Dr. Debra Spitulnik

Associate Professor

Department of Anthropology

Media Publics and Critical Discourse Lab

The Media Publics and Critical Discourse Lab aims to understand, document, and challenge people’s relationships with media and language.  We investigate how media have the power to define reality and to set the tone for public culture and civic life.  We ask about the power relations and habits of talk that sustain or inhibit the production of knowledge.  We are a multi-disciplinary, multi-generational, and multi-ethnic team of media and discourse scholars, educators, and artists.  Our work articulates with progressive politics, social justice movements, and education both in and beyond the academy.

Lab Director

• Dr. Debra Spitulnik

Lab Staff

• Tricia Fogarty
  Emory Graduate Student
  Anthropology

  Sheri Davis
  Emory Graduate Student
  Institute for Liberal Arts

  Michael Singer
  Emory Undergraduate Student
  International Studies