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First Name
Eric
Last Name
Harvey
Email
harveyer@gvsu.edu
Title
Associate Professor
Website
https://ericdharvey.com/
Office
287 LSH
Phone
616-331-2804
Office Hours
Friday 1-5 p.m.
Field of Study
Journalism, Broadcasting, and Digital Media
About
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. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hua Hsu called it "an excellent history of music, media, and culture," and Rolling Stone named it one of the best books of the year.
Eric has written and reported for The New Yorker , Rolling Stone , The Atlantic , The New Republic , Slate, The LA Review of Books , Buzzfeed , MTV.com , and The Village Voice , and has served as a commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered , the CBC's Commotion, and the 99% Invisible podcast.
Eric 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 co-edited a special issue of the Creative Industries Journal (2015). From 2021 to 2024, Eric was the managing editor of The Journal of Popular Music Studies .
Teaches
Media History, JBM Capstone, News Reporting, Multimedia Journalism Workshop, Arts & Entertainment Reporting
Degrees
Ph.D., Communication and Culture, Indiana University, 2013
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