CONTACT
Office: 212A Davis Hall
Phone: 401-874-2555
E-mail: ianreyes@mail.uri.edu
"To Know Beyond Listening: Monitoring Digital Music." The Senses and Society, vol. 5, no. 3, 2010.
(with Suellen Adams) "Screening Play: Rules, Wares, and Representations in 'Realistic' Video Games." Eludamos, vol. 4, no. 2, 2010.
"The Raw and the Produced: (Re)Producing Hardcore Authenticity in the Studio." Culture Critique, vol. 1, no. 1, 2008.
LINKS
http://www.com.uri.edu/soundmap/
BIO
Dr. Reyes' teaching and research represent critical, socio-cultural approaches to media including audio recording, popular music, and video games. His work aims to deconstruct the reciprocal determination of technology, culture, and society in order to better understand and critique everyday experiences with entertainment media. He is keenly interested in the digital turn and the challenges posed to extant communication studies by new ways of producing, distributing, and consuming media content.
Harrington School of Communication and Media Lecturer, Dr. Samara Anarbaeva, presents her paper exploring the construction of Second Life avatar's identity in terms of race, gender, and fashion.
Ian Reyes, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Communication Studies, was instrumental in establishing a new
recording studio in the Memorial Union, that focuses on community based productions. More >>

Dr. McClure received the 2010 NCA Outstanding Article Award for "Kenneth Burke's Dramatic Form Criticism," coauthored with F. D. Anderson and A. King, in Rhetorical Criticism, edited by J. A. Kuypers.