pedagogical Deliberation” Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds, 9(1), 3-20. doi: 10.1386/jgvw.9.1.3_1.
• Alexander Jenkins, Murugan Anandarajan, and Rob D’Ovidio (2014) “All that glitters is not gold: The role of impression management in data breach notification.” Western Journal of Communication, 78(3), 337-357. doi: 10.1080/10570314.2013.866686.
• Alexander Jenkins, Alexander Nikolaev, and Douglas Porpora (2012) "Moral Reasoning and the Online Debate about Iraq" Political Communication, 29(1), 44-63. doi: 10.1080/10584609.2011.616876.
• Alexander Jenkins (forthcoming) “Lighting the Bonfire: The Role of Online Fan Community Collaboration in Dark Souls 3.” In Gaines Hubbell (Ed.) Games Criticism. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

Education:

• PhD, Journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia
• MA, Public Relations, University of Florida, 2008

Bio:

Min Lee is an assistant professor at the communication department, where she teaches courses in public relations, communication theory and research methods. Prior to joining Drexel in 2016, Min was a tenure-track faculty in the department of communication at Saint Louis University.

Min's research focuses on social media strategies for relationship and reputation management in PR, as well as examining media messages of public health issues and its psychological and behavioral effects on the public. She has received several rewards from this stream of work, including top paper and poster awards from National Communication Association (NCA), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and International Public Relations Research Conference (IPRRC).

She has published over a dozen peer reviewed articles in academic journals including New Media and Society, Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, Journal of Public Relations Research, Public Relations Review, Corporate Reputation Review, Journal of Health Communication, and Health Communication.

Specialization:

Social media strategies for relationship and reputation management in public relations, examining media messages of public health issues and its psychological and behavioral effects on the public, communication theory and research methods

Selected Publications:

• Lee, H., & Cameron, G. T. (In press). Utilizing audiovisual and gain message frames to attenuate psychological reactance towards strategic health messages. Health Communication.
• Place, K., Smith, B., & Lee, H. (2016). Integrated influence? Exploring public relations power in integrated marketing communication. Public Relations Journal, 10 (1). *Featured article.
• Lee, Y. A., Wanta, W., & Lee, H. (2015). Resource-based public relations efforts for university reputation from an agenda-building and agenda-setting perspective. Corporate Reputation Review, 18, 195-209.
• Lee, H., & Len-Rios, M. (2014). Defining obesity: Second-level agenda setting attributes in black newspapers and general audience newspapers. Journal of Health Communication, 19, 1116-1129.
• Lee, H., & Park, H.J. (2013). Testing the impact of message interactivity on relationship management and organizational reputation. Journal of Public Relations Research, 25, 188-206. *Indexed at the Institute for Public Relations.
• Park, H. J., & Lee, H. (2013). Show us you are real: The effect of human versus organizational presence on online relationship building through social networking site. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 16, 265-271.
• Lee, J. H., & Lee, H. (2012). Canonical correlation analysis of online video advertising viewing motivations and access characteristics. New Media & Society 14, 1358-1374.

Education:

• PhD, Communication, Culture & Media, Drexel University
• MS, Communication, Drexel University
• MA, Political Science, LMU Munich, Germany

Research Interests:

• Political Communication
• International politics and its news coverage
• Public Opinion
• Debate in the Public Sphere
• Transatlantic relations
• War, Torture and Human Rights

Bio:

Julia H. May is an Assistant Teaching Professor, and the Director of the Professional Masters programs in the Department of Communication. She also serves as Co-Director of senior projects, the capstone course for senior communication students.

Julia’s teaching focuses on public communication, and here especially courses related to public relations and journalism. She enjoys to teach writing courses such as PR writing, journalism and news writing, as well as public speaking and research methods, both quantitative and qualitative in nature.

Julia’s research interests are in political communication, mostly focusing on the discussion of foreign policy events in different parts of the public sphere such as newspaper opinion and online discussion and blogs.

Specialization:

Selected Publications:

Selected Publications

• Porpora, D. Nikolaev, A., May Julia H., Jenkins, A. (2012). Post-Ethical Society: The Attack on Iraq, Abu Ghraib and the Moral Failure of the Secular American Public Sphere. Under contract with The University of Chicago Press.
• Porpora, D., Nikolaev, A. and Hagemann, J. (2010). Abuse, Torture, Frames and Editorials. Journal of Communication, 60 (2).

