Inger Stole

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Inger Stole, Ph.D.
Inger Lisbeth Stole
Inger Lisbeth Stole
Residence Urbana, Illinois, U.S.
Fields Media studies
Institutions University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alma mater University of Washington, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Known for Theories of development of the modern consumer in media and society

Inger Lisbeth Stole is a media scholar and associate professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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[edit] Background and Education

Stole earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Washington, where she met her future husband, Robert W. McChesney. She earned her Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998.

[edit] Academic career

She is affiliated with the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on communication history, and specifically advertising, consumer culture, and public relations. Her work also examines historic and present-day consumer movements.

[edit] Books

  • 2006: Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s

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