International Journal of Communication 6 (2012), Feature 1460–1461 1932–8036/2012FEA0002 57 Interviews with ICA Fellows Table of Contents Page The Founding Parents of Communication (Introduction) ........... 1451 A ► B (Click on name below) Page Anderson, Jim .................................................................. 1462 Atkin, Charles ................................................................... 1469 Ball-Rokeach, Sandra ....................................................... 1477 Bavelas, Janet ................................................................. 1483 Berger, Charles ................................................................ 1490 Blumler, Jay .................................................................... 1498 Bryant, Jennings .............................................................. 1507 Burgoon, Judee ................................................................ 1515 C ► F (Click on name below) Page Cantor, Joanne ................................................................ 1522 Cappella, Joseph .............................................................. 1530 Cohen, Akiba ................................................................... 1537 Craig, Robert ................................................................... 1544 Daly, John ....................................................................... 1551 Dance, Frank ................................................................... 1558 Deetz, Stanley ................................................................. 1564 Delia, Jesse ...................................................................... 1572 Donsbach, Wolfgang ......................................................... 1580 Duck, Steve .................................................................... 1588 Fairhurst, Gail .................................................................. 1595 G ► I (Click on name below) Page Gallois, Cindy ................................................................... 1601 Giles, Howard ................................................................... 1609 Graber, Doris ................................................................... 1617 Greenberg, Bradley .......................................................... 1623 Gross, Larry ..................................................................... 1630 Grossberg, Lawrence ........................................................ 1638 Hart, Roderick .................................................................. 1648 Hornik, Robert ................................................................. 1654 Ito, Youichi ..................................................................... 1661 Copyright © 2012. 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International Journal of Communication 6 (2012) 57 Interviews with ICA Fellows—An Introduction 1461 J ► L (Click on name below) Page Jamieson, Kathleen .......................................................... 1669 Katz, Elihu ...................................................................... 1676 Kim, Young ..................................................................... 1684 Knapp, Mark .................................................................... 1691 Krippendorff, Klaus .......................................................... 1699 Lang, Annie ..................................................................... 1708 Lemish, Dafna ................................................................. 1715 Livingstone, Sonia ............................................................ 1724 M ► P (Click on name below) Page McCombs, Max ................................................................ 1733 McLeod, Jack ................................................................... 1739 Monge, Peter ................................................................... 1747 Nussbaum, Jon ................................................................ 1755 Poole, Scott ..................................................................... 1762 Putnam, Linda ................................................................. 1769 R ► T (Click on name below) Page Reeves, Byron ................................................................. 1778 Rice, Ronald .................................................................... 1784 Roloff, Michael ................................................................. 1793 Rubin, Alan ..................................................................... 1800 Seibold, David ................................................................. 1806 Slater, Michael ................................................................. 1813 Taylor, James .................................................................. 1821 Tompkins, Phil ................................................................. 1829 Turow, Joseph ................................................................. 1836 V ► Z (Click on name below) Page Valkenburg, Patti ............................................................. 1845 Wartella, Ellen ................................................................. 1852 Weaver, David ................................................................. 1858 Wiio, Osmo ..................................................................... 1866 Wilson, Barbara ............................................................... 1873 Zelizer, Barbie ................................................................. 1880 International Journal of Communication 6 (2012), Feature 1462–1469 1932–8036/2012FEA0002 JIM ANDERSON “I’m missing the impact of our scholarship.” Jim Anderson, April 3, 2011. Salt Lake City, UT. Photo by M. Meyen. Born: 1939 in Kansas City, Missouri Education: 1961 B.A. in communication, University of Detroit 1962 M.A. University of Michigan 1965 Ph.D. University of Iowa Career: 1965 Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh 1972 Professor in the College of Communication, Ohio University 1979 Professor of Communication at University of Utah 1968 Director of the Broadcast Research Center 1979 ICA Fellow 1983 ICA President Personal: Married, two daughters Copyright © 2012 (Michael Meyen, [email protected]). Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd). Available at http://ijoc.org. International Journal of Communication 6 (2012) Interview with Jim Anderson 1463 Michael Meyen Interviews Jim Anderson Can you tell me something about your parents and about your first professional dreams? Both sides of my family homesteaded in Salina, Kansas. Our family has a long history in farming. My father was probably the first of either side of the family to go on to college. He was, for a short time, at Creighton University, but had to leave to go to work. After some time in business, he completed a career- based MBA from the University of Chicago. My mother had a two-year teaching certificate from Marymount College in Salina. She worked in a one-room schoolhouse: all eight grades in one room. Did religion play any role in your childhood? On my mother’s side, they were Roman Catholic, and on my father’s side, Methodists. I grew up well- connected in the Roman Catholic Church. The University of Detroit is a Jesuit school. At least it was one [Jesuit] back then. What kind of business did your father run? He started out as a bank accountant and was successful at that, but then came the Depression. He went down to Amarillo, Texas, sold refrigerators, and came back to be the general controller for General Telephone. He also worked for Arthur Andersen. His last job was at the Ford Motor Company, from which he retired. His moves led us all around the country. My story starts in Detroit, Michigan, where I went to high school and entered college. Do you still remember why you chose to study communication? Detroit was one of the few schools that had a communication degree at that time. What led me into this area was educational television. I got in quite early at a local station. I worked there as a technical director and as a cameraman. You did everything. I was even on-air for a while. Why did you abandon your beginning career as a TV star? By then, I had been working almost eight years in television. I really couldn’t see myself being 60 years old and still there. It was a career that ended fairly quickly. Can you tell me something about your main academic teachers? The first professor that made an impression upon me was Alphonse F. Kuhn, SJ at Detroit, a historian— and disliked by nearly everyone. He didn’t praise you if you didn’t do good work. He probably showed me what it could be like if you were really serious about your work. In the next semester, I opted out to the other guy who taught history, and whose name I can’t remember. He was sloppy in his work. The difference between those two men was so obvious that the impression lasts till today. How would you compare the student Jim Anderson with your students today? I was not a particularly good student. High school was easy, even though it was a private school. When I got to college, it took me a while to learn the techniques of mastering what you had to do. After the first two years, it was pretty straightforward. If I could figure out a way to beat the system, [then] I would beat the system. That’s the way it was until I came in the PhD program. 1464 Michael Meyen International Journal of Communication 6 (2012) What happened to you there? At Iowa, I