Tegan R. Bratcher
Lecturer, Communication
Education
Ph.D., Media and Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A., Political Science, West Virginia University
Dr. Tegan Bratcher is a digital media and strategic communications scholar. She is a Senior Researcher for the Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media and has recently worked as a contract researcher for the Smithsonian Institution. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Roy H. Park fellow. Dr. Bratcher's research is focused on using critical lenses to examine social and strategic communication through podcasts and new digital media. As a Ph.D. Park fellow, she won numerous awards for her research on podcasts, including a Top Student Paper Award at the International Communication Association (ICA) annual conference and the INSPIRE and SPARK awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA) Pre-conference. Her most recent work is featured in PR Journal and the Atlantic Journal of Communication. She has two manuscripts forthcoming with Lexington Books.
http://teganrbratcher.com/
Publications
Diversifying the Space of Podcasting: Access, Identity, and Reflective Practices
New book featuring COMM Tegan Bratcher & Briana Barner!
Author/Lead: Tegan R. BratcherContributor(s): Briana Barner
New book, Diversifying the Space of Podcasting: Access, Identity, and Reflective Practices, written by Alexis Romero Walker and COMM Lecturer Tegan Bratcher was published by Rowman & Littlefield.
The publisher states, "As the podcast studies field continues to gain momentum both within academia and in practice, scholars have been mapping and exploring the podcasting landscape from a variety of perspectives. This edited volume highlights the diverse spaces that podcasts embody and create, amplifying the unique and understudied perspectives and voices of podcasting. Through a multitude of interdisciplinary approaches, contributors explore the various cultural, racial, and identity-based markers undergirding the richness of the platform and argue that by understanding diverse content and content creators, we enrich the field of podcast studies as a whole. Scholars of media, communication, cultural, podcast, and critical race studies – among others – will find this book to be particularly useful."
The book features a chapter by COMM Assistant Professor, Briana Barner, on Black podcasting. Congrats to all on this excellent anthology!
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