Kenneth R Roth

California State University, Dominguez Hills, Digital Media Arts, Adjunct

University of Southern California, Rossier School of Education, Adjunct

University of California, Los Angeles, Higher Education and Organizational Change, Alumnus

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My career has paralleled the adoption of digital technologies worldwide, and I have been involved in the use, training, and promotion of new tools. I've played roles in the digital transformation of newspaper, broadcast, and new media operations, in addition to training next generation users at the secondary, junior college and university levels.

After some experience teaching, I returned to school to study education structures and how to innovate pedagogical practices using technology, as well as to examine what barriers exist for its use in higher education. My research also looks at media representations and the messages they convey to Students of Color about higher education and the likelihood of their success there. I've also examined how the "place" and "space" from which news is told can impact its believability and legitimacy.

In addition to how media operates, I've examined the value and the organizational need for diversity in schools and workplaces, and examined organizational practices and structures that can impede diversity and its benefits. This has resulted in the examination of organizational structures, the utilization and implications of technology, and the mix of staff, faculty and managers needed to teach and innovate along the ever-changing curve of technical applications and innovations.

Along the way, I have led the development and administration of multi-county emergency food networks in rural areas, departments within business and academic structures, and ground-up community initiatives. My experience as a journalist, media producer, and community organizer has driven my success in promoting, developing and sustaining more than two dozen programs and business initiatives..

My areas of expertise include: Organizational Development; Organizational Change Communication; Organizational Administration; Strategic Planning; Non-profit Development and Management; Enterprise-wide Learning and Training; Program and Project Design, Management and Evaluation; Technology Integration; Team Leadership and Vision Evangelism; Qualitative and Mixed Methodology Research and Instruction; Online/Hybrid Curriculum Development; Career Technical Education; Short- and Long- Form Journalism; Press Advance and Advocacy for State and National Elections; Broadcast, Online, Interactive, Streaming/Terrestrial Radio Production; Online Marketing Campaign Development and Analytics; Studio and Remote Transmission Infrastructure Design and Implementation.
Phone: 310.560.8104
Address: 5042 Wilshire Blvd. #331
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Channeling Race

Accessibility and Diversity in Education, 2020

The late Stuart Hall argued depictions of race in media most appropriately should be examined as ... more The late Stuart Hall argued depictions of race in media most appropriately should be examined as ideology, since a main sphere of media operation is the production and transformation of ideologies. These ideologies are not isolated concepts but articulations of a variety of cultural signifiers into a chain of meanings that are often presented as statements of nature. Such meanings can produce troubling outcomes on U.S. college campuses when arriving international students' first and often only exposure to race in America is the nation's continued struggle with equality as portrayed in exported film and news spectacles portraying blackness as a social threat. This chapter examines how media representations can flavor cross-cultural interactions, and the implications these interactions may have for campus climate, diversity initiatives, and the increasingly multicultural and globalized work place.

Racial Spectacle and Campus Climate

Advances in religious and cultural studies (ARCS) book series, 2016

Media spectacle has become an important way countries, culture, and commerce is expressed in the ... more Media spectacle has become an important way countries, culture, and commerce is expressed in the global marketplace. Media spectacle is a combination of power and capital and in its final form produces ideology. The U.S. is the global leader in the production and distribution of media, accounting for one-third of more than $90 billion annually in worldwide film distribution alone. U.S. media representations can be distinctive due to their racial dialogue and International college students with little exposure to the U.S. outside of media depictions arrive in America with perceptions that may be detrimental to campus climate. Supported by two independent qualitative studies, this chapter interrogates implications media representations may have for cross-cultural interactions. We identify ways U.S. colleges and universities are addressing campus climate issues, and how these efforts may not be enough. We call for increased diversity training across curricula to promote greater tolerance.

Channeling Race

Advances in religious and cultural studies (ARCS) book series, 2016

Realizing Race

IGI Global eBooks, May 30, 2014

Media representations are for most of us a window on the world. We hear, see, or otherwise experi... more Media representations are for most of us a window on the world. We hear, see, or otherwise experience forms of culture through mass distributed imagery, music, news, fashion, and film, among other media. The U.S. is the global leader in the distribution of media, accounting for one-third of more than $30 billion annually in worldwide film distribution alone. Media representations from the U.S. are distinctive and carry signs of the country's long struggle with race and equality. International college students with little exposure to the U.S. outside of its depiction in exported media come here with racial perceptions that can be detrimental to their own and the college experiences of others, namely African American men. Girded by two qualitative studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, this chapter examines how media representations can flavor cross-cultural interactions, and what implications these interactions may have for campus climate, as well as cross-cultural learning opportunities for both international and underrepresented domestic student groups.

A Center for Sight and Sound: Connecting Media Representations to Critical Production Training

Springer eBooks, Dec 8, 2022

International Students Need Not Apply: Impact of US Immigration Policy in the Trump Era on International Student Enrollment and Campus Experiences

Palgrave Studies in Race, Inequality and Social Justice in Education, 2020

This edited volume connects the origins of US higher education during the Colonial Era with curre... more This edited volume connects the origins of US higher education during the Colonial Era with current systemic characteristics that maintain white supremacist structures and devalue students and faculty of color, as well as areas of study that interrogate Whiteness. The authors examine power structures within the academy that scaffold Whiteness and promote inequality at all levels by maintaining a two-tier faculty system and a dearth of Faculty and Administrators of Color. Finally, contributors offer systemic and collective solutions toward a more equitable redistribution of power, primarily among faculty and administration, through which other inequities may be identified and more easily addressed.

Racial Spectacle and Campus Climate

Handbook of Research on Race, Gender, and the Fight for Equality

Tech-Centric Classrooms: A Discussion of Policy, Costs, and Access

Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research, Policy and Praxis, 2015

Abstract As demand for access to colleges and universities prompts higher education systems for c... more Abstract As demand for access to colleges and universities prompts higher education systems for creative and efficient solutions, we examine technology-centric approaches to education delivery and their implications for policy, student outcomes, and resource allocation. Our work is framed by Kingdon’s adapted multiple streams theory of national policymaking. However, the real elephant in the room may be the skyrocketing costs of administration that may need wrangling before resources can be directed to the future potential savings obtained through developing infrastructure for, and delivery of, tech-centric teaching approaches. We provide examples and strategies, policy implications, and recommendations for research and practice.

Introduction: A Special Note on the Heightened Effects of Urban Marginality in the Trump Era

Marginality in the Urban Center, 2019

This book examines the increasing marginalization of and response by people living in urban areas... more This book examines the increasing marginalization of and response by people living in urban areas throughout the Western Hemisphere, and both the local and global implications of continued colonial racial hierarchies and the often-dire consequences they have for people perceived as different. However, in the aftermath of recent U.S. elections, whiteness also seems to embody strictures on religion, ethnicity, country of origin, and almost any other personal characteristic deemed suspect at the moment. For that reason, gender, race, and even class, collectively, may not be sufficient units of analysis to study the marginalizing mechanisms of the urban center. The authors interrogate the social and institutional structures that facilitate the disenfranchisement or downward trajectory of groups, and their potential or subsequent lack of access to mainstream rewards. The book also seeks to highlight examples where marginalized groups have found ways to assert their equality. No recent texts have attempted to connect the mechanisms of marginality across geographical and political boundaries within the Western Hemisphere.

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