Prof. Toby A. Ten Eyck

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Michigan State University
College of Social Science
Sociology
Associate ProfessorAppointed: 1999

Mailing Address

316 Berkey Hall
Department of Sociology
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (517) 353-8671
Fax: (517) 432-2856
teneyck@msu.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., Louisiana State University, Sociology, 1998.
M.S., Portland State University, Sociology, 1994.
B.S., Southern Illinois University, Vocational Education Studies, 1992.

Expertise and Research Interests

My current research is concerned with investigating the role of the arts in social change and economic vitality. I have been working in smaller art markets to study the dynamics of art in these areas. I continue to use a risk communication framework as a theoretical/conceptual background.

Other Expertise

Social Psychology
Popular Culture
Science and Technology

Future Research

Art and art movements

Industrial Relevance

Consumer decisions

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Communications, Culture, Food Safety, Irradiation, Mass Media, Sociology, Technology.

Additional Terms:

Communication, Culture, Food Irradiation, Food Safety, Mass Media, Risk, Sociology, Technology.

Memberships

American Sociological Association

Honors and Awards

2000-2000, Journal of Applied Communications' Best Written Article for 2000, Agricultural Communicators in Education, Food Safety

Previous Positions

1999, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, College of Social Science, Sociology
1998-1999, Instructor, Louisiana State University

Funding Received

  • Institute for Public Policy and Social Research: Michigan as Destination: A survey from the Inside, $20,000, 2008 to 2009.
  • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA): A Risk-Based Approach to Determine Best Consumed by Dates to Control Exposure to Listeria Monocytogenes in Delicatessen, $599,999, 2005 to 2007.
  • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA): Designing Effective Risk Communication Messages Based on Microbial Risk Assessment Outcomes, $590,980, 2001 to 2003.
  • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA): Apple Juice and HACCP: Hazard Surveillance, Training, and Perceptions, $299,638, 2001 to 2003.
  • National Science Foundation (NSF): Biotechnology - A U.S. Perspective, $99,128, 2001 to 2002.

