Stephen Banning
Professor, Advertising and Public Relations
Biography
Stephen A. Banning researches media effects focusing on the third-person effect, agenda setting and persuasion. Banning has published over thirty peer reviewed scholarly articles in journals including American Behavioral Scientist,ÌýJournalism and Mass Communication Quarterly,ÌýMass Communication & Society,ÌýNewspaper Research Journal,ÌýCommunication Quarterly,ÌýCommunication Research Reports,ÌýVisual Communication Quarterly,ÌýJournalism History, Journal of Applied Communication,ÌýAmerican Journalism, Public Relations ReviewÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýJournal of Advertising Education. Banning worked professionally in radio, television, public relations and advertising before coming to academia. He currently teaches advertising courses in addition to research methods and media law and ethics. He reviews for a number of scholarly journals and has been on the editorial boards of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media,ÌýMass Communication & SocietyÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýJournal of Computer Mediated Communication. He recently solo authored the book Journalism Standards of Work Today: Using History to Create a New Code of Journalism Ethics published in 2020.