Contact

bugeja@iastate.edu

515-294-0481

118 Hamilton
613 Wallace Rd.
Ames IA
50011-4010

Bio

Michael Bugeja teaches media ethics and technology and social change. His scholarship has been published in Journalism QuarterlyJournal of CommunicationJournalism and Mass Communication EducatorJournalism EducatorJournal of Mass Media EthicsNew Media and SocietyAmerican JournalismAmerican Communication Journal, and other academic journals.

Dr. Bugeja has published 24 books across genres, including three books by Oxford University Press: Interpersonal Divide: Searching for Community in a Technological AgeInterpersonal Divide in the Age of the Machine; and Living Ethics Across Media Platforms. He has twice won the distinguished Clifford Christians Award for Research in Media Ethics. His latest work is Living Media Ethics: Across Platforms, Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2019.

In 2019, Dr. Bugeja received Iowa State’s highest academic title of distinguished professor for his contributions to media ethics and technology. Of the more than 225 faculty members to receive this title since 1956, fewer than 10 have been so named in the humanities.

Topics of interest

interpersonal communication, journalism, technology and social change

Education

PhD, Oklahoma State University, 1985, English, creative writing with specialties in modern contemporary poetry and medieval through Restoration drama

MS, South Dakota State University, 1976, Mass Communications

BA, Saint Peter’s College, 1974, German