Mary
Alice Shaver is Chairperson and Professor in the Department
of Advertising at Michigan State University. She is the incoming
President-elect of the American Academy of Advertising and will
be President in 2002. She is editor of the Journal of Advertising
Education, a guest editor and member of the editorial board
of the Journal of Media Economics and serves as a reviewer
for the Journal of Advertising, Journalism Monographs
and Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. Her
current research focuses on media competition and convergence,
the role of technology in economic efficiencies, advertising
branding, and consumer issues. Her research has been published
in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, the Journal
of Media Economics, the Proceedings of the American Academy
of Advertising, Newspaper Research Journal, Advertising
Age and in several book chapters. The second edition of
Her book, How to Sell Media with Marketing, will be published
in Spring 2001.
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