326 Lang Hall
University of Northern
Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0139
fabos@uni.edu
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 |
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.
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.
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.
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. (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.