Leah A. Lievrouw
Professor
Department of Information Studies, UCLA

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Articles in Journals, Series, Annuals, Proceedings & Edited Works:
  1981-90       1991-2000       2001-09

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 ICA Newsletter column, 1999-2002

Leah A. Lievrouw (2009). Indicators for engagement: Thoughts on ICT assessment in a world of social media. ITA-Manu:script (ePublication ITA-09-04). Vienna: Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Institute for Technology Assessment, Austrian Academy of Sciences), December. Available: http://epub.oeaw.ac.at/ita/ita-manus.htm. 

In Preparation

Books

Leah A. Lievrouw and Sonia Livingstone (Eds.), Handbook of New Media (Updated Student Edition).  London: Sage Publications, 2006.  Including:
       "Introduction to the Updated Student Edition," pp. 1-14 

Leah A. Lievrouw and Sonia Livingstone (Eds.), Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs (1st ed.). London: Sage Publications, 2002.  Including:
        "Introduction," pp. 1-15

Brent D. Ruben and Leah A. Lievrouw (Eds.), Mediation, Information and Communication: Information and Behavior, vol. 3.  New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1990. Including:
        "Introduction to Part I: Theories of Mediation -- Views of the Communication Process," pp. 3-7.

Jorge R. Schement and Leah A. Lievrouw (Eds.), Competing Visions, Complex Realities: Social Aspects of the Information Society.   Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Co., 1987.  Including:
        "Introduction: The Fundamental Assumptions of Information Society Research," pp. 1-10 
        Chapter 3, "A Third Vision: Capitalism and the Industrial Origins of the Information Society," pp. 33-46
        Part III, "Summary and Conclusions: Toward an Organizing Principle for Communication Research," pp. 153-160
 

Articles in Journals, Series, Annuals, Proceedings and Edited Works

2001-2009
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Leah A. Lievrouw (2009). Technology in/as applied communication research. In L. Frey and K. Cissna (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Applied Communication, pp. 233-256.  New York and London: Routledge. 

Leah A. Lievrouw (2009). The uses of disenchantment in new media pedagogy: Teaching for remediation and reconfiguration. In R. Hammer and D. Kellner (Eds.), Media/Cultural Studies: Critical Approaches. New York: Peter Lang.

Leah A. Lievrouw (2009). New media, mediation, and communication study. Information, Communication & Society, 12(3), April, 303-325.

Leah A. Lievrouw (2008). Oppositional new media, ownership, and access: From consumption to reconfiguration and remediation.  In R.E. Rice (Ed.), Media Ownership: Research and Regulation, pp. 391-416. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Pablo Boczkowski and Leah A. Lievrouw.  Bridging STS and communication studies: Scholarship on media and information technologies.  In E. Hackett, O. Amsterdamska, M. Lynch, and J. Wajcman (Eds.), Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, pp. 949-977.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.

Leah A. Lievrouw.  Oppositional and activist new media: Remediation, reconfiguration, participation.  In I. Wagner and J. Blomberg (Eds.), Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference '06, Trento, Italy, July 31-August 5.  Seattle: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, 2006.

Leah A. Lievrouw.  New media design and development: Diffusion of innovations v. social shaping of technology.  In L.A. Lievrouw and S. Livingstone (Eds.), The Handbook of New Media (updated student edition), pp. 246-265.  London: Sage, 2006. (Revised version of chapter published in Handbook of New Media, 1st ed., 2002.)

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, 2004.

Leah A. Lievrouw.  Biotechnology, intellectual property, and the prospects for scholarly communication.  In Sandra Braman (Ed.), Biotechnology and Communication: The Meta-Technologies of Information, pp. 145-172.   Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.

Jeong Suk Kim and Leah A. Lievrouw.  (2004).  An overview of willingness to pay methodology and a Korean case study in the analysis of media reception value.  Asian Communication Research, 1(2), September, 134-165.

Leah A. Lievrouw and Sharon E. Farb (2003).  Information and equity: Toward a conceptual framework.  In B. Cronin and D. Shaw (Eds.), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), vol. 37, 2002 (cover date 2003), 499-540. 

Leah A. Lievrouw (2003). When users push back: Oppositional new media and community.  In M. Huysman, E. Wenger and V. Wulf (Eds.), Communities & Technologies: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Communities and Technologies; C&T 2003, pp. 391-405.  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Leah A. Lievrouw. (2002).  Theorizing new media: A meta-theoretical approach.  MedienJournal, 3, 4-13.

Leah A. Lievrouw.  (2001).  New media and the 'Pluralization of Life-Worlds': A role for information in social differentiation. New Media & Society, 3(1), 5-26. 

Leah A. Lievrouw, Erik P. Bucy, T. Andrew Finn, Wolfgang Frindte, Richard Gershon, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Thomas Kohler, J Michel Metz, and S. Shyam Sundar (2001). Bridging the subdisciplines: An overview of communication and technology research. In: W. Gudykunst (Ed.), Communication Yearbook, vol. 24, pp. 272-296  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, for the International Communication Association. 

