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Dr. Patrick Johnson

Dr. Patrick JohnsonMarquette University

Johnston Hall, 206AC

MilwaukeeWI53201United States of Americapatrick.johnson@marquette.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Director of Student Media

Journalism and Media Studies

Education

Ph.D. (ABD), Mass Communication, University of Iowa
M.A., Communication, Marquette University
B.S., Secondary Education and Journalism, Marquette University

Courses Taught

COMM 2100 Introduction to Visual Communication
COMM 3900 Ethical Problems of Mass Communications
JOUR 1100 Digital Journalism 1
JOUR 4510 Magazine Design and Production
JOUR 4997 Capstone in Journalism
ADPR 2200 Media Writing

Research Interests

News Literacy
Journalism Education & Pedagogy
Journalism Studies
Media Ethics
Issues of Sex and Sexuality
Horror Studies

Professional Experience

High school journalism teacher and media advisor, 2013-2020
Mentor program chair, Journalism Education Association, 2016-2020
Summer workshop director, Kettle Moraine Press Association, 2011-2020

Professional Affiliations

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
International Communication Association
Society of Professional Journalists
NLGJA

Publications

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Refereed Journal Articles

Johnson, P. R. (2023). A case of claims and Facts: Automated fact-checking the future of journalism’s authority, Digital Journalism. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2174564.
Dowling, D. O., Johnson, P. R., & Ekdale, B. (2022). Hijacking journalism: Legitimacy and metajournalistic discourse in right-wing podcasts. Media and Communication, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i3.5260.
Johnson, P. R. (2022). Defining the ethical student journalist. Journal of Media Education, 13(2), 20-39. https://en.calameo.com/journal-of-media-education/read/000091789f74a761ca371.
Johnson, P. R. (2022). A snake in the grass: Adapting journalistic truth to the silver screen. Quarterly Review of Film and Video. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2022.2045166.
Mihailidis, P., Ramasubramanian, S., Tully, M., Foster, B., Riewestahl, E., Johnson, P., & Angrove, S. (2021). Do media literacies approach equity & justice?. Journal of Media Literacy Education, 13(2), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.23860/JMLE-2021-13-2-1.

Book Chapters

Johnson, P. R., & Tully, M. (2023). Can We Rebuild Broken Relationships? Examining Journalism, Social Media, and Trust in a Fractured Media Environment. In K. Fowler-Watt & J. McDougall (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook on Media Misinformation (pp. 279-295). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11976-7_19.
Johnson, P. R., Foster, B., Riewestahl, E., Tully, M., Ramasubramanian, S., & Mihailidis, P. (2022) Critical Media Literacy Practices for Equitable Futures: A Field Guide for ELA. In M. T. Christel & W. Kist (Eds.), Bringing Critical Media Literacy into ELA Classrooms (pp. 27-32). National Council of Teachers of English.
Ramasubramanian, S., & Johnson, P. R. (2022). Media and Learning of the Social World. In D. Lemish (Ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents, and Media (2nd edition) (pp. 277-284). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003118824-35.

Public Scholarship Projects

Book Reviews

Johnson, P. R. (2022) Book Review: Journalistic Autonomy. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990221123580.
Johnson, P. R. (2022). The journalism manifesto. Journal of Communication Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599221102561
Johnson, P. R. (2021). Imagined audiences: How journalists perceive and pursue the public. Journal of Communication Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599211039212.

Reviewed Essays and Commentary

Johnson, P. R. (2022). Magazines that Made Me: Rolling Stone, Esquire, Playboy, Fangoria. Journal of Magazine Media. https://doi.org/10.1353/jmm.2021.0010.
Johnson, P. R. (2021). Media Literacy for Freedom: Activism for the Oppressed. Media Ethics Magazine, 33(1). https://www.mediaethicsmagazine.com/index.php/browse-back-issues/217-spring-2021-vol-32-no-3/3999361-media-literacy-for-freedom-activism-for-the-oppressed.

Manuscripts under Review

Johnson, P. R. (forthcoming). The legacy of Tom Brokaw: Revisiting an ethic of stability and trust in the Brokaw/Gorbachev interviews. Journalism History.
Mihailidis, P., Ramasubramanian, S., Tully, M., Foster, B., Johnson, P., Burth, S., & Riewestahl, E. (forthcoming). Equitable Media Literacies: Pedagogies and Practices for More Inclusive and Just Civic Futures. Taylor & Francis.
Foster, B., Mihailidis, P., Johnson, P. R., Burth, S., Tully, M., & Ramasubramanian, S. (special issue, abstract accepted). Designing Equitable Media Literacy Interventions for Critical Youth Agency. Global Studies of Childhood.
Johnson, P. R. (accepted). Journalistic champ or pornographic chum: Hefner and Flynt’s obituaries and the boundaries of journalism. Journal of Magazine Media.
Johnson, P. R. (forthcoming). Teaching the advanced media ethics course. In Teaching Media Ethics. AEJMC.
Johnson, P. R. (forthcoming). Considering diversity, equity, and inclusion in media ethics teaching practice. In Teaching Media Ethics. AEJMC.
Johnson, P. R. (forthcoming). News Literacy and Democracy. In News and Democracy (1st Edition). Lexington Books.
Tully, M., & Johnson, P. R. (forthcoming). News literacy and digital journalism. In Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies (2nd edition). Routledge.
Johnson, P. R. (R&R) Pornhub’s corporate social responsibility and sustainability content.
Johnson, P. R., Tully, M., Foster, B., Burth, S., Riewestahl, E., Mihailidis, P., & Ramasubramanian, S. (Under Review) Developing a framework for equitable media literacy practice: Voices from the field.
Burth, S., Riewestahl, E., Ramasubramanian, S., Foster, B., Johnson, P. R., Mihailidis, P., & Tully, M. (R&R) The six Es of equitable media literacy practice.
Robinson, S., & Johnson, P. R.. (Under Review) Rectifying harm through care-based practices: How journalists contend with disengaged communities’ distrust.

