Department of Journalism & Media Studies
School of Communication,
Information and Library Sciences
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone 732-932-7500 ext: 8174
Email dkumar[at]scils.rutgers.edu
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Articles in scholarly journals
“Heroes, Victims, and Veils: Women’s
Liberation and the Rhetoric of Empire Post 9/11,”
Forum on Public Policy (journal of the Oxford Roundtable), 2008.
"Media, War, and Propaganda: Strategies of Information Management during the 2003 Iraq War," Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Vol. 3, no. 1, March, 2006.
“Unveiling Imperialism: Media, Gender, and the War on Afghanistan,” Media, Culture and Society, with Carol Stabile, Vol. 27, no. 5, September, 2005.
“‘What’s Good for UPS is Good For America’: Nation and Class in Network Television News Coverage of the UPS Strike,” Television and New Media, Vol. 6, No. 2, May, 2005.
“War Propaganda and the (Ab)uses of Women: Media Constructions of the Jessica Lynch Story,” Feminist Media Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, November, 2004.
“Mass Media, Class and Democracy: The Struggle Over Newspaper Representation of the UPS Strike,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, Vol. 18, No. 3, September 2001, pp. 285-302.
Essays in anthologies
“Corporate Media, Globalization, and the Working Class: The Struggle for Hegemony during the 1997 UPS Strike” in Catherine McKercher and Vincent Mosco (Eds.) Knowledge Workers in the Information Society. Lexington Books, 2007.
“Media, Culture, and Society: The Relevance of Marx’s Dialectical Method,” in Lee Artz, Steve Macek and Dana Cloud (Eds.) Marxism and Communication Studies: The Point is to Change It. Peter Lang, 2006.
“Media, Class, and Power: Debunking the Myth of a Classless Society” lead essay in Don Heider (Ed.) Class and News. Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.
Articles in alternative media
Obama’s Cairo Speech: A Rhetorical Shift in US Imperialism
SW Online,
June, 2009
(reprinted in
MRZine
and
Dissident Voice).
Behind the Myths about Hamas
ISR, March-April, 2009
Ron Carey: Working Class Hero
Monthly Review Zine, December 16,
2008
Hands off Iran : Why Iranian Women don’t need rescuing by the US
Znet, Oct. 3, 2007 and Monthly
Review Zine
Ten Years Since the UPS Strike: Globalization and Inequality
Znet, July 19, 2007
Islam: Myth and Reality
International Socialist Review 52, March-April 2007
US Media, Israel, and Lebanese Civilians
Monthly Review Zine, July 23, 2006
Amnesty Now! The Immigration Debate
Monthly Review Zine, May 16, 2006
Danish Cartoons: Racism Has No Place on the Left
Monthly Review
Zine, February 21, 2006
Fighting Islamophobia: A Response to Critics
Monthly
Review Zine, March 4, 2006
Reviews
Review essay on four books, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, Vol. 61, 2, 2006.
Review of two documentaries, Afghanistan Unveiled, by Birgitte Barult and the Aina Women Filming Group; and Afghanistan, The Lost Truth, by Yassamin Maleknasr, National Women's Studies Association Journal, special issue on "States of Insecurity and the Gendered Politics of Fear," Vol. 17, No. 3, 2005, pp. 195-7.
“The Mass Media, New Information Technology and the Prospects for Democracy Internationally,” comparative book review essay in International Studies Review, Vol. 1, 3, Fall, 1999, pp. 138-43.
RADIO
"Media Matters" with Robert McChesney January 20, 2009
WBAI interview May 1, 2007
CounterSpin interview June 1, 2007
WBAI interview August 1, 2007
WBAI Roundtable on "Islam and the Structure of Global Power"
Part 1 November 18, 2007
Part 2 November 25 2007
VIDEO
BOOK LAUNCH at SUNY-Stony Brook, May 7, 2007
Long Island Alternative Media
Public Access TV
On Islamophobia