![]() ![]() ![]() His work aims to understand how and why our current media systems were developed and to imagine how we might change them to better serve democratic society. ![]() “And I came to believe that the path toward progressive social change ran through media and communication systems.”įast forward to the current moment, and Pickard - who was recently promoted to full professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania - researches the history and political economy of media institutions, media activism, and the politics and foundations of media policy. “Traveling and reading really changed my perspective on things: about the need for social change, about the United States’ role in the world, and about my role in society,” says Pickard. So it’s not entirely surprising that - after teaching English in Japan, backpacking through Asia, reading widely, and a few other twists and turns - he decided to become a media scholar. And teaching runs in his family his grandfather taught in a one-room school house in rural West Virginia. Victor Pickard didn’t always know he wanted to be an academic, but he’s wanted to be a writer for as long as he can remember. ![]()
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