Courses Taught:
- IMC200: Introduction to Mass Communication
- IMC370: Television Production
- IMC260: Graphic Design
- IMC395: Sports Issues in the Media
- IMC430: Media Law and Ethics
- IMC495: Methods of IMC
- IMC498: Selected Topics in IMC
- Gender Issues in Sports Media
- Mass Media and Society
- Public Relations
- Brand Development
- IMC499: Professional Media Internship
- SH100: Principles of Public Speaking
- SH350: Principles of Persuasion
Education
Ph.D., Communication and Information Science
University of Alabama
2011
M.S., Sport Administration
University of Louisville
2006
B.A., Film, Theatre, and Communication Arts
University of New Orleans
2004
Recent Publications
Jones, A. & Cooley, S. (2015). Beyond beauty and brawn: Winter Olympic athletes tackle gender stereotypes. Women, Identities and Culture, 1(1), 1-6.
Jones, A. & Cooley, S. (2013). Athletes who sparkle: Stereotypes in the televised coverage of the 2010 Olympic Figure Skating Events. Journalism and Mass Communication, 3(5), 292-303.
Cooley, S. & Jones, A. (2013). A forgotten tweet: Somalia and social media. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, 34(1), 68-82.
Greer, J. & Jones, A. (2012). Beyond figure skating and hockey: How U.S. audiences gender-type winter Olympic sports. The International Journal of Sport and Society, 3(4), 129-140.
Jones, A. & Greer, J. (2012). Go “heavy” or go home: An examination of audience attitudes and their relationship to gender cues in the 2010 Winter Olympic snowboarding coverage. Mass Communication and Society, 15(4), 598-621.
Greer, J. & Jones, A. (2012). A level playing field? Audience perceptions of male and female sports analysts. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 6(8), 67-80.
Jones, A. & Greer, J. (2011). You don’t look like an athlete: Testing the effects of feminine appearance on audience interest in women’s sports and perceptions of female athletes. Journal of Sport Behavior, 34(4), 358-377.
Jones, A. (2011). Visual and verbal gender cues in the televised coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 6(2), 199-216.