Research Presentations

• Hagemann, J., Jenkins, A., Nikolaev, A., Porpora, D. (2011). “The Content of Moral Debate Online: The Attack on Iraq and the Revelations of Abu Ghraib”. Presented at the 2011 Annual Conference of the Eastern Communication Association in Arlington, VA.
• Hagemann, J., Nikolaev A., and Porpora D. (2010) “Necessary Interrogation or Inhumane Torture. The Torture Debate in the American Public Sphere”. Presented at the 2010 Annual Conference of the Eastern Communication Association in Baltimore, MD.
• Hagemann, J., Nikolaev A., and Porpora D. (2007) “Some did dare call it torture – but not loudly”. Presented at the Conference on Media, War and Conflict, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.

Education:

• PhD, Mass Communication, Florida State University, 2001

Research Interests:

• Public Relations
• Political Communication
• Crisis Communication
• International Communication
• International Negotiations
• International News Coverage
• International Communication Ethics and Morality
• Political Discourse Analysis

Bio:

Alexander G. Nikolaev, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication at Drexel University. He earned his doctorate from the Florida State University where he also taught for four years. His areas of research interest and expertise include public relations, political communication, international communication, international negotiations, international news coverage, crisis communication and political discourse analysis. He authored articles in these areas in trade and scholarly journals (including Journal of Communication and Journal of Political Communication) as well as multiple book chapters in the United States and overseas.

He has years of practical work experience in the fields of journalism and public relations in the United States and Eastern Europe. He is the author of "International negotiations: Theory, Practice, and the Connection with Domestic Politics". He also edited "Ethical issues in International Communication" and co-edited with Ernest Hakanen "Leading to the 2003 Iraq War: The Global Media Debate". He also coauthored with a group of colleagues "Postethical Society: The Attack on Iraq, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular American Public Sphere".

Specialization:

Public relations, political communication, organizational communication, mass communication, international communications and negotiations, communications theory.

Selected Publications:

Books

• Porpora, D. V., Nikolaev, A. G., Hagemann May, J. & Jenkins, A. (2013). Postethical society: The attack on Iraq, Abu Ghraib, and the moral failure of the secular American public sphere. Chicago, Il: University of Chicago Press.
• Nikolaev, A. G. (Ed.). (2011). Ethical issues in international communication. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Nikolaev, A. G. (2007). International negotiations: Theory, practice and the connection with domestic politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. (2008 paperback edition)
• Nikolaev, A. G., & Hakanen, E. A. (Eds.). (2006). Leading to the 2003 Iraq war: The global media debate. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal Articles

• Jenkins, A., Nikolaev, A. G., & Porpora, D. (2012). Moral reasoning and the online debate about Iraq. Political Communication, 29 (1), 4463.
• Porpora, D., Nikolaev, A. G., & Hagemann, J. (2010). Abuse, torture, frames, and the Washington Post. Journal of Communication, 60 (2), 254270.
• Nikolaev, A. G. (2009). Images of war: Content analysis of the photo coverage of the war in Kosovo. Critical Sociology, 35 (1), 105130.
• Nikolaev, A. G., & Porpora, D. (2006). President Bush's prewar rhetoric on Iraq: Paranoid style in action. Critical Inquiries in Language Studies, 3 (4), 245262.

Book Chapters

• Nikolaev, A. G. (2012). Turnaround in Russia: Crisis communication campaigns during the 2008 war in South Ossetia. In Amiso George and Cornelius B. Pratt (Eds.), Case studies in crisis communication: International perspectives on hits and misses. (pp. 361379). New York, NY: Routledge.
• Nikolaev, A. G. & Porpora, D. V. (2011). Talking war: How elite newspaper editorials and opinion pieces debated the attack on Iraq. In Steven CarltonFord and Morten G. Ender (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of war and society: Iraq and Afghanistan (pp. 222233). New York, NY: Routledge.
• Nikolaev, A. G. (2010). Thirty common basic elements of crisis management plans: Guidelines for handling the acute stage of "hard" emergencies at the tactical level. In W. T. Coombs & S. J. Holladay (Eds.), Handbook of crisis communication (pp. 261281). London/New York, NY: WileyBlackwell Publishing.
• Nikolaev, A. G. (2006). Why the Russians did not support the 2003 Iraq war: A frame analysis of the Russian television coverage of the coming of the war in Iraq. In A. G. Nikolaev & E. A. Hakanen (Eds.), Leading to the 2003 Iraq war: The global media debate (pp. 197221). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Education:

• PhD, Biological Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
• PhD, Yiddish Studies, Columbia University, 1988

Research Interests:

• Judaic Studies
• Yiddish Culture and Linguistics
• Ethnography of Communication
• Immigrant Cultural Studies

Bio:

Rakhmiel Peltz, PhD, is a well-known social historian of Yiddish, but his original specialty was in biological sciences in cell and molecular biology. His research focused on gene action and the control of differentiation during early embryogenesis and the cell cycle. Turning to Yiddish Studies, Peltz was motivated by a life-long devotion to the survival of the culture that the Nazis attempted to destroy. He has published on language and culture planning in the Soviet Union, Yiddish cultural expression of immigrants, language and identity over the lifespan and urban neighborhood life. For thirty years, he has been researching aging and ethnicity, and has developed an expertise in designing and carrying out intergenerational ethnic educational programs. He is an accomplished researcher, who uses both historical research and ethnographic methods. His research currently focuses on pre-World War II Jewish family life in Eastern Europe and ways of educating survivors of groups that are victims of genocide about their history and culture.

