About me
Jonathon Lundy is a versatile communication and media studies scholar and teacher, whose primary research agenda thus far has been to illustrate how media provides us with the symbolic and material resources for cultural production, identity development, and social connection.
He recently (2021) graduated from the Communication, Culture, and Media doctoral program at Drexel University. His mixed methods dissertation project explored vintage toy collection by adults as a facet of generational identity construction and an expression of material-media fandom. The findings showed a clear relationship between the toyetic transmedia systems (cartoons, comic books, films), which emerged in the 1980s specifically to sell toys, and the nostalgic desire to collect toys for Gen Xers and Millennials.
Born and raised in Idaho, he also holds a Master of Arts in Communication (2010), a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication & Journalism, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Boise State University (2005).
He recently (2021) graduated from the Communication, Culture, and Media doctoral program at Drexel University. His mixed methods dissertation project explored vintage toy collection by adults as a facet of generational identity construction and an expression of material-media fandom. The findings showed a clear relationship between the toyetic transmedia systems (cartoons, comic books, films), which emerged in the 1980s specifically to sell toys, and the nostalgic desire to collect toys for Gen Xers and Millennials.
Born and raised in Idaho, he also holds a Master of Arts in Communication (2010), a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication & Journalism, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Boise State University (2005).
