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Degrees:

BA, University of Kansas.

MA, University of Illinois.

PhD, Northwestern University.

Associate Professor of Global Communications (on sabbatical fall 2011)

Academic Department:

Global Communications

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Profile updated: Jan-12

Jayson Harsin was interviewed by The Atlantic magazine about the "Occupy Wall Street" political movement. He was also interviewed for a Canadian TV documentary on the contemporary social functions of rumor and gossip.

Professor Harsin works between political communication and media/cultural studies. His interests include political uses of rumor and political branding; politics and media convergence; global advocacy; war and media; media, political aesthetics and theories of democracy; visual culture and persuasion; public intellectualism; theories of the public sphere; and discourses of social and economic rights. He also writes widely on film and popular music. He received the AUP Board of Trustees award in May 2007 for outstanding service in curricular development.

Selected Publications

"Diffusing the Rumor John Kerry is French, i.e. Haughty, Cowardly, Foppish, Socialist and Gay," in R. Given and S. Soule eds. The Diffusion of Social Movements, New York: Cambridge University Press (2010)	"Lost Histories of American Economic Rights," in Cultural Studies, May (2010)	"The Rumor Bomb: On Convergence Culture and Politics," Flow 9.4 (2009)



"The Rumor Bomb: American Mediated Politics as Pure War." In Cultural Studies, an Anthology, ed. Michael Ryan. New York: Blackwell (2008)	"The Rumor Bomb: A Convergence Theory of Contemporary Mediated American Politics," in Southern Review: Politics, Communication, Culture (Spring 2006)

Work in Progress

Book manuscript: The Rumor Bomb: Vertiginous Democracy in Convergence Culture.

Book manuscript: Economizing Public Life: the American Discourse of Economic Rights.

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Contact Jayson Harsin

	jharsin@aup.edu
	+33 1 40.62.06.00 ext. 808
	Combes, AUP: 6, Rue du Colonel Combes, 75007, Paris (Métro: La Tour-Maubourg, Ecole Militaire, Alma-Marceau, Invalides)