More recently, he was co-editor of Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change (Multilingual Matters, 2006), and served as project director and producer of the film, Toby’s Sunshine: The Life and Art of Holocaust Survivor Toby Knobel Fluek (2008). He is currently editing a volume of Uriel Weinreich’s scholarly writings on Yiddish (The Language and Culture of Jews in Eastern Europe).

A popular speaker for academic and popular audiences, Professor Peltz lectures on the history of Yiddish language and literature, Jewish life in Eastern Europe, Philadelphia neighborhood life, the legacy of immigration, and aging and ethnic identity. In addition, he facilitates Yiddish discussion groups and intergenerational programs on life history.

Arriving at Drexel in 1998, he had previously served as an Assistant Professor of Modern Foreign Languages at Boston University (1989-1991), where he also taught in the Anthropology Department, PhD Program in Applied Linguistics, and Center for Aging. From 1990-98, he was Director of Yiddish Studies at Columbia University, overseeing the PhD Program, undergraduate instruction, and the intensive summer program in Yiddish. He was Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia and also served as a visiting professor at Gratz College, Mt. Holyoke College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the University of Pennsylvania and Wesleyan University.

Professor Peltz brings his dedication to scholarly and community work to Drexel along with a desire to bring sectors of the academic and outside community together for learning experiences. His work has been supported by a variety of funding agencies, including the American Council of Learned Societies, the Littauer Foundation and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. He was the Miles Lerman Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Research, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Emanuel Patt, PhD – Workmen’s Circle Center Fellow at the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research and the Stein Israel Research Exchange Fellow. He has served on the editorial board of Contemporary Jewry, the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Yiddish, and Yivo-bleter, and the Board of Directors of the Society for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, HIAS and Council Immigration Service of Philadelphia and Hillel of Greater Philadelphia.

Specialization:

Judaic studies, Yiddish culture and linguistics, ethnography of communication and immigrant cultural studies

Selected Publications:

• From Immigrant to Ethnic Culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia (Stanford University Press, 1998) is the first book on spoken Yiddish in America and provides a fresh look at ethnic culture in the contemporary USA. Through an ethnographic account of everyday life in the Jewish community of South Philadelphia, the work highlights the role of language in collective memory and depicts children of immigrants as crucial interpreters of the ethnic culture of their parents. Yiddish-language narratives come alive as the reader senses the passion of the elderly American-born speakers.
• The History of Yiddish Studies: Take Notice! Multilingual Matters, 2006. Language, Loyalty, Continuity and Change.
• “Elye Spivak” and “Mordkhe Veynger”, Encyclopedia Judaica (2005).

Education:

• PhD, Sociology, Temple University, 1982

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Research Interests:

• War, Genocide, Torture, and Human Rights
• Macro-Moral Reasoning in Public Sphere Debate
• Contemporary Social Theory
• Moral and Political Communication
• Religion

Bio:

Douglas Porpora is professor at Drexel University and has published widely on social theory. Among his books are "The Concept of Social Structure" (Greenwood 1987), "How Holocausts Happen: The United States in Central America" (Temple 1992) and "Landscapes of the Soul: The Loss of Moral Meaning in American Life" (Oxford 2001).

Specialization:

Rhetoric, political communication, morality, religion, political economy and war

Selected Publications:

