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Elliot Gaines, Ph. D.
Wright State University
Department of Communication
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy. Dayton, Ohio 45435
office phone (937) 775-2098 , fax (937) 775-2146
email: elliot.gaines@wright.edu


Specialties: Semiotics, Cultural Studies, Mass Media Communication


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This site contains the following:

  • Elliot Gaines' Academic Career Biography

  • Elliot Gaines' Scholarship in Print and Creative publications Bibliography

  • Read FULL TEXT articles listed in the Bibliography

  • ***View Elliot Gaines' movie about SEMIOTICS: "Charles Sanders Peirce: Semiotics And The Logic Of Pragmatism" ***CAUTION: BEFORE YOU CLICK, A high-speed connection, and a current version of QuickTime Player are BOTH necessary, or contact Dr. Gaines for information about CDROM or DVD copies.


  • CLASS MATERIALS: SYLLABI, HAND-OUTS, AND FORMS


  • Scroll down past Class Materials for a Link to ABSTRACTS from Gaines' Bibliography, and a LINK to CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

    CLASS MATERIALS

  • SENIOR SEMINAR Com 400 SYLLABUS FALL 2008
  • Senior Seminar Com 400 Assessment Quiz
  • Senior Seminar Com 400 Exit Interview Form
  • Senior Seminar Synopsis
  • Senior Seminar a sample resume
  • Senior Seminar Deduction/Induction Career Development Exercise
  • ALL CLASSES PRESENTATION GRADING FORM
  • PERFORMANCE FOR THE MEDIA COM 411, Section 01 SYLLABUS FALL 2008
  • PERFORMANCE FOR THE MEDIA COM 411, Section 02 SYLLABUS FALL 2008
  • Performance for the Media Com 411 Supreme Court 60 second Script
  • Performance for the Media Com 411 studio requirements for group projects
  • Performance for the Media Com 411 Group Project
  • Broadcast Criticism COM 464/664 SYLLABUS SUMMER 2007
  • Broadcast Criticism COM 464/664 Knowledge Form
  • Broadcast Criticism COM 464/664 Criteria for Assignments
  • Broadcast Criticism COM 464/664 Analysis Exercise com464Criteria.htm
  • Mass Communication Com 152 Narrative Review.
  • Media Analysis Goals
  • Narrative Analysis Review Method
  • ISSUES IN MASS COMMUNICATION COM 365 SYLLABUS, Fall 2006
  • Complete Class materials for com 365 are now on Course Studio
  • Semiotics of Communication UH 201 SYLLABUS, Spring 2006
  • Writing to Communicate COM 200 NOTES and a "Seinfeld" Sample paper
  • Principles of Critical Thinking Handout.
  • Writing to Communicate COM 200 common problems for short writing assignments
  • Writing to Communicate COM 200 Notes for the FINAL PAPER


    Of Minds and Language: An Encounter with Noam Chomsky
    University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian Spain, 2006


    SAMPLE FULL TEXT PUBLISHED ARTICLES:


  • From Journal of Creative Communications. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage Publications. Jul 2006; 1: 173 - 181. THIS IS A PDF FILE requiring Acrobat Reader COMMUNICATION AND THE SEMIOTICS OF SPACE

  • from The American Journal of Semiotics THE SEMIOTICS OF MEDIA IMAGES FROM INDEPENDENCE DAY AND SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

  • from The American Journal of Semiotics THE SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF MYTH: A PROPOSAL FOR AN APPLIED METHODOLOGY

  • from Semiotics 2002 THE NECESSARY AMBIGUITY OF COMMUNICATION

  • from Qualitative Inquiry, Interpreting India, Identity, and Media From the Field: Exploring the Communicative Nature of the Exotic Other Vol. 11. Number 4. 2005. THIS IS A PDF FILE requiring Acrobat Reader

  • from Building Diverse Communities Through Research. "BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH STORIES ABOUT REAL EVENTS: THE HABITUS OF BROADCAST JOURNALISM." Eds. Mark Orbie, Trevy McDonald, and T. Ford-Ahmed. Hampton Press. (2002).

