Natalia Mielczarek

• Visual communication
• Iconic images
• Digital participatory culture & viral content

• PhD, University of Iowa
• MA, Missouri School of Journalism
• BA, Vanderbilt University 

• Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
• International Communication Association

Books

Mielczarek, N. (2016). A useable soccer martyr: The Egyptian ultras and their fight for legitimacy. In M. Sheffer and B. Schultz (Eds.), Sport and religion in the 21st century. New York, NY: Rowan and Littlefield, pp. 95-109.

Journal Articles

Eko, L., & Mielczarek, N. (2015) When memory ‘sees signs’ and ‘plays games’: An analysis of two sports shoe controversies, Visual Communication Quarterly, 22(3), 160-173.

Mielczarek, N., & Perlmutter, D. (2014). Big pictures and visual propaganda: The lessons of research on the ‘effects’ of photojournalistic icons. In C. Winkler and C. Dauber (Eds.), Visual propaganda and extremism in the online environment. Carlisle, PA: United States Army War College Press, 215-233.

Mielczarek, N. (2013). The 2011 World Press Photo: A study of a modern-day Hagar in Yemen through the prism of collective memory in Islam.” Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research, 6(2&3), 217-232.