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Jeffrey P. Jones

The University of Georgia, The Peabody Awards, Director

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Director, The George Foster Peabody Awards
Phone: 706-542-3787
Address: Peabody Awards,
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications,
Athens, GA 30602

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Books by Jeffrey P. Jones

News Parody and Political Satire Across the Globe, co-edited with Geoffrey Baym. London: Routledge, 2012.

Entertaining Politics: Satiric Television and Political Engagement, 2nd ed. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2010.

Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era, co-edited with Jonathan Gray and Ethan Thompson. New York University Press, 2009.

The Essential HBO Reader, co-edited with Gary R. Edgerton. University Press of Kentucky, 2008.

Entertaining Politics: New Political Television and Civic Culture. Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.

Papers by Jeffrey P. Jones

“The Authenticity of Play: Satiric Television’s Challenge to Authoritative Discourses,” in The Power of Satire, edited by Marijke Meijer Drees and Sonja de Leeuw (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 2015), 33-46.

“Presidential Campaigns as Cultural Events: The Convergence of Politics and Popular Culture in Election 2012.” In The 2012 Presidential Campaign: A Communication Perspective, edited by Robert E. Denton, Jr. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), 115-130.

“Politics and the Brand: Saturday Night Live’s Campaign Season Humor.” In Beyond Saturday Night: Saturday Night Live and American Television Culture, eds. Ron Becker, Nick Marx, and Matt Sienkiewicz (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013).

“Fox & Friends: Political Talk.” In How to Watch Television: Media Criticism in Practice, eds. Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell (New York: NYU Press), 2013: 186-194.

“Toward a New Vocabulary for Political Communication Research: A Response to Michael X. Delli Carpini.” International Journal of Communication 7 (2013): 510-530.

International Journal of Communication, 2013

“Parody, Performativity, and Play: The Reinvigoration of Citizenship through Political Satire.” In A Companion to New Media Dynamics, eds. John Hartley, Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), 396-406.

“The ‘New’ News as No ‘News’: U.S. Cable News Channels as Branded Political Entertainment Television.” Special Issue: “The ‘New’ News.” Media International Australia, no. 144 (August), 2012: 146-155.

Media International Australia

“Mr. Stewart and Mr. Colbert Go to Washington: Television Satirists Outside the Box,” with Geoffrey Baym and Amber Day. Special Issue: “Politics and Comedy.” Social Research 79(1), 2012: 33-60.

Social Research

“Fox News and the Performance of Ideology.” In Focus: Right-Wing Media. Cinema Journal 51(4), 2012: 178-185.

Cinema Journal

“News Parody in Global Perspective: Politics, Power, and Resistance,” with Geoffrey Baym. Popular Communication 10(1-2), 2012: 2-13.

Popular Communication

“Reconceiving Television’s Relationship to Politics in the Post-Network Era.” In iPolitics: Citizens, Elections, and Governing in the New Media Era, eds. Richard L. Fox and Jennifer M. Ramos. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 48-75.

“A Cultural Approach to the Study of Mediated Citizenship.” Social Semiotics 16(2), 2006: 365-83.

Social Semiotics

“A Dialogue on Satire News and the Crisis of Truth in Postmodern Political Television,” with Geoffrey Baym. Journal of Communication Inquiry 34(3), 2010: 278-294.

Journal of Communication Inquiry

“More than ‘Fart Noises and Funny Faces’: The Daily Show’s Coverage of the U.S. Recession.” Special Issue: Recession and the Media. Popular Communication 8(3), 2010: 165-169.

Popular Communication

“Moore Muckraking: The Reinvention of TV Newsmagazines in the Age of Spin and Entertainment.” In Michael Moore: Filmmaker, Newsmaker, Cultural Icon, edited by Matthew Bernstein (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2010), 231-54.

News Parody and Political Satire Across the Globe, co-edited with Geoffrey Baym. London: Routledge, 2012.

Entertaining Politics: Satiric Television and Political Engagement, 2nd ed. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2010.

Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era, co-edited with Jonathan Gray and Ethan Thompson. New York University Press, 2009.

The Essential HBO Reader, co-edited with Gary R. Edgerton. University Press of Kentucky, 2008.

Entertaining Politics: New Political Television and Civic Culture. Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.

“The Authenticity of Play: Satiric Television’s Challenge to Authoritative Discourses,” in The Power of Satire, edited by Marijke Meijer Drees and Sonja de Leeuw (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 2015), 33-46.

