326
Lang Hall
University
of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA
50614-0139
fabos@uni.edu
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2007-Present |
Assistant Professor, Visual Communication, University of Northern Iowa |
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2005-2007 |
Assistant Professor, Interactive Media Studies and Journalism, Miami University of Ohio |
|
2001-present |
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Northern Iowa |
|
2001 |
Spencer Fellow, Spencer Foundation, Chicago |
|
1998-2001 |
Presidential Fellow, University of Iowa |
|
1995-1998 |
Instructor, University of Northern Iowa |
|
1992-1995 |
Lecturer, University of Michigan |
University
of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Ph.D.,
Language Literacy and Culture, 2002.
University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI M.A.,
Telecommunication Arts, 1992.
Oberlin
College, Oberlin, OH B.A.,
Literature, 1987.
Jenson,
J., Gomery, D., Campbell, R., Fabos, B, and Frechette, J (Forthcoming). Media IN Society, New York: Bedford/St. MartinÕs Press.
Campbell,
R., Martin, C. R., and Fabos, B (2010).
Media
Essentials. A
Brief Introduction. New York: Bedford/St. MartinÕs Press.
Campbell,
R., Martin, C.R., and Fabos, B. (2007). Media
and Culture: An Introduction to
Mass Communication 67h edition Update (Also 6th, 5th,
4th, 3rd, 2nd ed.). New York: Bedford/St. MartinÕs.
Fabos,
B., Martin, C.R., and Campbell, R. (2007). InstructorÕs
Resource Manual for Media and
Culture: An Introduction to Mass
Communication 5th edition (Also 4th, 3rd,
2nd, 1st ed.). New York:
Bedford/St. MartinÕs.
Fabos,
B. (2004). Wrong Turn on the
Information Superhighway: Education and the Commercialization of the Internet,
New York: Columbia University Teachers College Press.
Refereed Journals
Fabos,
B. (2006). The Commercial Search
Engine Industry and Alternatives to the Oligopoly. EastBound,
an international refereed journal in the field of media and cultural studies,
published three times a year by the Centre for New Media Research, Budapest.
(1-1). [Online].
Available: http://www.eastbound.eu/journal/2006-1/
Fabos,
B. (Spring, 2005). The Commercialized Web: Challenges for Libraries and
Democracy. Guest Editor, Library
Trends. Winter, 2005.
Lewis,
C. and Fabos, B. (October/November/December 2005). Instant
Messaging, Literacies, and Social Identities. Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 40, No.
4: 470-500. Available: http://www.reading.org/Library/Retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598/RRQ.40.4.5&F=RRQ-40-4Lewis.html
Lewis,
C., Ketter, J., and Fabos, B. (2001). Reading Race in a Rural Context. International
Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 14(3): 317-350.
Fabos, B.
(2001). Forcing the Fairytale:
Narrative Strategies in Women's Figure Skating Competition Coverage. Culture, Sport and Society.
Fabos, B.
(2000, May). ZapMe!
Zaps You. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 43(8): 720-725.
Lewis,
C., and Fabos, B. (2000). But Will
It Work in the Heartland? A
Response and Illustration. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy,
43(5): 462-469.
Fabos,
B., and Young, M. D. (1999, fall).
Telecommunications in the Classroom: Rhetoric vs. Reality.
Review of Educational Research,
69(3): 217-259.
Fabos,
B., & Martin, C. R.
(1998). Imagining the
Perfect School: Popular
Representations of Educational Technology. The Review Journal of
Philosophy & Social Science, No. 1 &
2: 63-82.
Book Chapters
Fabos,
B. (Forthcoming). Critical
Media Literacy: Critiquing Corporate Media with Radical Production. In J. Peck and I. Stole, Moments of Danger:
Critical Studies in the History of U.S.
Communication since 1945. Marquette,
MI: Marquette University Press.
Fabos,
B. (Forthcoming). Visual
Literacy. In J. Jensen, D. Gomery, R. Campbell, B. Fabos and J. Frechette
(Eds.), Media IN Society, New York: Bedford/St.
MartinÕs Press.
Lewis,
C. & Fabos, B. (2008). Instant Messaging, Literacies,
and Social Identities. . Reprinted in D.J. Leu, J. Coiro, M. Knobel & C. Lankshear (Eds.). Handbook of Research
on New Literacies. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates.
Fabos,
B. (2008). The Price of
Information: Critical Literacy,
Education and TodayÕs Internet. In D.J. Leu, J. Coiro,
M. Knobel & C. Lankshear
(Eds.). Handbook
of Research on New Literacies. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates.
