COMMUNICATION - Key Persons
Research interests: representational politics surrounding Colombia's war, media studies, socio-cultural anthropology, the documentary arts, film and photography projects with immigrant, refugee, and marginalized communities.
Alex Fattal is a visual and multimodal anthropologist whose scholarly and creative work has focused on the Colombian armed conflict and efforts to forge a less violent future in that Andean nation. His work spans traditional academic publications, books and peer-reviewed articles, as well as community-based photography work and experimental non-fiction filmmaking. He is interested in questions of spectacle, capitalism, social media, ethnographic theory, Latin American cinema, experimental documentary, and political conflict, a diverse but connected set of subjects that coalesce around the politics of visual representation.
His first book Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia (Chicago 2018) chronicles the Colombian military's efforts to lure rebels in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN) out of the insurgency with a combination of public relations campaigns and military intelligence operations and the growing convergence between emergent forms of branding and militarism in the twenty-first century. The book won the Sharon Stephens Prize from the American Ethnological Association and the book award of the Global Communication and Social Change Division of the International Communication Association and was also recognized by Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology book award. The book has been extensively reviewed, including by the New Yorker, and has been translated into Spanish and Turkish (in process).
His second book explores a community-photography project that he started in Altos de Cazucá, in the hills southwest of Bogotá where those who have been displaced by the conflict and are drawn to the economic prospects of the capital migrate. The book - Shooting Cameras for Peace: Youth, Photography, and the Colombian Armed Conflict / Disparando Cámaras para la Paz: Juventud, fotografía, y el conflict armado Colombiano (Peabody/Harvard 2020) - is a bilingual photo-ethnography that examines the program's ten year history, celebrating the students' works while also submitting the project to critical analysis by reflecting on the dynamics and limits of "participatory" media. The book received the John Collier Jr. award from the Society of Visual Anthropology and was recognized by the Visual Culture Section of the Latin American Studies Association and the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
His film Limbo (Cinema Guild 2019) profiles a guerrilla fighter who deserted from the FARC. The entire film takes place in the payload of truck transformed into a giant camera obscura, an oneiric, psychoanalytic space where up and down are unmoored and the protagonist must wrestle with his dueling identities as a perpetrator and a victim, conflicts that manifest in his devilish dreams and can only find some resolution with the help of indigenous medicine from Putumayo. The film has screened at Cinema du Reel, Sheffield DocFest, among other festivals, and has won awards and honorable mentions at the Latin American Studies Association Film Festival, BOGOShorts, and Panorama du Cinema Colombien.
Fattal's first film Trees Tropiques (Berkeley Media 2009) offers a portrait of a family living in the mouth of the Amazon River, where sweet and salty waters mix and the crop of açai is increasingly replacing old-growth forests amid illegal small scale deforestation. The film plies the overlapping ethics of cutting trees and documentaries and has screened at numerous festivals and universities. The film was produced in Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab, which Fattal has mixed feelings about.
Currently, Fattal is working on two books about the politics of Colombian photography, one historical and the other contemporary, and pursuing a family-oriented documentary. The latter project is about his uncle Eli, who was likely kidnapped as part of a phenomenon known as the "Yemeni Children Affair" in which Jews from the Middle East arriving to Israel in the late-1940s to mid-1950s had newborns, infants, and young children taken from them and given to Jews of European descent. Often nurses or other hospital officials informed the parents that the children had died but never allowed them to see their child's dead body.
Fattal has held or continues to hold leadership positions in the Society of Visual Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, the Visual Culture Section of the Latin American Studies Association, and the AjA Project, a San Diego-based media arts non-profit that he helped to launch in 2002 that supports immigrant, refugee, and transborder youth.
Education
Fattal received a BA with honors in "Comparative Area Studies" from Duke University and his PhD from Harvard University, with a secondary field in Critical Media Practice, in 2014. He has held a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard's Mahindra Humanities Center and was an assistant professor at Penn State University before arriving to UCSD.
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- Administration
- Graduate Coordinator
- Graduate Student Advising & Admissions
Andrea serves as an advocate and resource for the graduate students throughout their time in the Department of Communication, supporting students and faculty with curriculum development and administration, graduate program management, and student-related activities and educational matters.
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- Assistant Professor of Media and Popular Culture
Research Interests: Youth Civic and Political Participation; Learning in Informal Settings; Media and Technology for Learning; Mathematics in Context; Parent Advocacy; Anthropology and Education; Qualitative Research Methods
Angela Booker is currently studying ways youth, families, and schools make use of media and technology for participation, learning, and community development. She is particularly concerned with addressing barriers that diminish access to public participation among underrepresented and disenfranchised communities. She uses ethnographic, qualitative, and design-based research methods to examine typical and emerging practices where youth and adults work together (and at times, in conflict). Collaborations with youth, community partners, educators, and scholars form the basis of her work.
