{"id":299,"date":"2014-06-23T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/?post_type=staff&#038;p=299"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:05:00","slug":"tim-jones","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/staff\/tim-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Jones, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Tim Jones. \u00a0I have a Ph.D. in Political Science and I am also the Chair of the\u00a0 International Studies programs at BC.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Teaching Philosophy<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>In my classes I try to foster a deep-seeded commitment to social justice and civic engagement. No matter how many times I teach a subject or how much I think I know about it, I always try to approach my next class as if I were teaching it for the first time. If I want my students to be excited and open-minded about a subject then I believe I need to model that attitude and behavior myself. In Buddhist terms, I try to adopt a \u201cbeginner\u2019s mind\u201d rather than an \u201cexpert\u2019s mind.\u201d An illustrative quote in this respect, which I like to share with my students is \u201cIn the beginner\u2019s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert\u2019s there are few.\u201d What this means for me in practice is that I try not to introduce any topic that I am not truly interested in myself; I regularly try out new teaching techniques; I often reinvent assignments; and I am up-front about the fact that I do not have all the answers. It also means that I encourage my students to question convention and authority, including my own, and to consider alternative ways of thinking and relating to the world. In the process, I try to have as much fun as possible as I believe that what we learn with pleasure we are less likely to forget. In the end, I hope my students leave my classes more curious, more critical, more self-aware, and more self-confident than they were when they entered.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>\u00a0Courses Taught in the IDS Program<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>#IDIOCRACY: Sex, Race, and Politics in the Media Age<\/li>\n<li>The Pursuit of Happiness: The Politics and Psychology of Well-Being<\/li>\n<li>(In)Decision 2012: Campaigns and Elections in the United States<\/li>\n<li>Democracy Depends on You: Media, Politics, and Persuasion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;color: black\">Sheets, P., Rowling, C. M., &amp; Jones, T.M.\u00a0(in press). The View from Above (And Below): A Comparison of American, British, and Arab News Coverage of U.S. Drones. <em>Media, War &amp; Conflict<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span>Rowling, C. M., Sheets, P. &amp; Jones, T.M.\u00a0(2015). American Atrocity Revisited: National Identity, Cascading Frames, and the My Lai Massacre. <em>Political Communication<\/em>, 32(2): 310-330.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span>Rowling, C. M., Sheets, P., &amp; Jones, T.M.\u00a0(2013). Frame Contestation in the News: National Identity, Cultural Resonance, and the U.S. Drone Policy. <em>International Journal of Communication<\/em>, 7: 2231-2253.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;color: black\">Jones, T.M. Van Aelst, P. &amp; Vliegenthart, R. (2013). Foreign Nation Visibility in the U.S. News Media: A Longitudinal Analysis (1950-2006). <em>Communication Research<\/em>, 40(3): 417-436.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span>Rowling, C. M., Jones, T.M.\u00a0&amp; Sheets, P. (2011). Some Dared Call it Torture: Cultural Resonance, Abu Ghraib, and a Selectively Echoing Press. <em>Journal of Communication<\/em>, 61: 765-786.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;color: black\">Jones, T.M. &amp; Sheets, P. (2009). Torture in the Eye of the Beholder: Social Identity, News Coverage, and Abu Ghraib. <em>Political Communication<\/em>, 26(3): 278-295.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span>Jones, T. M. (2008). Review of Comparative Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics. <em>Comparative Political Studies<\/em>, 41(1): 128-131.Rowling, C. M., Sheets, P. &amp; Jones, T. M. (in press). American Atrocity Revisited: National Identity, Cascading Frames, and the My Lai Massacre. 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