Fabos, B.
(2006). Learning Through Critical
Literacy: Why Google is Not
Enough. Joe Lockard
and Mark Pegrum, Eds., Brave New Classrooms: Educational Democracy and the Internet
(pp. 169-188) New York: Peter Lang.
Fabos,
B. (2006). Search Engine Anatomy: The Industry and its Commercial
Structure. In (Cushla Kapitske and Chip Bruce, Eds.), Libr@ries: Changing Information Space and Practices. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates.
Fabos, B.
(2001). Forcing the Fairytale: Narrative Strategies in Women's Figure Skating
Competition Coverage. In Stephen G. Wieting (ed.) Sport and Memory in North America (pp.
185-212). London: Frank Cass Publishers.
Fabos,
B. (1999). From Rags to
Riches: The Story of Class
Advancement in WomenÕs Figure Skating Coverage, in Mediated Women:
Representations of Women in Popular Culture, Meyers, M. ed.,
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc.
Invited Articles
Fabos,
B. (2007). Rejoinder to
ÒPositioning and Identity in Chinatown:
The SARS Outbreak.Ó Pedagogies: An International Journal. Edited by Allan Luke and published by
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Volume: 1, Number: 1-4 2006.
Fabos,
B. (2002). Instant Messaging. In (B. Guzetti,
Ed.), Literacy in America: An Encyclopedia. New York: ABC: CLIO.
Martin,
C. R. , & Fabos, B. (1998). Wiring the Kids: The TV Ad Blitz to Get the Internet
into Home and School. Images: A
Journal of Film and Popular Culture, 6 (September),
http://www.imagesjournal.com.
Martin, C. R. & Fabos, B. (1997). Finding the Pulse of Athletic Human Drama. Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture,
3, (March) http://www.qni.com/~ijournal/index.html.
Book Reviews
Fabos,
B. (2001). Book review, ÒWeaving a Virtual Web:
Practical Approaches to New Information Technologies,Ó Harvard Educational Review 71(1),
130-135.
Fabos, B.
(Forthcoming).
Dissertation
Fabos,
B. (2002). A Commercial Highway in Every Classroom. Doctoral dissertation, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
Selected Conferences and Invited Presentations
Fabos,
B. (2008). Visualizing
Research: An Interdisciplinary
Workshop on Image Creation and Exhibition. Leader, 2008 Carver Graduate Education Summer Institute at
University of Northern Iowa, May 19-29.
Fabos,
B. (2007). Making Critical Media:
Bringing Radical Production into the Classroom. Union for
Democratic Communications Conference. Vancouver, CA.
October 24-27
Fabos
B. (2007). Presenter. Teaching Panel Session: Helping Students Think Like Disruptive
Innovators: Mindsets and
Applications, Association for the Education of Journalism and Mass
Communication, August 11, 2007.
Fabos, B. & Fabos, A. (2007)
ÒInteractive Multimedia and Holistic Representation: The Ari-Gyuszi
Project.Ó Paper presented at Documentary Now! A Conference on
the Contemporary Context and Possibilities for the Documentary Genre. Brunel University School of Arts,
London, 14 April 2007.
Fabos, B. & Fabos, A.
(2007) ÒEntangled Narratives,
Contingent Lives: A story of a sister who stayed and a brother who
left.Ó Paper presented at the symposium, Refugee Narratives, Centre for
Narrative Research and Refugee Research Centre, University of East London,
London, 20 April 2007.
Fabos,
B. (2006). Visual
Literacy Workshop. National Council of Teachers of English Annual Conference. Nashville, TN, November 21-26.
Fabos,
B. (2006). Workshop
Presenter. ÒWhy We ShouldnÕt Trust
Commercial Search Engines.Ó Illinois School Library Media Association Conference. Chicago, IL, November 9-11.
Fabos,
B. (2006). Presenter. Building Critical Media. Action Coalition for
Media Education (ACME).
Burlington, VT, October 6-8.
Fabos,
B. (2006). Moderator. Teaching Panel Session: Teaching Documentary: Plastic Realities and Critical Media,
Association for the Education of Journalism and Mass Communication, August 5,
2006.
Fabos,
A. & Fabos, B. (2006).
Presenter. Family
Encounters: Representing Stories of Home and Exile for First- and
Second-generation Hungarians.
International Association for the Study of Forced Migration Annual
Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 18-22, 2006.
