Adrienne Russell
| Adrienne Russell | |
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Russell in Istanbul, 2011
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| Born |
February 24, 1971 Santa Monica, California |
| Residence | Colorado |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Ph.D. |
| Alma mater |
University of Calif.-Santa Cruz (undergraduate) Stanford University (graduate) University of Ind.-Bloomington (graduate) |
| Occupation | Media studies |
| Spouse(s) | John Tomasic |
| Children | one girl, one boy |
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.
Russell earned a Ph.D. in Journalism and Mass Communication from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 2001, an M.S. in Media Studies from Stanford University in 1995, and a B.A. in World Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1993. Russell was Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Media, Film, and Journalism Studies and an associate professor with a joint appointment in Media, Film, and Journalism and Emergent Digital Practices at the University of Denver (2007-2017); an assistant professor in the Department of Global Communication at the American University of Paris (2003-2005); and a research fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California (2005-2007) and at the London School of Economics Department of Media and Communication (2015).
Russell's research centers on the changing relationship between the media and public culture in the digital era. Her work is marked by a relatively fluid approach to research methods, an approach that seems tailored to the rapidly shifting and expanding digital media ecosystem that she studies. Russell writes about what motivates people to use media and what motivates them to remake media to suit their purposes. Russell is the sole author of two books on journalism and activism in the digital era, a long list of peer-reviewed journal articles, and co-author and contributor to internationally published volumes on media theory, power and evolving communication forms and practices.
Russell's most recent book, Journalism as Activism: Recoding Media Power (Polity 2016), focuses on the emergent media vanguard of activists and journalists reworking communication tools and genres and dedicated to the politics and the political uses of networked digital communication.
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