E-mail: augie@sc.edu

Office:
Phone: 803.777-4464
Fax: 803.777.4103
Room: Coliseum 3020H

Hours:
Monday: 10 - 11:30 a.m.
and 2 - 4 p.m.
Tuesdys and Thursdays:
10 - 11:30 a.m.
Other times and days by appointment

Fall 2008 Syllabi:
Jour 201 - Survey of Mass Communications
Section 1
Section 2
Mktg 701 - Principles of Marketing Management

August E. ("Augie") Grant
Associate Professor
Electronic and Print Journalism Sequence

Ph.D., University of Southern California
M.A.J.C., University of Florida

Augie Grant is a former broadcaster who is on permanent leave from the broadcasting industry to teach and conduct research on the telecommunication industries. After completing his doctorate at the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Southern California, he spent nine years with the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Although his primary interest is mass communication technology, his research and teaching reflects the convergence of communication forms through the application of new technologies. After spending Fall 1996 as a Visiting Professor at USC, Grant jumped at the opportunity to join the faculty of the university beginning Fall 1997.

He has written numerous articles and conference papers dealing with high-definition television, television audience behavior, television shopping services, theories of new media, and emerging communication technologies. He is the editor of the Communication Technology Update (now in its fifth edition), an annual review of the latest developments in over three dozen technologies in electronic mass media, telephony, consumer electronics, computers, and satellites. He is also a consultant to various media organizations regarding new communication technologies and consumer behavior.