ADRIENNE RUSSELL
Annenberg Center for Communication
University of Southern California
734 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90089-7725
arussell@annenberg.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Journalism and Mass Communication, Indiana University Bloomington, 2001.

M.A., Media Studies, Stanford University, 1995.

B.A., World Literature and Cultural Studies, University of California Santa Cruz, 1993.

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Networked Publics Fellow, Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California, August 2005-2006. Research the social, economic and political impact of network communication technologies as part of an interdisciplinary team of scholars.

Assistant Professor, Department of International Communication, American University of Paris, Fall 2002-Present. Teach courses on Global Communication; Network Society and Social Movements; New Communication Technologies; Mass Communication Research and Theory; Public Relations; Journalism Writing and Reporting.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Mass Communication, University of California Berkeley, Summer 2005. Taught a course on Global Media, Power and Resistance.

Visiting Lecturer, Department of Communication, Santa Clara University, Summer 2000 and Summer 2001. Taught News Writing and Editing.

Visiting Lecturer, Department of Communication, Notre Dame de Namur University, Fall 2000. Taught Introduction to Communication.

Associate Instructor, School of Journalism, Indiana University Bloomington, Fall 1997- Spring 1999. Taught News Writing, Editing and Reporting. Assisted teaching Foundations of Mass Communication.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Issue Edited
New Media and Society, editor of theme section on new media and global political resistance, August 2005.

Refereed Journal Articles
"Zapatista Myths: Exploring a Network Identity" and “Introductory Editorial," New Media and Society, August 2005.

“Chiapas and the New News: Internet and Newspaper Coverage of a Broken Cease-Fire," Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism, Vol. 2 no. 2, August 2001.

“The Zapatistas Online: Shifting the Discourse of Globalization," Gazette - International Journal of Communication Studies, Vol. 63 no. 5, October 2001.

Related Publications
“Looking at Manzanar: Japanese Internment and post 9/11 Racial Politics," Seven-by-Seven Magazine, San Francisco, Spring 2002.

“The Zapatistas and Computer-Mediated Peace," Peace Review, Vol. 13 no. 3, September 2001.

“Mother Jones Magazine," “Walter Lippmann," The Encyclopedia of American Politics, edited by Jeffrey Schultz, Rocky River, Ohio: The American Political Landscape Encyclopedia Series 2000.

“ER," “The Golden Gate Bridge,"“Quentin Tarantino," “William Randolph Hearst," St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, edited by Tom and Sara Pendergast, Snohomish, Wash.: Full Circle Editorial Inc., 2000.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant to hold The Other Internet conference at the American University of Paris, April 2004. Planned, organized and hosted an international group of scholars, artists and activists brought together to present and discuss work on new forms of resistance emerging online.

Just World/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Grant to conduct research on the World Social Forum, Mumbai, India, 2004. Grant awarded to projects aimed at building curricula on global citizenship.

Top Student Paper award in the Mass Communication Division for “The Zapatista War of Words: Online Discourse and the Limits of Traditional News Coverage," International Communication Association, Washington D.C., 2001.

Best Student Paper award in the Qualitative Studies Division for “Chiapas and the New News: Internet and Newspaper Coverage of a Broken Cease-fire," the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Phoenix, Ariz., 2000. (Award formally withheld due to policy against granting the award to the same student more than once.)

Best Student Paper award in the Qualitative Studies Division for “Zapatistas Online: Shifting the Discourse of a Nation," presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, New Orleans, La., 1999.

Indiana University Bloomington School of Journalism Teaching Fellowship, 1997-1999.

Indiana University Bloomington School of Journalism Research Assistant Fellowship, 1996-1997.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PANELS

“Global Communication, New Media, and Network Resistance: A Case Study of the Social Justice Movement," International Communication Association Annual Conference, New York, N.Y., May 2005.

“Network Narratives, Network Resistance," MIT4: The Work of Stories, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, Mass., May 2005.

“Fostering Global Civil Society: The Role of Communication Education," organized panel for the International Communication Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, La., May 2004.

“The Nation and Globalization Technologies," International Communication Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, La., May 2004.

“Network Activism at the World Social Forum: Combining Old and New Media," World Social Forum, Mumbai, India, January 2004.

“Deviance and Innovation: Media Coverage of File Sharing and the Music Industry," Digital Dynamics Conference sponsored by the International Communication Association and the International Association of Media and Communication Research, University of Loughborough, Loughborough, UK, November 2003.

“Myth-Making Online: A Tale of the Zapatistas, Staring Heroes, Savages, Victims, and Beasts," International Communication Association Annual Conference, San Diego, Calif., May 2003.

“Globalization, the Internet and the Public Sphere," Rhetoric and Globalization Conference, American University of Paris, Paris, France, October 2002.

“The Zapatista War of Words: Online Discourse and the Limits of Traditional News Coverage," International Communication Association Annual Conference, Washington D.C., May 2001.

“Chiapas and the New News: Internet and Newspaper Coverage of a Broken Cease-Fire," the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference,
Phoenix, Ariz., August 2000.

“Zapatistas Online: Shifting the Discourse of a Nation," Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, New Orleans, La., May 1999.

“The Internet and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation: A Local Struggle in a Global Environment," the International Communication Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, Calif., May 1999.

“Sex, Lies, and the Whitehouse: How Journalists Wrote Themselves into the Story," Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Baltimore, Md., August 1998.

“Images and Intent: Two Views of the Japanese Internment Camp, Manzanar," Crossing the Jordan Cultural Studies conference held at Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., November 1997.