Stewart Hoover, University of Colorado at Boulder

Meeting with Stewart M. Hoover

Armory 102A

School of Journalism and Mass Communication

University of Colorado at Boulder

1511 University Ave.

478 UCB

Boulder, CO 80309

Professor Stewart M. Hoover joined the faculty in 1991 after several years at Temple University in Philadelphia where he was associate dean for research and graduate studies in the School of Communications and Theatre. Hoover’s research concentrates on qualitative studies of media audiences. He is particularly interested in questions of communication and culture and the implications of media technologies and technological change. His work has focused on meaning and identity as constructed through media practice in the context of domestic and everyday life. He is particularly well known for his work on religion and media, looking most recently at how the realm of mediated popular and commercial culture serves as a context for meaning-making of the kinds traditionally (though no longer necessarily) thought of as "religious." He has received major research funding to carry out studies and explorations of these issues and has been actively involved in developing an international scholarly discourse on religion and media. He is the author of four books and the co-editor of three others. He holds master’s and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.

Discussion

Stewart Hoover is very much in favour of a collaborative network in spirituality. Especially the field of spirituality and religion in the social sciences is not very well known among collequeas. He would like to have a kind of bulletin board where scholars have the possibility to present themselves with their research questions. He thinks it will be a good idea to present this project in the next meeting of the International Study Commission on Media, Religion and Culture.