  • The Re-signification of Risk in Marketing Whitewater: Ritual Initiation and the Mythology of River Culture in CASE STUDIES IN SPORT COMMUNICATION. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing. Eds. R. Brown and D. O'Rourke (2003).

  • from The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association COMMUNICATION FOR OSTEOPATHIC MANIPULATIVE TREATMENT: THE LANGUAGE OF LIVED-EXPERIENCE IN OMT PEDAGOGY

  • Click this link for Abstracts from Gaines' Bibliography

    1997-1999 Research in India


    in Vrindaban, Uttar Pradesh, India


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    Biography

    Elliot Gaines received his Ph.D. in Mass Communication in 1995 from Ohio University with emphases in Critical and Cultural Studies, media criticism, semiotics, and media production. His research explores communication, identity, culture, and semiotic theory. Topics range from broadcast news, pop culture, whitewater rafting, and media analysis and construction, images, and reality. In addition to traditional written scholarship, Gaines also produces documentary, educational, and scholarly video programs.

    Dr. Gaines has an interdisciplinary MA from Ohio University College of Fine Arts, 1993, with emphases in music composition, audio production, film theory, video production, and sound for the moving image.

    His BA is from Rutgers University, 1972, where he majored in psychology and studied jazz with Lloyd McNeill and Larry Riddley.

    Elliot Gaines has more than twenty years of experience in music performance, audio and video production, promotion and public relations. He has been a performing and recording musician, a radio dj, an entertainment coordinator at major resort, video producer, public speaker, and university professor. He has been newsletter editor for the Commission for Semiotics and Communication for the National Communication Association and is active with the Semiotic Society of America

    Danny Glover, Dr. T. Ford-Ahmed, and Dr. Gaines



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    Bibliography


    SCHOLARSHIP in print



    Gaines, Elliot. "The Narrative Semiotics of 'The Daily Show'". Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies. Revue de l'Association Internationale de Semiotique. Ed. Marcel Danesi. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (in Press).

    ---. "Communication and the Semiotics of Space." Journal of Creative Communications. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage Publications. Jul 2006; 1: 173 - 181.

    ---. "Interpreting India, Identity, and Media from the Field: Exploring the Communicative Nature of the Exotic Other." Qualitative Inquiry. Sage Publications. Vol. 11 No. 4 (August 2005).

    ---. "Truth, Semiotics, and The Necessary Ambiguity of Communication." MICA Communications Review. Ahmedabad, India. 1: 2 (2003) 41-48. (R)

    --- "The Semiotics of Media Images from INDEPENDENCE DAY and September 11, 2001." The American Journal of Semiotics. 17:3 (Fall 2001), 117-131.

    ---. "The Semiotic Analysis of Media Myth: A Proposal for an Applied Methodology. The American Journal of Semiotics. 17:2 (Summer 2001), 1-16.

    ---. "The Re-signification of Risk in Marketing Whitewater: Ritual Initiation and the Mythology of River Culture." in Case Studies in Sport Communication. Eds. Robert S. Brown and Daniel J. O'Rourke. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing. 2003.

    --- "Building Community Through Stories About Real Events: The Habitus of Broadcast Journalism." in Building Diverse Communities: Applications of Communication Research. Eds. Mark Orbie, Trevy McDonald, and T. Ford-Ahmed. Cresskill, New Jersey: Hampton Press. 2002.
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    ---. "The Necessary Ambiguity of Communication." SEMIOTICS 2002. Semiotic Society of America. Terry Pruett and John Deely Eds. Legas Publishing: New York. 2003.

    ---. "Semiotics of Identity and the Shifting World Paradigm." SEMIOTICS 2003. Semiotic Society of America. Terry Prewitt and John Deely Eds. Legas Publishing: New York. 2003.

