Education:
Ph.D. (1986), University of Washington.
M.A. (1981), University of Washington.
B.A. (1977), Western Washington State University.
Employment:
Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, School of Communications and Theater, Temple University (2008 to present).
Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Communications and Theater, Temple University (January 2005 - 2008).
Director, Informatics Research Center, School of Informatics, State University of New York at Buffalo (2003 – 2004).
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, State University of New York at Buffalo (1992 - 2004).
Interim Dean, School of Informatics, State University of New York at Buffalo (1999 - 2001).
Chair, Department of Communication, State University of New York at Buffalo (1996 - 1999).
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Summers, 1993-1996.
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, State University of New York at Buffalo (1987 - 1992).
Assistant Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University (1985-1987).
Visiting Assistant Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (1984 - 1985).
Staff consultant, Center for Social Science Computation and Research, University of Washington (1982 - 1984).
Books (Edited)
Odugbemi, S & Jacobson T. L. (Eds.) (2008). Governance Reform Under Real World Conditions: Citizens, Stakeholders, and Voice. Washington DC: The World Bank.
Jacobson, T. L. & Servaes, J. (Eds.) (1999), Theoretical Approaches to Participatory Communication. Cresskill, NJ: The Hampton Press.
Servaes, J., Jacobson, T. L., & White, S.A. (Eds.) (1996) Participatory Communication Research for Social Change. New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Book Chapters
T.L. Jacobson & Lambino, Antonio III. (2008). Citizen Voice and the Public Sphere, In Odugbemi, S & Jacobson T. L. (Eds.) Governance Reform Under Real World Conditions: Citizens, Stakeholders, and Voice. Washington DC: The World Bank.
Jan Servaes, with Silvia Balit, Celeste Cadiz, Nicholas Carah, Linda Fuller, Martin Hadlow, Tom Jacobson, John Mayo, Rafael Orbredon, Doug Storey, Pradip Thomas, Thomas Tufte, and Karin Wilkins (2007). “No Sustainable Development Without Communication: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals” in World Congress on Communication for Development Lessons, Challenges, and the Way Forward (pp. 209-292). Washington DC: The World Bank.
Jacobson, T. L. (2006). “Media Development and Speech in the Public Sphere,” In Media Matters: Perspectives on Advancing Governance & Development (pp. 28-33), from the Global Forum for Media Development: Internews Europe.
Jacobson, T. L., & Kolluri, S. (2006). Participatory communication as communicative action. In Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron and Thomas Tufte (Eds.) Communication for Social Change Anthology: Historical and Contemporary Readings (pp. 806-814). South Orange: The Communication for Social Change Consortium. Reprint from Jacobson, T. & Servaes, J. (Eds.), Theoretical approaches to participatory communication (pp. 265-281). Cresskill, NJ: The Hampton Press.
Jacobson, T. L. (2004). A discourse ethics approach to a culturally sensitive framework for international rights. In Globalization and Communication between Cultures, Zhengzhi Guo (Ed.), Beijing: Beijing Broadcasting Institute Press. (in Chinese).
Jacobson, T.L. (2004) “Participatory Communication for Development and the African Philosophy Debate,” Charles Okigbo and Festus Eribo (Eds.), Development and Communication in Africa. Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Storey, D. & Jacobson, T. L. (2003). Entertainment Education and Participation: Applying Habermas to a Case Study of a Population Program in Nepal. In Singhal, A., Cody, M.J., Rogers, E. and Sabido, M. (Eds.), Entertainment-Education Worldwide: History, Research, and Practice (pp. 417-434), Mahwah and London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Jacobson, T. L. (2003). Systems, Gaps and Communication, in Dervin, B. & Chaffee, S., with Foreman-Wernet, L., Communication, a different kind of horse race: Essays honoring Richard F. Carter. Cresskill, N.J: Hampton Press.
Jacobson, T.L. and Jang, W.Y. (2003). Mediated War, Peace, Global Civil Society, in Mody, B. (Ed.), International and development communication: A 21st Century Perspective (pp. 53-68). Beverly Hills: Sage Publications. Reprinted from Mody, B. and W. Gudykunst (Eds.), Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication (pp. 343-359). Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.
Jacobson, T.L. and Jang, W.Y. (2001). War, Peace, Media and Global Civil Society, in Mody, B. & Gudykunst, W. (Eds.), Handbook on International and Intercultural Communication (pp. 343-359). Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.
Jacobson, T. L. (2000) Habermas, Dewey, and Pragmatism, In Perry, D. (Ed.). Pragmatism and Communication Research. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Jacobson, T. L. (2000). Cultural Hybridity and the Public Sphere, in Karin Wilkins, Editor, Redeveloping Communication for Social Change: Accounting for Power in Theory and Practice. Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Eagles, M. & Jacobson, T.L. (1999). The experience of Kids Voting USA. In International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (Eds.), Participation: Involving Today’s Young in Tomorrow’s Democracy (pp. 95-101),
Jacobson, T. L. (1999). Participatory Communication and the Ideal Speech Situation, In Jacobson, T. & Servaes, J. (Eds.), Theoretical approaches to participatory communication (pp. 265-281). Cresskill, NJ: The Hampton Press.
