Dr. Joel Penney
Associate Professor, School of Communication and Media
Email: penneyj@montclair.edu
Office: 973-655-4261
Faculty Profile
Expert on political communication, social media and politics, and LGBTQ media representation.
Areas of Expertise
- Political Communication
- Social Media and Politics
- LGBTQ in Media
Books
Media
- From a teen storm chaser to an N.J. mayor, social media changed how we saw Ida (NJ.com)
- Why we’re shaming N.J. residents who don’t social distance, even though it won’t make them stay home (NJ.com)
- How memes create social and political change (The Guardian)
- The imperial ambitions of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (The New Statesman)
-
Montgomery brawl speaks to state of civility in America (Christian Science Monitor)
- Conservative pop culture is having a moment (The Hill)
- ‘Rich Men North of Richmond,’ ‘Sound of Freedom’ and the conservative pop culture moment (USA Today)
- Why Barack Obama’s sexuality became a news story, and then a conspiracy theory (Political Fact)
- The Excerpt podcast: Is pop culture becoming more conservative? (USA Today)
- How Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce became the focus of baseless political conspiracy theories (Associated Press)
- Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce conspiracy theories abound on political right with K.C. Chiefs in Super Bowl (CBS News)