Steve Macek

Steve Macek is Professor of Communication and Chair of the Department of Communication and Media Studies at North Central College in Naperville, IL, where teaches courses on media studies, urban studies and the First Amendment. He is the author of Urban Nightmares: The Media, the Right and the Moral Panic over the City (University of Minnesota Press, 2006), a critical analysis of media representations of American cities and the urban poor during the 1980s and 90s.

no. 2, Reviewed, vol. 6April 6, 2021<April 7, 2021

Mobility, race, citizenship and Driving While Black

Steve Macek reviews the PBS documentary Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America and discusses the history of race and mobility in the United States.

no. 2, Roundtables, vol. 1April 9, 2016<January 17, 2017

Whitewashing the Violence of the Local State

In this entry in our Policing & the Media roundtable, Steve Macek reflects on the long history of police violence in Chicago and the media's complicity with that history.

no. 2, Roundtables, vol. 1March 12, 2016<January 17, 2017

Framing a Shooting (and a Movement)

In this entry in our Policing and the Media roundtable, Steve Macek explores the backstory of the Laquan McDonald shooting and the different ways that Chicago media outlets covered the story.