Leah A Lievrouw
Biographic Data
| ID | 478295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leah A Lievrouw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leah A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lievrouw |
| SIGNATURE | LIEVROUW L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Points of departure: Reflections on New Media & Society and the next 25 years in new media studies
Routledge Handbook of Digital Media and Communication
This chapter focuses on data and algorithms and highlights a technical as well as historical, cultural, political and economic understanding of the 'datafied' and algorithmically constructed present. In one of the first critical assessments of the term big data in media and communication studies, boyd and Crawford define big data as “a cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon that rests on the interplay of: Technology, Analysis and Mytho…
Mediation, Information, and Communication: Information and Behavior
This third volume of and Behavior shows broad continuities with previous volumes in this series, but it also represents an important evolution. In emphasizing theoretical advances in mediation, information, and communication processes, this volume has unifying themes at the cutting edge of communication research, linking communication with areas as far-ranging as cognitive psychology, intellectual history, social psychology, policy, and macroecon…
Journalism as Activism: Recoding Media Power
Science, Technology, and Society Studies
This entry examines contemporary scholarship on media and information technologies at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS) and communication studies. The term “media and information technologies” is used to bring together a variety of research frameworks that seek to capture symbolic, social, cultural, or political aspects of technology. This body of work emphasizes broad historical scope, infrastructural dimensions, and the d…
Materiality and Media in Communication and Technology Studies
A newly materialist approach to the study of media technologies is emerging in several fields, including cultural studies, digital humanities, and science and technology studies (STS). Yet most technology scholarship in the communication field, informed by classical media research, still follows a broadly constructivist line focused on the meanings, appropriations, representations and semiology of communication technology and its uses. This chapt…
Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society
Scholars from communication and media studies join those from science and technology studies to examine media technologies as complex, sociomaterial phenomena. In recent years, scholarship around media technologies has finally shed the assumption that these technologies are separate from and powerfully determining of social life, looking at them instead as produced by and embedded in distinct social, cultural, and political practices. Communicati…
Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society
Challenging Communication Research
Contents: Francois Heinderyckx: Foreword - Leah A. Lievrouw: Editor's Introduction: Challenge and Change in Communication Research - Anita Varma: The Ironic Incongruity of Canonical Common Sense in Critical Communication: The Case of Stuart Hall's Encoding/Decoding Model - Sean Phelan: Critiquing Neoliberalism: Three Interrogations and a Defense - David Karpf/Daniel Kreiss/Rasmus Kleis Nielsen: A New Era of Field Research in Political Communicati…
The Next Decade in Internet Time: Ways ahead for new media studies
In this paper, three features of the Internet/new media that have developed over the last decade are discussed: the relational Internet, the enclosed Internet, and the ‘mean world’ Internet. These features correspond to the three interrelated elements of new media infrastructure: the practices in which people engage to interact and share information and meaning; the tools, devices, or artifacts that people create and use in order to do so; and th…
Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Social Consequences of ICTs, Updated Student Edition
New Media, Mediation, and Communication Study
The division of the communication discipline according to whether people communicate face-to-face or via a technological medium has shaped the field's development from the outset. The divide has been institutionalized over time in the structures of academic departments and schools, professional training and degrees, scholarly societies and publishing, and in the field's larger research agendas. However, critics inside and outside the field have l…
New Media
Handbook of new media: Social shaping and social consequences - fully revised student edition
What’s Changed about New Media? Introduction to the Fifth Anniversary Issue of New Media & Society
Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs
Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs
Introduction - Leah A Lievrouw and Sonia Livingstone The Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs PART ONE: THE CHANGING SOCIAL LANDSCAPE Introduction - Sonia Livingstone The Information Society Revisited - Frank Webster Creating Community with Media - Nicholas W Jankowski History, Theories and Scientific Investigations Politics and New Media - Sara Bentivegna Interpersonal Life Online - Nancy K Baym The Electronic Generation? - David Buckingham C…
Social Theory and Communication Technology
Bridging the Subdisciplines: An Overview of Communication and Technology Research
Communication and technology (CAT) research is concerned with the development, uses, and consequences of information and communication technologies (ICTs) across all types of social, cultural, and institutional settings. Technology includes the artifacts or devices that enable and extend our abilities to communicate, the communication activities or practices in which we engage when developing and using those devices, and the social arrangements o…
New Media and the `Pluralization of Life-Worlds: A Role for Information in Social Differentiation
This article asks whether, and in what ways, new media technologies contribute to variations in information resources and communication relations from place to place that may encourage social integration or differentiation. Current perspectives on differentiation theory are briefly discussed, and a model is presented which suggests how the generation, circulation and use of information in society create different social milieux or information env…
Progress in Communication Sciences, Volume XV: Advances in Telecommunications
