Emerald Studies in Media and Communications

SERIES CO-EDITORS

Series Co-Editor: Laura Robinson
Santa Clara University
Laura Robinson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Santa Clara University and Faculty Associate at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. She earned her PhD from UCLA, where she held a Mellon Fellowship in Latin American Studies and received a Bourse d’Accueil at the École Normale Supérieure. In addition to holding a postdoctoral fellowship on a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation funded project at the USC Annenberg Center, Robinson has served as Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell University and the Chair of CITAMS (formerly CITASA) for 2014-2015. Her research has earned awards from CITASA, AOIR, and NCA IICD. Robinson’s current multi-year study examines digital and informational inequalities. Her other publications explore interaction and identity work, as well as new media in Brazil, France, and the U.S. 

Series Co-Editor: Shelia Cotten
Clemson University
Shelia Cotten is Associate Vice President for Research Development at Clemson University. She has served as the Chair of CITAMS and has previously held appointments at the University of Alabama at Birminghm and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. After earning her PhD from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, she was a postgraduate fellow at the Boston University School of Public Health. Her work has been funded by The National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Aging. ​Cotten’s work addresses key social problems with sociological tools related to technology access, use, and impacts/outcomes. She has published on a number of topics including the XO laptop program in Birmingham and the use of ICT resources to improve older Americans' quality of life. The body of her work was recognized by the CITASA Award for Public Sociology in 2013 and the CITAMS Career Achievement Award in 2016. 

Series Co-Editor: Jeremy Schulz
UC Berkeley
Jeremy Schulz is Researcher at the UC Berkeley Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and a Fellow at the Cambridge Institute. He has also served as an Affiliate at the UC San Diego Center for Research on Gender in the Professions and a Council Member of the ASA Section on Consumers and Consumption. Previously, he held an NSF funded postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University after earning his PhD at UC Berkeley. His article, "Zoning the Evening," received the Shils-Coleman Award from the ASA Theory Section.  His publications include “Talk of Work” published in Theory and Society and "Shifting Grounds and Evolving Battlegrounds," published in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology. He has also done research and published in several other areas, including new media, theory, qualitative research methods, work and family, and consumption. 

CHEIF RESEARCH OFFICER: Noah McClain
Illinois Tech
Noah McClain is Assistant Professor of Sociology. His Ph.D. (NYU) research examined dilemmas associated with security efforts in the New York Subway system, as they manifest in the work of subway employees, in organizational processes, and in light of the arcane technology of a century-old underground railroad with millions of daily passengers. The project encapsulates McClain's central interests: the impact of technology on society, life in cities, work practices, formal organizational contexts, and human interaction with material and technical instruments. Through these themes, McClain's past and ongoing research also examines technology in daily life, social inequality, everyday life in prison and out, the ways that rules are used in organizations, and transactional systems of shared or free goods. McClain has served as a post-doctoral research fellow and faculty member of the Bard Prison Initiative, and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University.

SENIOR SERIES EDITORS

Senior Journalism Editor: Deb Aikat
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A former journalist, Deb Aikat has been a faculty member of Media and Journalism in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, since 1995, Aikat’s research has been published in book chapters and refereed journals. An award-winning researcher and teacher, Aikat theorizes digital media. The Scripps Howard Foundation recognized him as the inaugural winner of the “National Journalism Teacher of the Year award” (2003) for “distinguished service to journalism education.” Aikat worked as a journalist in India for Ananda Bazar Patrika’s The Telegraph newspaper and reported for the BBC World Service. He founded in 2015 the South Asia Communication Association, which unites professors and professionals in examining South Asia and its diaspora worldwide. He completed in 1990 a Certificate in American Political Culture from the New York University. Aikat earned in 1995 a Ph. D. in Media and Journalism from Ohio University’s Scripps School of Journalism.

Senior Communications Editor: John Baldwin
Illinois State University
John Baldwin (PhD, Arizona State University, 1994) is a professor of culture and communication, communication theory and qualitative research methods at Illinois State University. He has co-edited a book on definitions of culture (Redefining Culture, 2006) and co-authored a textbook, Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life (2014). His areas of interest include intercultural and intergroup communication, including adjustment, competence, as well as identity, prejudice, and tolerance. Recent research focuses on the social construction of identities in Brazilian rock music of the dictatorship era. He is conversational in Spanish and Portuguese, but also has interest in other languages and cultures.

