Teaching and Research Interests
Research Projects
Publications/Presentations
Other Professional Activities
Links

William Husson's Teaching and Research Interests:

• History of Broadcasting and Media Arts
• Semiotic Analysis of Print and Broadcast News
• Wittgensteinian Approaches to the Analysis of Communication Concepts
• Media Consumption and the Practice of Everyday Life
• Erving Goffman and the Conceptualization of Pictorial Meaning
• Children and Media
• Film Studies: Formal and Thematic Approaches

Publications/Presentations

Articles and Book chapters

• Husson, W. "A Wittgensteinian Critique of the Encoding-Decoding Model of Communication." Semiotica, 98-1/2, 1994.
• Harrison, T.S., Stephen, T., Husson, W., and Fehr, B.J. "Images vs. issues in the 1984 presidential election: Differences between men and women." Human Communication Research, December, 1991.
• Husson, W. Review of The Use and Abuse of Television by J. Mallory Wober. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Fall, 1989.
• usson, W., Stephen, T., Harrison, T.S., and Fehr, B.J. "An interpersonal communication perspective on images of political candidates." Human Communication Research, March, 1988.
• Husson, W. Review of Selective Exposure to Communication, edited by D. Zillman and J. Bryant, and Perspectives on Media Effects, edited by J. Bryant and D. Zillman. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Winter, 1987.
• Husson, W. and Krull, R. "Nonstationarity in children's attention to television." Communication Yearbook 7, Ed. R. N. Bostrom, Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1983.
• Husson, W. "Theoretical issues in children's attention to television." Communication Research, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1982.
• Krull, R. and Husson, W.G. "Children's anticipatory attention to the TV screen." Journal of Broadcasting, Winter, 1980.
• Krull, R. and Husson, W.G. "Children's attention: the case of TV viewing." Children Communicating: Media and Development of Thought, Speech, Understanding. Ed., E. Wartella, Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1979.
• Krull, R., Husson, W.G., and Paulson, A.S. "Cycles in children's attention to the television screen." Communication Yearbook 2, Ed., B.D. Ruben, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1978.

Other Professional Activities

• TBA

Links to websites related to research

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