Award-Winning Research

Dr. Mary-Lou Galician
(The Original “Dr. FUN”)

“The Romanticization of Love in the Mass Media”
(a term coined by Dr. Galician)

• Sex, Love, & Romance in the Mass Media: Analysis & Criticism of Unrealistic Portrayals & Their Influence
  
  
• Dr. Galician’s Prescriptions© for Getting Real About Romance: How Mass Media Myths About Love Can Hurt You
  
  
• Dr. FUN’s Mass Media Love Quiz© (print version)
  See how YOU score on this 12-item quiz of your Romantic Realism!
  
  
• Dr. FUN’s Mass Media Love Quiz© (video versions)
  Produced with Dr. David Natharius
  Includes examples of pervasive mass media myths
  
  
• The Romanticization of Love in the Mass Media: The Relationship of Mass Media Usage, Unrealistic Romantic Expectations, and Coupleship Dissatisfactions of Baby Boomer and Generation X Males and Females
  (Dr. Galician’s award-winning research study report)
  
  
• “Media Literacy: Popular Culture and Mass Media Myths about Romantic Love”
  By-line article by Dr. Galician, featured in Mass Media /Mass Culture:
  An Introduction (5th ed.) by James R. Wilson and Stan LeRoy Wilson,
  McGraw-Hill, Inc. (New York, 2001, pp. 33–34).

National Study of Public Relations Internship Programs

• A National Survey of Public Relations Internship Programs at Mass Communication Programs Accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC) with Janice Davis

“The American Dream and the Media Nightmare”:
Good News & Bad News on Television

• “Balancing Good News and Bad News: An Ethical Obligation?” (with Steve Pasternack), Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 1987), 82–92.

• “Effects of ‘Good News’ and ‘Bad News’ on TV Newscast Image and Community Image” (with Norris D. Vestre), Journalism Quarterly, Vol. 64, Nos. 2 and 3, (Summer-Autumn 1987), 399–405, 525.

• “Good News," National Association of Broadcasters/RadioActive, Vol. 11, No. 2 (February 1985), 2.

• “‘Good News’ and ‘Bad News’ in the Mass Media: Television Viewers’ Comparisons of Magazines, Newspapers, Radio, and Television,” Southwestern Mass Communication Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1986), 52–64.

• “The Good News/Bad News Issue: The Viewers Respond,” ARC International Newsletter, Association for Responsible Communication, December, 1985, pp. 7, 10.

• “‘Good News’ and ‘Bad News’: Perceptions of Radio News Directors Across the Border between the United States and Canada” (with Donald G. Godfrey), Southwestern Mass Communication Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1993), 30–37.

• “Perceptions of Good News and Bad News on Television,” Journalism Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 3 (Autumn 1986), 611–616.

Additional Research Projects

• “Perception and Utilization of Political Communication: A Survey of WICI and the 1988 Political Campaign” (with Gary Warren Melton and Gilbert L. Fowler), Southwestern Mass Communication Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 1989), 67–80.

• “A Sociological Approach to the Pop Music Phenomenon: Radio and Music Video Utilization for Expectation, Motivation, and Satisfaction” (with Gary Warren Melton), Popular Music and Society, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Fall 1987), 35–46.

Thesis Director & Research Committee Chair
of Master’s Degree Candidates’ & Honors Students’ Research

• Master of Mass Communication Degree Thesis Project (MCO593) (1985–present)
  Listed chronologically — with candidates’ names and thesis titles

• Undergraduate Honors Thesis (MCO493) (1993)
  Cheryl Gross, May 1993. (“Outstanding Thesis Award,” College of
  Public Programs.)
  The Portrayal of Families in Television Situation Comedies
  
  
• Interdisciplinary Master of Arts Thesis (HUM593) (1994)
  Patricia Silverberg, May 1994
  Satire in ‘Sesame Street’