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Michael C. Zalot, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair of Business
DeVry University North Brunswick

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Electronic Tribes is scheduled for release in June 2008. Preorder it.

What is a dissertation?

A doctoral dissertation is a book-length piece of original scholarly work, often involving empirical research.

What are your current research objectives?

I intend to craft a few articles out of my dissertation, but I'm always full of ideas and coming up with angles on culture and communication! I like to unpack embedded meanings, if I could generalize, though lately I've been thinking a lot about narrative.

Some things I've written

Here you can read about my publications.

"Digital Dreamtime, Sonic Talismans: Music Downloading and the Tribal Landscape" in Electronic Tribes: The Virtual Worlds of Geeks, Gamers, Shamans, and Scammers, eds. Tyrone L. Adams and Steve Smith (University of Texas Press, June 2008).

"Turning Off the Television Tape Loop: Characterizing Some Local Rock, Pop, and Country Music Radio Stations’ Responses to the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks" in New Jersey Journal of Communication, Spring 2002 (Vol. 10, No. 1).
"Wall Calendars: Structured Time, Mundane Memories, and Disposable Images" in Journal of Mundane Behavior, October 2001 (JMB 2.3).

"Online Music Infringers: Age and Religiosity As Factors In Illicit Music Downloading"
A largely qualitative cross-group study of the impact of several variables on unauthorized download of music files.
I interviewed 15 subjects, each for about 2 hours, for a total of 27 hours interview time (conducted, recorded, transcribed) and statistically analyzed the data from 155 surveys.