1991-2000
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Leah A. Lievrouw. (2000, April-June). The information environment and universal service. The Information Society, 16(2), 155-159.  

Leah A. Lievrouw. (1999).  Cyber-separatism: ICTs, heterotopic communication and information environments.  In John Armitage and Joanne Roberts (Eds.), Exploring Cyber Society: Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Issues.  Proceedings of an international conference at the School of Social, Political and Economic Sciences, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, July 5-7.

Leah A. Lievrouw. (1998).  Our own devices: Heterotopic communication, discourse and culture in the information society. The Information Society, 14(2), April-June, 83-96.

Diane H. Sonnenwald and Leah A. Lievrouw. (1997).  Collaboration during the design process: A case study of communication roles and project performance.  In P. Vakkari, R. Savolainen and B. Dervin (Eds.), Information Seeking in Context, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Seeking in Context (ISIC ‘96), Tampere, Finland, August 13-16, pp. 179-204.  London: Taylor Graham. 

Leah A. Lievrouw and T. Andrew Finn. (1996).  New information technologies and informality: Comparing organizational information flows using the CSM.  International Journal of Technology Management, 11(1/2), 28-42. 

Leah A. Lievrouw. (1996).  Constructing research narratives and establishing scholarly identities: Properties and propositions.  In: H.B. Mokros (Ed.), Interaction and Identity: Information and Behavior, vol. 5.   New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 215-235. 

Leah A. Lievrouw. (1994).  Information resources and democracy: Understanding the paradox.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 45(6), July, 350-357.

Leah A. Lievrouw and Janice T. Pope. (1994).  Contemporary art as aesthetic innovation: Applying the diffusion model in the art world.  Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, & Utilization, 15(4), June, 277-309.

Leah A. Lievrouw. (1992).  Communication, representation, and scientific knowledge: A conceptual framework and case study.  Knowledge and Policy, 5(1), spring, 6-28.

Hartmut B. Mokros and Leah A. Lievrouw. (1991).  The communication-information relationship in self-representation. Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, & Utilization,12(4), June, 389-405. 

Leah A. Lievrouw and Kathleen Carley. (1991).  Changing patterns of communication among scientists in an era of "telescience." Technology in Society, 12, 457-477. 

Diane H. Sonnenwald and Leah A. Lievrouw. (1991).  Communication in participatory systems design.  In: J. Griffiths (Ed.), ASIS '91: Proceedings of the 54th American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, vol. 28, 235-245.  Medford, NJ: Learned Information, Inc.

1981-1990
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Leah A. Lievrouw. (1990).  Communication and the social representation of scientific knowledge.  Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 7(1), March, 1-10. 

Leah A. Lievrouw and T. Andrew Finn. (1990).  Identifying the common dimensions of communication: the communication systems model.  In: Brent D. Ruben and Leah A. Lievrouw (Eds.), Mediation, Information and Communication: Information and Behavior, vol. 3.  New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 37-65.

Leah A. Lievrouw. (1990).  Reconciling structure and process in the study of scholarly communication.  In: Christine L. Borgman  (Ed.), Scholarly Communication and Bibliometrics, pp. 59-69.  Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Leah A. Lievrouw. (1989).  The invisible college reconsidered: bibliometrics and the development of scientific communication theory.  Communication Research, 16(5), October, 615-628.  

Leah A. Lievrouw. (1988).  Four programs of research in scientific communication.  Knowledge in Society, 1(2), summer, 6-22. 

Leah A. Lievrouw. (1988). Bibliometrics and invisible colleges: at the intersection of communication research and information science.  In: Christine L. Borgman and Edward Y.H. Pai (Eds.), Proceedings of the 51st American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, vol. 25, 54-58.

Leah A. Lievrouw, Everett M. Rogers, Charles U. Lowe, and Edward Nadel. (1987).  Triangulation as a research strategy for identifying invisible colleges among biomedical scientists.  Social Networks, 9, winter, 217-248.  

Jorge R. Schement, Terry Curtis, and Leah A. Lievrouw. (1986).  Information policy considerations and Latinos.  In: Telecommunications and Latinos: An Assessment of Issues and Opportunities.  Proceedings of the Conference on Telecommunications and Latinos.  Stanford, CA: Stanford Center for Chicano Research, Stanford University, 119-127.

Jorge R. Schement, Terry Curtis, and Leah A. Lievrouw. (1985).  Social forces affecting the success of introducing information technology into the workplace.  In: Proceedings of the 48th American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, vol. 22, 278-283.

Jorge R. Schement and Leah A. Lievrouw. (1984). A behavioral measure of information work.  Telecommunications Policy, 8(4), December, 321-334.

Jorge R. Schement, Leah A. Lievrouw, and Herbert S. Dordick. (1983).  The information society in California: social factors influencing its emergence.  Telecommunications Policy, 7(1), March, 64-72. 

Frederick Williams, Joseph Coulombe, and Leah A. Lievrouw. (1983).  Children's attitudes toward small computers: a preliminary study.  Educational Communication and Technology Journal, 31(1), spring, 3-7.

Leah A. Lievrouw and Fred Christen. (1983).  Theory X is alive and well in continuing medical education.  Journal of Biocommunications, 8(2), July, 2-4.