Progress in Communication Sciences, Volume XV: Advances in Telecommunications." The Information Society, 17(4), p. 295
The Information Environment and Universal Service
This essay focuses on universal service and the Internet as means to support social and political participation. The emphasis on access to telecommunications systems in conventional approaches to universal service is contrasted with access to content. A model of the information environment is described that accounts for the roles of content and conduit, both of which are necessary conditions to achieve true access. A method is outlined for employ…
Our Own Devices: Heterotopic Communication, Discourse, and Culture in the Information Society 1
The main premise of this article is that in information societies generally, and in virtual social contexts particularly, a distinctive style of interaction to facilitate the communication of difference, heterotopic communication, has emerged. It rests on two cultural foundations: an ideological belief in the positive, socially integrat-ing power of communication, and a prevailing ethic of instrumen-tal rationality,subjective individualism, and s…
Communication and the “Culture Wars”
Journal Article Communication and the “Culture Wars” Get access Leah A. Lievrouw Leah A. Lievrouw 1University of Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 46, Issue 1, March 1996, Pages 169–178, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1996.tb01467.x Published: 07 February 2006
Health Communication Research Reconsidered: Reading the Signs
Journal Article Health Communication Research Reconsidered: Reading the Signs Get access Leah A. Lievrouw Leah A. Lievrouw 1University of Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 44, Issue 1, March 1994, Pages 90–99, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1994.tb00666.x Published: 07 February 2006
Journalism as Activism: Recoding Media Power
New Media and the `Pluralization of Life-Worlds: A Role for Information in Social Differentiation
This article asks whether, and in what ways, new media technologies contribute to variations in information resources and communication relations from place to place that may encourage social integration or differentiation. Current perspectives on differentiation theory are briefly discussed, and a model is presented which suggests how the generation, circulation and use of information in society create different social milieux or information env…
The Information Environment and Universal Service
This essay focuses on universal service and the Internet as means to support social and political participation. The emphasis on access to telecommunications systems in conventional approaches to universal service is contrasted with access to content. A model of the information environment is described that accounts for the roles of content and conduit, both of which are necessary conditions to achieve true access. A method is outlined for employ…
Changing patterns of communication among scientists in an era of “telescience”
What’s Changed about New Media? Introduction to the Fifth Anniversary Issue of New Media & Society
Bridging the Subdisciplines: An Overview of Communication and Technology Research
Communication and technology (CAT) research is concerned with the development, uses, and consequences of information and communication technologies (ICTs) across all types of social, cultural, and institutional settings. Technology includes the artifacts or devices that enable and extend our abilities to communicate, the communication activities or practices in which we engage when developing and using those devices, and the social arrangements o…
Communication-Information Relationship in Self-Representation: Suicide Notes andAcademic Research Narratives
This article compares two examples of how information is privileged and then used by individuals to build representations of themselves and their lives. The aim is to explore the utility of an analytic vocabulary to describe this privileging process. In the first example, an adolescent's construction of a suicide note shows how individuals, in the hours before they take their own lives, may choose certain types of information and thereby construc…
Our Own Devices: Heterotopic Communication, Discourse, and Culture in the Information Society 1
The main premise of this article is that in information societies generally, and in virtual social contexts particularly, a distinctive style of interaction to facilitate the communication of difference, heterotopic communication, has emerged. It rests on two cultural foundations: an ideological belief in the positive, socially integrat-ing power of communication, and a prevailing ethic of instrumen-tal rationality,subjective individualism, and s…
Triangulation as a research strategy for identifying invisible colleges among biomedical scientists
Communication and the social representation of scientific knowledge
This article examines the process of disseminating scientific information to the public. In general, the particular steps and strategies (on the part of scientists) in taking research findings to a popular audience are explored. Issues pertaining to the social status and economics of science production are analyzed. In particular, the publicization of cold‐fusion research is examined to illustrate the general process of dissemination
Changing patterns of communication among scientists in an era of “telescience”
Communication-Information Relationship in Self-Representation: Suicide Notes andAcademic Research Narratives
This article compares two examples of how information is privileged and then used by individuals to build representations of themselves and their lives. The aim is to explore the utility of an analytic vocabulary to describe this privileging process. In the first example, an adolescent's construction of a suicide note shows how individuals, in the hours before they take their own lives, may choose certain types of information and thereby construc…
Health Communication Research Reconsidered: Reading the Signs
Journal Article Health Communication Research Reconsidered: Reading the Signs Get access Leah A. Lievrouw Leah A. Lievrouw 1University of Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 44, Issue 1, March 1994, Pages 90–99, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1994.tb00666.x Published: 07 February 2006
Contemporary Art as Aesthetic Innovation: Applying the Diffusion Model in the Art World
