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Eric

Harvey

harveyer@gvsu.edu

Associate Professor

https://ericdharvey.com/

279 LSH

616-331-2804

Journalism, Broadcasting, and Digital Media

Eric's scholarship and reporting focus on the intersections of music technology, discourse, and commerce. His first book, Who Got the Camera? A History of Rap and Reality, was published by the University of Texas Press in 2021.

Eric has written and reported for The New Yorker ,  Rolling Stone , The Atlantic , The New Republic ,  The LA Review of Books , Buzzfeed , MTV.com , and The Village Voice among many other publications, and has served as a commentator on music and technology for NPR’s All Things Considered and other programs. In May 2018, Eric gave the keynote address at Ebbing Sounds, an international, inter­disci­plinary sym­po­sium inves­ti­gating new ways of music pro­duction, music listen­ing, and music cri­tique.

Eric is the Managing Editor of the Journal of Popular Music Studies. He has published research in the peer-reviewed scholarly journals Black Camera  (2017), The International Journal of Cultural Studies (2015), and Convergence (2013), contributed a chapter to the edited volume Managing Media Work (Sage, 2010), and has recently co-edited a special issue of Cultural Industries Journal  (2016) on technologies and recording industries.

From 1999-2002, Eric was a videographer/editor on several nationally broadcast documentaries (Discovery Channel, TLC, Travel Channel) and local PBS affiliate programming (Indianapolis station WFYI).

Office Hours

F 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. by ZOOM and appointment

News Reporting, Multimedia Journalism Workshop, Multimedia Reporting, Arts & Entertainment Reporting, Feature Reporting

 

Ph.D., Communication and Culture, Indiana University, 2013

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