Mary Bock Explained

Mary Angela Bock is a journalist and professor of journalism. She is an associate professor of journalism at University of Texas at Austin in the School of Media and Journalism with an expertise in visual communication, citizen journalism and representation.

Career

Bock attended Drake University for both her BA in communications, received in 1984, and her MA in communications, received in 1986.[1] In 2009, Bock received her PhD from the Annenberg School of Communication of the University of Pennsylvania.

Bock worked for KCCI-TV in Des Moines, Iowa as a reporter and assignment editor from 1982 until 1988. She worked as a field producer and assignment editor at WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1989 until 2003.[2] [3] She worked at Kutztown University, becoming an associate professor in the Department of Speech and Theatre in 2009. She left Kutztown in 2012 and joined the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism, becoming an associate professor.[4]

Bock continues to be associated with journalistic associations, including the National Press Photographers Association, the International Communication Association (ICA), the National Communication Association and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).[5] Bock is the vice-chair of the ICA Visual Communication Studies Division, an organization of scholars who study forms of visual communication.[6]

Research

Bock has published 4 books. Her book, Video Journalism: Beyond the One Man Band, features interviews and field observations of video journalists to understand the role and effect of video journalists on the news.[7] Visual Communication Theory and Research discusses visual communication research in digital media and news, looking at a variety of traditional and new mass media.[8] Content Analysis Reader contains a collection of articles and studies about content analysis research.[9] Seeing Justice: Witnessing, Crime and Punishment in Visual Media analyzes the relationship between law enforcement and media made by video and visual journalism.[10] Bock's book, Visual Communication Theory and Research: A Mass Communication Perspective, co-written with architect Shahira Fahmy and Wayne Wanta, won the National Communication Association's 2015 Outstanding Book Award.[11]

Bock has articles published in the Journal of Visual Literacy,[12] Visual Studies,[13] Women's Studies in Communication,[14] Feminist Media Studies,[15] Visual Communication Quarterly,[16] New Media and Society,[17] Journalism Studies,[18] and Information Communication & Society.[19]

She is also a contributor to the International Encyclopedia of Media Effects,[20] Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives,[21] and Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice.[22]

Bock also produced research on beauty standards for women in the public eye, as news anchors on broadcast television, which found that reporters are held to a White standard of beauty and hairstyle is used as a way of enforcing gender and racial stereotypes.[23] Bock's research has been used to analyze the way female news anchors are compared to their male counterparts,[24] and how journalists write about the #MeToo movement.[25] This research has received international attention.[26] Bock's research focuses on visual journalists, photojournalism, and how the American judiciary system is portrayed in the media.[27] Other work involves how video technology and video journalists affect the news and its audience.[28] [29] Bock's research on cop-watching and practices about filming the police have gained media attention as well.[30] Bock has interviewed about how citizens can use video to change the narrative of police encounters.[31]

Works

References

  1. News: 2010. E-Media Holiday Newsletter 2010. Drake University Electronic Media Newsletter.
  2. Web site: Ratner. Vic. 2012. A career in the news: A conversation between Mary Angela Bock, Ph.D. (Gr '09) and Vic Ratner (ASC '63). Annenberg School for Communication.
  3. News: 15 May 1989. Broadcasting May 15. Broadcasting Magazine.
  4. Web site: Bock. Mary Angela. About Me. Mary Angela Bock.
  5. Web site: Mary Bock. Moody College of Communication Faculty. 11 January 2017.
  6. Web site: Officers. ICA Visual Communication Studies. 7 October 2019.
  7. Ryan. Kathleen. Book Review: Mary Angela Bock Video journalism: Beyond the one man band. Journalism. 2014. 15. 8. 1129–1131. 10.1177/1464884914535326. 146725592.
  8. Huang. Ying. 24 June 2015. Shahira Fahmy, Mary Angela Bock, and Wayne Wanta. Visual Communication Theory and Research: A Mass Communication Perspective. Mass Communication and Society. 19. 2. 216–219. 10.1080/15205436.2015.1053618. 147576875.
  9. Web site: Bock. Mary Angela. Content Analysis Reader. Mary Angela Bock.
  10. Book: Bock, Mary Angela. Seeing Justice. 2021. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-092697-7.
  11. Web site: National Communication Association. Visual Communication Division. 17 October 2016.
  12. Bock. Mary Angela. Impact of photo manipulation and visual literacy on consumers' responses to persuasive communication. Journal of Visual Literacy. 39. 1–21.
  13. Bock. Mary Angela. Theorising visual framing: contingency, materiality and ideology. Visual Studies. 2020. 35. 1. 1–12. 10.1080/1472586X.2020.1715244. 214576674.
  14. Bock. Mary Angela. Mediating Misogyny: Gender, Technology, and Harassment. Women's Studies in Communication. 42. 3. 1–2.
  15. Bock. Mary Angela. The faces of local TV news in America: youth, whiteness, and gender disparities in station publicity photos. Feminist Media Studies. 18. 4. 1–18.
  16. Bock. Mary Angela. Visual Assertions: Effects of Photo Manipulation and Dual Processing for Food Advertisements. Visual Communication Quarterly. 25. 1. 16–30.
  17. Bock. Mary Angela. Faith and reason: An analysis of the homologies of Black and Blue Lives Facebook pages. New Media and Society. 20. 5.
  18. Bock. Mary Angela. Mastering the Mug Shot: Visual journalism and embodied gatekeeping. Journalism Studies. 19. 3. 1–20.
  19. Bock. Mary Angela. The voice of lived experience: mobile video narratives in the courtroom. Information, Communication & Society. 20. 3. 1–16.
  20. Book: Rossler, Horrner, Zoonen. The International Encyclopedia of Media Effects, 4 Volume. Wiley. 2017. 9781118783764. Germany.
  21. Book: Bock, Mary Angela. Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives. Peter Lang. 2014. 349–360.
  22. Book: Ristovska, Price. Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice. Springer. 2018. 978-3319759876. 275–297.
  23. News: Hashempour. Parisa. October 15, 2019. Why Are All The Men In My Life So Angry About My Short Hair?. Refinery 29.
  24. News: Goldstein. Jessica. February 2020. Bringing the hairstyles of Fox to the big screen earned her an Oscar nomination. The Washington Post.
  25. News: Pilkington. Ed. 13 July 2019. Jeffrey Epstein: how US media – with one star exception – whitewashed the story. The Guardian.
  26. Web site: Lebowitz. Shana. 2021. Triste, ingiusto, ma vero: la vostra pettinatura può sabotare la vostra carriera lavorativa.
  27. Web site: Bock. Mary Angela. 2017. Research. Mary Angela Bock.
  28. News: McWilliams. James. June 4, 2018. PERP WALK POLITICS: THE DOWNSIDES OF THE BLUE CARPET. Pacific Standard Magazine.
  29. Web site: Dawson. Adrienne. Feb 28, 2019. Design, Meet Research. UT News.
  30. News: van Wagtendonk. Anya. April 10, 2015. How and why you should record the police. PBS NewsHour.
  31. Web site: Henricks. Mark. January 4, 2018. Antonio Buehler, Cop Watcher. The Progressive.

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