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David D. Perlmutter

Associate Professor
Phone: 225-578-2053

E-mail: dperlmu@lsu.edu
Office: 252 Hodges Hall

Website: http://www.lsu.edu/faculty/dperlmu/

:: Ph.D., 1996, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)  Mass Communication

David D. Perlmutter is a Senior Fellow the Kevin P. Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs. He was the first academic appointed to the board of directors of the American Association of Political Consultants. A registered columnist in the Knight-Ridder Progressive Media Project, he has published opinion and editorial articles on a wide range of domestic and international topics in papers including: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Buffalo News, Campaigns & Elections, Christian Science Monitor, Dallas Morning News, Indianapolis Star, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Melbourne Age, Miami Herald, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, MSNBC.com., Philadelphia Inquirer, New Zealand Southland Times, Omaha World-Herald, San Diego Union Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, and St. Paul Pioneer Press. He is also editor of the new "politics@media" book series from Louisiana State University Press.
 

Selected works

Perlmutter, D. & Wagner, G.L. (2004). The anatomy of a photojournalistic icon: Marginalization of dissent in the selection and framing of 'A death of Genoa.' Visual Communication, 3(1): 91-108.

Perlmutter, D. (2004). "The Internet: Big pictures and interactors," in Larry Gross, John Stuart Katz and Jay Ruby, eds., Image ethics in the digital age. Second ed. pp. 1-26, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Perlmutter, D. (2003). Foreward to Raymond D. Strother's Falling up: How a Redneck helped invent political consulting. Baton Rogue: LSU Press/Reilly Center, pp. xi-xv.

Perlmutter, D. (2003). "Photojournalism (Still Photograph)," in Donald H. Johnston, ed. in chief, Encyclopedia of International Media and Communication. San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 471-481.

Domke, David,  David Perlmutter, & Meg Spratt. (2002). The Primes of Our Times?: An Examination of the Power of Visual Images. Journalism, 3(2), 131-159.

Perlmutter, D.D. (2000). Policing the media: Street cops and public perceptions of law enforcement. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Perlmutter, D.D. (2000). Policing the Media: Televisual Reality and Cop Work. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Perlmutter, D.D. (1999). Visions of War: Picturing Warfare from the Stone Age to the Cyberage. New York: St. Martin's.

Perlmutter, D.D. (ed.). (1999). The Manship School Guide to Political Communication. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Perlmutter, D. & Alan D. Fletcher. (1999). Feedback That Fits: How Experienced and Naãve Students View Internships. Journal of Advertising Education, Fall: 9-18.

Mayo, C. & David D. Perlmutter. (1998). Media Use and Disuse by State Legislators: The Social Construction of Innovation. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 12(1): 71-88.

Perlmutter, D.D. (1998). Photojournalism and Foreign Policy: Framing Icons of Outrage in International Crises. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Perlmutter, D.(1997).  Manufacturing Visions of Society and History in Social Science Textbooks. Journal of Communication, 47(3): 1-14.

Perlmutter, D. (1997) Re-Visions of the Holocaust: Textbook Images and Historical Myth-Making. Howard Journal of Communication, 8(2): 151-159.

 Perlmutter, D. (1997). A Pictures Worth 8,500,000 People: News Images as Symbols of China. Visual Communication Quarterly, 4(2): 1, 4-7.

Reavy, Matthew & David D. Perlmutter. (1997). Presidential Web sites as Sources of Information. Electronic Journal of Communication, 7(3).

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