Dr. Lee Shaker, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  Office phone: 503.725.2282
  Office hours: Wednesday, 3-5pm (spring 2012)
  Email: lshaker@pdx.edu
  Webpage: leeshaker.com
  University Center Building 440
  Office: 440F

Degrees

PhD | University of Pennsylvania
MA | University of Pennsylvania
BA | University of California at Santa Barbara

Focus Areas

Political Communication
Mass Communication

Research Interests

Urban Communication
Politics & Media
New Communication Technologies

Courses Taught

Comm 212: Mass Communication and Society
Comm 312: Media Literacy
Comm 437/537: Urban Communication

Bio

Lee Shaker is a mass & political communication scholar. His primary interest lies in understanding the ways that new communication technologies affect the functioning and governance of local communities. To this end, one of his recent research projects focuses on illuminating the relationship between the expansion of media choice and citizens' local political knowledge. A second project is focused on measuring the effect of local newspaper closures upon citizens' civic and political engagement. For more information, please visit his website.

Publications

Shaker, L. (In Press). Local Political Knowledge and Assessments of Citizen Competence. Public Opinion Quarterly.

Berinsky, A.J., Hutchings, V.L., Mendelberg, T., Shaker, L. and N.A. Valentino. (2011) Does Barack Obama Suffer a Racial Disadvantage? Political Behavior, 33 (2), 179-202.

Shaker, L. & Ben Porath, E.N. (2010). News Images, Race, and Attribution in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina. Journal of Communication, 60 (3), 466-490.

Shaker, L. (2009). Citizens’ Local Political Knowledge and the Role of Media Access. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 86 (4), 809-826.

Recent Work

Curriculum Vita