Fabos,
B. (2006). Presenter. An Exploration of
Commercialism in U.S. Public Schools. Re-imagining Urban Education: Leadership, Culture and
Pedagogy. 6th Annual
Miami University Department of Educational Leadership Conference, Toronto,
Canada, June 18-22, 2006.
Fabos,
B. (2005). Presenter. The Commercial Search Engine Industry
and Alternatives to the Oligopoly.
Presented at the Re-Activism: Re-drawing the boundaries of activism in
new media environment, Budapest, Oct. 14-15, 2005.
Fabos,
B. (2004). Presenter. Critical Media Literacy and the
Web. Presented at the National
Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Conference, Indianapolis, November 20.
Fabos,
B (2004). Presenter. Critical Literacy and the Commercialized
Web. Presented at the American Educational Research Association
(AERA) Annual Meeting 2004, San Diego, April 14.
Martin,
C. and Fabos, B. (2004). Presenter.
Labor Unions and the Information Superhighway:
Two Critical Studies on Media.
Invited presentation, Communication Studies Seminar, University of Iowa,
February 10.
Fabos,
B. (2003). Presenter. Search Engine
Commercialization and Critical Literacy. Cedar Falls, IA. Oct. 11.
Fabos, B. (2003). Presenter. From Information Highway to Commercial
Highway: The Corporate Strategy to Wire AmericaÕs Schools. Presented at the Association for the Education
of Mass Communication and Journalism (AEJMC) Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO,
August 2.
Fabos, B. and Lewis, C. (2002) Keynote Address: IM in Control:
The Uses of Instant Messaging Among Adolescents. Presented at the Iowa
Council of Teachers of English (ICTE) Annual Meeting, Des Moines, IA, October 11.
Fabos, B. (2002). Presenter. Workshop: Critical Literacy and the
Web. Presented at the Iowa Council
of Teachers of English (ICTE) Annual Meeting, Des Moines, IA, October 11.
Fabos, B.
(2002). Presenter. Searching for
Educational Content in the For-Profit Internet. Presented at the American Educational Research Association
(AREA) Annual Meeting, 2002. New
Orleans, LA.
Fabos, B.
(2001). Presenter. Media in the
Classroom: An Alternative History.
Presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual
Meeting 2001. Seattle, WA.
Fabos, B.
(2000). Presenter. ZapMe! Zaps You.
Spring 2000 Capstone Lecture. University of Northern Iowa, Cedar
Falls, IA.
Lewis, C. and Fabos, B. (1999, December). Presenter.
Chatting On-Line: GirlsÕ Use of
Chat Room Literacy. Presented at
the National Reading Conference, 49th Annual Meeting. Orlando, FL.
Fabos,
B. (1999). Presenter.
Framing a Fairytale:
Narrative Strategies of WomenÕs Figure Skating Competition. Presented at the Sport & Cultural
Distinctiveness Symposium, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, May 28-30.
Martin,
C.R. and Fabos, B. (1998). Presenter.
Cyberstudent Fantasies:
The World Wide Web in the Local Classroom. Presented at The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural
Theory: magic.metaphor.and.power.
Drake University, Des Moines, IA.
Martin, C. R. & Fabos, B. (1997). Presenter. Olympian Melodrama:
The Excess of NBCÕs 1996 Olympic Games. Presented at the Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Annual Meeting,
Qualitative Studies Division, Chicago, IL.
Fabos, B.
& Sarris, T. (1996). Presenter. Console-ing Passions conference screening of JimmieÕs Eyes, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Fabos,
B. (1995).
Presenter. Class, the Beauty Myth, and WomenÕs Figure
Skating Coverage. Presented
at the Association for the Education of Journalism and Mass Communication
(AEJMC) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
Fabos,
B. (1993). Presenter. Alone on the
Ice: Narrative Strategies of
Women's Figure Skating Championship Coverage. Presented at the
Association for Education of Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Annual
Meeting, Kansas City, MO.
Popular Communication
Routledge Press
Pedagogies
Critical
and Cultural Studies
Teaching
Education
Grants
Received
Summer Research Grant,
College of Arts and Sciences, Miami University of Ohio ($4,000, Spring 2005)
Interdisciplinary
Program Development Grant ($2,500, Spring 2010).
Fabos, B.,
Fabos A. Work In Progress.
Co-Producer. Two Sides of the Iron Curtain. Interactive multimedia narrative about
Julius Fabos and Ari Fabos Hevizi (brother and
sister), born in Hungary in the early 1930s. The project concerns the separation of siblings during the
onset of communism, and considers the issues of memory, identity and
nationality as they apply to documentary film. Combining the disciplines of Anthropology, Refugee Studies,
Documentary Film Theory, and Interactive Media Studies, this multimedia
narrative will be groundbreaking in terms of placing a documentary narrative in
an interactive multimedia format.
