Scholarship, activism and journalism, and cultural works
SCHOLARLY works
Owens, J. E., (in press). Settler Policing at the Foundations of Racial Capitalism: Communication Studies of Colonial Police Work, Communication, Culture & Critique. DOI: 10.1093/ccc/tcag011
Owens, J. E. (2023). Race-Making and Land-Taking: Uncovering Policing in the Constitution of Racial Capitalism and Settler Colonialism, Doctoral Dissertation, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Owens, J.E. (2013). Occupy’s Precarious Pluralism: A Study of the Purposes, Identities and Politics Enabled by the NYC Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street Tech Ops Working Group. https://archive.org/details/ows_-_occupys_precarious_pluralism_report_final
Barnhurst, Kevin. G., Owens, J. E. (2008, 2012). Journalism, The International Encyclopedia of Communication.
Full-text: https://files.jamesearlowensphd.com/2008-Barnhurst-Owens-Journalism.pdf
Owens, J. E. (2008). Who Produces the Means of Democracy?: Internet, Deliberative Journalism, and Social Order, Masters Thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago.
JOURNALISM and ACTIVISM
Producer and Researcher, “NYC Schools Labeled as Dropout Factories Fight to Raise Graduation Rates,” PBS NewsHour Online, PBS and People’s Production House, August, 2011. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/nyc-schools-labeled-as-drop-out-factories-fight-to-raise-graduation-rates
Owens, J. E., Sanders, Scott, (2010, March 16). Control of Public Media as a Social Justice Issue, Truthout. https://truthout.org/articles/control-of-public-media-as-a-social-justice-issue/
Owens, J. E., Sanders, Scott, (2010). A Skeptical View of Net Neutrality, Editor & Publisher.
Owens, J. E. (2010, June). The Battle to Control Media Systems: Professionalism Versus Participation, Huffington Post. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-battle-to-control-med_b_648181
Owens, J. E., Sanders, Scott (2004, Sept). News for the White and Wealthy, Extra! The News Magazine of FAIR. https://fair.org/extra-issues/extra-september-october-2004/
Owens, J. E. (2004). Chicago Tonight: Elites, Affluence, and Advertising A report by Chicago Media Action, Chicago Media Action. https://www.chicagomediaaction.org/pdffiles/CMA_WTTW.pdf
Owens, J. E. (1999, Aug.) “CIA and Pro-War Sources Dominate Chicago Print Coverage of Kosovo War,” Chicago Media Watch.
Owens, J. E. (1999, May) “Mumia Abu-Jamal: The ABC Hatchet Job,” Covert Action Quarterly. https://archive.org/details/caq-67-spring-summer-1999
Owens, J. E. (1998). Contributing Video Producer, Broadsides with Sherman Skolnick, Chicago Cable Access Network.
CULTURAL PRODUCTION
Playwright, Director, Performer, Regarding Your Perfect Correlate, premiered at Rhinoceros Theater Festival, Chicago, 2009
Playwright, Director, Defender, premiered at Rhinoceros Theater Festival, Chicago, 2007
Playwright, Performer, A Dangerous Ornithology, premiered at Rhinoceros Theater Festival, Chicago, 2006
Performer, Composer, Mocktet, Musical Group, Chicago, 1995-97
Head Recording Engineer, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, 1994-97
Digital Media Producer, Assistant Recording Engineer, Prairie Sun Studios, Cotati, California, 1992-94
Recording Engineer, This American Life, National Public Radio, November, 1995. Season 1 Episode 1, “New Beginnings.”
Performer, Composer, Hall Russel’s NRG3, Musical Group, Chicago, 1989-91
Performer, Composer, Out of Order, Musical Group, Chicago, 1985-87. (Album Paradise Lost available on Spotify).