• Post-Ethical Society: The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular. Douglas Porpora, Alexander Nikolaev, Julia Hagemann, and Alexander Jenkins. Forthcoming, University of Chicago Press.
• Douglas Porpora (2013) “How Many Thoughts Are There? Or Why We Likely Have No Tegmark Duplicates 1010^115 meters Away.” Philosophical Studies 163:133–149.
• Tyson Mitman, Alexander Nikolaev and Douglas Porpora (2012) “The Critical Moral Voice on U.S. Newspaper Opinion Pages” Communication, Culture, and Critique 5 (3): 392-408.
• Alexander Jenkins, Alexander Nikolaev, and Douglas Porpora (2012) “Moral Reasoning and the Online Debate about Iraq” Political Communication 29:1, 44-63.
• Magali Sarfatti Larson and Douglas Porpora (2011) “The Resistible Rise of Sarah Palin” in Sociological Forum 26 (4): 754-778.
• Douglas Porpora (2011) “Critical Terrorism Studies: A Political Economic Approach Grounded in Critical Realism.” Critical Studies on Terrorism 4 (1): 39-56.
• Douglas Porpora, Alexander Nikolaev, and Julia Hagemann. Torture, Abuse, Frames, and the Washington Post. Journal of Communication. 60(2): 254-270, June 2010.
• Talking War: How Elite U.S. Newspaper Editorials and Opinion Pieces Debated the Attack on Iraq. With Alexander Nikolaev. Sociological Focus. 40 (1): 6-25, 2007.
• Methodological Atheism, Methodological Agnosticism, and Religious Experience. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. 36 (1): 57-75, 2006.
• Transcendence: Critical Realism and God. With Margaret Archer and Andrew Collier. London: Routledge. 2004.
• Landscapes of the Soul: The Loss of Moral Meaning in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press. 2001.
• How Holocausts Happen: The United States in Central America. Philadelphia: Temple University. 1990.
• The Concept of Social Structure. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 1987.

Education:

• BA, Comparative Literature (Italian), University of Iowa, 1991
• MA, Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1997
• PhD, English and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2002

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Research Interests:

• Sociolinguistics, Ethnography of Communication and Discourse Analysis
• Violence Against Women in Mass Media
• Political Economy of Migration – Brain Drain, Immigrants and Transnational Immigration
• Semiotics including the Textual, the Visual and the Multimodal

Bio:

I grew up in Chicago, which has long been an immigrant-receiving city, and one in which questions of race and ethnicity, inequality, geography, and access to power are always in the air. Over the course of my education, I came to approach the richness and challenges of American diversity through the study of language in interaction, the linguistic performance of group belonging, and intercultural dialog. In my early career, after fieldwork with African immigrants, I worked on developing new ideas about child and youth (im)migrants and human development.

Recently, I’ve joined a research project that looks at Violence Against Women as a global phenomenon. In particular, I am looking at streaming video on demand and how rape myths are or are not perpetuated in visual and textual discourses of popular culture.

Despite having two different research areas, I’m most engaged with trying to frame how the rich fabric and sophisticated discourses of American class, ethnic and gender difference can inform a progressive basis by which to approach the environmental and social challenges of the Anthropocene. Clearly, we need to change quickly, but out of what, and how?

Specialization:

Sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, intercultural communication, globalization and the rhetoric of community, political economy of immigration, race and ethnicity, new African immigrants in the United States, Igbo studies.

Selected Publications:

• El-Burki, Imaani and Reynolds, Rachel R. It’s no secret that Justin wants to be black: Comedy Central’s Justin Bieber Roast and Neoliberal Race Representation. In Defining Identity and the Changing Scope of Culture in the Digital Age, Alison Novak and Imaani El-Burki, Editors, IGI-Global, 2016.
• Reynolds, R. R. Toward Understanding a Culture of Migration among Elite African Youth: Igbo College Students in the United States. In Kane, A. and Leedy, T. Migrations In and Out of Africa: Old Patterns and New Perspectives. Indiana University Press. 2013.
• Everyday Ruptures: Children and Migration in Global Perspective. Cati Coe, Debbie Boehm, Julia Meredith Hess, Heather Rae Espinoza and Rachel R. Reynolds (Eds.). Vanderbilt University Press, 2011.
• Heritage Language Learners in First-Year Foreign Language Courses: A Report of General Data Across Learner Subtypes. Rachel R. Reynolds, Kathryn Howard, and Julia Deak. Foreign Language Annals, Volume 42, No. 2, Summer 2009.
• Igbo professional migratory orders, hometown associations and ethnicity in the USA. Global Networks. Volume 9(2): 209-226, April 2009.

Education:

• APR, Accredited in Public Relations certification, Public Relations Society of America
• BBA, Marketing & Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
• MA, Public Relations, Rowan University
• APC, Marketing and Management, MBA Program, Drexel University

Research Interests:

• Public Relations and Marketing

Bio:

Rosemary Rys is a skilled public relations and marketing professional with 30 years of diversified experience working closely with commercial real estate, municipal development, business improvement districts, architecture, engineering, interior design, education, legal, medical, international arts, and many other disciplines, as well as various non-profit organizations.

She is a highly effective editor, writer, teacher, advisor and mentor. Other talents include website content development, media relations expertise, and qualifications as a professionally trained voice artist for commercials, audio books and radio.

Previous to becoming an assistant teaching professor of communication in 2016, Rys taught as an adjunct at Drexel for 20 years. She was also an adjunct at Temple for 12 years. She is a former architectural writer, was a magazine/newspaper editor, and has worked in both agency and corporate settings directing public relations efforts.