“Presidential Campaigns as Cultural Events: The Convergence of Politics and Popular Culture in Election 2012.” In The 2012 Presidential Campaign: A Communication Perspective, edited by Robert E. Denton, Jr. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), 115-130.

“Politics and the Brand: Saturday Night Live’s Campaign Season Humor.” In Beyond Saturday Night: Saturday Night Live and American Television Culture, eds. Ron Becker, Nick Marx, and Matt Sienkiewicz (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013).

“Fox & Friends: Political Talk.” In How to Watch Television: Media Criticism in Practice, eds. Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell (New York: NYU Press), 2013: 186-194.

“Toward a New Vocabulary for Political Communication Research: A Response to Michael X. Delli Carpini.” International Journal of Communication 7 (2013): 510-530.

International Journal of Communication, 2013

“Parody, Performativity, and Play: The Reinvigoration of Citizenship through Political Satire.” In A Companion to New Media Dynamics, eds. John Hartley, Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), 396-406.

“The ‘New’ News as No ‘News’: U.S. Cable News Channels as Branded Political Entertainment Television.” Special Issue: “The ‘New’ News.” Media International Australia, no. 144 (August), 2012: 146-155.

Media International Australia

“Mr. Stewart and Mr. Colbert Go to Washington: Television Satirists Outside the Box,” with Geoffrey Baym and Amber Day. Special Issue: “Politics and Comedy.” Social Research 79(1), 2012: 33-60.

Social Research

“Fox News and the Performance of Ideology.” In Focus: Right-Wing Media. Cinema Journal 51(4), 2012: 178-185.

Cinema Journal

“News Parody in Global Perspective: Politics, Power, and Resistance,” with Geoffrey Baym. Popular Communication 10(1-2), 2012: 2-13.

Popular Communication

“Reconceiving Television’s Relationship to Politics in the Post-Network Era.” In iPolitics: Citizens, Elections, and Governing in the New Media Era, eds. Richard L. Fox and Jennifer M. Ramos. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 48-75.

“A Cultural Approach to the Study of Mediated Citizenship.” Social Semiotics 16(2), 2006: 365-83.

Social Semiotics

“A Dialogue on Satire News and the Crisis of Truth in Postmodern Political Television,” with Geoffrey Baym. Journal of Communication Inquiry 34(3), 2010: 278-294.

Journal of Communication Inquiry

“More than ‘Fart Noises and Funny Faces’: The Daily Show’s Coverage of the U.S. Recession.” Special Issue: Recession and the Media. Popular Communication 8(3), 2010: 165-169.

Popular Communication

“Moore Muckraking: The Reinvention of TV Newsmagazines in the Age of Spin and Entertainment.” In Michael Moore: Filmmaker, Newsmaker, Cultural Icon, edited by Matthew Bernstein (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2010), 231-54.

“Pop Goes the Campaign: The Repopularization of Politics in Election 2008.” In The 2008 Presidential Campaign: A Communication Perspective, edited by Robert E. Denton, Jr. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009), 170-90.

“Believable Fictions: Redactional Culture and the Will to Truthiness.” In The Changing Faces of Journalism: Tabloidization, Technology and Truthiness, edited by Barbie Zelizer (New York: Routledge, 2009), 127-143.

“With All Due Respect: Satirizing Presidents from Saturday Night Live to Lil’ Bush.” In Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era, edited by Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones and Ethan Thompson (New York: NYU Press, 2009), 37-63.

Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era

“‘Fake’ News versus ‘Real’ News as sources of Political Information: The Daily Show and Postmodern Political Reality.” In Politicotainment: Television’s Take on the Real, edited by Kristina Riegert (New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2007), 129-149.

“Comedy Talk Shows.” In The Essential HBO Reader, edited by Gary R. Edgerton and Jeffrey P. Jones (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2008), 172-182.

“The Strategery of Presidential Humor,” Washington Post, 23 October, 2011: B2

The Washington Post

“Satire is What People Need,” in Room for Debate Blog on “Humor in Hard Times,” New York Times, 19 September, 2009.

New York Times

“Lessons from ‘Game Change,’” Virginian-Pilot, 18 March, 2012

The Virginian-Pilot

“Rethinking the ‘Public’ in Public Broadcasting,” Virginian-Pilot, 22 June, 2011.

The Virginian-Pilot

Blogging for "Antenna: Responses to Media and Culture"

On-line Scholarship for FlowTV

Curating for In Media Res, Media Commons