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Overview

Joseph Turow is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and contributes to research in communication and sociology and political science. Their work primarily addresses topics in media studies and communication, as well as privacy, security, and data protection.

Turow's recent papers include:

  • "Journalism and the Voice Intelligence Industry," 2020, Digital Journalism
  • "Americans Can't Consent to Companies' Use of Their Data: They Admit They Don't Understand It, Say They're Helpless to Control It, and Believe They're Harmed When Firms Use Their Data--Making What Companies Do Illegitimate," 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Virtual Colloquium: The Unending Spiral of Personalization: Voice Profiling, Biometrics, Audience Construction, and the Future of Consent," 2021, Advertising & Society Quarterly

Some co-authors frequently collaborating with Turow include:

  • Yphtach Lelkes
  • Nora A. Draper
  • Ari Ezra Waldman
  • Nick Couldry
  • Mara Einstein

Turow has published regularly in venues such as:

  • Advertising & Society Quarterly
  • Digital Journalism
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research

The academic also has multiple book publications. Two books have been released by Yale University Press: The Aisles Have Eyes (2020) and The Voice Catchers (2021). Additionally, The Voice Catchers: How Marketers Listen In to Exploit Your Feelings, Your Privacy, and Your Wallet was published by the Advertising Educational Foundation in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Breaking Up America: Advertisers and the New Media World

    Joseph Turow

  • Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age

    Joseph Turow

  • Media Systems in Society: Understanding Industries, Strategies, and Power

    Joseph Turow

  • The corporate cultivation of digital resignation

    Nora A Draper;Joseph Turow

  • Media Today : An Introduction to Mass Communication

    Joseph Turow

  • Americans Reject Tailored Advertising and Three Activities That Enable It

    Joseph Turow;Jennifer King;Jennifer King;Chris Jay Hoofnatle;Amy Bleakley

  • Playing Doctor: Television, Storytelling, and Medical Power

    Joseph Turow

  • How Different are Young Adults From Older Adults When it Comes to Information Privacy Attitudes & Policies?

    Chris Jay Hoofnagle;Jennifer King;Jennifer King;Su Li;Joseph Turow

  • Determinants of parental guidance of children's television viewing for a special subgroup: Mass media scholars

    Carl R. Bybee;Danny Robinson;Joseph Turow

  • Media industries : the production of news and entertainment

    Joseph Turow

  • Open to Exploitation: America's Shoppers Online and Offline

    Joseph Turow;Lauren Feldman;Kimberly Meltzer

  • The Internet and the Family, 2000: The View from Parents, the View from Kids. Report Series No. 33.

    Joseph Turow;Lilach Nir

  • Audience Construction and Culture Production: Marketing Surveillance in the Digital Age

    Joseph Turow

  • Advertising, Big Data, and the Clearance of the Public Realm: Marketers' New Approaches to the Content Subsidy

    Nick Couldry;Joseph Turow

  • Virtuality and Its Discontents: Searching for Community in Cyberspace

    Joseph Turow;Andrea L. Kavanaugh

  • Americans Online Privacy: The System Is Broken

    Joseph Turow

  • Talk show radio as interpersonal communication

    Joseph Turow

  • The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power

    Joseph Turow

  • Advising and Ordering: Daytime, Prime Time

    Joseph Turow

  • The tradeoff fallacy: how marketers are misrepresenting American consumers and opening them up to exploitation

    Joseph Turow;Michael Hennessy;Nora A Draper

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur L. Caplan
Arthur L. Caplan New York University
Michael Hennessy
Michael Hennessy University of Delaware
Joseph N. Cappella
Joseph N. Cappella University of Pennsylvania

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