Christopher Finlay
Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Biography
Dr. Finlay has authored over a dozen scholarly works, including, most recently, “Real Men, Himbos, And Bros: Continuity And Change In The Portrayal Of Masculinities In Sport-Dirtied Beer Advertising” with Dr. Lawrence Wenner, “The Right to Profitable Speech: Olympians, Sponsorship, and Social Media Discourse” and “Building a Better Winter Dream: Beijing 2022 and the International Olympic Committee”. In addition, Chris regularly contributes to popular media through expert commentary and original think pieces. His most recent is “Powering Down” for LMU Magazine.
Follow Chris on Twitter: @therealCJFinlay
Education
University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D.
Communication
2011
University of Oxford
Visiting Scholar
Journalism
2009
University of Pennsylvania
M.A.
Communication
2005
Carleton University
M.A.
Political Science
2002
Simon Fraser University
B.A.
Political Science
2000
Social
Areas of Expertise
Industry Expertise
Affiliations
- Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
- Alumni of the Ivy League: Ivy & Oxford Cambridge MIT Stanford Caltech Berkeley Chicago Northwestern
- International Communication Association
Media Appearances
Rebel Viewers: #NBCFail and the Decline (and Rise?) of the Shared Olympic Media Event by Chris Finlay
CGCS Mediawire online
2012-09-12
On July 26th, 2012, Steven Marx, whose twitter account reportedly had only 17 followers at the time, posted a complaint about NBC, the official International Olympic Committee (IOC)-ordained American broadcaster of the London 2012 Olympics.
Farrow's Darfur Olympics & Our Olympic Shame"
Huffington Post online
2008-08-01
With less than a week to go before the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Beijing, Mia Farrow is on her way to a refugee camp in Darfur to host The Darfur Olympics, a week-long web broadcast that will be timed to coincide with the first week of the Olympic Games.
Articles
Beyond the blue fence: Inequalities and spatial segregation in the development of the London 2012 Olympic media event
Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture2014-06-02
This article presents two cases studies of local resistance to the conscious effort of Olympics actors to use East London as representational space to produce and reinforce dominant nationalist and neo-liberal themes in the 2012 Olympic media event narrative.
A Space for Mothers: Grief as Identity Construction on Memorial Websites Created by Sids Parents
OMEGA--Journal of Death and Dying2011-08-01
In this article we conduct a textual analysis of memorial websites created by mothers who have experienced a loss due to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
Public diplomacy games: a comparative study of American and Japanese responses to the interplay of nationalism, ideology and Chinese soft power strategies around the 2008 Beijing Olympics
Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics2010-06-29
The Olympic Games are global communication events that offer host-nations the unique opportunity to promote a soft power agenda by allowing them to construct global messages about their cultural identities and work towards public diplomacy goals that may be more difficult to achieve under normal circumstances.
Toward the Future: The New Olympic Internationalism
Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China2008-01-01
The Olympic Games are global communication events that offer host-nations the unique opportunity to promote a soft power agenda by allowing them to construct global messages about their cultural identities and work towards public diplomacy goals that may be more difficult to achieve under normal circumstances.
Canada and the Clash of Media Civilizations: Ethical Implications from a Survey of Journalists
The Cartoon Debate and the Freedom of the Press2007-01-01
Canada and the Clash of Media Civilizations: Ethical Implications from a Survey of Journalists, a chapter from "The Cartoon Debate and the Freedom of the Press."
