Gitlin, Todd
GITLIN, Todd
GITLIN, Todd. American, b. 1943. Genres: Novels, Communications/Media, Politics/Government, Sociology, Writing/Journalism. Career: San Francisco Express Times, California, writer, 1968-69; San Jose State College, California, lecturer, 1970-76; University of California, Santa Cruz, lecturer, 1974-77; University of California, Berkeley, assistant professor, 1978-83, associate professor, 1983-87, professor of sociology and director of Mass Communications Program, 1987-92; New York University, professor of culture, journalism and sociology, 1995-2002; Columbia University, professor of journalism and sociology, 2002-. Publications: (with N. Hollander) Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago, 1970; Busy Being Born (poetry), 1974; The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media and the Unmaking of the New Left, 1980; Inside Prime Time, 1983; The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage, 1987; The Murder of Albert Einstein, 1992; The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked by Culture Wars, 1995; Sacrifice, 1999; Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives, 2002; Letters to a Young Activist, 2003. EDITOR: Campfires of Resistance: Poetry from the Movement, 1971; Watching Television, 1987. Address: Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, 239 Greene St., Rm 735, New York, NY 10027, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]