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Leah
A.
Lievrouw joined the Department of Information Studies at the
University of California, Los Angeles, in 1995. Her research and writing interests
focus on the relationship between media and information technologies
and social change, particularly with respect to social differentiation,
oppositional social and cultural movements, and intellectual freedom in
pervasively mediated social settings.

With Sonia Livingstone of the London School of Economics, she is
co-editor of the 4-volume Sage
Benchmarks in Communication: New Media (Sage, 2009),
and of The
Handbook of New Media (updated student edition; Sage,
2006). Lievrouw is
also the author of Understanding
Alternative and Activist New Media (Polity
Press, Cambridge; in preparation) and Media and Meaning:
Communication Technology and Society (Oxford University Press, in
preparation).
Her other
books include Competing
Visions, Complex
Realities: Social Aspects of the Information Society (co-edited
with Jorge Reina
Schement, Ablex, 1987), and Mediation, Information
and Communication: Information and Behavior, vol. 3 (co-edited with
Brent Ruben, Transaction, 1990). From 2001-2005 she was
co-editor of
the journal New Media & Society.
Dr.
Lievrouw received a Ph.D. in communication theory and research in
1986 from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of
Southern California. She also holds an M.A. in biomedical
communications / instructional development from the University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, and a Bachelor of Journalism
from the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, she has held faculty
appointments in the Department of Communication
in the School of Communication,
Information, and
Library Studies (SCILS) at Rutgers University in New Brunswick,
NJ and in the Department of Telecommunication and Film at the
University of Alabama. She has also been a visiting scholar at
the
University of Amsterdam's School of Communication Research (ASCoR) in The
Netherlands, and visiting professor at the ICT & Society Center at
the University of
Salzburg, Austria. In 2006-07 she was the Sudikoff
Fellow
for
Education and New Media
at UCLA.
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