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Stephanie MartinStephanie Martin

Email Address: s7martin@weber.ucsd.edu

Education

  • Doctoral Student, Department of Communication (2005-current)
    University of California, San Diego
  • M.A. Mass Communication, emphasizing Electronic (Digital) Media
    Syracuse University
  • S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications (June, 2002)
    Capstone project: An empirical evaluation of the electronic newspaper industry
  • B.B.A. Operations Management, Quality Assurance
    Boise State University (1997)

Research Interests

My work emphasizes public discourses regarding labor and unemployment. As part of this project, I recently began to look at the ideology of what James Arnt Aune terms “the rhetoric of economic correctness,” meaning, among other things, the modern, western propensity to champion the benefits of the free market without considering any (potential) deleterious social repercussions. Such rhetoric also encompasses the ways that neoliberal thought presumes that the market is the most efficient and fair mechanism for ameliorating social ills. I am equally interested in the politics of the contemporary economic class situation in the United States where, in order to secure and maintain power, professionals have joined forces with the super-wealthy in a kind of faux populism against the so-called secular liberal elite. Finally, my work considers how the entrenched ethos of individual responsibility overtly marginalizes all those who struggle, including back-to-work welfare mothers or the longterm unemployed.

Conference Papers and Presentations

  • 2007 Working Class Studies Association Conference, Macalaster College, St. Paul, Minn.
    Paper Title: “Gaps in Discourse: How Public Radio Elides Discussions of Layoffs”

Media Production

Executive Producer and Director “For All”, a film that asks questions about the state of United States immigration policy by drawing on one couple’s experience with the process of naturalization through marriage. The film seeks to interrogate a particular, privileged practice of immigration that is often overlooked within a much larger set of issues and debates.

Screenings

  • 5th Annual San Diego Women’s Film Festival; October 5, 2007
  • Binacom “Encuentro”; October 26-27, 2007

Fellowships, Grants, Honors and Awards

  • Cal-IT(2) Graduate Fellow (2005-2006)
  • Communication Department Conference Travel Grant (2007)
  • Senior Teaching Assistant, Department of Communication (2007-2008)