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Interview

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Publication Date

2-4-2026

Abstract

Dr. McAnany was born on March 1, 1930. He had an identical twin brother named Patrick and attended a Jesuit boys high school in Kansas City, MO. He later attended the nearby Jesuit college, where he received his BA and joined the Jesuits in August, 1951. He spent 20 years with the Jesuits, leaving in 1970. He studied in St. Louis, MO and learned French in Belgium. He later received his PhD from Stanford. He began working on a research project in El Salvador in 1968, and later began another project in Mexico, both looking at how television can help more students do better. He taught graduate students and conducted research at Stanford until 1978, when he transitioned to the University of Texas at Austin. He remained there until he arrived at SCU in 1997, where he taught in the Media Studies department in the Communication department with a joint appointment in Latin American Studies. He remained department chair for 6 years and focused his research on the social and cultural impacts of various communication technologies in third world countries. He had many publications and has collaborated with the Center for Science Technology and Society at SCU in judging the Technology Benefitting Humanity Awards at the Tech Museum in San Jose, CA from 2000 to present.

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Interviewer: Karis Huh - Gerontology minor

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