Mark your calendar for two events involving Professor Steve Clayman
from UCLA later in March:
1. Sociology Departmental Colloquium: Wednesday, March 30, 12:15 p.m.,
Sewell Social Sci. Bldg, room 8417
Questioning Authority: The White House Press Corps as Watchdog,
Lapdog, or Attack Dog?
2. Data session with Steve Clayman: Friday, April 1, 3-5:00 p.m. in 8108 Sewell (Havens Center).
Steven E. Clayman is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research concerns the interface between talk, interaction, and social institutions, with an emphasis on journalism and the mass media. He has examined broadcast new interviews, presidential news conferences, political speeches, and various forms of journalistic gatekeeping. He has authored more than forty articles and is the co-author (with John Heritage) of The News Interview: Journalists and Public Figures On the Air (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Talk in Action: Interactions, Identities, and Institutions (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
