Julie Wiest

Degree(s)

• B.S. Communications (University of Tennessee)
• M.A. Journalism and Mass Communication (University of Georgia)

General Research Areas

Social Psychology; Sociology of Culture; Media Studies

Additional Research Interests

Gender, violence, mediated interaction

Selected Honors, Awards, Grants

• UT Sociology Department’s 2006 Outstanding Graduate Student Award
• 2007 David R. Maines Narrative Research Award
• 2006 Carl Couch Internet Research Award

Selected Publications

• Wiest, Julie B. 2007. “Whose Music Is It? The Battle Between Copyright and Right to Copy.” Journal of Information Technology Impact 7(2):91-110.
  
  
• Wiest, Julie B. 2006. We Were There. Knoxville, TN: Tennessee Valley Publishing.

Teaching Interests

Social psychology, sociology of culture, media studies, gender, violence, mediated interaction

Courses Taught

• Sociology 120: General Sociology
• Sociology 375: Gender and Society

Organization Membership(s)

Alpha Kappa Delta student honor society; American Sociological Association (section memberships: Communication and Information, Social Psychology, and Sociology of Culture); Society for the Study of Social Problems; Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction; Sociologists for Women in Society – South; Southern Sociological Society

Contact Information

Julie Wiest
Department of Sociology
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0490

Email: jwiest@utk.edu