Newhouse School of Communications

George Comstock
Professor, TRF, COM
Communications
Television_Radio_Film

Office: Newhouse 2 Rm. 494
Telephone: 443-4081
Email: gacomsto@syr.edu

George Comstock (Ph.D., Stanford University) is S.I. Newhouse Professor at the Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University. He was science advisor to the Surgeon General's Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior that issued the 1972 federal report, Television and Growing Up: The Impact of Televised Violence, and in 1991-93 was chairman, Department of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University, Hong Kong.

His interests include the art and science of research synthesis, the influence of media in the socialization of children, and the dynamics of public opinion. His recent publications (co-authored with Erica Scharrer) include: Television: What's On, Who's Watching, and What It Means (1999); The Psychology of Media and Politics (2005); and Media and the American Child (2007).

Expertise:

• Advertising/ Behavioral Effects
• Media Effects
• Political Communication
• Theories of Communication
• TV Violence