Diana Stover

Diana Stover

Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Journalism & Mass Communications

Office: DBH 206

Phone: 408-924-3271

Email: diana.stover@sjsu.edu

EDUCATION

Michigan State University, Ph.D. in Mass Media, 1976.

Columbia University, M.S. in Journalism, 1968.

University of Nebraska, B.A. in Journalism, 1966.

ACADEMIC TEACHING 

San Jose State University, 1983 to present, professor.  Graduate courses taught: media and social issues; mass communication theory, communication law and public policy, literature of mass communication, mass media and society in China, and research methods.  Undergraduate courses taught: media law and ethics, global mass communications, and research on social media.  Developed and taught two MUSE freshman seminars: Free press or censorship in times of war: (1) Afghanistan and (2) Iraq.   Developed and co-taught SJSU study abroad course in Beijing, news media, advertising, and propaganda in China.