Bettina Fabos, Ph.D.

 

 

326 Lang Hall

University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA  50614-0139

fabos@uni.edu

 

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

 

2018-Present

Full Professor, , Interactive Digital Studies and Visual Communication, University of Northern Iowa

2009-2018

Associate Professor, Interactive Digital Studies and Visual Communication, University of Northern Iowa

2007-2009

Assistant Professor, Interactive Digital Studies and Visual Communication, University of Northern Iowa

2005-2007

Assistant Professor, Interactive Media Studies and Journalism, Miami University of Ohio

2001-2005

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Northern Iowa

2001-2002

Spencer Fellow, Spencer Foundation, Chicago

1998-2001

Presidential Fellow, University of Iowa

1995-1998

Instructor, University of Northern Iowa

1992-1995

Lecturer, University of Michigan

 

 

EDUCATION

 

University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA                        Ph.D., Language Literacy and Culture, 2002.

 

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI              M.A., Telecommunication Arts, 1992.

 

Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH                                  B.A., Literature, 1987.

 

 

RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES

 

Interactive Media Development

 

Fabos, B. (Writer, Producer, and Creative Director), Potter, D. (Designer), Cahill, C. and Espenscheid, J. (Web Developers); Campbell, I. (Animator), Poznan, K. and Waters, L. (Historical Advisors and Editors) (2017).  Proud and Torn: How One Family Survived Hungarian History (proudandtorn.com).  An interactive chronology of Hungarian history, 20CE-1956, Proud and Torn is part photomontage, graphic memoir, and interactive timeline.  The project received a Fulbright Research award to Budapest in Spring 2013 and a grant from the Hungary Initiatives Foundation in 2014.

 

Fabos, B., Golitsynskiy, G., Carr-Childers, L., Doely, N. (2017, Beta2). FORTEPAN IOWA:  a digital archive and interactive timeline that features curated photos taken by ordinary Iowans over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Beta1 launched March 2015. Beta2 launch: Fall 2017.

 

 

Competitive Art Exhibitions

 

Fabos, B, Cahill C., Campbell, I., Espenscheid, J, Potter, D. Poznan, K., and  Waters, L. (2018). Proud and Torn: How One Family Survived Hungarian History. Art Exhibition at the Digital Research on Humanities and the Arts (DRHA) conference. Malta, September 9-12.

Fabos, B., Cahill C., Campbell, I., Espenscheid, J, Potter, D. Poznan, K., and  Waters, L. (2018). Proud and Torn: How One Family Survived Hungarian History. Featured exhibited work, Visual Communication conference. La Jolla, CA, June 21.

 

Fabos, B., Cahill C., Campbell, I., Espenscheid, J, Potter, D. Poznan, K., and  Waters, L. (2017). Proud and Torn: How One Family Survived Hungarian History. Art Exhibition at the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS). Madeira, Portugal, November 15 and 16.

 

 
Books

 

Campbell, R., Martin, C.R., and Fabos, B. (2018-Forthcoming). Media and Culture:  An Introduction to Mass Communication 11th Edition Update (Also  11th, 10th, 9th, 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd ed.).  New York:  Bedford/St. MartinÕs.

 

Campbell, R., Martin, C. R., and Fabos, B. (2018-Forthcoming).  Media Essentials.  A Brief Introduction. 4th edition (Also 3rd, 2nd, nad  1st ed.) New York:  Bedford/St. MartinÕs Press.

 

Jenson, J., Gomery, D., Campbell, R., Fabos, B, and Frechette, J (2013). Media IN Society, New York: Bedford/St. MartinÕs Press.

 

Fabos, B., Martin, C.R., and Campbell, R. (2007).  InstructorÕs Resource Manual for Media and Culture:  An Introduction to Mass Communication 5th edition (Also 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st ed.).  New York:  Bedford/St. MartinÕs.

 

Fabos, B. (2004). Wrong Turn on the Information Superhighway: Education and the Commercialization of the Internet, New York: Columbia University Teachers College Press.

