Symbolism, Media, and the Lifecourse
This was an interdisciplinary study, funded by the Lilly Endowment that continued from 1996 to聽2001. It focused on the meaning of media in family and household contexts, looking particularly at how what the late media scholar Roger Silverstone called 鈥渢he moral economy of the household鈥 is a function of both religious and media cultures.
These two projects resulted in a number of journal articles and conference presentations, as well as three books:聽Media, Home and Family聽by Stewart M. Hoover, Lynn Schofield Clark, Diane Alters, Joseph Champ, and Lee Hood (Routledge, 2004);聽From Angels to Aliens, Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural, by Lynn Schofield Clark (Oxford, 2003); and聽Religion in the Media Age聽by Stewart M. Hoover (Routledge, 2006).