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Stephen A. Banning

Assistant Professor
Phone: 225-578-2098

E-mail: sbanning@lsu.edu
Office: 250 Hodges Hall

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:: PhD, 1997, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale - Journalism
 

Stephen Banning's research interests include mass media theory, the third-person effect, public opinion and journalistic professionalism.  He specializes in advertising, broadcasting and public relations and previously taught at Texas A&M University.

Selected works:

Banning, S. A. & Evans, J. F. (2004). Famers Voices: Concerns within the Agricultural Advertiser-Media-Reader Triad. Journal of Applied Communication.

Banning, S. A. (2004). Tobacco and the third-person effect. Southwest Journal of Mass Communication.

Banning, S. A. (2004). Factors affecting the marketing of a public safety message: The third-person effect and uses and gratifications theory in public reaction to a crime reduction program. Proceedings of the American Academy of Advertisers.

Banning, S. A. & Evans, J. F. (2004). Book Review -- Thinking clearly: Cases in journalistic decision making. American Communications Journal.

Banning, S. A. (2003), The good, the bad and the socially desirable: Advertiser packaging of nicotine in relation to public opinion and the third-person effect. IABD Year Book.

Banning, S. A. (2002).  Where there's smoke there's framing: School shootings and the media's tendency to blame. Southwestern Mass Communication Journal 17 (2), 39-50.

Banning, S. A. (June, 2001).  Third-person effect suppressor variables in program evaluations. Web Journal of Mass Communication Research, 4 (3) [Online serial].  Available: http://www.scripps.ohiou.edu/wjmcr/vol04/4-3a.htm.

Banning, S. A. (2001).  Fading Voices: A 10-year trend within  an agricultural advertiser-media reader triad.  Journal of Applied Communications, 83 (2), 21-38.
 

Banning, S. A. (Spring, 2001) "Taking the third-person effect outside the laboratory: How an unplanned real world event failed to change the third-person effect." Communication Research Reports.

Banning. S. A. (Spring, 2001). "Do you see what I see? Third-person effects on public communication through self-esteem, social stigma, and product use." Mass Communication & Society.

Banning, S. A. (August, 2000). "The cradle of professional journalistic education in the mid-nineteenth century." Media History Monographs, 3 (3).

Banning, S. A. (2000). "Courageous performance: Examining standards of courage among small town investigative reporters in the 1950s and 1960s." American Journalism, 17 (2), 545-69.

Banning, S. A. (1998-1999). "The professionalization of journalism: A nineteenth-century beginning." Journalism History, 24 (4), 157-60.

Banning, S. A. (1999). "Truth is our ultimate goal." American Journalism, 16 (1), 17-39.

Banning, S. A. (1999). 'The Third Person Effect." In G. Stone, M. Singletary, & V. P. Richmond, (Eds.), Clarifying communication theories: A hands on approach (pp. 267-75). Ames: Iowa State University Press.

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