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Adam Tyma

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Adam W. Tyma

  • he/him/his
  • Communication, School of, Professor

email:
atyma@unomaha.edu
office:
ASH  ASH 107w
office phone:
402.554.4877
office hours:
https://calendly.com/adamwtyma/office-hours , Monday and Wednesday 2-3 pm, Tuesday 1-2 pm, or by appt (all time Central)
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XM7V-s0AAAAJ&hl=en
ORCID:
0000-0002-0792-3129
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Biography

Professor of Critical Media Studies. Advisor for the Visual Communication and Culture Minor. PhD from NDSU, MA from U of MN (TC), BS-Teaching from MNSU-Mankato. Grew up in Rosemount, MN, a suburb of St. Paul.

Teaching Interests

Critical and Cultural Theory; Media Literacy; Media Studies; Visual Culture; Computer-Mediated Communication; Pedagogical Theory; Teaching Strategies

Research Interests

See above ...

Service Summary

Former Member-At-Large for the Central States Communication Association

Education

Ph D, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, Communication, Media Studies; Critical Theory/Cultural Studies; Pedagogy, 2008

MA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Communication Studies, Media Studies; Rhetorical Studies, 2001

BS, Minnesota State University - Mankato, Mankato, MN, Speech Communication, English; Humanities, 1997

AA, Inver Hills Community College, Inver Grove Heights, MN, General Education, 1993

Scholarship/Research/Creative Activity

Selected Publications

Tyma, Adam, Schowalter, Dana , Meier, Matt. Popular Culture Perspectives in the MCU, Bloomsbury Press.

Tyma, Adam. 2021. The Other Side of 2020: Questioning Everything—Doing Something, Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 5, 25-30.

Herbig, Art, Herrmann, Andrew, Watson, Alix, Tyma, Adam, joda, joan. 2020. Critical Rhetoric and Collaboration: Missing Principle #9 and ProfsDoPop, International Journal of Communication, 14, 15.

Tyma, Adam, Edwards, Autumn. 2019. Communication Is ... Perspectives on Theory, Cognella Publishing.

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