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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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: Citizen Journalism Beyond the Hype
Recently, I had the great opportunity to work with Joanna Krajewski (a Ph.D. candidate in SJMC at Iowa) on a project about the limits of citizen journalism, using a case study… Continue Reading
New Technologies and the “Friend or Foe” Question
REPOST: This article was originally published in the Iowa City Press-Citizen (without links/media). Read the original article. In 1997, when fewer than a quarter of Americans were online, telecom giant MCI released… Continue Reading
How Journalists and the Public Get It Wrong About African Poverty
REPOST: This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Ordinary people’s stories can change the world’s views about Africa We cannot see salary data in the… Continue Reading
New Article: Touring Slums and Telling Stories (About Ourselves)
Five years ago, when wrapping up fieldwork in Kibera, I blogged about the controversy surrounding slum tourism. While many Kibera residents resent the fact that so many foreigners tour their community, a few… 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