Dr. JOSEPH M FAINA Contact Information Office Communication Studies Dept. Los Angeles Valley College [email protected] Website: https://lavc.academia.edu/JosephFaina Education Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin, 2014 Major: Communication Studies (emphasis in Rhetoric, Language, New Media) Dissertation Title: “New Media is a Joke: Tracing Irony, Satire, and Remediation in Online Discourse” Dissertation Chair: Dr. Barry Brummett M.A. Arizona State University, 2008 Major: Communication (emphasis in Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, Forensics) Thesis Title: “Rhetorical Gravitas: Political Satire, the Public Sphere, and Stephen Colbert” B.A. California State University, Long Beach, 2006 Major: Communication Studies- Interpersonal and Organizational Communication Teaching Experience Courses Taught Public Speaking Professional Communication Introduction to Communication Argumentation and Debate Critical Thinking Communication Theory & Research Methods Small Group Communication Communication, Media, & Society (Graduate Course) Knowledge & New Media (Graduate Course) Courses Assisted Rhetoric and Popular Culture (with Dr. Barry Brummett) Rhetoric and Celebrity Culture (with Dr. Joshua Gunn) Rhetoric and Religion (with Dr. Joshua Gunn) Communication and Civic Participation (with Dr. Sharon Jarvis) Communication and Public Opinion (with Dr. Talia Stroud) Los Angeles Valley College Los Angeles, CA Joseph M Faina 2 Position: Associate Professor 2016-Present Southern New Hampshire University Position: Adjunct Graduate Faculty 2015-2016 College of Online and Continuing Education St. Edwards University Austin, TX Position: Adjunct Faculty 2014-2016 Austin Community College Austin, TX Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor 2012-2016 University of Texas, Austin Austin, TX Position: Assistant Instructor/ 2009-2014 Teaching Assistant Athletics Communication Tutor Arizona State University Tempe, AZ Position: Graduate Teaching Assistant 2006-2009 Graduate Teaching Associate Forensics Coach Academic Publications Faina, Joseph M. (2013). “Public Journalism is a Joke: The Case for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.” Journalism, 14(4), 541-555. Faina, Joseph M. (2012). “Twitter and the New Publicity.” Educational Technology and Change, 69(1), 55-71. Faina, Joseph M. (2011). “The Rhetoric of Style for a New Millennium: Project Runway’s Tim Gunn as Apocalyptic Prophet.” in The Politics of Style and the Style of Politics (Ed. Barry Brummett), 105-118. Book Reviews Faina, Joseph M. (2012) "Review: A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America (2011)," Journal of Media Literacy Education, 4(3), 272- 274. Available at: http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/vol4/iss3/8 Competitive Conference Panels Faina, Joseph M. “Creating Connections and Curbing Apprehension: Improv in the Classroom, Part 2.” November, 2013. Panel presentation for Communication Apprehension Division, NCA convention, Washington D.C. Faina, Joseph M. “Reducing Apprehension and Building COMMunity: Improv Comedy in the Classroom.” November, 2012. Panel presentation for Communication Apprehension Division, NCA convention, Orlando. Joseph M Faina 3 Faina, Joseph M. “Building Bridges from Phi Rho Pi to AFA: Effectively Coaching the Transition from Community College to Four-Year Forensics.” November 2010. Panel presentation for the American Forensics Association Division, NCA Convention, San Francisco, CA. Faina, Joseph M. “You Need a Few More Sources: The Forensics Community’s Rejection of Blog Media.” November, 2007. Panel presentation for the American Forensics Association Division at the NCA Convention, Chicago, IL. Competitive Conference Papers Faina, Joseph M. “Between Two Passions: Negotiating Two Professional Identities With Creative Aspirations.” November 2016. Organizational Communication Division, National Communication Association Convention. Philadelphia, PA. Faina, Joseph M. “Interpersonal Communication and the Post-Date Email: Illustrating Core Communication Principles in a Real World Example.” April 2016. GIFTS Presentation. Community College Division. Southern States Communication Association Convention, Austin, TX. Birdsell, J and Faina, Joseph M. “The Student as Citizen Metaphor.” November 2014. Scholar to Scholar Presentation. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Division. National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL. Naputi, T. and Faina, Joseph M. “Unpacking the Duffel Blog: Satire and the Borderless State of American Security.” May 2014. Paper presented at Rhetoric Society of America annual conference, San Antonio, TX. Faina, Joseph M. “Citizenship is a Joke: Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity and Ironic Civic Engagement.” November, 2013, Political Communication Division, National Communication Association Convention, Washington D.C. Faina, Joseph M. "New Media, Political Satire, and the Elaborate Joke: The Case of Occupy Wall Street." November, 2013. Media Ecology Division, National Communication Association Convention, Washington D.C. Faina, Joseph M. “Ironic Casuistries: Toward a Burkean Theory of Comedy.” November, 2012. Kenneth Burke Society, National Communication Association Convention, Orlando. *Top Paper Faina, Joseph M. “New Media is a Joke: Irony, Satire, and Remediation in Twitter.” November, 2012. Media Ecology Division, National Communication Association Convention, Orlando. Faina, Joseph M. and Christopher, Roy. “Floating Signifiers: The Haunting of Hip-Hop by the Ghosts of Emcees Passed.” November, 2010. Scholar to Scholar Presentation. Critical/ Cultural Studies Division, National Communication Association Convention, San Francisco, CA. *Award-Most Innovative Presentation, Critical/Cultural Studies Division Faina, Joseph M. “Twitter and New Publicity.” October, 2010. International Society of General Semantics Conference, Fordham University, New York, NY. Joseph M Faina 4 Faina, Joseph M. “Twitter’s New Celebrity: The Mediated Need for Recognition.” October, 2010. Roundtable presentation, FLOW Conference, Department of Radio Television and Film, University of Texas, Austin. Faina, Joseph M. “<Change> You Can See and Participate In: The “O”bama Logo as Visual Ideograph.” May 2010. Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Minneapolis, MN. Faina, Joseph M. “Mass Mediated and Contested Bodies in the Beijing Olympics.” November 2009. Mass Media Division, National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, Il. Faina, Joseph M. “Brutal Honesty and Dirty Jokes: Understanding Identity and Community in a Stand Up Comedy Club.” June 2009. International Society for Humor Studies Conference, California State University, Long Beach. Faina, Joseph M. “Stephen Colbert’s Wikiality.” February 2009. Media Studies Interest Group, Western States Communication Association Conference, Mesa, AZ. Faina, Joseph M. “Reduction to Absurdity: The Colbert Report as Burlesque Humor.” February 2009. Rhetoric and Public Address Interest Group, Western States Communication Association, Mesa, AZ. Faina, Joseph M. “Stephen Colbert’s Press Corps Video and the Continued Implosion of Meaning in the Media.” October, 2008. Roundtable presentation, FLOW Conference, Department of Radio Television and Film, University of Texas at Austin. Faina, Joseph M. “Exploring Memory and Trauma Through Personal Narrative: How I Survived a Fatal Car Accident.” February, 2008. Performance Studies Interest Group, Western States Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO. *Top Debut Paper Faina, Joseph M. “Remembering What We Will Never Forget: Public Memory, Postmodernity, and the Arizona 9/11 Memorial.” February, 2008. Rhetoric and Public Address Interest Group, Western States Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO. Faina, Joseph M. “Stephen Colbert’s White House Press Corps Performance as Simulation: The Continued Implosion of Meaning in the Media.” February, 2008. Media Studies Interest Group, Western States Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO. *Top Debut Paper Faina, Joseph M. “A Pill That Cures What?: Homosexuality, Hetracil, and the Hoax as Rhetorical Genre.” February 2008. Western Forensics Association Interest Group, Western States Communication Association Conference, Denver, CO. * Top 4 Paper Other Publications Faina, Joe (2012, June 8). “A Gameplan on Basketball and Postmodernism.” Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-faina/a-gameplan-on-basketball-_b_1581755.html Faina, Joe (2012, May 7). “Owning Your Jokes: Louis C. K. and Digital Distribution.” Humor in America.http://humorinamerica.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/owning-your-jokes-louis-c-k- and-digital-distribution/ Joseph M Faina 5 Trethewey, Angela and Faina, Joseph M. “Senator Lieberman’s Not-So-Straight Talk on Public Diplomacy.” September, 2008. Blog Post for the Commops Journal of the Center For Strategic Communication, Arizona State University. http://comops.org/journal/2008/09/11/sen-liebermans-not-so-straight-talk-on-public- diplomacy/ Morris, Matthew B. and Faina, Joseph M. “Making Sense of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.” November, 2007. Blog Post for the Commops Journal of the Center For Strategic Communication, Arizona State University. http://comops.org/journal/2007/11/07/analysis-remembering-islamo-fascism-awareness- week/ Faina, Joseph M. “Educating Future Counterterrorists.” October, 2007. Blog Post for the Commops Journal of the Center For Strategic Communication, Arizona State University. http://comops.org/journal/2007/10/23/analysis-educating-future-counterterrorists/ Invited Lectures “Floating Signifiers: The Haunting of Hip-Hop by the Ghosts of Emcees