Sydney Forde
Biographic Data
| ID | 4900679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sydney Forde |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sydney |
| FAMILY NAME | Forde |
| SIGNATURE | FORDE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Public media lobbying
This paper focuses on the governance structure that links US public television station’s largest federal lobbying firm (America’s Public Television Stations or APTS) with the recently approved ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard, in which APTS is a major advocate. Using a political economic approach to understand the incentives and motivations behind seemingly contradictory APTS lobbying efforts, we interrogate a string of relationships between large ind…
Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible
Mandy Tröger and Sydney L. Forde explore the impact that Robert W. McChesney's work has had on both the communication field and on their work as the new generation of scholars. To honor [McChesney], they write, is not to look up in awe, but look out...toward the unfinished work of building a more democratic field and society
Shifting Neoliberalism in US Telecommunications Policy
Popular narratives characterising neoliberal economic orthodoxy hold that all forms of government intervention are counter-productive to free markets. Conservatives who claim to embody such liberalism often trace opposition to government interventions to two founding Chicago School economists, Friedrich August von Hayek and Milton Friedman. Through close examinations of the seminal works from Hayek and Friedman, this paper complicates the relatio…
The racialized celebrity other in perfume advertisements
Despite significant scholarship on the semiotics and ideology of perfume advertising, its racialized nature is underexamined. This is surprising given perfume-ad characteristics that incentivize racialized representations, especially ads using celebrities, and racist constructions of smell and scent. Using critical advertising studies, sensory studies, and bell hooks’ concept of the racialized Other, this article argues that perfume ads are marke…
More Than Politics
Considerable work has been devoted to studying voter behavior in U.S. presidential elections by analyzing their political participation and attitude toward political advertising. Less is known about how other factors may alter voter behavior like personality traits and use of information and communication technology (ICT). This study analyzes vote likelihood among American young voters and their parents ( N = 674) after they watched four presiden…
Good morning, Covid!” the inertia of journalistic imaginaries in morning shows’ online comments
This textual analysis examines meanings of user comments to Facebook posts of three UK breakfast programs as COVID-19 entered England in 2020. This analysis suggests that during this time of crisis and uncertainty, users’ – even if trolling, interacting through incidental media use, or commenting as regular contributors to the pages – relied on traditional and lasting interpretations of conventional journalistic standards in their discourse surro…
Good morning, Covid!” the inertia of journalistic imaginaries in morning shows’ online comments
This textual analysis examines meanings of user comments to Facebook posts of three UK breakfast programs as COVID-19 entered England in 2020. This analysis suggests that during this time of crisis and uncertainty, users’ – even if trolling, interacting through incidental media use, or commenting as regular contributors to the pages – relied on traditional and lasting interpretations of conventional journalistic standards in their discourse surro…
More Than Politics
Considerable work has been devoted to studying voter behavior in U.S. presidential elections by analyzing their political participation and attitude toward political advertising. Less is known about how other factors may alter voter behavior like personality traits and use of information and communication technology (ICT). This study analyzes vote likelihood among American young voters and their parents ( N = 674) after they watched four presiden…
Good morning, Covid!” the inertia of journalistic imaginaries in morning shows’ online comments
This textual analysis examines meanings of user comments to Facebook posts of three UK breakfast programs as COVID-19 entered England in 2020. This analysis suggests that during this time of crisis and uncertainty, users’ – even if trolling, interacting through incidental media use, or commenting as regular contributors to the pages – relied on traditional and lasting interpretations of conventional journalistic standards in their discourse surro…
The racialized celebrity other in perfume advertisements
Despite significant scholarship on the semiotics and ideology of perfume advertising, its racialized nature is underexamined. This is surprising given perfume-ad characteristics that incentivize racialized representations, especially ads using celebrities, and racist constructions of smell and scent. Using critical advertising studies, sensory studies, and bell hooks’ concept of the racialized Other, this article argues that perfume ads are marke…
Shifting Neoliberalism in US Telecommunications Policy
Popular narratives characterising neoliberal economic orthodoxy hold that all forms of government intervention are counter-productive to free markets. Conservatives who claim to embody such liberalism often trace opposition to government interventions to two founding Chicago School economists, Friedrich August von Hayek and Milton Friedman. Through close examinations of the seminal works from Hayek and Friedman, this paper complicates the relatio…
Public media lobbying
This paper focuses on the governance structure that links US public television station’s largest federal lobbying firm (America’s Public Television Stations or APTS) with the recently approved ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard, in which APTS is a major advocate. Using a political economic approach to understand the incentives and motivations behind seemingly contradictory APTS lobbying efforts, we interrogate a string of relationships between large ind…
Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible
Mandy Tröger and Sydney L. Forde explore the impact that Robert W. McChesney's work has had on both the communication field and on their work as the new generation of scholars. To honor [McChesney], they write, is not to look up in awe, but look out...toward the unfinished work of building a more democratic field and society
Political science (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Media Influence and Health (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Public Relations and Crisis Communication (2 works) · Social Media and Politics (2 works) · Advertising (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work)