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Braman, Sandra Professor
Positions
- John Paul Abbott Professor of Liberal Arts, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University
- Professor, Communication and Journalism, College of Arts and Sciences
The macro-level effects of digital technologies and their policy implications; information policy, defined as laws and regulations pertaining to any aspects of information creation, processing, flows, and use; the co-construction of law, technology, and society.
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Overview
Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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Braman, S.
(2017).
Emanations of the informational state: Cyber operations and the difficulties. First Monday.
22(5),
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Braman, S.
(2017).
Internet histories: the view from the design process. Internet Histories.
1(1-2), 70-78.
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Braman, S.
(2016).
Instability and internet design. Internet Policy Review.
5(3),
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de Melo-Martn, I., Hauskeller, M., Braman, S., Guchet, X., & Sharon, T.
(2015).
Book Symposium on Human Nature in an Age of Biotechnology: the Case for Mediated Posthumanism By Tamar Sharon Springer, Dordrecht, 2014. 28(4), 581-599.
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Braman, S.
(2015).
Sensor Law
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Braman, S.
(2014).
"We are bradley manning": Information policy, the legal subject, and the WikiLeaks complex. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION.
8(1), 2603-2618.
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Braman, S.
(2013).
Laying the path: governance in early internet design. Info: the journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications, information and media.
15(6), 63-83.
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Braman, S.
(2013).
The geopolitical vs. the network political: Internet designers and governance. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics.
9(3), 277-296.
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Braman, S.
(2012).
Privacy by design: Networked computing, 19691979. New Media & Society.
14(5), 798-814.
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Marques, I., Barcellos, V. A., Arellano Hernndez, A., Braman, S., Cocco, G., Pdua, J. A., & Gualtieri, R.
(2012).
Sheila Jasanoff: Localizing the global. História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos.
19(3), 993-996.
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Braman, S.
(2012).
Richard Collins, Three myths of internet governance: Making sense of networks, governance and regulation. 14(4), 721-723.
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Braman, S.
(2012).
Internationalization of the Internet by design: The first decade. Global Media and Communication.
8(1), 27-45.
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Braman, S.
(2012).
Laying the Path: Technical Approaches to Legal and Policy Issues in Internet Design
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Braman, S.
(2011).
The Framing Years: Policy Fundamentals in the Internet Design Process, 19691979. The Information Society.
27(5), 295-310.
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Braman, S.
(2011).
Information Policies and Strategies. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
62(6), 1213-1214.
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Braman, S.
(2011).
Defining Information Policy. Journal of Information Policy.
1, 1-5.
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Braman, S.
(2011).
Introduction. 17-21.
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Braman, S.
(2010).
THE INTERPENETRATION OF TECHNICAL AND LEGAL DECISION-MAKING FOR THE INTERNET. Information, Communication and Society.
13(3), 309-324.
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Braman, S.
(2009).
Governing Global Electronic Networks: International Perspectives on Policy and Power. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
60(8), 1720-1721.
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Braman, S.
(2008).
International treaties and art. The International Journal of Cultural Policy.
14(3), 315-333.
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Braman, S.
(2008).
Policy Research in an Evidence-Averse Environment. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION.
2, 433-449.
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Braman, S.
(2007).
When Nightingales Break the Law: Silence and the Construction of Reality. Ethics and Information Technology.
9(4), 281-295.
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Braman, S.
(2007).
The Ideal V. the Real in Media Localism: Regulatory Implications. Communication Law and Policy.
12(3), 231-278.
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Valauskas, E. J.
(2007).
FM Interviews: Sandra Braman. First Monday.
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Braman, S.
(2007).
FM interviews. First Monday.
12(4),
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Braman, S.
(2007).
The ourobouros of intellectual property: Ethics, law, and policy in Africa. International Review of Information Ethics.
7(7),
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Braman, S., & Malaby, T. M.
(2006).
Preface. First Monday.
7(SPECIAL ISSUE),
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Braman, S., & Thomas, M.
(2006).
Preface to Command lines: The emergence of governance in cyberspace. First Monday.