Jacobson, T. L., & Kolluri, S. (1999). Participatory communication as communicative action. In Jacobson, T. & Servaes, J. (Eds.), Theoretical approaches to participatory communication (pp. 265-281). Cresskill, NJ: The Hampton Press.
Jacobson, T. L. (1996). Development Communication Theory in the Wake of Positivism. J. Servaes, Jacobson, T.L. and White, S.A. (Eds.), Participatory Communication for Social Change, (pp. 67-81), New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Jacobson, T. L. (1994). Modernization and Post-Modernization Approaches to Participatory Communication, in Participation: A Key Concept in Development Communication. S. White, J. Ascroft, and K. S. Nair, (Eds.), New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Jacobson. T. L. (1993). Research as an Issue in the Call for a New International Information Order. In C. Okigbo & Y. Abubakar (Eds.), New Perspectives in International News Flow (75-87), Lagos: Communication Research Projects.
Peer Reviewed Publications
Jacobson, T. (forthcoming) Harmonious Society, Civil Society and the Media: A Communicative Action Perspective. China Media Research (Vol. 4,
2008).
Jacobson, T.L. & Storey, D. (2004). Development Communication and Participation: Applying Habermas to a Case Study of Population Programs in Nepal, Communication Theory. 14(2): 99-121.
Robinson, J. & Jacobson, T. L. (2003). Integrating LIS into an Organizational IS/IT Environment. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. 44(1): 26-38.
Jacobson. T.L. (2003) Participatory Communication for Social Change: The Relevance of the Theory of Communicative Action, In P. Kalbfleisch, (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 27 (pp. 87-124). Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.
Jacobson, T., Fang, N.H. & Raffel, W. (2002). The propaganda model: A test of human rights reporting in the New York Times, Journal of International Communication. 8(1): 19-38.
Jacobson, T. L. (2002). The disappearance of journalism. Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 56(3): 19-20.
Jacobson, T. & Jang, W. (2001). Rights, Culture and Global Democracy. Communication Theory, 11(4): 434-453.
Jacobson, T. (1998). Discourse Ethics and the Right to Communicate. Gazette, 60(5), 395-413.
Jacobson, T., and Yan, W. (1998). Q-analysis Techniques for Studying Communication Content. Quality & Quantity, 32: 93-108.
Barnett, G., Choi, Y. Jacobson, T. L, and Sun, S. (1996). An Examination of the International Telecommunication Network. Journal of International Communication, 3(2), 19-43.
Jacobson, T. L. (1994) Electronic Mail Networks and Services in Third World Countries: Availability, Problems, Opportunities. Revue Tiers-Monde. XXXV(138): 343-358.
Jacobson, T. L. (1994) The Electronic Publishing Revolution is Not Global. JASIS: Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 45(10): 745-752.
Jacobson, T. L. and Zimpfer, S. (1993). Non-commercial Computer Networks and National Development. Telematics and Informatics, 10(4): 345-358.
Jacobson, T. L. Fusani, D. & Yan, W. (1993) Q-analysis of User Database Interaction. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies. 38, 787-803
Jacobson, T. L. (1993). A Pragmatist Account of Participatory Communication Research for National Development. Communication Theory. 3(3), 214-230.
Jacobson, T. L. & Fusani, E. (1991). Computer, System and Area Knowledge in Novice Searching of a Full Text, Multi File Database. Library and Information Science Research. 24(1): 97-106.
Jacobson, T. L. (1991). Sense-making in a Database Environment. Information Processing and Management, 27(6): 647-657.
Jacobson, T. L. (1991). Theories as Communications, Communication Theory. 1(2): 145-150.
Jacobson, T. L. and Ullman, J. (1989). Commercial Data Bases and Reporting: Opinions of Newspaper Journalists and Librarians, Newspaper Research Journal. 10(2): 15-25.
Jacobson, T. L. (1989). Use of Commercial Data Bases for Television News Reporting. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 33(2): 203-208.
Jacobson, T. L. (1988). The Use of Research Information in Magazine Publishing Companies. Journalism Quarterly. 65(2): 511-514.
Jacobson, T. L. (1985). An Epistemological Shift in Development Communication Theory. Progress in Communication Sciences. Vol. 6, eds., Brenda Dervin and Melvin J. Voigt, Norwood, N.J.: Ablex.
Dervin, B., Jacobson, T. L. & Nilan, M. J. (1982). Measuring aspects of information seeking: A test of a quantitative/qualitative methodology. Communication Yearbook 6 (pp. 419-444). ed., Michael Burgoon, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books.
Dervin, B., Nilan, M. J. & Jacobson, T. L. (1981). Improving Predictions of Information Use: A Comparison of Predictor Types in a Health Communication Setting. Communication Yearbook 5. (Ed.) Michael Burgoon, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books.
Other Publications (not peer reviewed)
Jacobson, T. L. (2008). Citizen Participation and the Democratic Legitimation of Environmental Policy Decisions: A Communicative Action Assessment Model.” Proceedings of the UNITAR-Yale Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy, May 10-11, New Haven.