 

 

Refereed Journals

 

Fabos, B., Poznan, K.E.,  and Waters, L. M. (2018, forthcoming). Combining Photomontage, Graphic Memoir, and Interactive Timeline to Tell the History of Hungary. In Rebecca Rouse & Mara Dionisio (Eds.), 10th Annual ICIDS Art Exhibition Catalogue. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon ETC Press.

 

Fabos, B. (2014).  The Trouble with Iconic Images:  Historical Timelines and Public Memory. Visual Communication Quarterly, 21(4): 223-235.

 

Fabos, B. (2006).  The Commercial Search Engine Industry and Alternatives to the Oligopoly.  EastBound, an international refereed journal in the field of media and cultural studies, published three times a year by the Centre for New Media Research, Budapest. (1-1). [Online].  Available:  http://www.eastbound.eu/journal/2006-1/

 

Fabos, B. (Spring, 2005). The Commercialized Web: Challenges for Libraries and Democracy. Guest Editor, Library Trends.  Winter, 2005.

 

Lewis, C. and Fabos, B. (October/November/December 2005). Instant Messaging, Literacies, and Social Identities. Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 4: 470-500.  Available:  http://www.reading.org/Library/Retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598/RRQ.40.4.5&F=RRQ-40-4Lewis.html

 

Lewis, C., Ketter, J., and Fabos, B.  (2001).  Reading Race in a Rural Context.  International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 14(3): 317-350.

 

Fabos, B. (2001).  Forcing the Fairytale: Narrative Strategies in Women's Figure Skating Competition Coverage. Culture, Sport and Society. 

 

Fabos, B. (2000, May).  ZapMe! Zaps You.  Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 43(8): 720-725.

 

Lewis, C., and Fabos, B. (2000).  But Will It Work in the Heartland?  A Response and Illustration.  Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 43(5): 462-469.

 

Fabos, B., and Young, M. D. (1999, fall).  Telecommunications in the Classroom:  Rhetoric vs. Reality.  Review of Educational Research, 69(3):  217-259.

 

Fabos, B., & Martin, C. R.  (1998).  Imagining the Perfect School:  Popular Representations of Educational Technology.  The Review Journal of Philosophy & Social Science, No. 1 & 2:  63-82.

 

 

Book Chapters

 

Fabos, B., Carr Childers, L., and Golitsynskiy, S. (2016).  Digital Literacy, Public History, and FORTEPAN IOWA.  In J. Frechette and R. Williams, Media Education for a Digital Generation.  New York: Routledge.

 

Fabos, B. (2013).  Visual Literacy: Aesthetics, Semiotics, and the Truth Behind and Image.  In J. Jensen, D. Gomery, R. Campbell, B. Fabos and J. Frechette (Eds.), Media IN Society, New York:  Bedford/St. MartinÕs Press.

 

Fabos, B. (2011). Critical Media Literacy: Critiquing Corporate Media with Radical Production.  In J. Peck and I. Stole, A Moment of Danger: Critical Studies in the History of U.S. Communication since 1945 (pp. 361-388).  Marquette, MI:  Marquette University Press. 

 

Lewis, C. & Fabos, B. (2008). Instant Messaging, Literacies, and Social Identities. .  Reprinted in D.J. Leu, J. Coiro, M. Knobel & C. Lankshear (Eds.).  Handbook of Research on New Literacies (pp. 1109-1159).  Mahwah, NJ:   Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 

Fabos, B. (2008).  The Price of Information:  Critical Literacy, Education and TodayÕs Internet.  In D.J. Leu, J. Coiro, M. Knobel & C. Lankshear (Eds.).  Handbook of Research on New Literacies (pp. 1109-1159)). Mahwah, NJ:   Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 

Fabos, B. (2006).  Learning Through Critical Literacy:  Why Google is Not Enough.  Joe Lockard and Mark Pegrum, Eds., Brave New Classrooms:  Educational Democracy and the Internet (pp. 169-188) New York: Peter Lang.

 

Fabos, B. (2006). Search Engine Anatomy: The Industry and its Commercial Structure. In (Cushla Kapitske and Chip Bruce, Eds.), Libr@ries: Changing Information Space and Practices. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 

Fabos, B. (2001). Forcing the Fairytale: Narrative Strategies in Women's Figure Skating Competition Coverage. In Stephen G. Wieting (ed.) Sport and Memory in North America (pp. 185-212).  London:  Frank Cass Publishers.