Senior Religion and Tech Editor: Di Di
Santa CLara University
Di Di (PhD, Rice University 2019) is an assistant professor of sociology at Santa Clara University. Her research focuses on the intersection between religion, technology, and science. Specifically, she is interested in understanding how the intersection between religion, technology, and science varies across national contexts. Her most recent work examines how tech workers in the US and China understand religion, ethics, and the application of science in the workplace. Her work has appeared in Science and Engineering Ethics, American Behavioral Scientist, Public Understanding of Science, and Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, among others. 

Senior eHealth Editor: Timothy Hale
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Timothy M. Hale, PhD is a medical sociologist at the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Previously, he served as Research Fellow at Partners Center for Connected Health and Harvard Medical School. His main research interest is the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on health care and health lifestyles. Prior to joining the Center, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he studied the social and psychological impacts of ICT, focusing primarily on youth and older adults. Hale was elected as a CITASA Council Member (2012-2014). His work has been published in Information, Communication & Society; Computers and Human Behavior; Journal of Health Communication and American Behavioral Scientist.

Senior STS Editor: Noah McClain
Illinois Tech
Noah McClain is Assistant Professor of Sociology. His Ph.D. (NYU) research examined dilemmas associated with security efforts in the New York Subway system, as they manifest in the work of subway employees, in organizational processes, and in light of the arcane technology of a century-old underground railroad with millions of daily passengers. The project encapsulates McClain's central interests: the impact of technology on society, life in cities, work practices, formal organizational contexts, and human interaction with material and technical instruments. Through these themes, McClain's past and ongoing research also examines technology in daily life, social inequality, everyday life in prison and out, the ways that rules are used in organizations, and transactional systems of shared or free goods. McClain has served as a post-doctoral research fellow and faculty member of the Bard Prison Initiative, and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University.

Senior Media History Editor: Heloisa Pait 
São Paulo State University (UNESP)
Heloisa Pait investigates the challenges posed by the introduction of new means of communication for democratic life, with emphasis on the personal dilemmas individuals encounter when presented with unknown sociabilities. In her doctoral dissertation at the New School for Social Research she investigated the personal challenges television soap opera writers and viewers faced in trying to make mass communication a meaningful activity. She has written on the reception of international news, on media use by Brazilian youth, and on the disruptive role of the internet in the Brazilian political environment. With her students, Heloisa investigates conceptions of memory and media use, the role of media in notions of secrecy in international relations, and the nature of public protests in Brazilian cities. Dealing with a broad range of subjects, her recurrent issue is the efforts individuals make to engage in communication with others, an activity always disrupted and reconstructed – revealed – by every material transformation of media. Heloisa Pait, a Fulbright alumna and member of the advisory board of Open Knowledge Brazil, actively participates in Brazilian public life. Her fiction work has appeared in American and Brazilian publications.

Senior Digital Culture Editor: Massimo Ragnedda
Northumbria University
Massimo Ragnedda (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in Mass Communication at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK where he conducts research on the digital divide and social media. He is the co-vice chair of the Digital Divide Working Group (IAMCR) and co-convenor of NINSO (Northumbria Internet and Society Research Group). He has authored twelve books with his publications appearing in numerous peer-reviewed journals, and book chapters in English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian texts. His books include: Digital Capital. A Bourdieusian Perspective on the Digital Divide (with Maria Laura Ruiu), Emerald Publishing, 2020; Digital Inclusion. An International Comparative Analysis (co-edited with Bruce Mutsvairo), Lexington Books 2018; Theorizing the Digital Divide (co-edited with G. Muschert), Routledge (2017); The third Digital Divide: a Weberian approach to Digital Inequalities (2017), Routledge; The Digital Divide: The Internet and Social Inequality in International Perspective (co-edited with G. Muschert) (2013), Routledge.

Senior Crime and Media Editor: Julie Wiest
​West Chester University of Pennsylvania
As a sociologist of culture and media, Julie Wiest applies mainly symbolic interactionist and social constructivist perspectives to studies in three primary areas: (1) the sociocultural context of violence, ​(2) mass media effects, and (3) the relationship between new media technologies and social change. ​Wiest received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Tennessee and M.A. in journalism and mass communication from the University of Georgia. Before academia, she worked as a print and online journalist for nearly a decade.