Honors and Awards

John F. Murray Outstanding Doctoral Student – Research • 2023
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
The University of Iowa
NOND Student Research Award and Grant • 2023
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Newspaper and Online News Division
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award • 2023
University of Iowa
Michael Hoefges Graduate Student Research Award and Grant • 2023
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Law and Policy Division
Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship • 2023
The Graduate College, The University of Iowa
Top Student Paper • Moeller Student Paper Competition • 2022
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Mass Communication and Society Division
John F. Murray Outstanding Doctoral Student – Research • 2022
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
The University of Iowa
Top Student Paper • 2021
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), LGBTQ Interest Group
Hugh Vollrath Ross Scholarship • 2021
The Graduate College, The University of Iowa
Distinguished National Journalism Teacher of the Year • 2016
Dow Jones News Fund
Outstanding Graduate Student • 2013
Diederich College of Communication
Marquette University

Presentations

Robinson, S. & Johnson, P. R. (29 May 2023). Rectifying harm through care-based practices: How journalists might tend to disengaged communities. Paper submitted to the 73rd annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Johnson, P. R., Darr, J. P., & Robinson, S. (25 May 2023). White flight from journalism: News avoidance of diversity and the editorial response in local news. Paper submitted to the Reuters News Avoidance Pre-Conference at the 73rd annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Burth, S., Riewestahl, E., Ramasubramanian, S., Foster, B., Johnson, P. R., Mihailidis, P. & Tully, M. (October 2022). The 6E’s of Media Literacy Impact: A Framework to Understand Differential Outcomes of Media Literacy Practices. Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas, Oakland, California.
Johnson, P. R., Tully, M., Foster, B., Mihailidis, P., Riewestahl, E., & Ramasubramanian, S. (6 August 2022). Developing a Framework for Equitable Media Literacy Practice: Voices from the Field. Paper submitted to the 105th annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Detroit, Michigan.
Johnson, P. R. (5 August 2022). It’s (Not) in the Syllabus: Contradiction and Taxonomic Qualities of Ethics in JMC Syllabi, a Mixed Methods Study. Paper submitted to the 105th annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Detroit, Michigan.
Johnson, P. R. (4 August 2022). Building a Sexstainable Future: Pornhub, CSR, and the Anti-Sustainability Heterosexual Male. Paper submitted to the 105th annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Detroit, Michigan. Top Student Paper, Second Place Moeller Student Paper Competition.
Johnson, P. R., & Foster, B. (28 July 2022). They grow up and start dying: The construction of cultural authority and journalism boundaries through detachment/attachment in Fangoria. Mapping the Magazine 7: Magazines and the Moment. Des Moines, Iowa.
Johnson, P. R. (30 June 2022). Imagining more equitable futures through sustainability-centered thinking. World Journalism Education Congress. Virtual.
Mihailidis, P., Ramasubramanian, S., Tully, M., Johnson, P., Riewestahl, E., & Foster, B. (2022) Media Literacy as a Safeguard to Democracy. International Media Literacy Research Symposium. Madison, WI.
Johnson, P.R. (5 August 2021). A snake in the grass: Adapting sex and sexuality from journalistic truth to the silver screen. Paper submitted to the 104th annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Virtual. Top Student Paper.
Johnson, P.R. (8 July 2021). A case of claims and facts: Automated fact-checking and the future of journalism’s authority. Paper submitted to the 22nd annual meeting of the Media Ecology Association (MEA), Virtual.
Johnson, P.R. (6 March 2021). A reckoning of objectivity with moral clarity. Paper presented at the annual midwinter conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Virtual.
Ekachai, D. & Johnson, P. (14 September 2012). A content analysis of social media syllabi. Paper presented at the annual MMA fall educators conference. Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Why Marquette

Let’s start with this: I’m home.

Marquette is where my journey began. It is where I cultivated my love and passion for student media and journalism education. It is where I learned to care for the whole person, cura personalis, which became the bedrock to my teaching philosophy, pedagogy, and practice. Coming back to join the journalism faculty—the department that gave me so many life gifts and opportunities—and as Director of Student Media means I get a full circle journey. It means I get to mentor and coach students who were just like me when I first came campus and heard the bells chime “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” as I walked to Johnston Hall and knew this place was something special.

Marquette believes in fostering a life-long love for community, service, and education. It inspires fellowship and amplifies scholarship. The attention to social justice and the desire to build men and women for others in incredibly important to my personhood and the work I do. I’m excited to be able to help students produce journalism that embodies Marquette’s mission and promotes a healthy and diverse democracy, engage students in conversations about inclusivity and equity, and maintaining a strong tradition of social responsibility. I’m back in the place I always knew I was destined to be, and I couldn’t be happier.

Research Affiliations & Appointments

Managing Editor, Journal of Communication Inquiry
Trusting News
Center for Technology, Information, and Public Life (CITAP, UNC-Chapel Hill)
National Association for Media Literacy Education