Adrienne Russell | |
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| Born | February 24, 1971 |
| Nationality | American |
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| Discipline | Communication |
Adrienne Russell is an American academic whose work focuses on the digital-age evolution of journalism and activist communication. She is currently Mary Laird Wood Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington and co-director with Matt Powers of the department's Center for Journalism,Media and Democracy.
Russell earned a BA in World Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of California,Santa Cruz in 1993,an MS in Media Studies from Stanford University in 1995,and a PhD in Journalism and Mass Communication from Indiana University,Bloomington in 2001. [1] Following her PhD,Russell served as an assistant professor in the Department of Global Communication at the American University of Paris (2003 —2005). She was a research fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California from 2005 until 2007. She then moved to the University of Denver,where she had a joint appointment in Emergent Digital Practices and in the Media,Film,and Journalism department. She then moved to the University of Washington,where she is Mary Laird Wood Professor of Communication. [1] [ better source needed ]
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Russell's research [2] centers on the digital-era evolving relationship between media and public culture. In her early work, she explored activist communication in relation to journalism, mapping the terrain of the expanding networked information-media landscape and investigating related shifting journalism norms and practices. In recent work, she presents environmental journalism as a rich site of innovation and chronicles the way reporters covering the environment have long worked a space rife with misinformation. Russell argues that the climate and information crises today are most productively viewed as inextricable parts of a single larger crisis in public communication and culture—that criticism of journalism for failing to convey persuasively the urgency of the climate crisis misses half the story.
Russell's 2016 book, Journalism as Activism: Recoding Media Power, seeks to update thinking about communication and politics in the mediated era. The book centers on an emerging vanguard of activists and journalists remaking communication tools and genres to better cover contemporary networked life.[ citation needed ]
Russell is a member of Media Climate, an international group of scholars conducting ongoing comparative research on news coverage of climate change. [3] [ non-primary source needed ]
She participated in a transnational research project on coverage of information on the US National Security Agency snooping programs leaked by Edward Snowden. The research results are detailed in the book Journalism and the NSA Revelations: Privacy, Security and the Press (Reuters Institute/I.B. Tauris book series 2016), which she co-edited with Risto Kunelius, Heikki Heikkila, and Dimitri Jagodin.
Russell's first book, Networked: A Contemporary History of News in Transition, examined the transformation of journalism since the mid-1990s.[ citation needed ]
Russell has edited special editions of the journals New Media and Society (2005) and Journalism: Theory, Criticism, Practice (2011). She was co-author of the book Networked Publics (MIT 2008), which examines the ways social and cultural shifts fostered by emergent technologies have transformed relationships with place, culture, politics and infrastructure. She co-edited with Nabil Echchaibi the book International Blogging: Identity, Politics and Networked Publics (Peter Lang 2009), which addresses the western-focus that has characterized much new-media research. In the introduction, she wrote that the book was "part of a larger effort in media studies to address the parochialism of much contemporary scholarship by considering media practices and products developed around the world," and that, "The proliferation of new forms and the rise of the audience as a major participant [highlights] the absurdity of theory elaboration based on isolated Western case studies." [4]
Youth activism is the participation in community organizing for social change by persons between the ages of 15–24. Youth activism has led to a shift in political participation and activism. A notable shift within youth activism is the rise of “Alter-Activism” resulting in an emphasis on lived experiences and connectivity amongst young activists. The young activists have taken lead roles in public protest and advocacy around many issues like climate change, abortion rights and gun violence. Different from past protest or advocacy, technology has become the backbone to many of these modern youth movements. It has been shown in multiple studies that internet use along with seeking information online is shown to have positive impacts on political engagement. Popular applications like Twitter, Instagram and YouTube have become the newest tools for young activists in the 21st century. Technology and the use of digital media has changed the way youth participate in activism globally, and youth are more active in media than older generations.
Ruth Vanita is an Indian academic, activist and author who specialises in British and Indian literary history with a focus on gender and sexuality studies. She also teaches and writes on Hindu philosophy.
Environmental communication is "the dissemination of information and the implementation of communication practices that are related to the environment. In the beginning, environmental communication was a narrow area of communication; however, nowadays, it is a broad field that includes research and practices regarding how different actors interact with regard to topics related to the environment and how cultural products influence society toward environmental issues".
Alexander Halavais is an Associate Professor and Graduate Director of the Social Data Science master's program at Arizona State University, a social media researcher and former President of the Association of Internet Researchers. Before joining the faculty at Arizona State University, Halavais taught in the Interactive Media program at Quinnipiac University, the School of Informatics at the University at Buffalo and at the University of Washington.
