Mary Angela Bock

Mary Angela Bock is an associate professor in the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism. She is a former journalist with an interest in photographic practice, the relationship between words and images, and digital media. She is particularly concerned with matters of truth and authenticity in the process of image production. Her work can be found in the Journal of Communication, Visual Communication Quarterly, and other publications. Her latest book, Seeing Justice: Witnessing, Crime, and Punishment (Oxford, 2021) theorizes the relationship between media and the state in the production of visual representations of crime, the courts, and justice.

Seeing Justice won the Diane S. Hope Book of the Year award from the National Communication Association's Visual Communication Division.

Bock also co-authored Visual Communication Theory and Research (Palgrave, 2014) with Shahira Fahmy and Wayne Wanta. Her 2012 book, Video Journalism: Beyond the One-Man Band studied the relationship between solo multi-media practice and news narrative