Laura Stein
Assistant Professor
E-mail: lstein@mail.utexas.edu
Office: CMA 6.130
Phone: 512-471-8624
Ph.D. Communication, The University of Texas at Austin, 1997.
Curriculum Vitae - PDF
Laura Stein is an Assistant Professor in the Radio-Television-Film Department. She researches and writes about communication law and policy, political communication, and alternative and public media. Her RTF courses include: Communication, Law and Power; Media and Communication Law; The Social Documentary; Alternative Media; and Communication Technology and Society.
Her writing has appeared in numerous journals and books, including Communication Law and Policy, Media, Culture & Society, Javnost/The Public, Peace Review, the Handbook of New Media, Community Media in the Information Age, and Radical Media, et.al. Her recently released book, titled Speech Rights in America: the First Amendment, Democracy, and the Media, explores the failure of current understandings of speech rights to protect democratic communication in the U.S. media. She is currently working on an edited collection, titled Making Our Media: Global Initiatives Toward a Democratic Public Sphere, about grassroots attempts to transform the policy and practice of information and communication media around the world.
Dr. Stein began her career in the management, production, and distribution of public and educational media. She has a M.A. in Education from Columbia University, a Ph.D. in Communication from The University of Texas at Austin, and a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.
