Reece Peck

I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Communication at UCSD. I received a B.A. in Literature from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah.

My dissertation examines news-based talk, populist modes of representation, conservative social movements, and how working class culture is being put to contemporary political use. As my primary object of analysis, my project looks at the ways in which populist presentational styles are utilized and performed on cable news talk shows, particularly, how they have been deployed in the coverage of the 'Great Recession.' My theoretical framework for interpreting televisual and journalistic forms of populism draws upon sociological theories of class, political theories of populism, cultural studies discourse analysis, and the fields of Television, Critical Communication, and Journalism studies.

The California McNair Scholars Symposium at the University of California, Berkeley, July, 2004, the Working Class Studies Association Conference at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, June, 2007, the Binational Association of Schools of Communication “Encuentro” conference in Mexicali, Mexico in October, 2007 and in Hermosillo, Mexico July, 2010, the Culture Studies Association New Directions in Culture Studies Conference in Chicago, Illinois, March, 2011. Invited to present at the Future Imperatives of Communication and Information for Development and Social Change conference in Bangkok, Thailand, December, 2010.