Phone:
(205)
348-8654
Office:
480A
Phifer
Email:
jbryant [at] icr.ua.edu
Personal web page: www.icr.ua.edu/jbryant
Research/Teaching/Creative Work:
Jennings
Bryant is Professor of Communication, holder of the Reagan endowed
Chair of Broadcasting. Author or editor of more than a dozen books, 60 book chapters,
and 50 referred journal articles, Bryant’s primary research interests
are in entertainment theory, media effects, advanced communications
technologies and systems, and media education. Bryant currently serves
as co-editor of the Journal Media Psychology.
Classes recently taught:
MC 101 Introduction to Mass Communication
MC 550 Research Methods
Select Publications and Creative
Work:
Bryant, J., & Thompson, S. (2001). Fundamentals of media effects.
New York: McGraw-Hill.
Bryant, J., & Bryant, J. A. (2001). Television and the
American family, 2nd ed. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Heath, R. H., & Bryant, J. (2000). Human communication
theories and research: Concepts, contexts, challenges, 2nd ed.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
