dshah

Information

First Name

Dhavan V.

Last name

Shah

Title

Maier-Bascom Professor

CV

http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/~dshah/cv.htm

Courses taught

J345: Principles of Strategic Communication
J447: Strategic Media Planning
J614: Communication and Public Opinion
J658: Communication Research Methods
J829: Political Communication
J849: Mass Media and the Individual
J880: The Internet and Democracy
J880: Practicum in Communication Research

Biography

Dhavan V. Shah Maier-Bascom Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 1999, earned tenure at Wisconsin in 2002, was promoted to full professor in 2004, and was awarded a named professorship in 2006. Shah’s research concerns the social psychology of political communication. He has developed programs of research on (a) the capacity of mass and interpersonal communication,particularly the Internet, to encourage civic and political participation, (b)the influence of news framing, cueing, and priming on cognitive complexity,social judgment, and public opinion, and (c) the correspondence between media use and the intersection of consumer and civic culture, particularly the politics of consumption. To date, he has authored over 60 articles and chapters and been principal investigator or project leader on grants and awards totaling over $1,500,000 — part of over $11.1 million in extramural funding he has been involved in securing. Shah has served on the editorial boards of ten different journals and has held leadership positions in three professional associations. He is the recipient of the Nafziger-White Dissertation Award, the Krieghbaum Under-40 Award, and the Article of the Year Awards in the field of Political Communication from ICA and Information Technology and Politics from APSA, as well as UW honors such as the Vilas Associates Award, the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence, and selection as a Hamel Faculty Fellow. His professional experience includes Leo Burnett Co, Fallon Worldwide, and PBS.

 

Recent publications

“Framing Policy Conflict: Issue Dualism, Journalistic Frames, and Opinions on Controversial Policy Issues,”Nam-jin Lee, Douglas M. McLeod, and Dhavan V. Shah, Communication Research, 35: 695-718, October 2008.

“Campaign Ads, Online Messaging, and Participation: Extending the Communication Mediation Model,” Dhavan V. Shah, Jaeho Cho, Seungahn Nah, Melissa Gotlieb, Hyunseo Hwang, Nam-Jin Lee, Rosanne Scholl, and Douglas McLeod, Journal of Communication, 57: 676-703, December, 2007. APSA Information Technology & Politics Section, Best Article of 2007.

“Capital, Consumption, Communication, and Citizenship: The Social Positioning of Taste and Civic Culture in the U.S,” Lewis Friedland, Dhavan V. Shah, Nam-Jin Lee, Mark A. Rademacher, Lucy Atkinson, and Thomas Hove. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 611: 31-49, May 2007.

For a complete list of publications, see http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/~dshah/

Office hours

 Tues & Thurs. 8:45-9:30

Education

University of Wisconsin – Madison 

B.A. Journalism and Mass Communication, 1989

University of Minnesota – Twin Cities 
M.A. Mass Communication, 1995 
Ph.D. Mass Communication, Political Psychology minor, 1999

Website

http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/~dshah/

Office

5162 Vilas

Telephone

(608) 262-0388

Email

dshah@wisc.edu

Areas of research

Political Communication
Media Psychology
Internet and Society
Media and Consumer Culture
Public Opinion
Health Communication

History

Member for

24 weeks 6 hours