11(9),
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Braman, S., & Malaby, T. M.
(2006).
Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet: Preface. First Monday.
11(SPEC. ISS. 7),
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Braman, S.
(2006).
Tactical memory: The politics of openness in the construction of memory. First Monday.
11(7),
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Braman, S.
(2006).
The micro and macroeconomics of information. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology.
40(1), 3-52.
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Braman, S.
(2004).
Where Has Media Policy Gone? Defining The Field In The Twenty-First Century. Communication Law and Policy.
9(2), 153-182.
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Braman, S., & Roberts, S.
(2003).
Advantage ISP: Terms of Service as Media Law. New Media & Society.
5(3), 422-448.
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Braman, S.
(2002).
Posthuman Law: Information Policy and the Machinic World. First Monday.
7(12),
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Braman, S., Shah, H., & Fair, J. E.
(2001).
We Are All Natives Now: An Overview of International and Development Communication Research. Annals of the International Communication Association.
24(1), 159-187.
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Braman, S.
(2000).
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT: UNIVERSITIES, NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE US SUPREME COURT. Information, Communication and Society.
3(4), 526-545.
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Braman, S.
(1998).
The Right to Create. 60(1), 77-91.
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Braman, S.
(1998).
The information society, the information economy, and South Africa. Communicatio: South African journal for communication theory and research.
24(1), 67-75.
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Braman, S.
(1996).
Art in the Information Economy. Canadian Journal of Communication.
21(2),
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Braman, S.
(1995).
Horizons of the State: Information Policy and Power. Journal of Communication.
45(4), 4-24.
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Braman, S.
(1995).
Policy for the net and the Internet. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology.
30, 5-75.
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Braman, S.
(1994).
The autopoietic state: Communication and democratic potential in the net. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
45(6), 358-368.
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Braman, S.
(1994).
Why the Book?. Journal of Communication.
44(1), 9-11.
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Braman, S.
(1993).
Harmonization of Systems: The Third Stage of the Information Society. Journal of Communication.
43(3), 133-140.
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Braman, S.
(1991).
Contradictions in brilliant eyes. 47(3), 177-194.
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Braman, S.
(1990).
Trade and information policy. Media Culture and Society.
12(3), 361-385.
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Braman, S., & Cohen, A. A.
(1990).
Research from Start to Finish. Annals of the International Communication Association.
13(1), 511-518.
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Braman, S.
(1989).
Defining information An approach for policymakers. Telecommunications Policy.
13(3), 233-242.
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Braman, S.
(1989).
Information and Socioeconomic Class in U.S. Constitutional Law. Journal of Communication.
39(3), 163-179.
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Braman, S.
(1988).
Public Expectations of Media versus Standards in Codes of Ethics. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly: devoted to research and commentary in journalism and mass communication.
65(1), 71-77.
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Braman, S.
(1985).
The "Facts" of El Salvador According to Objective and New Journalism. Journal of Communication Inquiry.
9(2), 75-96.
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Braman, S.
(2017).
Emanations of the informational state: Cyber operations and the difficulties. First Monday.
22(5),
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book
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Braman, S.
(2006).
Change of State Information, Policy, and Power. MIT Press.
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Braman, S.
(2005).
Information Technology, National Identity, and Social Cohesion. CSIS.
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Braman, S.
(2004).
Biotechnology and Communication, The Meta-Technologies of Information. Taylor & Francis.
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Braman, S.
(2006).
Change of State Information, Policy, and Power. MIT Press.
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chapter
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Braman, S.
(2022).
Meta: A Short Meditation on "Media Economics". Flew, T., Holt, J., & Thomas, J. (Eds.),
The SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economy.
(pp. 50-62).
SAGE Publications Limited.
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Braman, S.
(2021).
Ecstasy and entropy: information policy in a punctuated case. Duff, A. S. (Eds.),
Research Handbook on Information Policy.
(pp. 40-55).
Edward Elgar Publishing.
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Braman, S.
(2020).
