Jayson Harsin presented research on Obama and Rumor Control at the International Political Science Association's E-Democracy Workshop in Dubrovnik last month.

Professor Harsin works between political communication (especially rhetorical studies) and media/cultural studies. His interests include political uses of rumor and political branding; politics and media convergence; global advocacy; war and media; media, political aesthetics and theories of democracy; visual culture and persuasion; public intellectualism; theories of the public sphere; and discourses of social and economic rights. His academic publications have appeared in Southern Review: Communication, Politics and Culture and in Cultural Studies (Blackwell 2008). In addition, Professor Harsin publishes widely on independent rock music, film and politics in online journals and magazines such as Blogcritics Magazine, Gogoparis.com, Bright Lights Film Journal, and Bad Subjects. Drawing on his music criticism and experience as a dj and co-producer of a radio show for six years in Chicago, Professor Harsin is the faculty advisor for AUP student radio production on World Radio Paris. He received the AUP Board of Trustees award in May 2007 for outstanding service in curricular development.

"The Rumor Bomb: A Convergence Theory of Contemporary Mediated American Politics," in Southern Review: Politics, Communication, Culture (Spring 2006)

“The Rumor Bomb: American Mediated Politics as Pure War.” In Cultural Studies, an Anthology, ed. Michael Ryan. New York: Blackwell (2008).

“The Rumor Bomb: On Convergence Culture and Politics,” Flow 9.4 (2009).

"Lost Histories of American Economic Rights," in Cultural Studies, May (2010)

"Diffusing the Rumor John Kerry is French, i.e. Haughty, Cowardly, Foppish, Socialist and Gay," in R. Given and S. Soule eds. The Diffusion of Social Movements, New York: Cambridge University Press (2010)