William Hoynes

→ See Hoynes’ recent commentary on the 2016 election published on CommonDreams: Learning the Wrong Lesson from the Trump Victory

→ Hoynes recently worked with Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson on a study of energy insecurity in the Hudson Valley. Download the report: Just Utilities: Organizing for Solutions to the Household Energy Crisis.

Hoynes is the author of:

• Public Television for Sale (Westview Press, 1994), which was awarded the 1995 Goldsmith Book Prize from the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Hoynes is co-author of:

• The Business of Media: Corporate Media and the Public Interest (with David Croteau, Pine Forge/Sage, second edition, 2006), which was awarded the Robert Picard Book Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
• The Political Diversity of Public Television: Polysemy, the Public Sphere, and the Conservative Critique of PBS. (with David Croteau and Kevin Carragee, Journalism and Mass Communication Monographs 157, 1996).
• By Invitation Only: How the Media Limit Political Debate (with David Croteau, Common Courage Press, 1994).

Hoynes is co-editor, with David Croteau and Charlotte Ryan, of:

• Rhyming Hope and History: Activists, Academics, and Social Movement Scholarship (University of Minnesota Press, 2006).

Hoynes and Croteau are co-authors of two widely-used texts:

• Media/Society: Industries, Images, and Audiences (Sage Publications, fifth edition, 2014),
• Experience Sociology (McGraw-Hill, third edition, 2018).

Hoynes served as Guest Editor of a Special Issue of Peace Review: Symposium on Nonviolent Movements: Prospects and Challenges in March 2014.

Hoynes teaches classes on various aspects of contemporary media and culture, including:

• Mass Media and Society
• News Media in the U.S.
• Media and War
• Class, Culture, and Power
• Culture, Commerce, and the Public Sphere
• Sociology Research Methods