Stephen Banning

Stephen Banning

Professor, Advertising and Public Relations

    Caterpillar Global Communication Center 319
    309-677-2357
   sbanning@bradley.edu

 

Biography

Stephen A. Banning researches media effects focusing on the third-person effect, agenda setting and persuasion. Banning has published over thirty peer reviewed scholarly articles in journals including American Behavioral ScientistJournalism and Mass Communication QuarterlyMass Communication & SocietyNewspaper Research JournalCommunication QuarterlyCommunication Research ReportsVisual Communication QuarterlyJournalism History, Journal of Applied CommunicationAmerican Journalism, Public Relations Review and Journal of Advertising Education. Banning worked professionally in radio, television, public relations and advertising before coming to academia. He currently teaches advertising courses in addition to research methods and media law and ethics. He reviews for a number of scholarly journals and has been on the editorial boards of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic MediaMass Communication & Society and Journal of Computer Mediated Communication. He recently solo authored the book Journalism Standards of Work Today: Using History to Create a New Code of Journalism Ethics published in 2020.