curriculum vitae |
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MARK ANDREJEVIC
Department of Communication Fairfield University, DMH 130 mandrejevic@mail.fairfield.edu 203.254.4000 x3043 | |
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| most.recent.update: | 12/01 |
| ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS | |
| 2001-- | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication
Teaching responsibilities include COMM 231, Media and Society, COMM 340, Technoculture and the Information Society, COMM 351, Media History. |
| 1996--2000 | Graduate Student Part-Time Instructor and Research Assistant, University of Colorado at Boulder. Courses taught: as sole instructor: JOUR 4791, Mass Media and Public Opinion; JOUR 4301, Media Ethics; JOUR 3001, Reporting 1; and JOUR 2011, Media and Public Culture. Also served as a teaching assistant for JOUR 2001, Writing for the Mass Media and Journalism 2011, Media and Public Culture. |
| 1999-2000 | Guest lecturer at the summer school in media education offered by the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. During the summers of 1999 and 2000, I led a two-week long seminar in new media for professional journalists and graduate students. |
| 1990-92 | Teaching Assistant, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Taught news writing and reporting and public speaking. |
| 1986 | Teaching Assistant, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. Led weekly review sections for Economics 101 during my senior year. |
| EDUCATION | |
| 2001 | Ph.D. Media Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder. Awarded Center for the Humanities and Arts Dissertation Fellowship, Kappa Tau Alpha honor society. |
| 1992 | M.A. Journalism, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 1989 | Master's certificate, New York Academy of Art, New York City. Completed two year graduate program in painting and sculpture. The school had not yet received its accreditation at the time. Completed a 28-foot long mural for a Guggenheim Museum fundraising event. The mural hung in the museum for one evening. |
| 1986 | B.A., Economics, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Graduated Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa. |
| 1985 | French Language Certificate, Alliance Francaise, Paris, France. Completed French language program while working and studying abroad. |
| JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE | |
| 1994-96 | Education reporter, Lansing State Journal, Lansing, Michigan. |
| 1992-94 | Government reporter, Port Huron Times Herald, Port Huron, Michigan. |
| 1991-2 | Freelance/stringer, Detroit News, Detroit, Michigan |
| 1992 | Freelance reporter, Ann Arbor Observer, Ann Arbor, Mich. |
| 1991 | General assignment intern, The Bremerton Sun, Bremerton, Wash. |
| 1988 | Intern, The West Side Spirit, New York City. |
| ADDITIONAL TEACHING | |
| 1989-90 | Math teacher, Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School, Brooklyn, New York. |
| 1989-90 | English/writing teacher, Prep for Prep, New York City. Prep for Prep is a supplementary education program for gifted minority students in the inner city. |
| 1986-89 | Tutor/substitute teacher, Prep for Prep, New York City. Taught Math and English in a supplementary education program for gifted minority students from the inner city. |
| PUBLICATIONS | |
| Getting Real: The Prime-Time Rehabilitation of Big Brother, Book manuscript under review | |
| "The Work of Being Watched: Interactive Media and the Exploitation of Self-Disclosure" in Critical Studies in Media Communication, June 2002, pp. 230-248 | |
| "The Kinder, Gentler Gaze of Big Brother: Reality TV in the Era of Digital Capitalism" in New Media & Society, June 2002, pp. 251-270 | |
| "Digital Art and the Information Society" in the second edition of Web.Studies edited by David Gauntlett, forthcoming | |
| "Aesthetics of the Internet" in The Ideology of the Internet: Concepts, Policies, Uses edited by Katharine Sarikakis and Daya K. Thussu, forthcoming | |
| "Little Brother is Watching: The Webcam Subculture and the Digital Enclosure" in Media/Space: Place, Scale, and Culture in a Media Age edited by Anna McCarthy Nick Couldry, forthcoming. | |
| Book Review (co-authored): Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology, Quarterly Journal of Speech. November, 2001. | |
| "The Pacification of Interactivity" M/C Reviews, published October, 2001 online. | |
| Contributor, New Media Encyclopedia (Steve Jones, ed.), Forthcoming. | |
| "The Kinder, Gentler Face of Big Brother: Reality TV, Digital Domination and Violence", in Volcic, Z. and Erjavec, K. (eds.) Media Education. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Open Society Institute; 2000. | |
| "From hip thrust to drug bust: 'gangsta rap' and the media effects debate" in Volcic, Z. and Erjavec, K. (eds.) Research on Media Education. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Tisk PACO; 1999. | |
| Review of "Machinic Modulations: New Cultural Theory & Technopolitics", Special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (4:2), Published on-line by the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, August, 2000. | |
| Contributor, Encyclopedia of New Media, edited by Steve Jones, Forthcoming. | |
| PUBLICATION PROJECTS | |
| Getting Real: The Prime-Time Rehabilitation of Big Brother, book manuscript under review. | |
| "Temptation Island' and the Voyeuristic Fantasy of Flexible Capitalism," journal article under review. | |
| PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS | |
| 2002 | "Space: the Final Frontier of E-Commerce", paper accepted for presentation at the annual convention of Internet researchers, Oct. 2002, Maastricht. |
| 2002 | "Watching Big Brother: Prime-time Positivism and the Savvy Response", top paper, popular communication division, International Communication Association annual convention, July 2002, Seoul, South Korea. |