    ---. "Media Images and the Semiotics of September 11th, 2001." SEMIOTICS 2001. Semiotic Society of America. Scott Simpkins, and John Deely Eds. Legas Publishing: New York. 2002.

    ---. "A Semiotic Video Project: Teaching Semiotics Through Brent's Narrative Biography Of Peirce. SEMIOTICS 2000. Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America. C.W. Spinks and S. Simpkins, Eds. Peter Lang Publishing: New York. 2001

    ---. "Imaging the Other: An American Interpreting Signs of India." SEMIOTICS 1999. Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America. C.W. Spinks and S. Simpkins, Eds. Peter Lang Publishing: New York. 2000.

    --- "The Semiotics of Artificial Mythology and "The Far Side.'" SEMIOTICS 1997. Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America. C.W. Spinks and John Deely, Eds. Peter Lang Publishing: New York. 1998.

    Gaines, Elliot and Anthony Chila. "Teaching Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment: The Language of Lived-Experience in OMT Communication." Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. vol. 98, no 3. March 1998.



    Link to list of Conference Presentations

    NCA Ethnography Division panel. Seattle, Washington. November 11, 2000.




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    CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS

    (a partial list of independent audio and video production projects)


    Gaines, Elliot. ---. "Charles Sanders Peirce: Semiotics and the Logic of Pragmatism." Solo independent production on the life, pragmatism and semiotic theory of Charles Sanders Peirce. Presented to the Semiotic Society of America Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting. Sept. 30, 2000. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

    ---. "Kokosing: Building on Tradition." 2000. Producer/writer/editor. A corporate video commemorating the 50th anniversary of Kokosing Construction Inc., Fredericktown, Ohio, aired at Polaris in Columbus, Ohio, 12 August 2000. Produced with students at Ashland University.

    ---. "Zit Happens." Producer/director . 2000. A short story with Claymation. Completed with high school students at the Governor's Summer Institute for Gifted and Creative Students.

    ---. "Imaging the Exotic Other: An American View of India." 1999. Solo project. A video documentary and scholarly essay discussing India and the limits of perception in understanding and representing foreign cultures.

    ---. "Advertising in India." 1999. Producer/editor. With T. Ford-Ahmed, host, and Bhavna Gupta, guest and representative of Hindustan Thompson Advertising agency in New Delhi. World View Video production about the cultural perspectives taken up through TV advertising in India.

    ---. "The Power of You: United Way, 1999." Producer/writer/editor. Video production to promote the United Way of Ashland fund raising campaign in Ashland, Ohio. Produced as a service-learning project with students at Ashland University.

    ---. Playing on a Sunbeam, 1990. Audio cassette. EG-112. Solo production of original music composed for video, theater and dance production.

    --- . "Treasures of the Past." 1989. An educational documentary tracing the Civil War history and origins of the town of Lewisburg, WV conceived to promote appreciation for local landmarks.

    ---. The Crossroads of Lewisburg. 1990. A second documentary about the history of Lewisburg, WV focusing on the lifestyles and development of the region.

    ---. "Contemporary Medicine in Rural Appalachia: Be Part of the Legacy, West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine." 1988. Solo Public Relations video project: written, directed, and produced for West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine.

    ---. "The Greenbrier Preschool." 1990. Public relations video documenting the mission and accomplishments of a preschool for children with handicaps and children with normal abilities.

    ---. "Sharps Country Store." Goldenseal, 6 (Spring, 1988): 17-23. Historical Journal of West Virginia Traditional Life. Historical research tracing the history and life experiences of a family store in a rural Appalachian community based on ethnography, recorded interviews, and print materials.

    Souter, Michael, and Elliot Gaines. 1979. Night Sky: The Road That Takes Us Home, Night Sky-002100, Original record album of acoustic folk music.

    Link to list of Conference Presentations



    in New Zealand (2002) with a beached pygmy Wright whale






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