In the discipline of communication, Dr. Chesebro has specialized in the study of media as symbolic and cognitive systems. Since 1966, he has maintained a sustained focus on dramatistic theory, methods, and criticism with specific applications to television and computer-mediated communication. Since 1981, this orientation has been extended to all media systems, with conceptual attention devoted to media literacy and media technologies as communication and cognitive systems, a perspective reflected in both his teaching and research.

Accomplishments

• Ranked as one of the most "active scholars" and "in the top 1%" of the "most prolific scholars" in the discipline of communication.
• Ranked 40th of the 15,228 authors listed in the Index to Journals in Communication Studies. 
• In 1980, he founded, with Joseph Ferri, the Speech Communication Association of Puerto Rico.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in speech-communication, University of Minnesota
• Master's degree in speech-communication, Illinois State University
• Doctorate in speech-communication, University of Minnesota