Fabos, B.
and Platt, G. 92005). Co-Executive
Producers. Development
Office Project. Interactive
CD and database, built in a Miami University Capstone Class. Winner of the Apex
Award, Multimedia & Interactive Publications.
Fabos,
B. (2009). Playboating in Cedar Falls, IA.
[Video
Documentary].
Fabos,
B. (2006). Executive Producer.
Critical Media. Pedagogical
media tool for media studies classrooms.
18 4 -8-minute clips. This project provides a model for how to teach both critical
skills and appropriate fair use in the classroom. Winner of the Free Speech/Free Press Grand
Prize Award (University of Film and Video Association). [DVD and
Website]. Available at: www.uni.edu/fabos/criticalmedia
Fabos,
B. (2006). Executive
Producer. About the Media. Video Clips DVD to Accompany Media and
Culture. New York: Bedford St. MartinÕs Press. [DVD].
Fabos, B. (Executive Producer). The Local Food Project. [Video Series,
2003-4].
Fabos, B. (Producer and Director). Meet the Symphony
[Video Documentary, 2001].
Fabos,
B. (Executive Producer) Communication
Studies Graduate Program [Promotional Video, 1997]
Fabos, B.
(Producer and Director) & Sarris, T. (Producer and Director). Jimmie's Eyes' [Video Documentary, 1995].
Fabos, B.
(Producer and Director). Secretary
(is a female word) [Video Art,
1994].
Fabos, B.
(Producer) & Barringer, C. (Director). Good
Dinner, Hon [Video Art, 1994].
Fabos, B.
(Producer and Director). What is a Wife? [Video Art, 1993].
Fabos, B.
(Producer and Director). Betty Bride [Video Art, 1992].
Fabos, B.
(Producer and Director). Barbie-Q [Video
Art and Installment Piece, 1991].
Fabos, B.
(Producer and Director). Lessons [Video Art, 1991].
Fabos, B.
(Producer and Director). After the Ballet [Video Art, 1991].
Fabos, B.
(Producer and Director). Guess What? Mum's Come to Visit [Video Art, 1991].
Fabos, B.
(Producer, Sound Engineer, and Editor) & Caruana,
J. (Director). Breakfast in America [Film
Documentary (16mm) 1991].
Art in
General exhibit featuring Good Dinner,
Hon, New York, NY. (1995).
Center for
New Television premiere screening of Secretary
is a Female Word, The Bop Shop, Chicago, IL (1994).
Second
Annual Women's Film Festival featuring Lessons,
Women's Resource Center of New York, Inc., New York, NY
(1994).
The Central
Arts Collective "The Nielsons Don't Live Here
Anymore" exhibit, featuring What is a Wife, Betty Bride, and
Lessons, Tucson, AZ (1994).
20th Athens
International Film and Video Festival screening of Betty Bride, Athens, OH (1993).
12th American Film Institute (AFI) National Video Festival New Work
Award for Lessons, Hollywood, CA
(1993).
National
Conference of the Society for Photographic Education/Women's Caucus film and
video program: "Film & Videos by Women," featuring Lessons, Seattle, WA (1993).
Michigan
Update '93 Film and Video Festival, screening of Betty Bride and Lessons,
Detroit, MI (1993).
New Angle Video Festival Award for Lessons
at Angle Intermedia, Downtown Community Television,
New York, NY (1992).
Poetry
Short Video Festival screening of
Lessons, San Francisco, CA (1992).
Decordova
Contemporary Art Museum exhibit featuring
Lessons in Lincoln, MA (June-Sept, 1992).
"Talking
About Mom," art exhibit at the University of Michigan featuring Guess What? Mum's Come to Visit in Ann Arbor, MI (1992).
The Lost Landscape: The American Tall Grass Prairie (2004, 60
minutes). Film documentary directed by David OÕShields.
August/September, 2002-2004.
Iowa
Independent Film and Video Festival III, 1998, 1997, 1996
Co-director of
nonprofit Midwestern film and video festival, in
cooperation with the University of Northern Iowa. Reviewed film and video submissions, headed juries that
selected entries for screening and award-winners. Attendance
of more than 400 people during the two-day festival.
