Joe Gosen, MA
he/him, Associate Professor
Office
Location
CF 267
Hours
Winter 2024 - Mondays and Wednesdays, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. (and by appointment)
About
B.A., Photojournalism, San Jose State University; M.A., Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno.
Joe Gosen joined the Department of Journalism in 2014 and teaches courses in the visual journalism track, covering topics such as photojournalism, video, graphics and design. Prior to Western he taught visual journalism for 12-plus years at Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara and Ventura, California. His professional journalism career launched in the late 1980s and included working as a photojournalist for newspapers and wire services in California, Florida and Nevada, as well as two years as a graphic artist for the Reno Gazette-Journal. One of his side projects included co-founding SportsShooter.Com, which was an online resource for sports photographers and photojournalists that ran from 2002 to 2023.
A film he worked on about press freedom with colleague, Dr. Brian J. Bowe, garnered the 2023 creative research award in the Visual Communication Division of the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). The film can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/782199937
Current Courses
- JOUR 305 - Photojournalism
- JOUR 346 - Introduction to Visual Journalism
- JOUR 370 - Digital Media in Journalism
- JOUR 446 - Advanced Visual Journalism
Selected Publications
Gosen, J. (Director, Principal Photography, Editor) and Bowe, B.J. (Producer, Soundtrack). (2022). Dreaming of a Free Press [film].
Bowe, B.J., Nielsen, C., Kooli, A., Somai, R., Gosen, J. (2021) After the revolution: Tunisian journalism students and a news media in transition. Journalism. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849211018942
Bowe, B. J., Gosen J., & Fahmy S. (2019) Personal choice or political provocation: Examining the visual framing and stereotyping of the burkini debate. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 2019, 96(4), 1076- 1098., https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699019826093
Greer, J. D., & Gosen, J. (2002). How Much Is Too Much? Assessing Levels of Digital Alteration as Factors in Public Perception of Media Credibility. Visual Communication Quarterly, 9(3) 4-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/15551390209363485