Joli Jensen is the Hazel Rogers Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa, where she teaches courses on media, culture and society. She is the author of
Is Art Good for Us? Beliefs about High Culture in American Life (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002);
Redeeming Modernity: Contradictions in Media Criticism; (Sage, 1990) and
The Nashville Sound: Authenticity, Commercialization and Country Music (Vanderbilt, 1998) as well as book chapters and research essays on media criticism, communication technologies, communication theories, the social history of the typewriter, and fans and fandom. Dr. Jensen received her PhD in 1985 from Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois. She has also taught at the University of Virginia, and the University of Texas-Austin. You can find out more about her at
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~joli-jensen/.