Sarah R. Stein
Associate Professor
and
Assistant Vice Provost for Information Technology Special Projects
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1997

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Sarah Stein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, and teaches media production as well as criticism and theories of mediated communication. She received her Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa after a 25-year career in documentary filmmaking in New York City. Two of the documentaries she edited won Academy Awards, while others won Emmys, the Columbia-DuPont Journalism Award, and numerous domestic and international film festival awards. Her scholarly emphasis is in Media Studies, with interests in visual communication, gender, and new technologies, with particular attention to the rhetorical constructions used by technology advertising, and to contemporary popular attitudes toward abundance and rhetorics of immortality. She teaches video and digital production as well as mass communication courses, and in the future will offer courses that integrate theoretical perspectives on the digital age with hands-on multimedia production. Dr. Stein has served since 2006 as an Assistant Vice-Provost for Information Technology Special Projects. Her work as a member of NC State's Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) team brings her scholarly communication perspective to bear on the cultural and social dynamics involved in advancing technological transformation. This project also draws on her command of visual media and digital multimedia to fashion the most effective uses of the VCL in meeting the needs of diverse educational environments. Her publications include:

• Bad girls: Cultural politics and media representations of transgressive women, co-authored with A. Susan Owen and Leah Vande Berg (New York: Peter Lang, 2007).


• "The '1984' Macintosh ad: Cinematic icons and constitutive rhetoric in the launch of a new machine." Quarterly Journal of Speech (in press, May 2002).


• "Legitimating TV journalism in 60 Minutes: The ramifications of subordinating the visual to the primacy of the word." Critical Studies in Media Communication 18:3, September 2001, 1-21.


• "A cyberroom of one's own." In M. Flanagan & A. Booth (Eds.), Reload: Rethinking Women & Cyberculture. Boston, MA: MIT Press (in press, 2001).


• "The media production model: An alternative approach to intellectual property rights in distributed education." Educause Review, 36: 1, January-February 2001, 26-37.


• "Multimedia as persuasive agent: Using visual metaphors to establish the rhetorical agenda in a communication department video." Journal of the Association for Communication Administration, 29: 3, September 2000, 293-303.


• "Visuality and the Image," Journal of Communication, 48:2, Spring 1998.

Dr. Stein was a Coolidge Scholar in residence in New York City in July 2003 and a Frye Institute Fellow in Atlanta in June 2005. She serves as an affiliated faculty member for NC State's Women and Gender Studies Program. Dr. Stein is a founder and the facilitator of the NC State Teaching, Learning & Technology Roundtable (TLTR), a campus-wide volunteer advisory council that provides a forum for issues of pedagogy and technology. The TLTR website is at http://www.ncsu.edu/tltr. She chairs the annual Gertrude Cox Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching with Technology at NC State, begun in 2001. Dr. Stein is the recipient of the NC State DELTA Distance Education Resource Grant 2001 of $10,000 to create web-based Who's Online/Online, a faculty peer-to-peer tutorial on teaching with technology. Dr. Stein is a member of the DELTA (Distance Education & Learning Technology Applications) Advisory Board, of the LITRE Advisory Board, and was on NC State's SACS "LITRE" (Learning in a Technology-Rich Environment) Quality Enhancement Plan Steering Committee and Faculty Engagement Committee.