The Irony of Internet Governance Research: Metagovernance as Context. DeNardis, L., Cogburn, D., Levinson, N. S., & Musiani, F. (Eds.),
Researching Internet Governance: Methods, Frameworks, Futures.
(pp. 21-58).
The MIT Press.
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Braman, S.
(2016).
Flow. Peters, B. (Eds.),
Digital keywords.
(pp. 118-131).
Princeton University Press.
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Braman, S.
(2015).
Conclusion: The State of Cloud Computing Policy. REGULATING THE CLOUD: POLICY FOR COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE.
(pp. 279-288).
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Braman, S.
(2015).
Regulating the Cloud: Policy for Computing Infrastructure Series Editor's Introduction. REGULATING THE CLOUD: POLICY FOR COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE.
(pp. IX-XI).
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Braman, S.
(2015).
The state of cloud computing policy. Yoo, C., & Blanchette, J. F. (Eds.),
Regulating the cloud: Policy for computing infrastructure.
(pp. 279-288).
MIT Press.
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Braman, S.
(2014).
Cyber security ethics at the boundaries: System maintenance and the Tallinn Manual. Glorioso, L., & Osula, A. M. (Eds.),
Proceedings: 1st workshop on ethics of cyber conflict.
(pp. 49-58).
NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence.
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Braman, S.
(2012).
Technology and epistemology: Information policy and desire. Cultural Technologies: The Shaping of Culture in Media and Society.
(pp. 133-150).
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Braman, S.
(2011).
AntiTerrorism and the Harmonization of Media and Communication Policy. The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy.
(pp. 486-504).
Wiley.
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Braman, S.
(2011).
Internet Policy. The Handbook of Internet Studies.
(pp. 137-167).
Wiley.
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Braman, S.
(2011).
Internet law and policy. Consalvo, M., & Ess, C. (Eds.),
The Blackwell handbook of internet studies.
(pp. 137-167).
Blackwell Publications.
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Braman, S.
(2011).
Media, information, and critique of economics. Comor, E. E. (Eds.),
Media, structures, and power: The Robert E. Babe collection.
(pp. 17-21).
University of Toronto Press.
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Braman, S.
(2011).
The representational economy and the global information policy regime. Albagli, S., & Maciel, M. L. (Eds.),
Information, power and politics: New technological and institutional mediations.
(pp. 27-46).
Lexington Books.
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Braman, S.
(2010).
Art-state relations: Art and power through the lens of international treaties. Singh, J. P. (Eds.),
International cultural policies and power.
(pp. 36-55).
Palgrave MacMillan.
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Braman, S.
(2010).
Legal globalization and the public sphere. Gripsrud, J., & Moe, H. (Eds.),
The digital public sphere: Challenges for media policy.
(pp. 143-162).
Nordicom.
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Braman, S.
(2010).
Mediating the public through policy. Papathanassopoulos, S., & Negrine, R. (Eds.),
Communications policy: Theory and issues.
Palgrave MacMillan.
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Braman, S.
(2009).
Globalizing media law and policy. Internationalizing Media Studies.
(pp. 93-115).
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Braman, S.
(2006).
The limits of diversity. Media Diversity and Localism: Meaning and Metrics.
(pp. 139-150).
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Braman, S.
(2006).
Information and socioeconomic class in U.S. constitutional law. Reynolds, A., & Barnett, B. (Eds.),
Communication and Law: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Research.
(pp. 161-178).
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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Braman, S.
(2006).
Introductory comments to chapter 8. (pp. 139-159).
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Braman, S.
(2005).
New information technologies and the restructuring of higher education: The constitutional view. Digital Academe: The New Media and Institutions of Higher Education and Learning.
(pp. 268-289).
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Braman, S.
(2004).
"Are facts not flowers?": Facticity and genetic information. Biotechnology and Communication: The Meta-Technologies of Information.
(pp. 97-115).
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Braman, S.
(2004).
Introduction. (pp. ix-xiii).
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Braman, S.
(2004).
The meta-technologies of information. Biotechnology and Communication: The Meta-Technologies of Information.
