Professional Development Academies in Education

Professional Development Programs in Information Studies

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Department of Education 2023 Information Sessions

Department of Information Studies Programs

Department of Information Studies 2023 Information Sessions

Learn more about the undergraduate and graduate academic programs we offer, when program information sessions are being offered and how to apply.

Department of Information Studies

Information Law

Information Policy

Information-Seeking Behavior

Internet Culture

STEM

Leah Lievrouw

Ph.D., Communication Theory and Research, University of Southern California, 1986

MA, Biomedical Communications, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Relationship between media, information technologies, and social change

Social and cultural aspects of communication/information technologies

Leah A. Lievrouw. When users push back: Oppositional new media and community.  In Communities & Technologies 2003. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, in press.

Leah A. Lievrouw.  Review of Digital Media Revisited: Theoretical and Conceptual Innovations in Digital Domains, Gunnar Liestol, Andrew Morrison, and Terje Rasmussen (Eds.) (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003), American Book Review, in press.

Leah A. Lievrouw.  Review of Critique of Information, Scott Lash (London: Sage, 2002).  The Information Society, in press.

Leah A. Lievrouw.  Integrating the research on media access: A critical overview.  In Erik P. Bucy and John E. Newhagen (Eds.), Reconceptualizing Access: Social and Psychological Influences on Media Use, pp. 269-278.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, in press.

Leah A. Lievrouw.  Biotechnology, intellectual property, and the prospects for scholarly communication.  In Sandra Braman (Ed.), Biotechnology and Communication: The Meta-Technologies of Information.   Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, in press.