As an emerging communications scholar, my interests lie in media studies that could benefit activists and social movements. Heavily interdisciplinary, my writing draws on work by media and communications scholars, as well as historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, literary theorists, and philosophers. My interests include framing theory, framing U.S. foreign policy, reception theory, political economy, critical media theory, radical political theory, anarchist studies, continental philosophy, science and technology studies, ethnography and interview-based inquiry, and activism or social movement activity.
My doctoral dissertation addresses a glaring gap in critical media studies by constructing an anarchist account of news media power and interactions between news media and social movements. Currently, I am rewriting chapters from this manuscript as journal article submissions, as well as revising and extending the manuscript for a book project.
For my Master’s thesis, I examined how the New York Times, America’s “paper of record,” framed U.S. involvement in Colombia’s long internal conflict, by performing a content analysis of 794 news items that appeared in the Times during an important 12-year period in U.S.-Colombia relations.
Graduate Research
Tedrow, M.A. (2015). Black Sails on the Mediascape: Towards an Anarchist Theory of News Media and Media-Movement Interactions. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.
Tedrow, M.A. (2009). Framing U.S. Involvement in Colombia: A Content Analysis of the New York Times, 1997-2008. Unpublished master’s thesis, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.
Invited Talks and Presentations
Tedrow, M.A. (2013). Negotiating the News: Activists Talking to Reporters and Editors. Presentation and discussion on activist-journalist relations. Presented at the 2013 Coastal Bend Social Forum, Texas A&M University — Corpus Christi, TX, February 2013.
Kelley, J. & Tedrow, M.A. (2009). Media and Walls: Under, Around and Over. Presentation and panel discussion on structuring alternative media to overcome competitive disadvantages with mainstream media. Presented at the Walls Symposium, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, February 2009.
Jarrell, M., Kelley, J. & Tedrow, M.A. (2008). Alternative Media and Corporate Coke: Las Brisas. Presentation and panel discussion on media coverage of the proposed Las Brisas Energy Center. Presented at Texas A&M University — Corpus Christi, TX, December 2008.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers
Tedrow, M.A. (2011). Framing Colombia: Problem Definition and Remedy in the New York Times, 1997-2008. Paper presented to the International Communication Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, St. Louis, MO, August 2011.
Tedrow, M.A. (2010). Theorizing Media and Movements: A Framework for Linking Theory and Strategy. Paper presented to Union for Democratic Communication (UDC) annual conference, State College, PA, October 2010.
In the Works
Feel free to contact me if you wish to discuss any of these back-burnered papers.
Tedrow, M.A. Supply-Side Mythologies: A Critical View of the U.S.-Colombian War on Drugs. Unpublished paper.
Tedrow, M.A. & Bajwa, H. Source Diversity in New York Times U.S.-Colombia Coverage, 1997-2008. Unpublished paper.
Tedrow, M.A. Schooling Newsworkers: The Political Economy of Journalism Schools. Unpublished paper.