\n\tKrishna Jayakar is a professor in the Department of Telecommunications, teaching telecommunications management and media economics. He also serves as co-director of the Institute for Information Policy, housed in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications. His areas of research cover telecommunications policy and media economics, with a special interest in universal access to telecommunications.
\n\n\tJayakar is a past head of the Media Management and Economics Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and currently serves as the Co-Editor of the Journal of Information Policy and on the board of editors of The Information Society journal. In 2023, he published (with Chun Liu) a book titled Making Policy for the New Information Economy: Comparing China and India. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Telecommunications Council, the Time Warner Cable Research Program on Digital Communications, the Media Democracy Fund, AT&T and others.
\n\n\tHe's a three-time winner of the Deans' Excellence Award for Integrated Scholarship (2016, 2013, 2004) and earned the Deans’ Excellence Award for Teaching in 2002.
\n\n\tBefore joining academics, Dr. Jayakar was a research officer in India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, drafting research reports and position papers on media policy.
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\n\nShannon Kennan is a Teaching Professor and teaches online classes in journalism, media studies and advertising/public relations. Kennan also serves as the First Year Seminar Coordinator for the Bellisario College and as the Curriculum Coordinator for the journalism department.
\nHer teaching expertise focuses on applying ethics to mass comm industries and DEIB in mass media. In addition, her educational experiences — bachelor's degree (early childhood education), master's degree (counseling psychology) and Ph.D. (mass communications) — provide a mix of skills that allow her to bring a student-centered focus to her teaching.
Kennan is interested in the place where technology, psychology, and education converge. She also works with a variety of social media, new technologies, and online teaching competencies. Her research focuses on ethical and moral decision-making, digital media, and mental health/illness issues. Her dissertation topic was on ethical decision-making by journalists while reporting from the scene of a school shooting.
Shannon has worked in higher education in a variety of administrative and teaching roles since 1995 and joined the Bellisario College in January 2011 as the Director of eLearning Initiatives to build the existing portfolio of online and hybrid courses and programs.
Specialties: Online learning, social media, teaching with technology, childhood and adolescent development, psychological issues, family/systems therapy, college student development, pedagogy, professional development and training, crisis management, supervision.
- Instructor, PSU 009 First Year Seminar
- Instructor, Comm 100 The Mass Media and Society
- Instructor, Comm 205 Gender, Diversity, and the Media
- Instructor, Comm 405 Political Economy of Communications
- Instructor, Comm 409 Mass Media Ethics
- Instructor, Comm 410 International Mass Communications
- Instructor, Comm 833 Ethics and Decision Making in Strategic Communications
\n Kennan, S. (2017) When Morality Matters Most: Interviewing children at the scene of a school shooting. https://etda.libraries.psu.edu...
\n\n Kennan, S., Bigatel, P., Hoewe, J., Stockdale, S. (2017) One Size Doesn’t Always Fit All: Modifying teaching behaviors based on levels of student self-directedness in online learning. The Internet and Higher Education (under review).
\n\n Kennan, S., Bigatel, P., Stockdale, S., Hoewe, J. (2017) The (lack of) influence of age and class standing on preferred teaching behaviors for online students. Online Learning, 22(1). Retrieved from: https://olj.onlinelearningcons...
\n\n Ragan, L.C., Bigatel, P.M., Kennan, S., May, J. (2012), From research to practice: Towards the development of an integrated and comprehensive faculty development program. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 16(5). Retrieved from http://jaln.sloanconsortium.or...
\n\n Bigatel, P. M., Ragan, L. C., Kennan, S., May, J., & Redmond, B. F. (2012). The Identification of Competencies for Online Teaching Success. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 16(1). Retrieved from http://jaln.sloanconsortium.or...
\n\n Kennan, S. (2010), World of Warcraft and Philosophy: Wrath of the Philosopher King. The Journal of Popular Culture, 43: 898–899. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2010.00776.x, Journal of Popular Culture
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