William Hoynes
William Hoynes is Professor of Sociology and Director of the American Culture Program at Vassar College. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Boston College and joined Vassar's Sociology Department in 1992. His research examines the relationship between media and democracy in the United States, with a special focus on the structure of the media industry. He is the author of Public Television for Sale (Westview Press, 1994), which was awarded the 1995 Goldsmith Book Prize from the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He is co-author, with David Croteau, of By Invitation Only: How the Media Limit Political Debate (Common Courage Press, 1994), Media/Society: Industries, Images, and Audiences (Pine Forge Press, third edition, 2003), and The Business of Media: Corporate Media and the Public Interest (Pine Forge Press, second edition, 2006). Most recently, he is co-editor (with David Croteau and Charlotte Ryan) of Rhyming Hope and History: Activists, Academics, and Social Movement Scholarship, published by the University of Minnesota Press. He teaches classes on various aspects of contemporary media and culture, including Mass Media and Society; News Media in America; Media and War; Class, Culture, and Power; and Culture, Commerce, and the Public Sphere.