Bill Kovarik
Critical Description of Work:
Developing a positive vision of ourselves and our futures is a special responsibility for writers. This has a special urgency in our time. The fight for the environment of the Southern Appalachians is at least as significant today as the fight for Civil Rights in a previous generation. The parallels, in terms of personal suffering, extraordinary leadership and hateful opposition, are quite striking. I see the best journalism in this area following the Ralph McGill model, projecting a positive vision, defending non-violent activists, and holding hate speech to account.
Contact Me:
Phone: (office) 540 831 6033
Email: Wkovarik@radford.edu
Website:
http://billkovarik.com
Address:
1408 Spring St
Radford Va 24141
Biography:
Bill Kovarik, Ph.D. is a Professor of Communication at Radford university in southwestern Virginia. He teaches science and environment writing, journalism, web design, media history and media law. Kovarik has also served on the faculty at Virginia Tech and the University of Maryland. His professional experience as a journalist includes reporting and editing for Jack Anderson, the Associated Press, The Charleston (S.C.) Courier, The Baltimore Sun, Time-Life Books, Business Publishers and the National Center for Appropriate Technology. He is a co-author of "The Forbidden Fuel" (1982, with Hal Bernton and Scott Sklar), "Mass Media and Environmental Conflict" (1996, with Mark Neuzil), and author of "Web Design for the Mass Media" (2001). Kovarik also serves as an academic representative on the board of directors of the Society of Environmental Journalists and is the editor of Appalachian Voice.
Stone’s Throw – Earth Island Journal (About Mountaintop Removal mining)
http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/new_articles.cfm?articleID=1171&journalID=93
Citizens Ask Courts to Investigate – Appalachian Voice
http://www.appvoices.org/index.php?/site/voice_stories/new_media_strikes_a_deep_chord/issue/557
New Media Strikes a Deep Chord – Appalachian Voice
http://www.appvoices.org/index.php?/site/voice_stories/new_media_strikes_a_deep_chord/issue/557
Blair Mountain – Appalachian Voice
http://www.appvoices.org/index.php?/site/voice_stories/blair_mountain_new_archeological_data_heats_up_mine_wars/issue/547
Buffalo Creek – Appalachian Voice
http://www.appvoices.org/index.php?/site/voice_stories/buffalo_creek_35_years_later_the_1972_disaster_haunts_the_coal_fields_of_we/issue/522
Historical papers
http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/papers/
Books & Essays
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Fuel alcohol: Energy and environment in a hungry world
Published: Earthscan 1982
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Mass Media and Environmental Conflict: America's Green Crusades
Published: Sage 1996
"This is a good treatment of a very timely topic. The historical detail the authors amass here is impressive and the case studies are both interesting and instructive. The strengths of the book are its interesting and original documentation of the role of different interest groups and their relationship with the media, and the contextual treatment of the evidence presented in the book." K. Viswanath, School of Journalism, The Ohio State University Throughout the history of the environmental movement--from the mid-19th century to Rachel Carson in the 1960s--the mass media, the environmentalists, the government, and various power groups have interacted on many levels to effect social change. In Mass Media and Environmental Conflict, the authors emphasize these interactions using a series of case studies of environmental conflicts that have occurred in American history. This innovative new text explores the role of books, magazines, newspaper articles, and other media and the ways they have created both regional and national communities of environmental understanding. Authors Mark Neuzil and William Kovarik fold together early environmental groups, the mass media, the bureaucratic power structure, and the social system of each period, examining battles over public land, wild animals, clean air, and workplace hazards. Other topics covered in the book include Yosemite, Yellowstone, and America's national parks; species depletion and the evolution of hunting regulations; muckrakers and the great Alaskan land fraud; Hetch Hetchy and the first big dam controversy; the 1920's ethyl gasoline debate; and workplace toxins and the Radium Girls. Focusing on the growth of the environmental movement and its not so silent partner--the media, Mass Media and Environmental Conflict is an important work that will interest students and researchers in communication, media studies, environmental studies, public policy, sociology, and political science.
Co-author of title is Mark Neuzil
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The Forbidden Fuel: Power Alcohol in the Twentieth Century
Published: 1981
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Web Design for the Mass Media
Published: Pearson Education 2001
This book combines Web design instruction with information about how it is used by the media. It gives readers the tools they need to create and maintain effective and attractive Web pages, as well as addressing ethical issues and public service aspect of the Web. The book also features practical real world examples and a glossary of software and Web terminology, and offers suggested Web links for further exploration of topics. The book explores the media and the Web; how to explore, design and build Web pages; basic and intermediate HTML; as well as databases on the Web and the Future of the Web. For anyone interested in Web design.
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