Papers by Adrienne Russell
Following the Tweets: What Happened to the IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report on Twitter?
Media and Global Climate Knowledge, 2017
This chapter focuses on the role of Twitter in reporting and circulating the IPCC Synthesis Repor... more This chapter focuses on the role of Twitter in reporting and circulating the IPCC Synthesis Report (SYR). The report is considered an empirical entry point to understand the dynamics of the new media environment and the dynamic actor-networks in which IPCC communication takes place. Using this brief document as a launching point, the chapter probes into the network of digital communication and analyzes how the scientific knowledge of SYR translated into a complex system of transnational stakeholders and their local sub-networks. Ultimately the chapter addresses the question: Does the use of social media call for reconsideration of the role of professional journalism in science communication?
Intersections of Technology & Place
The papers presented here draw from new ways of thinking about place, with a particular focus on ... more The papers presented here draw from new ways of thinking about place, with a particular focus on interrelations of space and place with media technologies and practices. Following from Jansson’s (2009: 308) suggestion that scholars consider how communication and geography intersect, in order to analyze “how space produces communication and how communication produces space”, this panel brings together a series of research at this nexus. The panel begins at the macro-level, with a paper on how ‘smart cities’ struggle to create meaning places that feel ‘organic’ and then moves to a series of case studies within and across urban scales, with a set of papers that, in order: critically considers efforts by tech companies to become the arbiters of place, with a specific look at Foursquare; evaluates how geo-social media can produce space through a hybrid of online and offline interaction, focusing on meetup.com; traces arguments against social technologies as negatively affecting tradition...
Chiapas and the new news
Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, Aug 1, 2001
On 1 January 1994 the Zapatista Army of National Liberation took control of the main municipaliti... more On 1 January 1994 the Zapatista Army of National Liberation took control of the main municipalities in Chiapas, Mexico. During this initial uprising, the commercial media overwhelmingly refused to reproduce Zapatista communiqués. In an attempt to remedy the situation, Zapatista supporters began to send them out over computer networks and in so doing catapulted news of the movement onto headlines around the world. While many are celebrating the new communication capabilities facilitated by the internet, others warn that the internet dangerously lowers traditional news standards. Taking the norms of journalism as its starting point, this article analyzes online Zapatista-related discourse in order to reveal characteristics unique to computer-mediated communication. Specifically of interest here are the mechanisms by which traditional journalism and computer-mediated communication each produce a particular truth about the Zapatista movement and how each truth, in turn, instigates its own methods of ascribing meaning to the movement.
Culture
The MIT Press eBooks, Sep 19, 2008
New(s) Media, Public Address, and the Global Conjuncture: Machinima and The French Democracy
Networked Journalism
SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks, 2016
The Zapatistas Online
Gazette, Oct 1, 2001
This study examines the complex and contradictory dynamic of localization and globalization as th... more This study examines the complex and contradictory dynamic of localization and globalization as they are manifest in online postings created by Zapatista supporters in Mexico. The aim is to develop an understanding of the dimensions of the Internet that contribute to its efficacy as a tool in grassroots globalization. Online newsgroup postings and websites created by Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) supporters are examined here in terms of the technological dimensions particular to computer-mediated communication. These dimensions include a relative lack of centralized control, the decentered author, interactivity and an alliance-building capacity. Combined, these technological dimensions facilitate a particular type of communication and contribute to a broadening of the discourse regarding the Mexican government as well as dominant conceptions of the Mexican nation.
Myth and the Zapatista movement: exploring a network identity
New Media & Society, Aug 1, 2005
Mexico’s Zapatista movement was one of the first to use the internet to propel a local struggle o... more Mexico’s Zapatista movement was one of the first to use the internet to propel a local struggle onto an international stage. In so doing it originated a new kind of social movement, one that pushes beyond group identities around which social movements have traditionally organized and into the realm of network identity. This analysis of Zapatista websites and listservs examines the ways several key myths - of a universal Marcos, of noble savages and of a neoliberal beast - help structure the relationships among diverse members of the network. Examining the myths around which the movement is organized reveals how people go about creating network identities and helps us assess to what extent they are new and to what extent traditional roles and relationships are being played out in a new environment.
Rethinking Media Research for Changing Societies
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Apprehending the Climate Crisis
Social Media + Society
The major challenge for us as communication researchers is to recognize and center climate change... more The major challenge for us as communication researchers is to recognize and center climate change in the choices we make as scholars and educators, and to normalize ways of talking about climate change.
Rethinking Media Research for Changing Societies
Rethinking Media Research for Changing Societies, 2020
European Journal of Communication, 2017
In Journalism as Activism, Adrienne Russell charts what she sees as a new, digitally driven 'spac... more In Journalism as Activism, Adrienne Russell charts what she sees as a new, digitally driven 'space' of journalism that comprises diverse networks of actors and information
Introduction to special issue: Practicing media activism, shaping networked journalism
Journalism, 2013
The Journalism in Climate Change Websites: Their Distinct Forms of Specialism, Content, and Role Perceptions
Journalism Practice, Apr 30, 2022
Innovation in hybrid spaces
jou.sagepub.com
News Flashpoints: The Snowden Revelations in the United States
Journalism And The NSA Revelations, 2017
Climate justice, hacktivist sensibilities, prototypes of change
Social Media + Society, 2019
Innovation in hybrid spaces: 2011 UN Climate Summit and the expanding journalism landscape
Journalism, 2013
Media coverage of the 2011 UN Climate Summit in Durban makes evident the blurring of the lines th... more Media coverage of the 2011 UN Climate Summit in Durban makes evident the blurring of the lines that once separated participants, reporters, activists, and networked publics. While journalists look to media activists for sources, breaking news, and reporting tactics that tap into the new potential of the mobile and networked environment, contemporary media activists devised new ways to do some of the work traditionally ascribed to journalism. This article, based on semi-structured interviews and discourse analysis of coverage from three NGOs, the New York Times and USA Today, documents various notions of public good manifest in activist media and newspaper coverage. In the broadest sense, the study addresses the questions: Where do legacy and activist news media differ and where do they overlap, both in terms of content and professional norms? And what are the implications of the emergence of new activist media for the field of journalism?
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