Specialization:

Education:

• PhD, Temple University
• MA, New York University
• BA, University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests:

• Digital Media and Learning
• Culture of Higher Education
• Entrepreneurship Education
• Craft Culture
• Semiotic of Consumer Culture

Bio:

Wesley Shumar’s work in higher education focuses on the spatial transformation of American universities within the consumer spaces of cities and towns. This work looks at the most recent phase of the commodification of the university earlier phases of which were explored in College for Sale: A Critique of the Commodification of Higher Education, Falmer Press, 1997 and in the co-edited volume with Joyce Canaan titled Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University Routledge/Falmer, 2008. Since 1997 Dr. Shumar has worked as an ethnographer at the Math Forum, a virtual math education community and resource center. He was Co-PI on EnCoMPASS a four-year NSF project designed to build a supportive online community of math teachers through formative assessment and a focus on student problem-solving.  He was PI on The Math Forum's Virtual Fieldwork Sequence. It was a three-year NSF project at the Math Forum that is investigating the potential of this online educational community to affect the culture of math education for preservice teachers.  He is co-editor with Ann Renninger of Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace, published by Cambridge University Press, 2002. He is author of Inside Mathforum.org: Analysis of an Online Mathematics Education Community. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Specialization:

Ethnography of cyberspace, online learning communities, political economy of higher education, globalization, activity theory, semiotics, critical realism, psychoanalysis, identity and the self.

Selected Publications:

Books

• Shumar, W. (2017). Inside Mathforum.org: Analysis of an Online Mathematics Education Community. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Canaan, J. & Shumar, W. (Eds.) (2008). Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University. New York: Routledge.
• Renninger, K. A. & Shumar, W. (Eds.) (2002). Building Virtual Communities. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Shumar, W. (1997). College for Sale: A Critique of the Commodification of Higher Education. London: Falmer Press.

Book Chapters

• Sebastian, M. & Shumar, W. (2018). The Digital Age and the Social Imaginary, in the Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age.  Springer Verlag for inclusion in their "Law, Governance and Technology Series".
• Shumar, W. & Robinson, S. (2018) Universities as societal value drivers; Entrepreneurial practices for a better future, chapter for The Thinking University, edited by Søren S. E. Bengtsen and Ronald Barnett,  published by Springer.
• Shumar, W., & Robinson, S. (2018). Rethinking the Entrepreneurial University for the 21st Century. In R. Barnett, & M. A. Peters (Eds.), The Idea of the University: Volume 2 – Contemporary Perspectives. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
• Shumar, W. (2018) Caught between commodification and audit: Contradictions in American higher education in Urciuoli, B. (Ed.) The Experience of Neoliberal Education. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Publishers.
• Shumar, W. (2016). Internationalization as a Contradictory Sign in the Global Era.  In John Mock (Ed.) The Impact of Internationalization on Japanese Higher Education. Sense Publishers.
• Shumar, W. & Mir, S. (2011) Cultural Anthropology Looks at Higher Education. In the Blackwell Companion to the Anthropology of Education, Blackwell Publishers.
• Porpora, D. & Shumar, W. (2010) Self Talk and Self Reflection: A View from the U.S., in Margaret S. Archer (Ed.) Conversations about Reflexivity. London, New York: Routledge.
• Charles, E. S. & Shumar, W. (2009) Student and Team Agency in VMT in Stahl, Gerry (Ed.) Studying Virtual Math Teams, Series: Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series, Vol. 11, New York: Springer.
• Shumar, W. (2009). Interaction, Imagination and Community Building at the Math Forum. In D. Akoumianakis (Ed.), Virtual Community Practices and Social Interactive Media. Hershey, PA: IGI Global Inc.
• Shumar, W. (2009). Communities, Texts, Consciousness: The Practice of Participation at Math Forum. In Joni Falk and Brian Drayton (Eds.) Creating and Sustaining Online Professional Learning Communities. New York: Teacher College Press.
• Shumar, W. (2008). Space, Place and the American University. In Canaan, J. & Shumar, W. (Eds.) Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University. New York: Routledge, pp. 67-83.

Journal Articles and Proceedings

• Shumar, W. (2016). TED: The University Intellectual as Globalized Neoliberal Consumer Self, in Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences.
• Shumar, W. & Wright, S. (2016). Introduction Special Issue: Social Media and New Visions of Education. Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences.
• Robinson, S. & Shumar, W. (2014). Ethnographic Evaluation of Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education; a methodological conceptualization International Journal of Management Education. Volume 12, Issue 3, November 2014, Pages 422–432.
• Shumar, W. (2014). Wither the Welfare State: The New Global Adventures of Higher Education.Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Science. Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2014, pp. 92-104.
• Shumar, W. & Madison, N. (2013) Ethnography in a Virtual World. Ethnography and Education. Vol. 8 (2): 255-272.
• Shumar, W. (2010). Key Contributors: Homi Bhabha. Cultural Studies of Science Education, Vol. 5(2): 495-506.
• Sarmiento, J. & Shumar, W. (2009). Boundaries and roles: Social location and bridging work in the Virtual Math Teams (VMT) online community. Special issue of Computers in Human Behavior, October, 2009.