William H. Dutton and Leah A. Lievrouw. (1982).  Teleconferencing as an educational medium.  In: Lorne A. Parker and Chris Olgren (Eds.), Teleconferencing and Interactive Media '82, proceedings of the annual meeting.  Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin-Extension, 108-114.

Leah A. Lievrouw (Ed.) (2004).  What's changed about new media?  The fifth anniversary issue of New Media & Society.  New Media & Society, 6(1).  Including:
       "What's changed about new media?  Introduction to the fifth anniversary issue of New Media & Society," pp. 5-11.

Leah A. Lievrouw (Ed.) (1994).  Information resources and democracy.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 45(6), July.

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Invited Articles

Diane H. Sonnenwald and Leah A. Lievrouw (1996).  Reflektiivinen käytäntö: Kokemuksia informaatiojärjestelmän suunnittelua käsittelevästä laadullisesta tutkimuksesta [Reflective practice: Experiences from a qualitative study of information systems design; translated by Risto Kunnari and Mirja Iivonen].  Informaatiotutkimus, 15(1), 2-12.

Book Reviews

“Second Encounter.”  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 25(3), March/April 2004, 36, 38.

Review of Critique of Information , Scott Lash (London: Sage, 2002).  The Information Society, 20(2), 2004, 147-148.

Review of Social Theory and Communication Technology by Terje Rasmussen (Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2000). Contemporary Sociology, 31(5), September 2002, 613-615.

Review of The New Review of Information Behaviour Research, Studies of Information Seeking in Context, L. Höglund and T. Wilson (Eds.) (Cambridge: Taylor Graham, 2000).  Library & Information Science Research (LISR), 24, 2002, 99-100.

Review of Progress in Communication Sciences, Vol. XV: Advances in Telecommunications, H. Sawhney and G.A. Barnett (Eds.) (Stamford, CT: Ablex, 1999).  The Information Society, 17(1), 2001, 306.

Review of Silencing Scientists and Scholars in Other Fields: Power, Paradigm Controls, Peer Review, and Scholarly Communication by Gordon Moran (Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1998).  Library Quarterly, 70(1), January 2000, 163-166.

"Communication and the culture wars."  Review essay of current books on museums, collecting, and communication, Journal of Communication, 46(1), winter 1996, 169-178.

Review of The Information Society: A Study of Continuity and Change by John Feather (London: Library Association Publishing). Journal of the American Society for Information Science,  December 1995.

"Health communication research reconsidered: Reading the signs."  Review essay of current books in health communication. Journal of Communication, 44(1), winter 1994, 90-99.

Review of Vocabularies of Public Life, Robert Wuthnow (Ed.) (London: Routledge, 1992).  International Communication Bulletin, 28(1-2), Spring 1993, 20.

"Organizing the data glut."  Review of Communication Technology and Organizations, Janet Fulk and Charles Steinfield (Eds.) (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990).  Journal of Communication, 41(3), summer 1991, 128-130.

Review of The Ideology of the Information Age , Jennifer Daryl Slack and Fred Fejes (Eds.) (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1987). Journalism Quarterly, 65(4), 1988, 1025-1026.

Encyclopedia Entries

Leah A. Lievrouw.  Information society.  Encyclopedia of Communication and Information, J.R. Schement, Editor.  New York: Macmillan Reference, 2002, 430-437.

Leah A. Lievrouw.  Communication.  Encarta Online Encyclopedia.  Microsoft Corporation.  See http://www.encarta.msn.com/.

New Media Column for ICA Newsletter, 1999-2002

Old metaphors for new.  International Communication Association Newsletter, 30(5), June 2002, 8-9.

Broadband, at home and away.  International Communication Association Newsletter, 30(1), January-February 2002, 3-4.  

The anticommons and other tragedies. International Communication Association Newsletter,29(7), September 2001, 9-10, 22. 

Instructional media and the 'no significant difference' phenomenon.  International Communication Association Newsletter, 29(5), June 2001, 5-6.  

The (continuing) search for the electronic publishing business.  International Communication Association Newsletter, 29(2), March 2001, 6-7.

The promises and problems of artificial intelligence. International Communication Association Newsletter,29(1), January 2001, 7-8.  

PETs for online privacy.  International Communication Association Newsletter, 29(1), November 2000, 7-9.

Networks vs. bow ties: Metaphors for the new media landscape.  International Communication Association Newsletter,28(4), July 2000, 8-9.  

Babel and beyond: Languages on the Internet. International Communication Association Newsletter, 28(3), May 2000, 6-7.

How fast is fast?  International Communication Association Newsletter, 28(2), March 2000, 6-7.

"Dead media" and the loss of electronic cultural heritage. International Communication Association Newsletter, 28(1), January 2000, 12-13.

Paradigm or paradox?  ICTs and productivity. International Communication Association Newsletter, 27(5), September 1999, 11-12.

The case of Internet dropouts.  International Communication Association Newsletter, 27(4), July 1999, 10-12.

Deciding what's new about new media. International Communication Association Newsletter,27(3), May 1999, 10-11.