Joan Van Tassel

• Video packages for ABC News shows
  
  • Nightline (covered US invasion of Iraq, 2003), 20/20, and Good Morning, America. 
• Western Region public television stations
• Local KABC-TV show, Eye on L.A. Wrote and produced long-form documentaries for KTLA-TV.
  
  • Nominated for Local Emmy Award
• WiReD, Los Angeles Times, Broadcasting & Cable, Winning Campaigns, Los Angeles Business Journal, Silicon Alley, Extra, Extra Convention Show Dailies, Malibu Times and other publications.
  • 2011 San Diego Press Club Award - Best Magazine Article for 4-part series on new technologies in Obama campaign
• The Hollywood Reporter Special Issues, focusing on the effects of digital technologies on the entertainment and media industries.
• The Hollywood Reporter television critic for nearly a decade.

Currently:  Developing websites covering new media topics, such as the award-winning Technecolor site, which explores layers of  culture and communication in the U.S. Southwest.  The GlobalMobile site under construction - looking at use of mobile in Paris and Los Angeles, with other countries and cities to be added.

Books:

• The New News, Routledge/Focal Press
• Media Management: Making, Marketing & Moving Digital Content  (with co-author Lisa Poe-Howfield)
  
• Digital Rights Management: Monetizing Content
• Digital TV over Broadband
  • Recipient of  U.S. National Cable Television Association (NCTA)
    Book of the Year Award
• Centralization of Broadcast Operations
• Digital Content Management
• Advanced Television Systems

• Videoblogger and oppo research video tracker, James Webb senatorial campaign. Also videoblogged for the Webb campaign. VIDEO: Jim Webb in Washington, VA

• Documentary footage: 2-month pre-Presidential election roadtrip to swing states, videotaping an effort to register Progressive voters. VIDEO: The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy

Editorial Consultant for Entertainment & Media Practice

White Paper: A New Era for Content

Ph.D., Communication Theory & Research:  I study new media platforms and technologies, producing content to conduct formative and summative evaluation for material on interactive platforms. My dissertation covered the use of interactive delivery of emotionally-sensitive information to cancer patients and their significant others, comparing it to delivery via linear video. I tested the differences between the two delivery modes on patients'/S.O.'s cognitive and affective processing and behavioral intentions.