Education:

• PhD, Rhetoric and Communication, Temple University, 1999

Research Interests:

• Technical and scientific writing and publishing
• Nonprofit communication
• Communication ethics

Bio:

Lawrence Souder earned his PhD in the rhetoric of science from Temple University after working for a number of years as a technical writer and editor for IBM and ADP. His research is focused on the ethics of communications among scientists and between scientists and the public. He is also the founding director of Drexel Edits, a center that offers pro-bono editing services to nonprofit organizations in the neighborhoods bordering Drexel University. He teaches graduate courses in communication ethics, technical and science writing and editing, and nonprofit communication for the master's and undergraduate programs in the department.

Specialization:

Science and technical writing, communication ethics.

Selected Publications:

• "The Ethics of Ironic Science in Its Search for Spoof", with Maryam Ronagh, Science and Engineering Ethics, (Online First)
• "Ad Hominem Arguments in the Service of Boundary Work among Climate Scientists," with Furrah Qureshi, Journal of Science Communication, Volume 11, Issue 01, March, 2012.
• "The Ethics of Scholarly Peer Review: A Review of the Literature," Learned Publishing, Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2011, 49-66.
• A Free-market Model for Media Ethics: Adam Smith's Looking Glass. Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Volume 25 Issue 1, January 2010, 53 - 64.

Education:

• MA, Communication, University of Houston, 1988

Research Interests:

• Telecommunications Policy
• Interpersonal Communication
• Digital Photojournalism
• Videography and Video Production

Specialization:

Communication, technology and mass media, video.

Education:

• MS, Natural Resource Management, University of Wisconsin
• PhD, Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2004

Research Interests:

• Media Literacy
• Technical Communication
• Science Communication
• Environmental Communication
• Health Communication

Bio:

Susan E. Stein is an associate teaching professor in the Department of Communication, College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University. Her work focuses on science, environmental and health communication. Recent projects include an EPA funded environmental health campaign in an environmental justice community, a USDA funded consumer health campaign in low income, ethnic minority communities and a USSD funded program to train community leaders from around the world in community-based social marketing campaigns for health and the environment.

Specialty courses developed at Drexel include Environmental Communication; Film, Celebrity and the Environmental Movement; and Campaigns for Health and the Environment. Susan has been working in the field of science communication for over 20 years, including curriculum and program development and evaluation, instructor training, education and outreach. Her PhD is in Mass Communication with an emphasis in Energy Analysis and Policy from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She holds a MS in Natural Resource Management from the University of Wisconsin.

Specialization:

Education:

• BA, English, York College of Pennsylvania

Bio:

Scott became a full-time faculty member at Drexel University in the Department of Communications in 2016. Previously, he taught as an adjunct at both Drexel and Temple. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Scott serves as the faculty adviser to Drexel's Public Relations Student Society.

Over a 30-year business career, Scott became one of the region's most recognized and respected public relations professionals. He gained media relations, public affairs, community relations, investor relations, product publicity, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and crisis/issues management experience from work with such clients as Taco Bell, The Rothman Institute, The American Legal Institute and Bar Association, Preferred Real Estate, The American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, Pfizer, The EuroTunnel, The Philadelphia International Auto Show, WXPN, Applebee’s, Hatfield Quality Meats, Reliance Insurance Company, The Please Touch Museum and the Philadelphia Streets Department.

In 2007, while Senior Vice President at LevLane in Philadelphia, Scott established the first Corporate Social Responsibility practice in the Philadelphia region. This agency discipline was founded on the premise that business is a key driver for sustainable social change.

From 1994-2006, he was the president of Tattar Richards Public Relations. Previously he was a vice president at Ketchum, one of the largest PR companies in the world.

As a media trainer, he has prepared hundreds of executives for press interaction. By blending message development with interview techniques, Scott has expertly coached many high profile spokespersons from leading organizations, including DuPont, Hitachi, Reliance Standard Life Insurance, Philadelphia Financial, Arcadia University, West Chester University, Hatfield Quality Meats, Archer & Greiner, as well as several Philadelphia city departments.

