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| Tuesday, March 27, 2001 CONTACT: Dr. Carolina Acosta-Alzuru, 706/542-5680, cacosta@arches.uga.edu WRITER: Allyson Mann, 706/542-4990, tiny@arches.uga.edu UGA GRADUATE, MEDIA SCHOLAR TO DISCUSS MYTH AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEWS ATHENS, Ga. — University of Georgia graduate and media scholar Jack Lule will discuss how the construction of news draws from myth and archetypal stories at a lecture Wednesday, April 4. Lule's lecture — “News as Myth: Bill Clinton, Mike Tyson, Mother Teresa and Other Stories for Our Time” — will take place at 3:30 p.m. in the South Psychology-Journalism Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. Dr. Carolina Acosta-Alzuru, assistant professor of public relations, said Lule will explain the media's role in constructing reality. "Jack Lule's research reveals how the media do more than just reflect reality," she said. "His lecture will explore how news stories translate events and people into stories and characters that influence how we make sense of the world." A former reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Lule earned a Ph.D. at the Grady College in 1987. Currently he is professor and chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., where he has taught since 1990. Lule is author of more than 50 articles, book chapters, essays and reviews, as well as a book, "Daily News, Eternal Stories: The Mythological Role of Journalism," published this year by The Guilford Press. He is the only three-time winner of the James E. Murphy Award for research given by the Cultural & Critical Studies Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Lule serves on the editorial board for Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, and he continues to contribute articles to newspapers and periodicals. The lecture is sponsored by the Culture Club: Critical Media Studies Interest Group, the Center for Humanities and Arts and the Grady College. The Culture Club is a Grady College organization interested in exploring the relationship between culture and media. Founded by four graduate students in 1997, the Culture Club provides a supportive environment within which students and faculty read and discuss critical cultural media scholarship. The Culture Club has brought several speakers to campus, including James Carey (Columbia University), Angharad Valdivia (University of Illinois), Keyan Tomaselli (University of South Africa) and Farshad Araghi (Florida Atlantic University). |