Ph.D., Indiana University, instructional systems technology. Specializes in political communication, campaigns, media design and production, visual literacy, and research and evaluation. Past president of the Media Design and Production Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Also was vice president of the International Visual Literacy Association, and Associate Editor of its annual conference's Selected Readings. Has been on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Instructional Media, TechTrends, and Journal of Visual Literacy. Has published numerous articles on political communication, visual design, posters, sex-role stereotyping, burnout in the workplace, media utilization, music soundtracks, and instructional development, as well as the book, Posters, Propaganda, and Persuasion in Election Campaigns Around the World and Through History (which won the Park Faculty Writing Award in 2010). Dr. Seidman also was honored in 2010 by the International Visual Literacy Association, which gave him its Research Award.

Has developed an online course, Introduction to Political Campaign Communication (STCM 22100), which he taught during Summer Session I in 2011 and will teach again during Summer Session II in 2012. Has also developed another online course, Political Campaign Imagery (STCM 20100), to be taken by students in Ithaca College's New York City Program in Spring 2012 and Communication Campaigns (COMM 53000), a graduate course in communications at Ithaca College during this semester.

You can visit Dr. Seidman's Web site at http://www.ithaca.edu/faculty/seidman/

For his blog, visit: http://www.ithaca.edu/rhp/depts/stratcomm/blogs/posters_and_election_propaganda/

Spring Office Hours: Thursdays, 2:00-3:00 p.m. (Park 274)