Robin Andersen is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies, as well as Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at Fordham University. She is the author of "A Century of Media, A Century of War" (2006) and "Consumer Culture and TV Programming" (1995), and coeditor of "Critical Studies in Media Commercialism" (2000). She appears frequently as a media analyst for a variety of media outlets and educational documentaries. Andersen is also the series editor for Praeger's New Directions in Media series.