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Join us for
the 2008 TAA Conference at Harrah's in Las Vegas, June 19-21
2008
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Sessions
General
Session
Lawrence
J. Mullen |
Orientation
to Las Vegas' Most Colorful Characters
Friday,
June 20, 8:30 to 9 a.m.
Reno Room
Presenter:
Lawrence J. Mullen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The author
of Las Vegas: Media and Myth (Rowan and Littlefield, 2007)
will share strategies for writing a "cross-over" book: an academic
but highly readable book marketable to a much wider audience.
Mullen will share the book's genesis as well as a candid assessment
of how conducting the scores of interviews reprinted in the book
(of media, political, and entertainment personalities) changed
him and his understanding of Las Vegas, a place he calls home.
He will also share whether he feels he succeeded with his cross-over
book, and whether such an undertaking can hurt or help an academic's
career.
About the
Presenter:
Lawrence
J. Mullen (Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1992) is Associate Professor
in the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies.
His areas of research interest and teaching include visual aesthetics
and media and community. His recent book, Las Vegas: Media
and Myth explores the impact the media have on the transient
community of Las Vegas. His other published research has explored
the phenomenon of visual communication in several setting including
the nexus between community and visuality. His teaching focuses
on visual studies, but has also explored media and reality in
an experimental course on massively multi-player on-line games.
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