Expertise Summary

Expert in popular culture, digital technology and entertainment, including media habits of liberals versus those of conservatives

Additional Information

• Has two talks on TED.com with nearly two million views: Social Media & the End of Gender and Lessons from Fashion’s Free Culture
• Currently co-Principal Investigator, with Marty Kaplan, on the Media Impact Project, a hub for collecting, developing and sharing approaches for measuring the impact of media, which has received $3.75 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Open Society Foundation
• Editor of the Norman Lear Center Press, where she has produced over 40 titles, including Warners’ War: Politics, Pop Culture & Propaganda in Wartime Hollywood; Ready to Share: Fashion & the Ownership of Creativity; Artists, Technology & the Ownership of Creative Content; and Television’s Changing Image of American Jews.
• Currently on the advisory board of Women@Paley at the Paley Center for Media; FEM Inc., a technology venture, and she’s a fellow in the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities
• PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she taught courses on popular culture and 20th Century literature
• Former web producer and digital archivist at Vivendi-Universal Games
• On the editorial board of the International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology
• Founding member of the board of directors for Les Figues Press, a venue for literary experimentation