Senior Social Media Editor: Apryl Williams
Harvard Center for Internet and Society 
Williams received her PhD in Sociology from Texas A&M University in 2017 with a designated focus in race, media, and culture. Currently, she is Assistant Professor at Susquehanna University and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Her research follows two broad streams of inquiry: cultural studies of race, gender, and community in digital spaces and mobile phone and digital technology use in developing countries. She theorizes digital media as it converges with issues concerning race / ethnicity, gender, and communal identity. In addition to my domestic research agenda, she conducts research on socio-political conflict, mobile phone use, and digital inequality in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her work can be found in several peer reviewed outlets including Social Sciences, the International Journal of Communication, and Information, Communication & Society. Her other academic interests include intersectionality, social theory, postmodernism, technology, and embodiment.

Managing Editor: Aneka Khilnani
George Washington University
Aneka Khilnani is a an MD student at GW. She holds an MS from Georgetown University. As Associate Editor, she has served on  a number of the editorial team for volumes, including e-Health: Current Evidence, Promises, Perils, and Future Directions. Before attending GW and Georgetown, she graduated from Santa Clara University with a BS in Public Health Science (Summa Cum Laude). Her past research was supported by a $30,000 grant from the Health Trust Initiative to support dietary change among low-income women in the San Jose Guadalupe area. She is currently working on a coauthored book manuscript on digital research methods.

Assistant Editor: Nadine Koochou
Santa Clara University
Nadine Koochou is a current student at Santa Clara University, where she studies English with minors in Public Health Science and Creative Writing. Nadine is passionate about reading and writing and believes that words are a powerful force in understanding the diverse human experience. She graduated with honors from Tracy High School in 2020 as an International Baccalaureate Distinguished Scholar. Being from a small town in California’s Central Valley, she chose to pursue a Jesuit education in hopes of advancing her journey for a holistic, internationally minded education. 


FOUNDING & CONTINUING ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

Rebecca Adams 
University of North Carolina-Greensboro

Ron Anderson
University of Minnesota 

Denise Anthony
University of Michigan

Alejandro Artopoulos
Universidad of San Andres

Jason Beech
Universidad of San Andres

Grant Blank
University of Oxford

Geoffrey C. Bowker
University of California Irvine

Casey Brienza
Media Sociology Preconference

Jonathan Bright
University of Oxford

Manuel Castells
University of Southern California

Mary Chayko
Rutgers University

Wenhong Chen
University of Texas at Austin

Lynn Schofield Clark
University of Denver

Jenny L. Davis​
Australian National University

Hopeton S. Dunn
University of the West Indies

Jennifer Earl
University of Arizona

Joshua Gamson
University of San Francisco

Hernan Galperin 
University of Southern California

Blanca Gordo
International Computer Science Institute

David Halle
University of California, Los Angeles

Caroline Haythornthwaite
Syracuse University

Anne Holohan 
Trinity College

Heather Horst
University of Sydney 

Gabe Ignatow
University of North Texas

Samantha Nogueira Joyce
Saint Mary’s College of California

Vikki Katz
Rutgers University

Nalini Kotamraju
Salesforce

Antonio C. La Pastina
Texas A&M University

Robert LaRose 
Michigan State University

Sayonara Leal
University of Brasilia 

Lloyd Levine
University of California, Riverside

Brian Loader
University of York

Monica Martinez
Universidade of Sorocaba

Noah McClain
Illinois Institute of Technology

Gustavo Mesch
University of Haifa

Sonia Virgínia Moreira 
Rio de Janeiro State University

Gina Neff 
University of Oxford 

Christena Nippert-Eng
Indiana University

Hiroshi Ono
Hitotsubashi University

CJ Pascoe
University of Oregon

Trevor Pinch
Cornell University

Anabel Quan-Haase
University of Western Ontario

Kelly Quinn
University of Illinois at Chicago

Violaine Roussel
University of Paris 

Maria Laura Ruiu
Northumbria University 

Saskia Sassen 
Columbia University

​Sara Schoonmaker
University of Redlands

Markus S. Schulz
​International Sociological Association 

Jason A. Smith
George Mason University

Joseph D. Straubhaar
University of Texas at Austin

Mike Stern
Michigan State University

Simone Tosoni
Catholic University of Milan

Zeynep Tufekci
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 

Eduardo Villanueva
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

Keith Warner
Santa Clara University

Barry Wellman
Ryerson University 

Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Jim Witte
George Mason University

Simeon Yates
University of Liverpool