Publications

Book:

Bedingfield, Sid, Newspaper Wars: Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965. University of Illinois Press. (In Press, Fall 2017).

Articles:

(*designates peer-reviewed publication)

*Pardun, Carol, McKeever, Robert, Bedingfield, Sid. “Smoke Gets in Their Eyes?  Third-Person Effects of E-Cigarette Advertising,” Journal of Promotion Management. (In Press, Spring 2017).

Bedingfield, Sid, Review of AlieNATION: The Divide and Conquer Presidential Election of 2012. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 46, 4, Dec. 2016: 958-960.

*Bedingfield, Sid, “Culture, Power, and Political Change: Skeptics and the Civil Sphere,” Journal of Communication Inquiry, 39, 2 (April 2015): 158-169.

*Bedingfield, Sid and Dien Anshari, “Thinking About Romney: Frame Building in a Battleground State During the 2012 Presidential Election,” Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly, 91, 1 (Spring 2014): 78-97. Thinking About Romney

What is Journalism For? Columbia Journalism Review, Sept. 3,  2013.  What is Journalism?

Is It Time to Give Up on CNN? Gawker. com, July, 2013. Is It Time to Give Up on CNN?

*Bedingfield, Sid. “Partisan Journalism and the Rise of the Republican Party in South Carolina, 1959-1962,” Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly, 90, 1 (Spring 2013): 5-22. Partisan Journalism

*Bedingfield, Sid. “Wall Street Journal’s Health Care Plan Coverage Free of Murdoch’s Conservative Bias,” Newspaper Research Journal, 33, 1 (Spring 2012): 68-83. Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal

Bedingfield, Sid. Review of Prophets of the Fourth Estate: Broadsides by Press Critics of the Progressive Era. By Amy Reynolds and Gary Hicks. American Journalism, 29, 2 (Spring 2012): 132-134. Broadsides_Reynolds-Davis_BookReview

*Bedingfield, Sid. “John H. McCray, Accommodationism, and the Framing of Civil Rights Struggle in South Carolina, 1940-1948,” Journalism History, 37, 2 (Summer 2011): 91-101. McCray_1940-1948

*Bedingfield, Sid. “The Dixiecrat Summer of 1948: Two South Carolina Editors — a Liberal and a Conservative — Foreshadow Modern Political Debate in the South,” American Journalism, 27, 3 (Summer 2010): 91-114. DixiecratSummer

Bedingfield, Sid. Review of The Southern Press – Literary Legacies and the Challenge of Modernity. By Doug Cumming. Journalism History, 36, 1 (Spring 2010): 55. TheSouthernPress_Cumming_BookReview

Bedingfield, Sid, “The Problem with Broadcast News on the Web,” The Convergence Newsletter, February 2008.

Bedingfield, Sid, “Convergence and the Beat Reporter.” The Convergence Newsletter. May 2006.

(Selected Presentations)

Bedingfield, Sid. “The Press and Political Change: The Civil Sphere and the Battle over Civil Rights in South Carolina, 1935-1965.” Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize, Honorable Mention, American Journalism Historians Association, October 2015.

Bedingfield, Sid. “The Civil Sphere and Political Change: A Case Study of the Civil Rights Struggle in South Carolina, 1935-1965.” History Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication national conference, Montreal, August 2014.

Bedingfield, Sid & Dien Anshari. “Thinking About Romney: Frame Building in Battleground State in the 2012 Presidential Election,” Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, DC. Scheduled for Summer, 2013.

Bedingfield, Sid. “Will Free Speech Walk the Plant at the Pirate Bay? Anti-Piracy Enforcement Measures and the Threat to Online Peer-to-Peer Networks and the Commercial Speech Doctrine,” International Communications Association, Phoenix, Arizona, May 2012. Pirate Bay.

Bedingfield, Sid. “The Search for Bias, News Slant, and Frame Selection in Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications national conference, St. Louis, Missouri, August 2011.

Bedingfield, Sid. “Partisan Journalist: William D. Workman and the Rise of the Republican Party in South Carolina,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications’ Southeast Colloquium, Columbia, South Carolina, March 2011. * Winner: Top Faculty Paper

Bedingfield, Sid. “Politicians and Social Media: A Love Story,” presentation at the Robert McNair School of History and Politics, Francis Marion University, Florence, South Carolina, October 2011.

Bedingfield, Sid. “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the U.S. Media,” a two-part lecture/seminar at the University of Vermont, Department of Political Science, March 2010.

Bedingfield, Sid. “John H. McCray, Accommodationism and the Framing of the Civil Rights Struggle in South Carolina, 1940-1948, Policy History national conference, Columbus, Ohio, June 2010.