David Stamps

David Stamps, an Assistant Professor in IDCC, earned his Ph.D. from UCSB and M.A. from CSUN. His research focuses on interpersonal engagement among racialized individuals, representations of groups in media and the impact of imagery on audience members.

Education

• Ph.D. University of California Santa Barbara
• M.A. California State University, Northridge
• B.A. Columbia College Chicago

Academic Employment

• Assistant Professor, Bentley University 2021-current
  Member, Bentley University Health Thought Leadership Network
  Research Associate, University of Missouri Media and Diversity Center
• Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University 2019-2021
  Joe D. Smith Hibernia Professorship
  Research Affiliate, Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs
• Adjunct Professor, Santa Barbara City College 2017-2019
• Teaching Assistant, University of California, Santa Barbara 2016-2019
• Teaching Assistant, California State University, Northridge 2014-2016
• Teaching Associate, California State University, Northridge 2005-2006

Teaching Interests

I teach courses in Public Relations. However, and more importantly, I bring all of my experiences into the classroom including my background as a public relations and media practitioner and my various intersecting identities. I use my narrative to encourage students to develop a sense of historical empathy, to make connections with class material, and to understand that strategic communication is more than just the study of the exchange of information, ideas, and societal practices. I expect students to critically engage and ask how certain interactions happen and how people understand, explain, and live with what takes place in various communicative engagements.

Research Interests

My research agenda examines the role of media’s presentation of racialized and gendered stereotypes and how these depictions affect various groups in terms of affect, behavioral, and cognitive. My research program is two-fold, to analyze media depictions and interpersonal interactions of marginalized groups and examine how those experiences may affect individuals from an intergroup and intragroup perspective. I seek to understand how social groups, especially historically oppressed groups, realize, protect, and affirm their identity in various social and mediated contexts. My work bridges critical race, feminist, and social scientific intellectual traditions and utilizes thematic and data analyses to uncover nuanced communication experiences among audiences.

Consulting/Practice Interests

Of late, I have become a consultant on DEI efforts within organizations, including schools, professional settings, and among social spaces (e.g., churches, communal groups). In this role I clarify and interrogate how we may better engage with DEI efforts BUT I also lay out an action plan and prepare individuals to go out in the world and simple DO BETTER. To date, I have worked alongside The Stuart Hall School (New Orleans, LA), Canvas8 (London, UK), and the US Veterans Affairs Center (Martinsburg, VA), to name a few.

Publications

Journal Articles

• Stamps, D. (2023). It is just part of the shtick: An exploratory study of the relationship between audience consumption of Jewish television characters and attitudes toward Jewish populations. Howard Journal of Communications.
• Hickerson, H., Stamps, D. (2023). Health messaging and social media: An examination of message fatigue, race, and emotional outcomes among Black audiences. International Journal of Communication. (Link)
• Stamps, D. (2023). The nexus between Black media consumers’ racial identity, critical and digital media literacy skills, and psychological well-being. Information, Communication, and Society. 1-17.
• Stamps, D. (2022). Black audiences’ identity-focused social media use, group vitality, and consideration of collective action. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, (99) 3 660–675.
• Stamps, D., Bickham, S., Heydel, S., Broussard, J. (2022). Black cultural projection: An analysis of major daily news coverage of successful Black mayoral campaigns in large metropolitan cities. Communication Review, (25) 2 96-116.
• Stamps, D., Sahlman, J. (2021). Audiences’ Mediated Contact with Black Characters in Scripted Television and Support for Racialized Social Issues. Communication Studies, (72) 5 834-849.
• Stamps, D., Mandell, L., Lucas, R. (2021). Relational maintenance, collectivism, and coping strategies among Black populations during COVID-19. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, (38) 8 2376-2396.
• Stamps, D. (2021). It’s all relative: The dual role of media consumption and media literacy among Black audiences. Southern Communication Journal, (86) 3 231-243.
• Stamps, D. (2021). The collective challenges of color, COVID-19, and their convergence. Journal of Children and Media, (15) 1 134-137.
• Stamps, D. (2020). The role of race, racism, and group relevant social issues. Advances in Journalism and Communication, (8) 4 131-149.
• Stamps, D. (2020). Media literacy as liberator: Black audiences’ adoption of media literacy, news media exposure, and perceptions of self and group members. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, (14) 3 240-257.
• Stamps, D. (2020). B(l)ack by popular demand: An analysis of positive Black male characters in television and audiences’ community cultural wealth. Journal of Communication Inquiry, (45) 2 97-118.
• Stamps, D. (2020). Race and media: A critical essay acknowledging the current state of race-related media effects research and directions for future exploration. Howard Journal of Communications, (31) 2 121-136.
• Stamps, D., Mastro, D. (2019). The problem with protests: Emotional effects of race-related news media. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, (97) 3 617-643.
• Stamps, D. (2019). Is it really representation? A qualitative analysis of Asian and Latino characterizations in broadcast television. American Communication Journal, (21) 1 1-12. (Link)
• Figueroa-Caballero, A., Mastro, D., Stamps, D. (2019). An examination of the effects of mediated intragroup and intergroup interactions. Communication Quarterly, (67) 3 271-290.
• Stamps, D. (2018). Will boys be boys: An exploration of social support, affection, and masculinities within non-romantic male relationships. The Kentucky Journal of Communication, (37) 1 56-75.
• Stamps, D. (2017). The social construction of the African American family on broadcast television: A comparative content analysis of The Cosby Show and Blackish. Howard Journal of Communications, (28) 4 405-420.
• Hickerson, H., Ramirez, F., Stamps, D. (). COVID-19 in the media: Stressors and coping mechanisms among Black individuals.. . Forthcoming.

Book Chapters

• Stamps, D. (2022). The collective challenges of color, COVID-19, and their convergence In , (Eds.) Children and Media Research and Practice during the Crises of 2020. Routledge
• Stamps, D. (2021). Black Brotherhood, Black Professionalism, and Black Entrepreneurship as depicted in Martin, The Wayans Bros., and Malcolm & Eddie In L. Brackett , (Eds.) Working While Black: Essays on Television Portrayals of African American Professionals. 47-56. McFarland Press
• Stamps, D. (2021). Yvonne Orji’s Docuseries, First Gen: First-Generational Narratives and the Impact on Audiences’ Community Cultural Wealth In Banjo O.O. , (Eds.) Immigrant Generations, Media Representations, and Audiences. 185-201. Palgrave Macmillan
• Stamps, D. (2019). Fruitvale Station: A Humanistic and Vulnerable Glimpse into Black Masculinities In , (Eds.) Films as Rhetorical Texts: Cultivating Discussion about Race, Racism and Race Relations. 117-136. Lexington Press
• Mastro, D., Stamps, D. (2018). Depictions of race/ethnicity in the media and the implications of exposure on ingroup and outgroup audiences. In P. Napoli , (Eds.) Mediated communication: Handbook of communication science. 341-358. de Gruyter Mouton Press