Publications

  • Josh Woods, Toby A. Ten Eyck, Stan Kaplowitz, Vladimir Shlapetokh (2008) Primary Terrorist Targets: How close is too close, Human Ecology Review, 15 (1), 63-70
  • Toby A. Ten Eyck (2008) "Public Opinion and Obesity: A different look at a modern-day epidemic, Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence, Westport, CT, Praeger, 183-197 pages (bookchapter)
  • Bobe G, Thede DJ, Ten Eyck TA, Bourquini LD (May 2007) Microbial levels in Michigan apple cider and their association with manufacturing practices., Journal of food protection, 70 (5), 1187-93 Abstract
  • Toby A. Ten Eyck (2007) Communication Streams and Nanotechnology: The (re)interpretation of a new technology, Nanotechnology: Societal implications II, First Edition, The Netherlands, Springer, 280-282 pages (bookchapter)
  • Alan Rudy, Toby A. Ten Eyck (2006) Institutional and/vs. Commercial Media Coverage: Representations of the University of California, Berkeley - Novartis agreement, Public Understanding of Science, 15 (3), 343-358
  • Kaplowitz, Stan, Ten Eyck, Toby A., Attitudes of the Food Industry Towards Safety Regulations: Descriptive statistics and some major predictors, Human Ecology Review, 13, 11-22, 2006
  • Ten Eyck, Toby A., Donna Thede, Gerd Bode, Leslie Bourquin, Is HACCP Nothing? a Disjoint Constitution Between Inspectors, Processors, and Consumers in the Cider Industry in Michigan, Agriculture and Human Values, 23, 205-214, 2006
  • Rudy, Alan, Coppin, Dawn, Konefal, Jason, Shaw, Bradley, Ten Eyck, Toby A., Harris, Craig, Busch, Lawrence (2007) Universities in the Age of Corporate Science, Philadelphia, PA, Temple University Press
  • Toby A. Ten Eyck (2006) Towards a Global Pop Culture of Genes? Competing voices, contrasting frames in North America, Genomics and Society, First Edition, London, Earthscan, 297-326 pages (bookchapter)
  • Toby A. Ten Eyck (2005) The Media and Public Opinion on Genetics and Biotechnology: Mirrors, windows, or walls?, Public Understanding of Science, 14 (3), 305-316
  • Ten Eyck, Toby, The Media and Public Opinion on Genetics and Biotechnology: Mirrors, Windows, Or Walls, Public Understanding of Science, 14, 305-316, 2005
  • Gaskell, George, Toby A. Ten Eyck, Jonat, “Imagining Nanotechnology: Cultural Support for Technological Innovation in Europe and the United States, Public Understanding of Science, 14(1), 81-90, 2005
  • Legitimation Crisis: Food Safety and Genetically Modified Organisms, First, University of British Columbia Press, 51-69, 2005, ISBN=0-7748-1133-1
  • Vanderpool, Christopher K., Toby A. Ten, Legitimation Crisis: Food Safety and Genetically Modified Organisms, First, University of British Columbia Press, 51-69, 2005, ISBN=0-774-81133-1
  • Ten Eyck, Toby A., Forrest A. Deseran, Oyster Coverage: Chiastic News As a Reflection of Local Expertise and Economic Concerns, Sociological Research Online, 9(4), Nov 2004
  • Gaskell G, Ten Eyck T, Jackson J, Veltri G (Aug 2004) Public attitudes to nanotechnology in Europe and the United States., Nature materials, 3 (8), 496 Abstract
  • Ten Eyck, Toby A., George Gaskell, and J, Seeds, Food, and Trade Wars: Public Opinion and Policy Responses in the US and Europe, Journal of Commercial Food Biotechnology, 10(3), 258-267, March 2004
  • Ten Eyck, Toby A. and Melissa A Williment, The More Things Change...: Milk pasteurization, food irradiation, and biotechnology in the New York Times, The Social Science Journal, 41(1), 29-41, January 2004
  • Harris, Kerri L., Bradley P. Marks, Toby, Line-Level Training Needs Related to Commercial Production of Fully-Cooked Meat and Poultry Products, Food Protection Trends, 24, 946-952, 2004
  • Priest, Susanna Hornig and Toby A. Ten E, Transborder Information, Local Resistance, and the Spiral of Silence: Biotechnology and Public Opinion in the United States, First, Erlbaum, 175-196, 2004, ISBN=0-805-84304-3
  • Ten Eyck, Toby A. and Melissa A Williment, The National Media and Things Genetic: Coverage in the New York Times (1971-2000) and Washington Post (1977-2000), Science Communication, 25(2), 129-152, December 2003
  • Priest, Susanna and Toby A. Ten Eyck, News Coverage of Biotechnology Debates, Society, 40(6), 29-34, October 2003
  • Ten Eyck, Toby A., 'Food Irradiation in the News: The cultural clash of a postharvest technology', Agriculture and Human Values, 19(1), 53-61, 2002
  • Ten Eyck, Toby A. and Forrest A. Deseran, 'In the Words of Experts: The interpretive process of the food irradiation debate.', International Journal of Food Science and Technology, 36, 821-831, December 2001
  • Toby A. Ten Eyck, Situating Food: Economic and Cultural Aspects of Cajun Foodways, Rural Sociology, 66(2), 227-243, June 2001
  • Toby A. Ten Eyck, Does Information Matter? A Research Note on Information Technologies and Political Protest, Social Science Journal, 38(1), 147-160, February 2001
  • Toby A. Ten Eyck, 'Does Information Matter? a Research Note on Information Technologies and Poitical Protest.', Social Science Journal, 38, 147-160, 2001
  • Toby A. Ten Eyck, The Marginalization of Food Safety Issues: An interpretative approach to popular mass media coverage, Journal of Applied Communication, 84(2), 29-47, 2000
  • Toby A. Ten Eyck, Interpersonal and Mass Communication: Matters of trust and control, Current Research in Social Psychology, 5, 206-224, 2000
  • Toby A. Ten Eyck, 'Shaping a Food Safety Debate: Control Efforts of Reporters and Sources in the Food Irradiation Controversy', Science Communication, 20(4), 429-447, 1999
  • Toby A. Ten Eyck, The Future of Food Irradiation, Journal of Future Studies, 2, 13-32, 1997
  • Rudy, Alan, Ten Eyck, Toby A, Institutional and/vs. Commercial Media Coverage: Representations of the University of California, Berkeley - Novartis agreement, Public Understanding of Science, 15, In Press
  • Toby A. Ten Eyck, 'Processing Information: Interpersonal and Mass Mediated Communication and the Modern Self.', Current research in Social Psycology, 3, 35-47

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