Above: On a bus in Savannah, Georgia (2008). Right: Lynch Glacier, Mt. Daniel, Washington, USA (1981).

Department of Advertising and Public Relations
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-3018
Tel 706.542.3556
Fax 706.542.2183
hamilton(AT)uga.edu

Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1993. Research interests include media and social movements; social and cultural history of alternative media; media and democracy; cultural production of media institutions, organizations, and practices; cultural, critical and historical approaches to media study.

Selected recent work

(2008.) Democratic Communications; Formations, Projects, Possibilities. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. [Link to catalog listing.]

Atton, Chris, and James F. Hamilton (2008.) Alternative Journalism. London and Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage.

(2007.) "From Critique of Class to the Critique of Taste:
The Laboring of Community Media in the U.S." Presented to the International Conference of the Union for Democratic Communications, Vancouver, B.C., 25-28 October.

(2007). "The Roots of Broadcasting in the Anglophone World." In Residual Media, edited by Charles Acland, 283-300. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press.

(2006.) "Alternative Media, Social Movement Studies, and the Role of the Intellectual." Presented to "Alternative Media And Social Movement Studies: Joining Theory And Practice," a research panel, Cultural and Critical Studies Division, National Communication Association annual convention, San Antonio, 17 November.

(2006.) "Rethinking Communication, Media, and Activism." International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 2, no. 2 (July), 220-225.

(2006.) "Low-Power FM Radio Licensing and the Spatial Production of Community." Presented to "Back to the Future: Community Radio in the Age of Clear Channel," research panel in the Broadcast and Internet Radio Division, Broadcast Education Association, Las Vegas, 28 April.

Kim, Eun-Gyoo and James Hamilton. (2006.) "Capitulation to Capital? OhmyNews as Alternative Media." Media, Culture and Society 28, no. 4 (July), 541-560.

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