 

Fabos, B.  (1999). From Rags to Riches:  The Story of Class Advancement in WomenÕs Figure Skating Coverage, in Mediated Women:  Representations of Women in Popular Culture, Meyers, M. ed., Cresskill, NJ:  Hampton Press, Inc.

 

 

Book Reviews

 

Fabos, B. and Mitchell, K.  (2011, April.) Book Review: ÒProfessing to Learn,Ó UNIVERSITAS: the University of Northern Iowa Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity. Cedar Falls: University of Northern Iowa.

 

Fabos, B.  (2001).  Book review, ÒWeaving a Virtual Web: Practical Approaches to New Information Technologies,Ó Harvard Educational Review 71(1), 130-135.

 

Fabos, B. (Forthcoming, Spring 2011).  Book review, ÒProfessing to Learn: Creating Tenured Lives and Careers in the American Research UniversityÓ in Universitas, 6(2).

 

 

Selected Conferences and Invited Presentations

 

Fabos, B. (2018). ÒRe-writing Hungarian history with an interactive website: the digital humanities timeline project Proud and Torn.Ó DH_Budapest_2018. The Centre for Digital Humanities at the Eštvšs Lor‡nd University (ELTE.DH) — in collaboration with DARIAH, CLARIN and Michael Culture Association. Budapest, Hungary. May 28-31

 

Fabos, B. and Andr‡s Tōrōk (2018). ÒDuplicating the Fortepan Photo Archive Neighboring Countries. DH_Budapest_2018.Ó The Centre for Digital Humanities at the Eštvšs Lor‡nd University (ELTE.DH) — in collaboration with DARIAH, CLARIN and Michael Culture Association. Budapest, Hungary. May 28-31

 

Fabos, B. and Andr‡s Tōrōk (2018). ÒFortepan Workshop.Ó DH_Budapest_2018.Ó The Centre for Digital Humanities at the Eštvšs Lor‡nd University (ELTE.DH) — in collaboration with DARIAH, CLARIN and Michael Culture Association. Budapest, Hungary. May 28-31

 

Fabos, B. (2018). The Fortepan Concept: Visualizing History and Building Community in the Creative Commons. 2018 Creative Commons Summit. Toronto, Ontario. April 13 and 14.

 

Fabos, B. (2018). "Proud and Torn" - Presentation by Prof. Bettina Fabos.Ó University of PŽcs: Faculty of the Arts Guest Lecture. PŽcs, Hungary,  http://www.art.pte.hu/proud_and_torn_prof_bettina_fabos_eloadasa.

Fabos, B. and Poznan, Kristina (2018). ÒMaking History Visual and Interactive: Lessons from ÔProud and Torn.ÕÓ Visual Studies Platform, Central European University. March 6. Budapest, Hungary. https://www.ceu.edu/event/2018-03-06/making-history-visual-and-interactive-lessons-proud-and-torn.

Fabos, B., chair; Cahill, C., Hegedus, J., Poznan, K, and Waters, L., panelists (2017). ÒCollaborative Projects in Digital Humanities: Lessons from Proud and Torn, an Interactive Timeline.Ó The Association for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES).  Chicago, IL, November 10. 

Fabos, B. (2017). ÒVisualizing History: An Online Photo History of Everyday Hungarian Life.Ó NORDMEDIA conference, Tampere, Finland, August 16-19.

 

Fabos, B. (2017). ÒOrganizing your course like a science class: How weekly labs cement skills learned in lectures, discussions and readings.Ó Association for the Education of Journalism and Mass Communication.  Chicago, IL, August 9-12.

 

Fabos, B., Cahill, C., Campbell, I., Espenscheid, J., Potter, D., Poznan, K., and Waters, L. (2017). Proud and Torn Premiere event. Presentation on the project launch of Proud and Torn: How One Family Survived Hungarian History. Central European University, Hungary, June 26.

 

Fabos, B. (2016). ÒHistory and Context, Engaging students with digital media.Ó Presented online, via webcast, to CommCon (Community College Conference) professors and adjunct instructors who use Media & Culture.

