Barbara Ley

Associate Professor

125 Johnston Hall
(414) 229-6273
barbley@uwm.edu
http://sites.google.com/site/barbaralindaley/
Vita (pdf-52kb)

Degrees:

Ph.D., University of California at Santa Cruz
B.A., Swarthmore College

Courses Taught:

JMC 661: Mass Communication and Society - Syllabus (129kb)
JMC 645: Health and the Media - Syllabus (127kb)
JMC 855: Digital Culture - Syllabus (143kb)

Interests:

Science, technology, and culture; health, media, and society; social activism.

Research Interests:

Cultural studies of science, technology, and medicine; public understandings of science; health social movements; digital cultures; ethnographic methods; feminist and cultural theory

Teaching Interests:

Health and the media; science, culture, and the media; digital cultures; internet ethnography

Selected Publications:

Ley, Barbara L. 2009. From Pink to Green: Disease Prevention and the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Brewer, Paul R. and Barbara L. Ley. (Forthcoming). “Media Use and Public Perceptions of DNA Evidence.” Science Communication.

Ley, Barbara L. 2007. “Vive Les Roses!: The Architecture of Commitment in an Online Pregnancy and
Mothering Support Group.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12(4): 1388-1408.

Ley, Barbara L. 2006. “Disease Categories and Disease Kinships: Classification Practices in the U.S. Environmental Breast Cancer Movement.” Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies of Health and Illness 25(2): 101-139.