From 2004 through 2005, Scott served as the president of the Public Relations Society of America (Philadelphia Chapter). He is the only two-term president in the Chapter’s 50-year history. Scott was appointed to Philadelphia Mayor John Street’s PR Task Force in 2000. He began his career as a reporter at the York Daily Record.

Scott earned his BA in English from York College of Pennsylvania, where he was a four-year varsity soccer player. He furthered his education with graduate studies in English at Villanova University. He received the 2001 Frank X. Long Award for excellence in creative writing and the 2012 DeAnn White Award for excellence in community service - both from the Public Relations Society of America (Philadelphia Chapter).

Specialization:

Education:

• MA in Communication Studies from KU Leuven (B) (1989)
• MA in Mass Communication from the University of Leicester (UK) (1991)
• PhD in Social Sciences from KU Leuven (B) (2000)

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

• Political economy of media structures
• Media policies for digitized media ecologies
• Stakeholders and coalitions in media policies
• Digitization, convergence and legacy media
• Public (service) media
• Methods of media policy analysis
• Media culture in a digitized media ecosystem
• Media and (collective) identities
• Celebrity culture and industry
• Celebrity philanthropy and activism
• Fandom and anti-fandom

Bio:

Hilde Van den Bulck combines expertise in media structure and policies with expertise in media culture. Her work on media structures and policies focuses on the impact of technological, political, economic and cultural processes, especially how digitization and convergence affect legacy media. She specializes in public (service) media in that regard, most recently analyzing how personalization strategies based on algorithms affect the core public media value of universality.

With regards to media culture, she analyses the relationships between media culture(s) and collective (national, ethnic, gender and age-related) identities. However, the past ten years, she has focused on the role of mediated communication in celebrity culture and the celebrity apparatus, in particular how celebrities’ ideas, words, and actions provoke mediated debates amongst fans, wider audiences and, in the case of celebrity activism, politicians and policy makers.

In 2018, Routledge published her book 'Celebrity Philanthropy and Activism: Mediated Interventions in the Global Public Sphere'. The core content of this book is presented in this animated video:

Beyond that, for many years she had a monthly column in Belgian newspaper De Standaard and, later, on the news site of main Flemish public media institution VRT. For 12 years, she was vice chair of the Sectorial Media Council that provides policy advice to the Flemish Media Minister.

Before coming to Drexel, Hilde was a Professor of Communication Studies, Head of Department of Communication, then Associate Dean of Research and later Dean of the Social Sciences at the University of Antwerp in Belgium.

Specialization:

Political economy of media structures; Media policies for digitized media ecologies; Stakeholders and coalitions in media policies; Digitization, convergence and legacy media; Public (service) media; Methods of media policy analysis; Media culture in a digitized media ecosystem; Media and (collective) identities; Celebrity culture and industry; Celebrity philanthropy and activism; Fandom and anti-fandom

Selected Publications:

Books

• Van den Bulck, H.; Puppis, M.; Donders, K. & Van Audenhove, L. (Eds.) (forthcoming) Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Analysis. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave.
• Van den Bulck, H. (2018) Celebrity Philanthropy and Activism: Mediated Interventions in the Global Public Sphere. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Articles

• Donders, K.; Van den Bulck, H. & Raats, T. (2018) 'The Politics of Pleasing: A Critical Analysis of Multistakeholderism in Public Service Media Policies in Flanders', Media, Culture and Society, online first.
• Van den Bulck, H. & Moe, M. (2018) ‘Universality and Personalisation Through Algorithms: Mapping Strategies and Exploring Dilemmas’, Media Culture and Society, 40(6): 875-892 (open access: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0163443717734407).
• Van den Bulck, H. (2017) ‘”She Died of a Mother’s Broken Heart”: Media and Audiences’ Framing of Health Narratives of Heart-Related Celebrity Deaths’, International Journal of Communication, 11: 4965-4987. DOI: 1932–8036/20170005.
• Van den Bulck, H.; Claessens, N.; Mast, J. & Kuppens, A. (2015) ‘Representation of Fandom in Mainstream Media: Analysis of Production and Content of Flemish Television’s Superfans’, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 19(6): 513-528. DOI: 10.1177/1367549415597924
• Van der Burg, M. & Van den Bulck, H. (2015) ‘Economic, Political and Socio-Cultural Welfare in Media Merger Control: An Analysis of the Belgian and Dutch Competition Authorities Reviews of Media Mergers’, Information Economics and Policy, 32: 2-15. DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2015.07.002
• Panis, K. & Van den Bulck, H. (2014) ‘In the Footsteps of Bob and Angelina: Celebrities’ Diverse Societal Engagement and Its Ability to Attract Media Coverage’, Communications, 39 (1): 23–42. DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2015.1062655

