I am the author of more than 50 scholarly articles and book chapters. I have tried to put as much of my research as possible online. I have also enabled it to be downloaded. Much of that research can be found at ResearchGate.
I also have published dozens of op-ed columns over the years. Here is a sample of op-eds, from national and local publications, such as The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer and more.
I have also published three books:
Globalization and Media: Global Village of Babel, 4th edition, revised and updated. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. (previous editions 2011, 2015, 2018).
The book argues for the central role of media in understanding globalization. Indeed, the book shows that globalization could not have occurred without media. From earliest times, humans have used media to explore, settle, and globalize their world.
Decades ago, Marshall McLuhan prophesied that media technology would transform the world into a “global village.” Slowly, fitfully, his vision is being fulfilled. The global village, however, is not the blissful utopia that McLuhan predicted. Nor, in a more modern formulation, is the world flat, with playing fields leveled and opportunities for all. Instead, the book argues, globalization and media are combining to create a divided world of gated communities and ghettos, borders and boundaries, suffering and surfeit, beauty and decay – a global village of Babel.
Understanding Media and Culture in the 2020s: An Introduction to Mass Communication, 3rd edition, revised and updated. New York: Flatworld Publishers, 2022. (previous editions 2012, 2018).
Years ago, greatly bothered by the obscene price of introductory mass communication textbooks, I decided to undertake an undergraduate text for Flatworld Publishing, which is committed to providing free and low-cost online alternatives for college texts. The book covers each of the traditional media, from print through digital. I strived to provide students a compelling, historical narrative sketching the ongoing evolution of media technology and how that technology shapes and is shaped by culture. In 2013, the book was translated into Vietnamese.
Daily News, Eternal Stories: The Mythological Role of Journalism, New York: Guilford Press, 2001.
The book uses case studies of The New York Times to explore the mythic role of news in social life. The book has attracted strong scholarly and national attention. It won the Lewis Mumford Award for Research from the Media Ecology Association, New York, NY, in June 2002. It was also a finalist for the Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award for the best book in journalism and mass communication research published in 2001.
The book has also been the subject of review and commentary on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” Columbia Journalism Review, Harvard’s Nieman Reports, and other national journals. Its theme was the subject of a special issue of our flagship journal, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, for which I served as guest editor. It continues to be the basis for undergraduate and graduate research and cited in journalism & communication literature. In 2013, the book was translated into Chinese.
Jack Lule 