David Allen
Emeritus Professor
JOURNALISM, ADVERTISING, AND MEDIA STUDIES PROGRAM
Education
PhD, University of Minnesota
MA, The Pennsylvania State University
BS, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse
Courses Taught
JAMS 361 — Media Ethics
JAMS 381 — Controlling Dissent: Legal and Ethical Restraints on Expression in American Society
JAMS 559 — Law of Mass Communication
JAMS 661 — Seminar in Mass Communication and Society
JAMS 860 — Seminar in Mass Communication: Newswork and the New Capitalism
Research Interests
Media ethics, freedom of speech, media and political theory. Current research focuses on free speech zones and the management of dissent in democratic society.
Teaching Areas
Media Ethics, Law of Mass Communication, News and the Construction of Reality
Selected Publications
Allen, David S.“Spatial Ethics and the Public Forum”New York, NY: Peter Lang. .
Allen, David S.“”Limiting Participatory Culture: The New Police Power and Free Speech Zones”” Urban Communication Regulation: Designing Communication Abundance and Limits in the Urban CenturyEd. Drucker, Susan J., and Jassem, Harvey. New York, NY: Peter Lang. ().
Allen, David S.“Limiting Participatory Culture: The New Police Power and the Legitimization of Free Speech Zones” Urban Communication Regulation: Communication Freedoms and Limits. Eds. Harvey Jassem and Susan J. Drucker. New York: Peter Lang (2018)(2018).
Allen, David S.“The Ethical Roots of the Public Forum: Pragmatism, Expressive Freedom, and Grenville Clark” Journal of Mass Media Ethics29.3 (2014): 14.
Allen, David S., and Hindman, Elizabeth B.“The Media and Democracy: Using Democratic Theory in Journalistic Ethics” The Ethics of Journalism: Individual, Institutional and Cultural InfluencesEd. Wyatt, Wendy. London: IB Tauris. (2014): 185-203.
Allen, David S.“Creating Meaning, Creating Citizens: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Control of Meaning in the Public Sphere” Communication and Law: Multidisciplinary Approaches to ResearchEd. Reynolds, Amy , and Barnett, Brooke . Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum. (2006): 109-137.
Allen, David S.Democracy, Inc,: The Press Law in the Corporate Rationalization of the Public SphereUniversity of Illinois Presss. 2005.
Allen, David S.“Jürgen Habermas and the Search for Democratic Principles” Moral Engagement in Public Life: Theorists for Contemporary EthicsEd. Bracci, Sharon L., and Christians, Clifford G.New York, New York: Peter Lang Publishing. (2002): 97-122.
Allen, David S.“The First and Amendment and the Doctrine of Corporate Personhood” Journalism: Theory, Pratice & Criticism2.3 (2001): 255-278.
Allen, David S.“Merging Law and Ethics: Discourse Legal Theory and Freedom of Expression in Hurley” Communication Law and Policy4.4 (1999): 403-430.
. Freeing the First Amendment: Critical Perspectives on Freedom of ExpressionEd. Allen, David S., and Jenson, Robert. New York: New York: New York University Press. 1995.