Book Chapters

• Donders, K.; Vand en Bulck, H. & Raats, T. (2019) Public Service Media in a Divided Country: Governance and Functioning of Public Broadcasters in Belgium’, pp. 89-110 in E. Polo´nski & C. Becket (Eds.) Public Service Broadcasting and Media Systems in Troubled European Democracies. N.Y. Palgrave MacMillan.
• Bels, A. & Van den Bulck, H. (2019) ‘Social Media Celebrities as Salient Resource for Preteens' Identity Work’. In S.S Duvall (Ed.) Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations and Identity Formation. New York: Peter Lang.
• Van den Bulck, H. Donders, K. & Lowe, G.F. (2018) Public Service Media in the Networked Society.  What Society? What Network? What Role? 11’, pp 11-28 in G.F. Lowe, H. Van den Bulck & K. Donders (Eds.) Public Service Media in the Networked Society. Gothenburg: NORDICOM.
• Bels, A.; Van den Bulck, H. & Claessens, N. (2017) ‘Blossoming Beauty or Unhinged Teen? Media and Audiences Discussing Celebrities Coming of Age’, pp. 154-182 in J. O’Conner & J. Merger (Eds.) Childhood and Celebrity. Abingdon, UK & NY, NY: Routledge.
• Van den Bulck, H. (2017) ‘Is Convergence the “Killer Bug” in the Media Ecosystem? The Case of Flemish Media Policymaking 2010–2015’, pp. 241-260 in S.Sparviero; C. Peil & G. Balbi (Eds.) Media Convergence and Deconvergence. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Van den Bulck, J. & Van den Bulck H. (2017) Communication Sciences in Flanders: A History. in S. Averbeck-Lietz (Ed.) Kommunikationswissenschaft im internationalen Vergleich. Transationale Perspektiven. NY, NY: Springer.
• Van den Bulck, H. (2015) ‘Public Service Media Accountability in Recent Decades: A Progressive Shift from State to Market’ in K.A. Ibarra, E Nowak & R. Kuhn (eds.) Public Service Media in Europe: A Comparative Approach. London: Routledge.
• Van den Bulck, H.; Claessens, N. & Panis, K. (2015) ‘World Relations and Development Issues: Framing Celebrity Philanthropy Documentaries’, in E. Jeffreys & P. Allatson (Eds.) Celebrity philanthropy. Bristol, Intellect.
• Claessens, N. & Van den Bulck, H. (2014) ‘A Severe Case of Disliking Bimbo Heidi, Scumbag Jesse and Bastard Tiger: Analysing Celebrities’ Online Anti-fans’, pp. 63-75 in L. Duits, K. Zwaan & S. Reijnders (eds.) The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures. London: Ashgate.

Education:

• PhD, Mass Communication, Indiana University, 2012

Research Interests:

• Social Media
• User-Generated Content
• Computer-Mediated Communication
• Interactivity
• Active Audience Analysis
• Mobile Communication
• Gender and Online Identity
• Prosumer Culture
• Internet of Things
• Quantitative/Qualitative Research

Bio:

Asta Zelenkauskaite earned her PhD in Mass Communication from Indiana University, Bloomington with two minor specializations in Information Science and Linguistics. Her research focuses on the ways in which communication occurs through computer network environments as well as mobile telephony. She is interested in the changes that social media bring to mass media landscape by studying these phenomena from a multi-method approach to analyze changing understanding of content, audiences and media companies. Most of her work bridges disciplinary boundaries methodologically and conceptually through her collaborative work with computer scientists and information science scholars.

Zelenkauskaite is also affiliated with the Center for Computer-Mediated Communication at Indiana University

Specialization:

Selected Publications:

• Zelenkauskaite, A. (2018). Value of user-generated content: Perceptions and practices regarding social and mobile media in two Italian radio stations. Journal of Radio and Audio Media.
• Zelenkauskaite, A. (2017). From talking to the radio to talking through the radio: Addressee analysis of mobile texting. Discourse, Context & Media, 18, 11-19. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2017.04.001
• Zelenkauskaite, A., & Balduccini, M. (2017). “Information warfare” and online news commenting:
Analyzing forces of social influence through location-based user-commenting typology framework. Social media + Society, (3)3. 1-10. DOI: doi.org/10.1177/2056305117718468
• Zelenkauskaite, A. & Niezgoda, B. (2017). “Stop Kremlin trolls:” Ideological trolling as calling out,
rebuttal, and reactions on online news portal commenting. First Monday: Peer reviewed journal on the Internet. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v22i5.7795
• Zelenkauskaite, A., (2016). Remediation, convergence, and Big Data: Conceptual Limits of Cross Platform Social Media. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 1-16. DOI: doi.org/10.1177/1354856516631519