New Article: Indonesia’s English-Language Press
Last year John Carpenter, a PhD student in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication, asked if I would be interested in working with him on a project about English-language… Continue Reading
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Book Review: The Naked Blogger of Cairo
Below is the pre-publication text for a review published in the Journal of Communication Inquiry. The final, published review can be found here behind a paywall. In February 2011, a month… Continue Reading
New Article: Music Videos, Global Imaginaries and Frictions
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been studying Kenyan music videos. My first article from this research project, “Global frictions and the production of locality in Kenya’s music video industry,” was just… Continue Reading
New Article: Innovation Clusters & Newsroom Change
The second article from my collaborative newsroom study with Jane Singer, Melissa Tully, and Shawn Harmsen has just been published by Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. Whereas the first piece looked at job insecurity and newswork, this article uses diffusion… Continue Reading
New Article: Precarious Newswork
In the past few years, Jane Singer, Shawn Harmsen, Melissa Tully and I have been looking into the changing newsroom. If you haven’t noticed, the news industry in the United States has been experiencing tremendous change…. Continue Reading
New Article: Twitter Hashtags in Kenya
Melissa Tully and I are excited to be included in the latest issue of Information Technologies & International Development. It is a special issue about expanding the domain of ICT4D research to consider… Continue Reading
New Article: Taking on the Kibera Discourse
Before I visited Kibera for the first time in 2009, I tried to read and watch as much as I could to better understand the community. Much of what I… Continue Reading
New Article: Researcher Identity in Ethnographic Study
I recently published an article in Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture that considers the place of identity in ethnographic research. Stemming from my dissertation research on community media in Nairobi’s slums,… Continue Reading
New Article: Participatory Culture in Kenya
Melissa Tully and I have a new article out in Critical Studies in Media Communication about the one and only Makmende. If you’re not familiar with Makmende, you should watch… Continue Reading
New Article: Community Journalism in Kibera
I have a new article in Journalism Practice about the difficulties of doing community journalism in places like Kibera. The article is titled “‘I Wish They Knew that We are Doing… Continue Reading