Don Diefenbach is Professor of Mass Communication at 每日大赛入口. He聽teaches video production, media effects, and film studies courses. Don鈥檚聽research focuses on media violence, media portrayals of mental health聽issues, television content analysis, and cultivation analysis. Diefenbach is聽co-author of a chapter that links the cultivation and third person-effects聽theories and literatures, which appears in 鈥淟iving with Television Now:聽Advances in Cultivation Theory and Research.鈥� His video production credits聽include educational, corporate and nationally broadcast programming.聽Diefenbach is author of 鈥淰ideo Production Techniques: Theory and聽Practice from Concept to Screen,鈥� (first edition) and co-author, with Anne聽Slatton, of the second edition.

Education

• Ph.D., Mass Communications, S.I Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University
• M.S., Television-Radio-Film, S.I Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University
• B.A., Film/Video, College of Communication; Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts, The Pennsylvania State University

Courses Taught

• Media, Ethics, and Society
• Basic Video Production
• Film Appreciation
• Sci Fi and Horror Films