Douglas Blanks Hindman
Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Associate Professor, Edward R. Murrow School of Communication
204 Communication Addition
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-2520

Courses Taught
BDCST 365: News and Public Affairs for Radio
COM 420: New Communication Technologies
BDCST 350: Introduction to Telecommunications
COM 571: Theoretical Perspectives on Media and Society
COM 572: Mass Media, Social Control, and Social Change

Research Interests
Mass communication and new communication technologies in a social context

Recent Publications

Hindman, D. & Wiegand, K. (2008). The Big Three's Prime Time decline: A technological and social context. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 52, 119-135.

Hindman, D. (In Press). Communication and social conflict. In Wolfgang Donsbach, (Ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Communication. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Martinson, B. & Hindman, D. B. (2005). Building a health promotion agenda in local newspapers. Health Education Research, 20(1): 51-60.

Hindman, D. B., Mattern, J., & Iszler, J. (2004). Applications of Q methodology to in-class advertising research projects. Journal of Advertising Education, 8(1): 17-28.

Hindman, Douglas Blanks (2004). Media system dependency and public support for the press and president. Mass Communication & Society, 7, 29-42.

Hindman, D.B., Ernst, S., & Richardson, M. (2001). The rural-urban gap in community newspaper editors' use of information technologies. Mass Communication & Society, 4, 149-164.

Hindman, D.B. (2000). The rural urban digital divide. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 77, 549-560.

Hindman, D.B., Littlefield, R. L., Preston, A.E., & Neumann, D.J. (1999). Structural pluralism, ethnic pluralism, and community newspapers. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 76, 250-263.

Hindman, D.B. and Coyle, K. (1999). Audience orientations to local radio coverage of a natural disaster. Journal of Radio Studies, 6, 8-26.

Hindman, D.B. (1999). Social control, social change, and local mass media. Chapter 4 in D.P. Demers and K. Viswanath, (Eds.) Mass media, social control and social change: A macrosocial perspective. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press.

Hindman, D.B. (1996). Community newspapers, community structural pluralism, and local conflict with nonlocal groups. Journalism Quarterly, 73, 708-721.