Shana Heinricy, the Media Literacy Project’s communications and marketing director recently published a chapter in an award-winning book, Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication: Internatural Communication, edited by Emily Plec.
Shana’s research and chapter on the representations of animals in animation on television helped win the highest honor available for environmental communication, the Christine L. Oravec Research Award in Enviornmental Communication. The award is given by the Environmental Commmunication Division of the National Communication Association. Shana’s chapter is entitled “Absorbent and Yellow and Porous is He: Animated Animal Bodies in Spongebob Squarepants.”
