Biography

James Angelini, Ph.D., is an associate chair and associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Delaware. His research focuses on the cognitive and emotional responses a viewer experiences while viewing televised sports. His doctoral research examines an individual’s viewing choices, when faced with sports broadcasts featuring male or female athletes as well as masculine or feminine sports, and their physiological responses to these broadcasts. Other research has included studying an individual’s cognitive processing of advertising, an investigation in the differences within the commentary of sporting events based upon the sex, race, and nationality of the athletes competing, and an examination of the amount of food advertising on television that is targeted toward children and teens. 

Awards

Outstanding Service Award, 2020, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Delaware​​

Courses Regularly Taught

COMM206: Sex Violence and the Media

COMM370: Theories of Mass Communication

COMM418: Topics in Mass Commuication (Topic: Sports and the Media)​

COMM423: Communication, Advertising, and the Consumer

COMM603: Communication Research Methods - Procedures