(pp. 3-36).
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Braman, S.
(2004).
Technology. The SAGE Handbook of Media Studies.
(pp. 123-144).
SAGE Publications.
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Braman, S.
(2003).
From the Modern to the Postmodern: The Future of Global Communications Theory and Research in a Pandemonic Age. International and Development Communication: A 21st-Century Perspective.
(pp. 109-124).
SAGE Publications.
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Braman, S.
(2003).
Trade and Information Policy. Critical Cultural Policy Studies.
(pp. 282-301).
Wiley.
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Braman, S.
(2002).
Informational meta-technologies and international relations: The case of biotechnologies. Rosenau, J., & Singh, J. P. (Eds.),
Information technologies and global politics: The changing scope of power and governance.
(pp. 91-112).
State University of New York Press.
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Braman, S.
(2001).
Reinventing policy technologies: South African decision-making for the information infrastructure. Burton, S., Leach, A., & Stilwell, C. (Eds.),
Superhighway or footpath? Knowledge, information and development.
(pp. 2-10).
University of Natal-Pietermaritzsburg.
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Braman, S.
(2000).
From virtue to vertu to the virtual: Art, self-organizing systems, and the network economy. Gibson, S., & Oviedo, O. (Eds.),
The emerging cyberculture: Literacy, paradigm, and paradox.
(pp. 307-324).
Hampton Press.
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Braman, S.
(1999).
The telecommunications infrastructure and invention, innovation, and diffusion processes. MacDonald, S., & Madden, G. (Eds.),
Telecommunications and socio-economic development.
(pp. 13-24).
North-Holland.
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Braman, S.
(1996).
The filiere electronique: Contributions of public networks to private networks. Noam, E., & Nishuilleabhain, A. (Eds.),
Public networks and private objectives.
(pp. 95-104).
Elsevier.
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Braman, S.
(2022).
Meta: A Short Meditation on "Media Economics". Flew, T., Holt, J., & Thomas, J. (Eds.),
The SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economy.
(pp. 50-62).
SAGE Publications Limited.
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conference paper
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Braman, S.
(2009).
Internet RFCs as social policy: Network design from a regulatory perspective. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
1-29.
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Braman, S.
(2009).
Internet RFCs as social policy: Network design from a regulatory perspective. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
1-29.
editor of
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chapter
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Braman, S.
(1996).
Interpenetrated globalization: Scaling, power, and the public sphere
Hampton Press.
21-37.
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Braman, S.
(1996).
Interpenetrated globalization: Scaling, power, and the public sphere
Hampton Press.
21-37.
Teaching
teaching activities
- COMM307 Comm Law & Policy Instructor
- COMM317 Social Media Law Instructor
- COMM320 Organizational Comm Instructor
- COMM354 Money Power & Communication Instructor
- COMM360 Cultural History Media Instructor
- COMM360 Cultural History Media-italy Instructor
- COMM375 Media Audiences Instructor
- COMM440 Hnr-political Communication Instructor
- COMM454 Telecomm Policy Instructor
- COMM460 Comm & Contempory Issues Instructor
- COMM485 Directed Studies-italy Instructor
- COMM491 Research Instructor
- COMM625 Intl Comm & Public Diplomacy Instructor
- COMM626 Comm Law & Policy Instructor
- COMM685 Directed Studies Instructor
- COMM691 Research Instructor
- JOUR301 Comm Law & Policy Instructor
- JOUR317 Social Media Law Instructor
- PSAA671 Science And Tech Policy Instructor
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota - (Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States) 1988
- M.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Minnesota - (Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States) 1984
- B.A. in Philosophy, University of Minnesota - (Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States) 1974
awards and honors
- ICA Fellows Book Award, conferred by International Communication Association - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States), 2022
- ICA Fellow, conferred by International Communication Association - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States), 2014
- UWM Research Foundation Senior Faculty Awards, conferred by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States), 2010
Contact
first name
- Sandra
has last name
- Braman
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
Communication and Journalism
4234 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4234
USA
Other
- braman@tamu.edu