Faculty

Dr. Nickesia Gordon is Assistant Professor of Communication at Barry University. Her current research interest lies in investigating media consolidation and its implications for television programming as well as the influence of globalization on media in the Caribbean. She teaches courses in media programming, media management, and television production. Dr. Gordon earned her doctoral degree in Communication and Culture from Howard University in 2007.
For her doctoral research, Dr. Gordon investigated the implications of television media privatization for programme content in her home country, Jamaica. The study explored the linkages between media globalization, imported content and media imperialism through programme modeling and content homogenization on Jamaican TV. The study also looked at the growth of the cable industry in relation to media globalization, as well as probed the current regulatory framework with regard to its currency in the face of new technological developments. 

Dr. Gordon’s publications in the discipline of Communication include:

• Media and the Politics of Culture: The Case of Television Privatization and Media Globalization in Jamaica (1990-2007). Boca Raton, Universal Publishers. 2008.
• “Orientalism, Exoticism and the Third World, Maintaining the Global Status Quo: Jamaica’s Portrayal on the Hollywood Screen.” In Khebuma Langmia and Juliana da Silva (Eds.) Communication Across Cultures. New York, Cambria Press. Forthcoming, 2008.
• “Invisible Subjects: Exclusion of African Women in Print News Media.” Women Talking Politics: Newsletter of Aotearoa/New Zealand Women and Politics Network, 5, Winter 2006.

Dr. Gordon also holds an undergraduate and master’s degree English literature from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica and Clark University, Massachusetts, respectively. Literature remains a great love and in 2006, Dr. Gordon published an article based on her master’s thesis in the literary journal, Obsidian III, entitled, “On the Couch with Dr. Fraud: Insidious Trauma and Female Friendship in Gayl Jones’ Eva’s Man.”

Dr. Gordon’s professional experience in the media industry spans over eight years in television as a Producer and in print as a Free-lance Writer. She also has abilities to edit using Avid.

Email: ngordon@mail.barry.edu
Tel: 305-899-3464 or (Toll-free: 1-800-756-6000, ext. 3464)
Office: Gar 134