The University of Georgia

Faculty Member, Advertising and Public Relations

Associate Professor

Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication

About

My work for the past 15 years has engaged problems of democratic communications in ways that generate important new questions and issues. A central goal of this project is, first, to develop a historicizing critique not only of specific practices of democratic communications but also of their conceptualizations and forms. Second, but equally central, the project seeks to recontextualize, retheorize, and thus reconstitute the possibilities of democratic communications in the current era of digital media, globalization, and perpetual political, economic, and ecological crises. Among works published are Democratic Communications; Formations, Projects, Possibilities (Lexington Books, 2008; paperback 2009) and, with Chris Atton, Alternative Journalism (Sage, 2009).

Currently in press:

• "Contesting Democratic Communications: The Case of Current TV.” Chpt. in Moment of Danger; Critical Visions of U.S. Communications History, Janice Peck and Inger Stole (eds.). Milwaukee, Wisc.: Marquette University Press.

• (with Kristen M. Heflin). “User Production Reconsidered: From Convergence, to Autonomia and Cultural Materialism.” New Media & Society.

I'm also writing articles about the emergence of regimes of user-defined content due to revamping industrial design and the rise of marketing research; and on what I'm thinking about now as "the roots of Netroots," the international online activist network.

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