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H. Denis Wu

Associate Professor
Phone: 225-578-2095

E-mail: hdeniswu@lsu.edu
Office: 211 Hatcher Hall

Website: www.lsu.edu/faculty/hdeniswu
 

:: Ph.D., 1998, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Mass Communication Research

Denis Wu teaches and conducts research in the areas of international communication, mass communication theories, and political communication. He has professional experience in magazine editing, survey research, and advertising in Taiwan. He joined the faculty in 1998. He is currently serving on the editorial boards of Mass Communication & Society and Journal of Political Marketing. In 2004-5, he is the head of Mass Communication & Society division of AEJMC.  He is currently taking sabbatical and working on his book tentatively entitled, "The Asian-American Political Candidate:  Media, Strategies, and Issues."

Selected works:

Wu, H.D. & Lee, T. (in press). The Submissive, the Calculated, and the American Dream:   
Coverage of Asian-American Political Candidates in the 1990s. The Howard Journal of
Communications.

Wu, H. D., & Hamilton, J. M. (2004). U.S. foreign correspondents: Changes and continuity at the turn of the century. Gazette: The International Journal for Communication Studies, 66(6), 517-532.

Wu, H. D., McCracken, M. and Saito, S. (2004). Economic communication in the lost decade: News coverage and the Japanese recession.  Gazette: The International Journal for Communication Studies, 66(2): 133-149.

Wu, H. D. (2004). Media inequity for developing nations? In E. Erickson and W.D. Sloan (Eds.), Contemporary Media Issues, 2nd edition. Northport, AL: Vision Press.

Wu, H. D. (2003). Homogeneity around the world?: Comparing the systemic determinants of international news flow between developed and developing countries. Gazette: The International Journal for Communication Studies, 65(1), 9-24.

Shen, F., and Wu, H. D. (2002). Effects of soft-money issue advertisements on candidate evaluation and voting preference: An exploration. Mass Communication & Society, 5(4), 395-410.

Wu, H. D., and Bechtel, A. (2002). Web Site Use and News Topic and Type. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 79(1): 73-86.

Wu, H. D., and Boynton, L. A. (2002). An alternative to the impasse: The grassroots approach to coping with media violence. Journal of Promotion Management, 8(2), 47-61.

Wu, H. D., Sylvester, J., and Hamilton, J. M. (2002). Newspaper provides balance in Palestinian/Israeli reports. Newspaper Research Journal, 23 (2&3), 6-17.

Wu, H. D., Stevenson, R. L., Chen, H., and Gõner, Z. N. (2002). The conditioned impact of recession news: A time-series analysis of economic communication in the United States, 1987-1996. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 14(1): 19-36.

Wu, H. D. (2000). Systemic determinants of international news coverage: A comparison of 38 countries. Journal of Communication, 50(2): 110-130.

Wu, H. D. (1998). Investigating the determinants of international news flow: A meta-analysis. Gazette: The International Journal for Communication Studies, 60(6): 493-512.

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