Area of Specialization: Culture
I am interested in the ways cultural perceptions and practices are reproduced and transformed through communication.
Recent and Current Work:
Current ecocultural work has me focused on both dominant Western environmental discourses and marginalized environmental meaning systems. Other ongoing research focuses on the Middle East, examining the discursive construction of "normalcy" during heightened conflict, as well as competing collective identities and transformative meanings in Israeli and Palestinian press. Additional work looks at intercultural immersion as it relates to perceived self transformation.
Sample Publications:
• Anguiano, C., Milstein, T., De Larkin, I., Sandoval, J., & Chen, Y.W. (2012). Connecting Community Voices: Using a Latino/a critical race theory lens on environmental justice advocacy. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, DOI: 1080/17513057.2012.661445
• Milstein, T., Anguiano, C., Sandoval, J., Chen, Y.W., & Dickinson, E. (2011). Communicating a “new” environmental vernacular: A sense of relations-in-place. Communication Monographs. 78 (4), 486-510.
• Peterson, J., Milstein, T., Chen, Y.W., & Nakazawa, M. (2011). Self-efficacy in communication: The development and validation of a sojourners’ scale. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. 4 (4), 290-309.
• Milstein, T., & Manusov, V. (2009). Oppositional discourse in Israeli media: Reflections of multiple cultural identities in coverage of the Rabin-Arafat handshake. Howard Journal of Communications. 20 (4), 353-369.
• Milstein, T. (2005). Transformation Abroad: Sojourning and the Perceived Enhancement of Self-Efficacy International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 29 (2), 217-238.
• Manusov, V., & Milstein, T. (2005). Interpreting
Nonverbal Behavior: Representation and Transformation Frames in Israeli
and Palestinian Media Coverage of the 1993 Rabin-Arafat Handshake Western Journal of Communication, 69 (3), 183-201.
• Howard, P., Carr, J., & Milstein, T. (2005). Digital Technology and the Market for Political Surveillance. Surveillance & Society, 3(1), 59-73.
• Howard, P., & Milstein, T. (2004). Spiders, Spam, and Spyware: New Media and the Market for Political Information. In Mia Consalvo (Ed.) Internet Research Annual: Selected Papers from the Association of Internet Researchers Conference. 2000-2002, vol. 1. Peter Lang.