Mark Tremayne

Assistant Professor

Contact Information:
CMA A7.224
512-471-7865
tremayne@mail.utexas.edu
Curriculum Vita (PDF)

Mark Tremayne specializes in newer media. His latest work, Blogging, Citizenship, and the Future of Media, is an edited volume scheduled for publication by Routledge in the fall of 2006. His research has been published in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Convergence: The International Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies, The Journal of Interactive Advertising and Science Communication.

Tremayne teaches courses in mass communication theory, new media research and broadcasting. He worked for 9 years in radio and television primarily as a producer and newsroom manager, including two years as the executive producer and assistant news director for KAKE-TV in Wichita, Kansas. His newscasts have won awards from the Radio and Television News Director’s Association, the Associated Press, and the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. He has a B.A. in legal studies from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Recent Publications

Tremayne, M. (in press). Manipulating interactivity with thematically hyperlinked news texts: A media learning experiment. New Media & Society.

Tremayne, M. (Ed.). (2006). Blogging, citizenship and the future of media.New York: Routledge.

Harp, D.M. & M. Tremayne (2006). The Gendered Blogosphere: Examining Inequality Using Network and Feminist Theory. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 83(2), 247-264.

Tremayne, M., Zheng, N., Lee, J., and J. Jeong (2006). Issue Publics on the Web: Applying Network Theory to the War Blogosphere. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12 (1), available: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/

Tremayne, M. (2006). Applying network theory to the use of external links on news web sites. In X. Li (Ed.), Internet newspapers: Making of a mainstream medium. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 49-64.

Tremayne, M. (2005). News websites as gated cybercommunities. Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 11(3), 28-39.

Tremayne, M. (2005). Lessons learned from experiments with interactivity on the web. Journal of Interactive Advertising 5(2), available http://www.jiad.org.

Tremayne, M. (2004). The Web of context: Applying network theory to the use of hyperlinks in journalism on the Web. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 81(2), 237-253.

Recent Conference Papers

Harp, D., Nichols, S., Tremayne, M. & Castronova, T. (2006). Women in the Blogosphere: Access, Practices, and Gender Politics. Presented at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Commission on the Status of Women, San Francisco.

Chin, X., Figur, N., Huang, J.S. & M. Tremayne (2006). Perceived Authority and Communication Channel: Experiments with Instant Messaging. Presented at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Communication Theory and Methodology Division, San Francisco.

Tremayne, M. & A.S. Weiss (2005). Contingent Interactivity and News Story Navigation: An Experiment. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Communication, Technology and Policy Division, San Antonio, August.

Harp, D. & M. Tremayne (2005). The gendered blogosphere: Where promise meets reality. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Communication, Technology and Policy Division, San Antonio, August.

Weiss, A. S. & M. Tremayne (2005). Issue salience and web page design: An agenda setting experiment. Presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, New York, May.

Tremayne, M. (2004). Untangling interactivity on the web. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Communication, Technology and Policy Division, Toronto, August.

Tremayne, M. (2004). News web sites as gated cybercommunities. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Communication, Technology and Policy Division, Toronto, August.