William Hoynes is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he teaches courses on media, culture, and social theory. He is the author of Public Television for Sale: Media, the Market, and the Public Sphere.Croteau and Hoynes are the co-authors of By Invitation Only: How the Media Limit Political Debate (1994) and The Business of Media: Corporate Media and the Public Interest (2001).David Croteau taught about the sociology of media as an Associate Professor (retired) in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of Politics and the Class Divide: Working People and the… Middle-Class Left.
William Hoynes is Professor of Sociology and former Director of the Media Studies Program at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he teaches courses on media, culture, and social theory. He is the author of Public Television for Sale: Media, the Market, and the Public Sphere.Croteau and Hoynes are the coauthors of By Invitation Only: How the Media Limit Political Debate (1994) and The Business of Media: Corporate Media and the Public Interest (2006). Their new introductory sociology textbook, Experience Sociology, will be published in 2012.