Sunday
Series, an independent community film series, 1997-1998
Co-director of successful nonprofit international/independent community film series at the Oster Regent Theatre in Cedar Falls, with project director Christopher Martin and the Cedar Arts Forum.
Growing up
Female, 1994
Directed video art exhibit at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Reviewed more than 25 videos and films and selected 6 entries for a
special topical screening.
In Search of Family Values, 1992
Directed video art exhibit at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Reviewed more than 30 videos and films
and selected 8 entries for a special topical screening.
Talking
About Mom, 1992
Directed video art exhibit at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Selected 8 videos and films for a
special topical screening.
Grand Prize Winner of Faculty/Student Collaboration ($1500). Free Speech and Fair Use Contest. University Film and Video Association
(2006, August). [Online:
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/videos/sets/critical_media/]
Apex
Award, Multimedia & Interactive Publications, Development Project,
Interactive Media Studies Capstone (2006, Spring.)
Delta Kappa Gamma EducatorÕs Award. ÒThis award recognizes outstanding
women authors whose work may influence the direction of thought and action
necessary to meet the needs of todayÕs complex society.Ó (August,
2005).
D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize for the top dissertation
at the University of Iowa, 2002. ÒNominees' dissertations represent highly
original work that is an unusually
significant
contribution to their fields. Each year the winner of the D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize has been the University
of Iowa's nominee in the national competition for the Council of Graduate
Schools/University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation Award.Ó
(2002)
Howard R.
Jones Achievement Award for Òa student in a graduate program in the College of
Education at the University of Iowa who has made a noteworthy scholarly
presentation at a national professional conference or who has published a
significant scholarly article in a reputable professional journal or other
substantial work.Ó (2001)
Spencer
Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for a doctoral candidate who brings fresh
insights to Òthe history, theory, and practice of formal or informal education
practices in the world.Ó (2001-2002)
Presidential Fellowship, University of Iowa (1998-2001).
The NEA Regional Media Arts Fellowship (1993).
Newton Television Foundation Outstanding Student Video Award for Lessons at the New England Film and
Video Festival, Boston, MA (1992).
Certificate of Merit Award for Breakfast
in America at the Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago, IL (1992).
Best Film
of the Year Award for Breakfast in
America at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (1991).
Undergraduate
Courses
Technology
and Human Communication
Interactive
Digital Communication
Media
LIteracy
Online
Journalism
Interactive
Media Studies Capstone
Digital
Video Editing
Digital
Culture & Production/Communication Technology/Technology and Human
Communication
Introduction
to Visual Media
Mass
Communication and Society
Introduction
to Electronic Media
Video
Production: Field Production
Electronic
Media Literacy
Television
Content and Criticism: Documentary Theory
Beginning Writing for Electronic Media.
News
Writing for Print Media
Public
Relations Writing
Video
Practicum
Broadcast
Newswriting and Criticism
Television
and Radio Scriptwriting
Introduction
to Television Directing
Graduate Courses
Seminar
in Communication: Mass Communication
Seminar
in Communication: Visualizing
Research and Performance
2002-Present Faculty Advisor
to Cedar River Productions, student media production organization. Conduct weekly meetings,
facilitate video projects for paying clients.
2004-Present Board member,
Board of Control of Student Broadcasting
2010-Present Communications
Committee, United Faculty
2010-Present Advisor, Digital
Collective
Membership in Professional Associations
Association
for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
National
Conference on Media Reform
Action
Coalition for Media Education (ACME)
American
Educational Research Association (AREA)
Union for Democratic
Communications (UDC)
Iowa
Educational Technology Connection (ITEC)
National
Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP)
Bettina Fabos Productions
Proprietor,
video production company producing commercial videos and video documentaries.(1992-1995)
Gardner Communications, Ann Arbor, MI
Associate
producer for independent video production company producing commercial videos.
(1992-1994)
Aga Khan Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland
Editorial
assistant for U.N.-related foundation dedicated to recognizing architecture in
the Arab world (1989)
New England
Monthly, Haydenville, MA
Art
assistant and editorial assistant for regional, award-winning magazine,
circulation 100,000 (1987-1989)
Paris Free
Voice, Paris,
France
Freelance
feature writer for the monthly city newspaper, circulation 100,000 (1988)
Daily
Hampshire Gazette,
Northampton, MA
Beat
reporter and feature writer for daily newspaper serving the greater Northampton
area, circulation 18,500 (1987-1989)
Amherst
Bulletin, Amherst,
MA
Feature
writer and arts critic for the weekly broadsheet newspaper serving Amherst, MA,
circulation 12,000 (1988)