I'm afraid I can't make this lecture due to another obligation, but this sounds like it'll be a fascinating talk. If you do make it, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
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Arthur A. Raney, a leading media effects scholar, will present the spring 2011 Robert M. Pockrass Memorial Lecture at 7 p.m. Monday, April 4, in Foster Auditorium of Paterno Library at Penn State's University Park campus.
His free public lecture, titled "The Ongoing Morality Play: Media Entertainment and Our Sense of Right and Wrong," is sponsored by the Penn State College of Communications and University Libraries.
Dr. Raney is an associate professor and director of doctoral studies in the School of Communication at Florida State University. His research examines the psychological processes associated with enjoying media entertainment, addressing the question “how and why do we enjoy what we enjoy?” More specifically, he also explores the role that moral judgment plays in the enjoyment of dramatic, violent, sports, and interactive content.
His work has been published in many entertainment and media-effects anthologies, as well as Journal of Communication, Media Psychology, Communication Theory, and Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. He is also the lead editor of Handbook of Sports and Media.
The Pockrass Lecture was named after the late Professor Robert M. Pockrass, a member of Penn State's journalism faculty from 1948 to 1977. Pockrass, who specialized in public opinion and popular culture, served as the graduate officer and taught radio news writing for the School of Journalism, which later became the College of Communications.
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