Faculty & Staff
John C Tedesco - Director, Research and Outreach
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Associate Professor and Director, Research and Outreach
Office: 113 Shanks Hall
Phone: (540) 231-3224
Email: tedesco@vt.edu
Education
Ph.D. - University of Oklahoma (1996)
M.A. - University at Albany (1992)
B.A. - University at Albany (1989)
Teaching Interests
Political Communication
Public Relations (Campaigns, Issue Management)
Research Methods
Campaign Communication (Health, PR, Social Marketing)
Faculty Abroad - University of Lugano, Switzerland
Recent Scholarship
CURRENT PROJECTS
Tedesco, J. C., Mills, L., McKinnon, L. M., & Kaid, L. L. (forthcoming). Policing Political Advertising. Youngstown, NY: Cambria Press.
Tedesco, J. C. (forthcoming). Political public relations and agenda building. In S. Kiousis & J. Stromback (Eds.) Political Public Relations: Concepts, Principles, Applications. Routledge.
Tedesco, J. C. (forthcoming). The complex web: Young adults’ opinions about online campaign messages. In M. McKinney & M. Banwart (Eds.) The Election of a Lifetime: Communication for Digital Natives. Peter Lang
Tedesco, J. C. (forthcoming). Candidate Internet message effects. In L. L. Kaid & J. Hendricks (Eds.) Techno-Politics and Presidential Campaigning: New Technologies, New Voices, New Voters. Lexington Books.
PUBLICATIONS
Tedesco, J. C., & Ivory, A. (2009/in press). Investigating real-time response measures for public health campaign messages. In Maier, M., Maurer, M., Reinemann, C., Meyer, V., & Maier, J., (Eds.) Real-time Response Measurement in the Social Sciences. Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang.
Tedesco, J. C. (2009/in press). Public relations, promotions, and celebrity. In S. Riley (Ed.) Star Struck. Greenwood Publishing Group.
Kavanaugh, A., Perez Quinones, M., Tedesco, J. C., & Sanders, W. (2009/in press). Toward a Virtual Town Square in the Era of Web 2.0. International Handbook of Internet Research. Springer Verlag
Kaid, L. L., McKinney, M. S., & Tedesco, J. C. (2009). Applied political communication research. In Frey, L. R., & Cissna, K. N. (Eds.) Handbook of Applied Communication Research, (pp. 453-480). Mahwah, NJ: Routledge
Tedesco, J. C. (2009). Political promotion, the Internet and the Era of Web 2.0. Business Research Yearbook, 16(1), 107-112.
Tedesco, J. C. (2008). Candidate website newsrooms: Exploring information subsidies on 2008 presidential primary candidate websites. Business Research Yearbook, 15(1), 178-183.
Tedesco, J. C., Baker, E., Constantinescu, A., & Dunn, S. (2008). The EU and the US on Terrorism: United We Stand? In L. L. Kaid (Ed.) The EU Expansion: Communicating Shared Sovereignty in the Parliamentary Elections, (pp. 223-241). New York: Peter Lang.
Tedesco, J. C. (2008). Dangerously, anorexia meets social networks. Communication Currents, 3(1). Communication Currents is a publication of the National Communication Association and is available at www.communicationcurrents.com.
Tedesco, J. C. (2007). Advocacy advertising. In L. L. Kaid and C. Holtz-Bacha (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Political Communication, (pp. 4-8). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Tedesco, J. C. (2007). Ad watch. In L. L. Kaid and C. Holtz-Bacha (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Political Communication, (pp. 8-10). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Baker, E., Baker, W., & Tedesco, J. C. (2007). Organizations respond to phishing: Exploring the public relations tackle box. Communication Research Reports, 24(4), 327-339.
Constantinescu, A., & Tedesco, J. C. (2007). Framing a kidnapping: Frame convergence between online newspaper coverage and reader discussion posts about three kidnapped Romanian journalists. Journalism Studies, 8(3), 444-464.
Guest Editor
Tedesco, J. C., & McKinney, M. S. (2007). Young citizens, media and political participation. American Behavioral Scientist.
Tedesco, J. C., McKinney, M. S., & Kaid, L. L. (2007). On the Young Voters’ Agenda: Exploring Issue Salience across the 2004 Presidential Election. American Behavioral Scientist, 50, 1290-1297.
Tedesco, J. C. (2007). The Internet as a source of political information for young citizens. Examining interactivity effects. American Behavioral Scientist, 50, 1183-1194.
Kaid, L. L., McKinney, M. S., & Tedesco, J. C. (2007). Political information efficacy and young voters. American Behavioral Scientist, 50, 1093-1111.
Ivory, A., & Tedesco, J. C. (2007). The effects of health message primes on viewer responses to sexual health campaign web content. Business Research Yearbook, 14(2), 583-589.
English, K., & Tedesco, J. C. (2007). 2006 U.S. Senate candidate blogs: An analysis of dialogical opportunities. Business Research Yearbook, 14(2), 182-188.
Tedesco, J. C., & Holloway, R. L. (2007). Countering deceptive health promotion: Measuring health literacy effects. Business Research Yearbook, 14(2), 603-609.
Baker, E., Tedesco, J. C., & Baker, W. (2006). Consumer Privacy and trust online: An experimental analysis of anti-phishing promotional effects. Journal of Website Promotion, 2(1&2), 89-113.
Williams, A. P., & Tedesco, J. C., Eds. (2006). The Internet Election. Rowman & Littlefield.
Tedesco, J. C. (2006). Web interactivity and political efficacy: Exploring effects on young citizens. In A. P. Williams & J. C. Tedesco (Eds.) The Internet Election, (pp. 187-202). Rowman & Littlefield.
Professional Affiliations
National Communication Association (Past Chair, Political Communication Division)
International Academy of Business Disciplines (Chair, Communication & Technology)
International Communication Association
Eastern Communication Association (Past Chair, Political Communication)
American Political Science Association
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