Dr. Mary Bock

Biography

Mary Bock is a Professor at the School of Journalism and Media, part of the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests encompass photographic practice, visual theory, and the relationship between media and social justice, focusing particularly on issues of truth, authenticity, and the image production process. Bock is the author of 'Gender Journalism: An Intersectional Approach' (Rowman Littlefield, 2023), which serves as a textbook for the courses she teaches within the School of Journalism and Media and is cross-listed with the Center for Women's and Gender Studies. Her scholarly work has appeared in various prestigious journals, including 'Journal of Communication' and 'Visual Communication Quarterly'. Bock's recent book, 'Seeing Justice: Witnessing, Crime, Punishment' (Oxford, 2021), theorizes the connections between media and state production of visual representations of crime, courts, and justice. This work received the Diane S. Hope Book of the Year award from the National Communication Association's Visual Communication Division. In 2014, she co-authored 'Visual Communication Theory and Research' with Shahira Fahmy and Wayne Wanta. Additionally, her previous research in 'Video Journalism: One-Man Band' (2012) examined the dynamics of solo multimedia practices in news narratives.

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