The School of Communication and Information (SC&I) is a professional school within the New Brunswick Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The school was created in 1982 as a result of a merger between the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, the School of Communication Studies, and the Livingston Department of Urban Journalism. The school has about 2,500 students at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels, and about 60 full-time faculty.
Lynn Schofield Clark, Ph.D., is a media critic and scholar whose research focuses on media studies and film studies. She is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Media, Film, and Journalism Studies at the University of Denver. She is a prize-winning author of several books and articles on the role social and visual media play in the lives of diverse U.S. adolescents. In her 2017 book co-authored with Regina Marchi, Young People and the Future of News, Clark and Marchi utilize an ethnographic approach to tell the stories of how young people engage with social media and legacy media both as producers and consumers of news. The book received the 2018 Nancy Baym Book Award from the Association of Internet Researchers and the 2018 James Carey Media Research Award from the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research Clark's book regarding parenting in the digital age is titled The Parent App: Understanding Families in a Digital Age. Clark’s main contributions are in the areas of family media studies, media rich youth participatory action research and the mediatization (media) of world religions.
Mitzi Waltz is a scholar of media and disability studies. As of 2020, she is a research associate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good. Forms of activism range from mandate building in a community, petitioning elected officials, running or contributing to a political campaign, preferential patronage of businesses, and demonstrative forms of activism like rallies, street marches, strikes, sit-ins, or hunger strikes.
J. Shawn Landres is a social entrepreneur and independent scholar, and local civic leader, known for applied research related to charitable giving and faith-based social innovation and community development, as well as for innovation in government and civic engagement.
Chunyang Hu is a professor at the Fudan University in China. She is nationally known for her research and writing on interpersonal communication, discourse analysis applied in communication.
Deciding What's True: The Rise of Political Fact-checking in American Journalism is a 2016 book by Lucas Graves about the role of fact-checking in journalism.
Adrienne Maree Brown, often styled adrienne maree brown, is a writer, activist and facilitator. From 2006 to 2010, she was executive director of the Ruckus Society. She also co-founded and directed the United States League of Young Voters.
Monica Balya Chibita is a Ugandan media professional, academic and academic administrator. She is a professor in the Faculty of Journalism, Media and Communication at Uganda Christian University.
Maria Fleming Tymoczko is a scholar of comparative literature who has written about translation, medieval Celtic literature, and modern Irish literature including the works of James Joyce. She is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the former president of the Celtic Studies Association of North America. She is known for her calls for a more international and multicultural perspective on translation.
Professor Alana Mann is a food activist and interdisciplinary scholar researching the power relations between media, governments, institutions and citizens, in the field of food politics. She is co-founder of FoodLab Sydney, a business incubator to address issues around local food insecurity, based on the model pioneered by FoodLab Detroit. Mann is Professor and Head of Discipline (Media) at the University of Tasmania. She led the Department of Media and Communications at University of Sydney and was a key researcher in the Sydney Environment Institute; the Charles Perkins Centre and Sydney Democracy Network; and in 2018 was a visiting scholar at both Harvard's Food Law and Policy Clinic and the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University. She is author of Food in a Changing Climate (2021), Voice and Participation in Global Food Politics (2019) & Global Activism in Food Politics: Power Shift (2014).
Guobin Yang is the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication and Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, Director of the Center on Digital Culture and Society, and deputy director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China. Yang received his first PhD from Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1993 and his second PhD in sociology from New York University in 2000. His other former positions include being an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and as an associate professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College of Columbia University.
Candis Callison is a Canadian environmental journalist and academic of journalism, who works as an associate professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC), affiliated both with the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at UBC.
Eva Haifa Giraud is a cultural and critical theorist and a scholar of media studies and feminist science studies whose work concerns activism and non-anthropocentric theory. She is presently a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield. Her 2019 monograph What Comes After Entanglement? Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of Exclusion was published by Duke University Press; her second sole-authored book, Veganism: Politics, Practice and Theory, was published in 2021 by Bloomsbury.
Jane Qiu is an independent science journalist based in Beijing, primarily focusing on geoscience and the environment.
Rosebell Kagumire is a Ugandan journalist and communications professional, educated at Makerere University and the Harvard Kennedy School. She also holds a Master of Arts in Media, Peace and Conflict Studies from the United Nations-mandated University for Peace. Kagumire has worked for several news outlets, including Daily Monitor, Uganda Radio Network, and NTV Uganda, in capacities ranging from reporter to script writer and news story producer. She was also a contributor for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) and Inter Press Services. Her roles have extended beyond journalism, serving as a Communications Officer for The Women’s International Peace Centre, the Social Media Manager for the International Organization for Migration, and the curator and editor of African Feminism-AF. Kagumire's work has appeared in international media outlets like The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Quartz. She has received numerous awards, including the Anna Guèye 2018 award from Africtivistes and recognition as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2013.
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