 

Fabos, B. (2016). ÒHungary 1956 – Chicago 2016: A Day of Remembrance and Hope,Ó commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the 1956 Revolution. Chicago, IL, October 21.

 

Fabos, B. (2016). ÒInteractive Photo-History Project on Rural Hungarian Life, 20AD-1956.Ó  American Hungarian Educators Association, University of Maryland, MD, April 28-30.

 

Carr Childers, L, Fabos, B, Golitsynskiy, S., and Doely, N. (2015), ÒFORTEPAN IOWA Presentation to the Iowa Board of Regents,Ó September 19, 2015. Maucker Ballroom, University of Northern Iowa.

 

Fabos, B. and Potter, D. (2015) ÒVisualizing History with Historical Archives.Ó Association for the Education of Journalism and Mass Communication.  San Francisco, CA, August 8-10.

 

Fabos, B. and Espenscheid, J. (2015). ÒVisualizing History: Interactive Timelines and Parallax Scrolling,Ó

Humanities, Arts, Sciences, Technology Alliance Collaboratory (HASTAC) Conference, Lansing Michigan,

May 27-30.

 

Fabos, B., Golitsynskiy S., and Carr Childers, L. (2015).  ÒFORTEPAN and FORTEPAN IOWA: Building a movement of democratic digital photo archives,Ó Humanities, Arts, Sciences, Technology Alliance Collaboratory (HASTAC) Conference, Lansing Michigan, May 27-30.

 

Fabos, B., Finn, K., and Gregerson, T (2014). ÒFulbright Experience: Presentation to the Iowa Board of Regents,Ó September 4, 2014, Maucker Ballroom, University of Northern Iowa.

 

Fabos, B. (2014).  ÒVisualizing Hungarian History: 1848-1956:  Using FORTEPAN, the PolicemanÕs Archive, and other Amateur Photo Resources Towards an Online Photo History of Everyday Hungarian Life. Ò The Association for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES).  San Antonio, TX, November 21. 

 

Fabos, B., (2013), Creative UNIversity Conference, University of Northern Iowa, Maucker Union. Dec. 13.

 

Fabos, B., Grant, D., Lamberti, A., and OÕloughlin, J. (2013). The Digital Turn: A Roundtable.  BrownBag Presentation, Maucker Union. November 18.

 

Fabos, B. and Martin, C. (2013).  ÒThe Digital Turn,Ó Presented at the Bedford St. MartinsÕ Southern California Symposium, Fullerton, CA, Sept, 13, 2013.   

 

Fabos, B. (2013).  ÒHistorical Timelines and Historical Hegemony: Rethinking Our Visualization of the Past.Ó  Presented at the Association for the Education of Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Washington, D.C., August 2013.

 

Fabos, B. (2013).  ÒVisualizing Hungarian History: 1848-1956,Ó June 14, Open Society Archives.

 

Fabos, B. (2013).  ÒBreaking the Historical Hegemony: How Historical Timelines can Activate Learning,Ó June 2, Ethnographic Museum.

 

Fabos, B. (2012). ÒThe Trouble with ÔGreat MenÕ Iconic Images.Ó  Kern Conference in Visual Communication.  Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).  Rochester, NY, May 3-5, 2012.

 

Fabos, B. (2010).  ÒDemocratizing Design in Digital Culture Programs: an overview of Interactive Digital Studies at the University of Northern Iowa.Ó Interactive Technology Summit, University of Northern Iowa, April 8.

 

Fabos, B. (2008).  ÒVisualizing Research:  An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Image Creation and Exhibition. Ò Leader, 2008 Carver Graduate Education Summer Institute at University of Northern Iowa, May 19-29.

 

Fabos, B. (2007).  Making Critical Media: Bringing Radical Production into the Classroom. Union for Democratic Communications Conference.  Vancouver, CA.  October 24-27

 

Fabos B. (2007).  Presenter.  Teaching Panel Session:  Helping Students Think Like Disruptive Innovators:  Mindsets and Applications, Association for the Education of Journalism and Mass Communication, August 11, 2007.

