Adrienne Russell
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Adrienne Russell is an associate professor of Digital Media Studies at the University of Denver
and co-director of the Institute for Digital Humanities. She has written mainly on the digital-age evolution of activist communication and journalism. Her most recent book, Networked: A Contemporary History of News in Transition, was published by Polity Press in 2011.
, Bloomington, in 2001, an M.S. in Media Studies from Stanford University
in 2005, and a B.A. in World Literature and Cultural Studies from University of California
, Santa Cruz] in 1993. She was a professor in the Department of Global Communication at the American University of Paris
from 2003–2005 and before that she was a Research Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California.
, which examines the ways that social and cultural shifts created by emergent technologies have transformed our relationships to place, culture, politics, and infrastructure. She co-edited with Nabil Echchaibi the book International Blogging: Identity, Politics and Networked Publics (Peter Lang 2009), which calls into question many assumptions about blogging and addresses the western-focus that characterizes much new-media research. Most recently she wrote Networked: A Contemporary History of News in Transition (Polity 2011), an examination of the transformation that has taken place in journalism since the mid-nineties, the conditions that brought it about, and the characteristics that have shaped it and will shape its future. Drawing on personal interviews with journalists and analysts at the center of the shift, the book examines innovative and revealing digital news projects, and underlines larger cultural changes that reflect the new news reality.
Russell is a member of the Media Climate research team, a group of scholars from eighteen countries who are documenting and analyzing national news coverage from countries around the world related to global warming and the annual UN Climate Change Summit. The research thus far has been published in the book Reading the Environment: An International Analysis of Press Discourses on the Climate Crisis (Nordicom 2010), edited by Risto Kunelius and Elisabeth Eide, about coverage of the 2009 Copenhagen Climate summit. A forthcoming followup book is in the works and will include research on the Cancun (2010) and Durban (2011) South Africa summits.
University of Denver
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and co-director of the Institute for Digital Humanities. She has written mainly on the digital-age evolution of activist communication and journalism. Her most recent book, Networked: A Contemporary History of News in Transition, was published by Polity Press in 2011.
Biography
Russell received a Ph.D. in Journalism and Mass Communication from Indiana UniversityIndiana University
Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...
, Bloomington, in 2001, an M.S. in Media Studies from Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
in 2005, and a B.A. in World Literature and Cultural Studies from University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
, Santa Cruz] in 1993. She was a professor in the Department of Global Communication at the American University of Paris
American University of Paris
The American University of Paris is a private, independent, and accredited liberal arts and sciences university in Paris, France. Founded in 1962, the university is one of the oldest American institutions of higher education in Europe...
from 2003–2005 and before that she was a Research Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California.
Works
Russell's research centers on the changing relationship between the media and public culture in the digital era. She was one of the author's of Networked Publics (MIT 2008), edited by Kazys VarnelisKazys Varnelis (historian)
Kazys Varnelis is a historian and theorist of architecture, specialising in network culture. He is Director of the Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and a founding member of conceptual architecture practice .- Family and...
, which examines the ways that social and cultural shifts created by emergent technologies have transformed our relationships to place, culture, politics, and infrastructure. She co-edited with Nabil Echchaibi the book International Blogging: Identity, Politics and Networked Publics (Peter Lang 2009), which calls into question many assumptions about blogging and addresses the western-focus that characterizes much new-media research. Most recently she wrote Networked: A Contemporary History of News in Transition (Polity 2011), an examination of the transformation that has taken place in journalism since the mid-nineties, the conditions that brought it about, and the characteristics that have shaped it and will shape its future. Drawing on personal interviews with journalists and analysts at the center of the shift, the book examines innovative and revealing digital news projects, and underlines larger cultural changes that reflect the new news reality.
Russell is a member of the Media Climate research team, a group of scholars from eighteen countries who are documenting and analyzing national news coverage from countries around the world related to global warming and the annual UN Climate Change Summit. The research thus far has been published in the book Reading the Environment: An International Analysis of Press Discourses on the Climate Crisis (Nordicom 2010), edited by Risto Kunelius and Elisabeth Eide, about coverage of the 2009 Copenhagen Climate summit. A forthcoming followup book is in the works and will include research on the Cancun (2010) and Durban (2011) South Africa summits.
External links
- Personal website http://adrienne.typepad.com/
- Faculty website http://dms.du.edu/faculty.html
- Times Higher Education review of Networked http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=417422&c=1
- The Guardian review of Networked http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/22/non-fiction-books-review
- Digital Media Studies Program at University of Denver http://dms.du.edu/
- Institute for Digital Humanities http://idhdu.com/
- Networked: A Contemporary History of News in Transition http://politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=9780745649511
- Journalism and Mass Communication of Indiana University http://journalism.indiana.edu/
- Media Studies of Stanford University http://comm.stanford.edu/
- Department of Literature at UC Santa Cruz http://literature.ucsc.edu/about/index.html
- Department of Global Communication at the American University of Paris http://www.aup.edu/main/academics/departments/intcom/
- Networked Publics http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11653
- Nabil Echchaibi http://nabilechchaibi.com/
- International Blogging: Identity, Politics, and Networked Publics http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=53758&concordeid=310233
- Article in The University of Denver Clarion http://www.duclarion.com/2.971/professor-reveals-global-blog-trends-1.45529#.TotWhv6VrUA