Jacobson, T. L. (2008). “Participatory Action Research,”In The International Encyclopedia of Communication (ed. Donsbach), volume 8 (pp. 3511-3513). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Jacobson, T. L. (November, 2007). A Case for Quantitative Assessment of Participatory Communication Programs. Glocal Times, (Web magazine, Issue 9), (revised & expanded from Drum Beat article). (http://www.glocaltimes.k3.mah.se/viewarticle.aspx?articleID=134&issueID=0)
Jacobson, T.L. (2007). Participatory Communication: The Case for Quantitative Assessment, The Drum Beat (online issue #381), published by The Communication Initiative. (http://www.comminit.com/drum_beat_381.html)
Jacobson, T. L., Jang, W. (2002) Mediating War and Peace. Peace & Policy, 7: 2-8.
(Others to 1982).
Invited Lectures and Presentations
“Indicating Citizen Voice: Communicative Action Measures for Media Development,”
Presented at Workshop on Measuring Press Freedom and Democracy: Methodologies, Uses, and Impact. University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School of Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies, November 5, 2007.
Invited Panel Member, "The World Congress on Communication for Development: Lessons, Challenges and the Way Forward," WCCD Proceedings book launch event. The World Bank, Washington DC, October 25-27, 2007.
“Capacity Building, Spaces for Dialog, and Program Evaluation,” presented to the Global Framing of Democracy Workshop: International Perspectives on Civil Society, Communications, Globalization and Democracy, The University of Pennsylvania , November 2-3 , 2006. Event co-sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication and the Centre for the Study of Global Governance (CSGG) and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Panelist, Panel session on “How Research Institutions/Universities can Contribute to Communication for Development,” World Congress on Communication for Development (World Bank), October 25-27, 2006, Rome.
Discussant, Panel session on “The Rational, Value, and Challenges for Adopting Participatory Communication in Development Programs,” World Congress on Communication for Development (World Bank), October 25-27, 2006, Rome.
Panelist, “Communication for Social Change and Development: A New Journal,” 55th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, New York, May 26-30, 2005.
“The Public Sphere in Developing Countries: The Relevance of Communicative Action,” panel on Development and Democracy in the Global Public Interest : Telecommunication, Trade in Services and Communicative Action, at the 54th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, May 27-31, 2004, New Orleans.
Chair and discussant for panel “Citizenship and Ideology in International Communications,” at the 54th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, May 27-31, 2004, New Orleans.
”What We Know About Participatory Communication.” Presentation at Belmont II: Participation, Communication Approaches, & Social Change, Convened by the Health Communication Partnership, October 27-28, 2003, Elkridge, Maryland.
“Defining and Evaluating Participatory Communication.” Invited panel member on “Recent Trends in Theory and Practice for Communication for Social Change,” convened by Silvio Waisbord, Rutgers University, at the 53rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, May 22-27, San Diego, 2003.
(Others to 1982).
Conference Presentations (peer reviewed):
Jacobson, T. & Pan, L. (accepted for presentation). Indicating Citizen Voice: Communicative Action Measures for Media Development, International Communication Association Annual Conference (Communication for Social Change Division), Montreal, May 22-26, 2008.
Jacobson, T.L., Chang P.C., Pan, L. and L. Chang (accepted for presentation). The Case for a Discourse Ethics Approach to International Rights. International Communication Association Annual Conference (Philosophy of Communication Division), Montreal, May 22-26, 2008.
Jacobson, T. (2007). Harmonious Society, Civil Society and the Media: A Communicative Action Perspective, Prepared for “Harmonious Society, Civil Society, and the Media,” a joint conference organized by the Chinese Association for Communication and the International Communication Association, facilitated by the China Media Centre at the University of Westminster and hosted by the National Centre for Radio and Television Studies at Communication University of China, Beijing, October 20-21, 2007.
Jacobson, T. & Seung Joon Jun, S.J., (2006). Testing Habermas’s Legitimation Thesis. Presented to the Participatory Research Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference, Cairo, July 23-28, 2006.
Jacobson, T. & Seung Joon Jun, S.J., (2006). Communicative Action and Democratic Legitimacy: The Case of a State Appointed Municipal Financial Control Board. Presentated to the Political Communication Division at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Dresden, June 19-23, 2006.
Jacobson, T. & Chang, L. (2005). Measuring Collective Change as Social Choice Preference Structuration, Presented at the Participatory Communication Research Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, July 26-28, Taipei.
Jacobson, T. & Chang, L. (2005). Measuring Community Change as Social Choice Preference Structuration. Presented at the International Communication Association 55th Annual Conference in New York, May 26-30, 2005.
(Others to 1982)
Memberships
Member, International Association for Media and Communication Research, 1986 to present.
Member, International Communication Association, 1985-present.
Member, National Communication Association, periodically 1997 - present.
Member, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, periodically from 1981 - present.
Member, Advisory Board, Communication Institute for Online Scholarship, 1988 - present.
Member, International Advisory Council, TODA Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, 1998 to present.
Curriculum Vitae (Selective)
