Creating Television: Conversations With the People Behind 50 Years of American TV
A Volume in LEA's Communication Series, © Copyright 2004

Robert Kubey (kubey@scils.rutgers.edu)
Director, Center for Media Studies (www.mediastudies.rutgers.edu)
Professor, Dept of Journalism & Media Studies, Rutgers University

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About the Author

Robert Kubey is Director of the Center for Media Studies and Professor of Journalism & Media Studies, at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey www.mediastudies.rutgers.edu Dr. Kubey can be reached at kubey@scils.rutgers.edu.

Trained as a developmental psychologist at the University of Chicago, Professor Kubey has been an Annenberg Scholar in Media Literacy at the University of Pennsylvania, and a National Institute of Mental Health research fellow in the Program in Social Ecology at the University of California at Irvine. Dr. Kubey has also been a Visiting Professor at Stanford University.

Creating Television is Professor Kubey's third book. The first, Television and the Quality of Life (1990, LEA) was co-authored with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and the second was Media Literacy in the Information Age (1997/2001, Transaction).

Robert Kubey has written articles for the New York Times, Scientific American, Newsweek, Christian Science Monitor, Education Week, and other major newspapers and magazines. News reports about his research have been carried by the major wire services and news outlets of the world. Professor Kubey has appeared on numerous national television and radio news and talk programs including The Today Show, A Closer Look, CBS Sunday Morning, and Show Business Today.

Professor Kubey has spoken before -- or served as a consultant to -- The Discovery Channel, The Children's Television Workshop, the British Film Institute, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the FCC, and Nickelodeon and MTV Networks.