 

Fabos, B. & Fabos, A. (2007) ÒInteractive Multimedia and Holistic Representation: The  Ari-Gyuszi Project.Ó Paper presented at Documentary Now! A Conference on the Contemporary Context and Possibilities for the Documentary Genre.  Brunel University School of Arts, London, 14 April 2007.

 

Fabos, B. & Fabos, A. (2007)  ÒEntangled Narratives, Contingent Lives: A story of a sister  who stayed and a brother who left.Ó Paper presented at the symposium, Refugee Narratives, Centre for Narrative Research and Refugee Research Centre, University of East London, London, 20 April 2007.

 

Fabos, B. (2006).  Visual Literacy Workshop.  National Council of Teachers of English Annual Conference.  Nashville, TN, November 21-26. 

 

Fabos, B. (2006).  Workshop Presenter.  ÒWhy We ShouldnÕt Trust Commercial Search Engines.Ó  Illinois School Library Media Association Conference.  Chicago, IL, November 9-11.

 

Fabos, B. (2006).  Presenter.  Building Critical Media.  Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME).  Burlington, VT, October 6-8. 

 

Fabos, B. (2006). Moderator. Teaching Panel Session:  Teaching Documentary: Plastic Realities and Critical Media, Association for the Education of Journalism and Mass Communication, August 5, 2006.

 

Fabos, A. & Fabos, B. (2006).  Presenter.  Family Encounters: Representing Stories of Home and Exile for First- and Second-generation Hungarians.  International Association for the Study of Forced Migration Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 18-22, 2006.

 

Fabos, B. (2006).  Presenter.  An Exploration of Commercialism in U.S. Public Schools.  Re-imagining Urban Education: Leadership, Culture and Pedagogy.  6th Annual Miami University Department of Educational Leadership Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 18-22, 2006.

 

Fabos, B. (2005).  Presenter.  The Commercial Search Engine Industry and Alternatives to the Oligopoly.  Presented at the Re-Activism: Re-drawing the boundaries of activism in new media environment, Budapest, Oct. 14-15, 2005.

 

Fabos, B. (2004).  Presenter.  Critical Media Literacy and the Web.  Presented at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Conference, Indianapolis, November 20.

 

Fabos, B (2004). Presenter.  Critical Literacy and the Commercialized Web.  Presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting 2004, San Diego, April 14.

 

Martin, C. and Fabos, B. (2004). Presenter.  Labor Unions and the Information Superhighway: Two Critical Studies on Media.  Invited presentation, Communication Studies Seminar, University of Iowa, February 10.

 

Fabos, B. (2003). Presenter.   Search Engine Commercialization and Critical Literacy. Cedar Falls, IA.  Oct. 11.

 

Fabos, B. (2003). Presenter.  From Information Highway to Commercial Highway: The Corporate Strategy to Wire AmericaÕs Schools.  Presented at the Association for the Education of Mass Communication and Journalism (AEJMC) Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO, August 2.

 

Fabos, B. and Lewis, C.  (2002)  Keynote Address:  IM in Control:  The Uses of Instant Messaging Among Adolescents. Presented at the Iowa Council of Teachers of English (ICTE) Annual Meeting, Des Moines, IA, October 11.

 

Fabos, B. (2002). Presenter.  Workshop: Critical Literacy and the Web.  Presented at the Iowa Council of Teachers of English (ICTE) Annual Meeting, Des Moines, IA, October 11.

 

Fabos, B. (2002). Presenter.  Searching for Educational Content in the For-Profit Internet.  Presented at the American Educational Research Association (AREA) Annual Meeting, 2002.  New Orleans, LA.

 

Fabos, B. (2001). Presenter.  Media in the Classroom: An Alternative History.  Presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting 2001.  Seattle, WA.

 

Fabos, B. (2000). Presenter.  ZapMe! Zaps You.  Spring 2000 Capstone Lecture.  University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA. 

 

Lewis, C. and Fabos, B. (1999, December). Presenter. Chatting On-Line:  GirlsÕ Use of Chat Room Literacy.  Presented at the National Reading Conference, 49th Annual Meeting.  Orlando, FL.