As a model of the creation and dissemination of knowledge, diffusion of innovation theory should be as applicable to the emergence of new art and artists as it is to new tehcnologies and scientific discoveries. However, the art world has rarely been used as a context for the study of the communication of new ideas, either by sociologists of art seeking to understand its social structures, or by communication scholars concerned with the movement o…
Communication and the “Culture Wars”
Journal Article Communication and the “Culture Wars” Get access Leah A. Lievrouw Leah A. Lievrouw 1University of Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 46, Issue 1, March 1996, Pages 169–178, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1996.tb01467.x Published: 07 February 2006
Our Own Devices: Heterotopic Communication, Discourse, and Culture in the Information Society 1
The main premise of this article is that in information societies generally, and in virtual social contexts particularly, a distinctive style of interaction to facilitate the communication of difference, heterotopic communication, has emerged. It rests on two cultural foundations: an ideological belief in the positive, socially integrat-ing power of communication, and a prevailing ethic of instrumen-tal rationality,subjective individualism, and s…
The Information Environment and Universal Service
This essay focuses on universal service and the Internet as means to support social and political participation. The emphasis on access to telecommunications systems in conventional approaches to universal service is contrasted with access to content. A model of the information environment is described that accounts for the roles of content and conduit, both of which are necessary conditions to achieve true access. A method is outlined for employ…
Bridging the Subdisciplines: An Overview of Communication and Technology Research
Communication and technology (CAT) research is concerned with the development, uses, and consequences of information and communication technologies (ICTs) across all types of social, cultural, and institutional settings. Technology includes the artifacts or devices that enable and extend our abilities to communicate, the communication activities or practices in which we engage when developing and using those devices, and the social arrangements o…
New Media and the `Pluralization of Life-Worlds: A Role for Information in Social Differentiation
This article asks whether, and in what ways, new media technologies contribute to variations in information resources and communication relations from place to place that may encourage social integration or differentiation. Current perspectives on differentiation theory are briefly discussed, and a model is presented which suggests how the generation, circulation and use of information in society create different social milieux or information env…
Progress in Communication Sciences, Volume XV: Advances in Telecommunications
Progress in Communication Sciences, Volume XV: Advances in Telecommunications." The Information Society, 17(4), p. 295
Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs
Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs
Introduction - Leah A Lievrouw and Sonia Livingstone The Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs PART ONE: THE CHANGING SOCIAL LANDSCAPE Introduction - Sonia Livingstone The Information Society Revisited - Frank Webster Creating Community with Media - Nicholas W Jankowski History, Theories and Scientific Investigations Politics and New Media - Sara Bentivegna Interpersonal Life Online - Nancy K Baym The Electronic Generation? - David Buckingham C…
Social Theory and Communication Technology
What’s Changed about New Media? Introduction to the Fifth Anniversary Issue of New Media & Society
Handbook of new media: Social shaping and social consequences - fully revised student edition
New Media, Mediation, and Communication Study
The division of the communication discipline according to whether people communicate face-to-face or via a technological medium has shaped the field's development from the outset. The divide has been institutionalized over time in the structures of academic departments and schools, professional training and degrees, scholarly societies and publishing, and in the field's larger research agendas. However, critics inside and outside the field have l…
New Media
Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Social Consequences of ICTs, Updated Student Edition
The Next Decade in Internet Time: Ways ahead for new media studies
In this paper, three features of the Internet/new media that have developed over the last decade are discussed: the relational Internet, the enclosed Internet, and the ‘mean world’ Internet. These features correspond to the three interrelated elements of new media infrastructure: the practices in which people engage to interact and share information and meaning; the tools, devices, or artifacts that people create and use in order to do so; and th…
Materiality and Media in Communication and Technology Studies
A newly materialist approach to the study of media technologies is emerging in several fields, including cultural studies, digital humanities, and science and technology studies (STS). Yet most technology scholarship in the communication field, informed by classical media research, still follows a broadly constructivist line focused on the meanings, appropriations, representations and semiology of communication technology and its uses. This chapt…
Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society
Scholars from communication and media studies join those from science and technology studies to examine media technologies as complex, sociomaterial phenomena. In recent years, scholarship around media technologies has finally shed the assumption that these technologies are separate from and powerfully determining of social life, looking at them instead as produced by and embedded in distinct social, cultural, and political practices. Communicati…
Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society
Challenging Communication Research
Contents: Francois Heinderyckx: Foreword - Leah A. Lievrouw: Editor's Introduction: Challenge and Change in Communication Research - Anita Varma: The Ironic Incongruity of Canonical Common Sense in Critical Communication: The Case of Stuart Hall's Encoding/Decoding Model - Sean Phelan: Critiquing Neoliberalism: Three Interrogations and a Defense - David Karpf/Daniel Kreiss/Rasmus Kleis Nielsen: A New Era of Field Research in Political Communicati…
Sociology (20 works) · Computer Science (18 works) · Political science (15 works) · Media studies (10 works) · Social Media and Politics (9 works) · Social media (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · World Wide Web (7 works)