Mary Ann Allison

Teaching

Courses Taught

Marketing and Promotion (Masters level)

Mass Media: History and Development

Mass Communications in Contemporary Society

Media Literacy: Criticism and Analysis

Media and Popular Culture

Surveying Public Opinion

Theories of Media

Computers and Culture

Decision Making in Groups

Guest Lectures

City University of New York, Brooklyn (graduate program)

Edinburgh Business School (graduate program)

Marist College (graduate program)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: New England Complex Systems Institute (post doctoral program)

New York University: Graduate School of Public Service, Stern Business School

Pratt Institute, Historic Preservation (graduate program)

Pratt Institute, Design Management Program

University of South Carolina Global Business Forum

Doctoral Dissertation Committee Member
Time	Student	University / Program	Dissertation Title
August 2008 - Present	Marian Conway	Walden University	TBD
October, 2007 - Present	Michael Cole	Pace University Lubin School of Business	Marketing Consequences of Technology Enabled Consumer Collaoration with Products

Directed Student Learning at Hofstra University
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Time	Student	Thesis Title
Spring 2009	Christina Reale	The Adaptive Entertainer: A Reflective Analysis of Competitive Self-Representation and Archetypes in New Media Communities
Spring 2008	Bonnie McKasty	American Sea Change and the Rise in Popularity of the Alternative and Holistic Medical Movement
Spring 2007	Erin McDowell	The Action Reasearcher: A Reflective Analysis of Primary Attention Group Research Findings and The Design of a Method for Result Dissemination

Supervised Research
Time	Student(s)	Research TItle
Spring 2009	Amanda Bryant Alyssa Dutton	9/11 Conspiracy Theory and Mass Media’s Effects
Fall 2008	Christine Reale	A Comparison of Generational Social Change through Entertainment and Mass Media
Spring 2008	Dale Johnson	Global Media in a Changing World: Social Networking & Mediated Communication
	Marshall Mitchell-Servilio	Mass Media Technology and Its Affects on High School Education
	Veronica Leon	Bias in Apparenlty Credible New Sources
	Amanda Tiradentes	Orkut as a Case Study in the Paradigm Shift From Gemeinschaft to Cyber-gesellshaft
	Christie Hanlon	Studying New Cassel: Demographics, Media Use, and Suburban Communication
	Ryan Denehy	Paradigm Shift in Mass Media: Print to Internet
Fall 2007	Bonnie Mckasty	Public Relations and Global Health
	Ryan Denehy Amanda Tiradentes	The New Mass Media: Social Networking
Spring 2007	Laurin Kicklighter	The Green Map System: A Case Study

Undergraduate Research Poster Presentations
Time	Student	Conference	Poster Title	Poster Image
Spring 2008	Amanda Tiradentes	Colonial Academic Alliance	Cyber-Gemeinschaft: A Change in Communication and Community
	Christina Reale	Colonial Academic Alliance	Archetypes and Competitive Self-Representation in Facebook

Hoftsra New College First Year Independent Projects
Time	Student	Project Title
Spring 2008	Veronica Leon	Manipulation by Apparently Credible News Sources: World Wrestling Entertainment

Individually Negotiated Honors Options
Time	Student(s)	Course TItle
Fall 2008	Chelsea Furlong	Mass Media History and Development
Spring 2008	Jessica Weisensell	Surveying Public Opinion
	Ale Perez Sandy Pletikosic	Media Literacy

Thesis Advisor outside Hoftstra University
Time	Student	University / Program	Thesis Title
Spring 2009	Stanislava Stanava	American University	Applying Complex Systems to Businesses