| 2002 | "The Productivity of Exhibitionism: Temptation Island, Capitalism, and the Scopic Drive", a presentation to the popular culture division of the International Communication Association during its annual convention, July 2002, Seoul, South Korea. |
| 2002 | "The Work of Being Watched: Interactive Media and the Exploitation of Self-Disclosure", a presentation to the philosophy of communication division, ICA convention, July 2002, Seoul, South Korea. |
| 2001 | "Onward to the past: mediated interactivity and the retroactive critique of modernity", a presentation to the annual convention of the Association of Internet Researchers in Minneapolis, Oct. 10-14, 2001. |
| "Little Brother is Watching: Ditigal Enclosure and the Webcam Subculture", paper accepted for presentation to the critical and cultural studies division of the National Communication Association at its annual convention in Atlanta, Nov. 1-4, 2001. | |
| "The Kinder, Gentler, Gaze of Big Brother: Reality TV in the Era of Digital Capitalism", a paper presented to the Popular Culture interest group of the International Communication Association at its annual conference, May 20-24, 2001, Washington, D.C. | |
| 2000 | "Surveillance and Interactivity: The Cultural Logic of Digital Capitalism", final presentation to the University of Ljubljana's summer school as part of its interdisciplinary program in media education, July 2, 2000. |
| "Surveillance chic: the hip face of Big Brother on MTV's Road Rules," a presentation to the Oscar Gandy Research Review panel at the AEJMC's GEIG 2000 Mid-Year Research Conference held at the University of Colorado, April 14-16, 2000. | |
| "Digital Aesthetics in the Era of Cyber-Capitalism," a paper accepted for presentation to the Visual Communication interest group of the International Communication Assocation at its annual conference, June 1-5, 2000. | |
| "The Deployment of the "Inappropriate" Work of Art in the Debate over Public Funding for the Arts," paper presented to the Philosophy of Communication Division of the International Communication Association for its annual meeting in May 27-31, 1999 | |
| 1999 | "The Judgement of Decency," paper presented at "Beauty and its Discontents," a conference sponsored by the University of Colorado's Center for Humanities and the Arts, April, 1999 |
| 1988 | "A Portrait of the Embattled Artist: Popular Images of the Arts in the Age of Cultural Privatization," paper presented to the biannual meeting of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Glasgow, July 26-30, 1998. |
| ACADEMIC AWARDS | |
| 2000-01 | Awarded a Thomas Edwin Devaney Fellowship and named a Center for the Humanities and the Arts graduate fellow for the academic year. Both fellowships are awarded by the University's Center for the Humanities and the Arts to provide full support for the completion of my dissertation. |
| 1998-99 | Participant in "Beauty and its Discontents," a seminar in aesthetics offered by the Center for Humanities and the Arts at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Admission to the seminar, which comes with a stipend, is competitive. |
| 1998 | Inducted to Kappa Tau Alpha National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder. |
| 1992 | Scripps-Howard Journalism Studies Grant |
| 1992 | Weber Award for Excellence in Journalistic Writing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. |
| 1992 | Graves Essay Writing Prize, Economics, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Also inducted to Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Graduated Cum Laude. |
| JOURNALISM AWARDS | |
| 1996 | Michigan Press Association, First Place, Spot News. Shared this award with other staff writers at the Lansing State Journal for a package on the collapse of an overpass near a local elementary school. |
| 1995 | Michigan Associated Press, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, Division Three. For a feature on the fate of students expelled from school for bringing weapons |
| 1994 | Michigan Associated Press, First Place, News Features, Division Two. For an investigative feature on teen transients. |
| Best of Gannett, Second Place, News Features, Division Two. For the same piece that received the MPA award above | |
| 1992 | Michigan Associated Press, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, Division Two. For an expose on the mismanagement of a local community service center. |
| ACADEMIC SERVICE | |
| 2001 | Peer reviewer, New Media and Society. |
| 1999-2000 | Graduate student representative on the search committee for a new dean for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado. |
| Spring, 2000 | Assisted Professor Janice Peck in the development of an upper-level graduate course called "Investigating Technocultures". This course will explore a variety of sociological perspectives on the development of new media and on the relationship between the media and technology |
| Spring, 2000 | Served as a manuscript reviewer for Rowman and Littlefield publishers. |
| 1998 | Graduate student coordinator of orientation for graduate students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado. |
| COMMUNITY | |
| 1997-2001 | Producer and volunteer, Community Access TV, Boulder. I completed training in the use of cameras, editing equipment, and the production studio at CATV-Channel 54, Boulder. I have served as a videographer and assistant producer for programs produced at Channel 54. |
| Spring, 2000 | Curator, Digital Chautauqua Web Site. Worked with artists and helped arrange the display of on-line artworks for a Federally-funded community project designed to bring the work of Colorado artists to rural school districts. |
| Summer, 1998 | Volunteered as a part-time journalism teacher and video production assistant for Upward Bound (a summer program for Native-American high school students) and for Pre-Collegiate Prep (a summer program for college-bound high school students from Denver's inner-city). |
| PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS | |
| Association of Internet Researchers
International Communication Association; National Communication Association |
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