Education
Ph.D. in Education, Stanford University, 2007
Goldman, S., Booker, A., & McDermott, M. (2007). "Mixing the digital, social, and cultural: Learning, identity, and agency in youth participation." In D. Buckingham. (Ed.) Youth, identity, and digital media (185-206). MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning.
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- Assistant Professor in Language and Social Justic
- Assistant Professor in Language and Social Justice
Research Interests: Critical Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Education, Immigration, Community Radio, Antiracist Organizing
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- Associate
- Associate Professor
- Chairman
Research Interests: Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Studies, Transnational Gender Studies, Indigenous Studies, and African Diaspora Studies.
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- Dean of the Division of Social Sciences
- Professor in the Communication Department
- Professor, Dean of Social Sciences, Sanford I. Berman Chair in Language and Human
Tang, B., Feldman, H., Padden, C., Israeli, N., & Stein, M. (2009). Delayed recognition of profound hearing loss in a 7-year-old girl with a neurological condition. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 30(4), 327-330.
Padden, C. (2002) How the alphabet came to be used in a sign language. In R. Schulmeister & H. Reinitzer (Eds.) Progress in Sign Language Research: In Honor of Sigmund Prillwitz/Fortschritte In Der Gebärdenspracheforschun:Festschrift für Siegmund Prillwitz. Hamburg, Germany: Signum Press.
Research Interests: media history, business history, communication studies, and how people in power (and people who want to have power) use media for strategic sensemaking, especially around the role of business in society.
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- Professor Emerita of Communication and Science Studies, Affiliated Faculty, Critical Gender Studies
- Professor Emeritus
Mukerji, Chandra, "Animals, Monsters, and Muppets" in Elizabeth Long, Cultural Studies and the Sociology of Culture. Blackwell, 1997.
Mukerji, Chandra."The Collective Construction of Scientific Genius" in a collection on Work and Communication, edited by Y. Engeström and David Middleton. Cambridge University Press. 1997.
Research Interests: technology, design, and social inequities, social life of sustainable architecture, the place of technology and design in American youth cultures and amongst educational reformers. Studio for Ethnographic Design and the University of California Collaboratory for Ethnographic Design.
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- Emeritus Faculty in Communication and Visual Arts
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- Professor Emeritus and Professor of Graduate Division
- Professor Emeritus, Professor of Graduate Division
Research Interests: journalism, political communication, comparative analysis of media systems, wars in Vietnam, Central America, and the Gulf War, television coverage of elections and the shrinking "sound bite," political journalism, and the rise and decline of journalist professionalism, health and medical reporting, and the mediatization of health and medicine
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- Artist
- Associate Teaching Professor
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- Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies
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- Media
- Professor Emerita
- Professor Emeritus
DeeDee Halleck is a media activist, founder of Paper Tiger Television and co-founder of the Deep Dish Satellite Network, the first grass roots community television network.
Dr. Caroline Collins earned her PhD in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. She is currently a President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at University of California, Irvine. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside and a B.A. in American Literature and Culture from UCLA. Her research examines public remembrances of the American West through archival methods, ethnographic study, media production, and public history exhibition. Her public scholarship includes exhibits and media produced in collaboration with the California Institute for Rural Studies, the California Historical Society, the California African American Museum, Exhibit Envoy, and the First Nations Development Institute. Dr. Collins' research has been supported by the Bylo Chacon Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation / U.S. Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) Recovering the US Hispanic Heritage Grant, California Humanities, UCSD Frontiers of Innovation Scholars Program, the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California Project, and the Herbert I. Schiller Communication Dissertation Fellowship.
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- Principal Investigator, the University of California Collaboratory for Ethnographic Design ( CoLED )
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- Academic Personnel & Human Resources
- Administration
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- Media and Popular Culture
Research Interests: American Film and Television History, Media Industries and Cultures of Production, Feminist Media History, Below-the-Line Media Labor, Creative Collaboration, Contemporary Hollywood Production Labor, Practices, Equity, Inclusion, Diversity and Intersections of Race and Gender in Media Production, Development and Pre-Production (historical and contemporary), TV Fandom and Reception Studies, Comedy and Science Fiction Genres and Production , "Gig" Economies (Media Industries and Higher Education)
Erin Hill worked in film development in New York and Los Angeles before undertaking study of the media industry. Her primary interest is in historical and contemporary media production in the United States, with particular focus on intersecting issues of gender, race and class in creative labor sectors. Her first book, Never Done: A History of Women's Work in Media Production (Rutgers UP, 2016), examines the role of feminized labor in U.S. film and television production from the 1890s to the present and draws connections to the ongoing struggles of women and people of color in integrating key creative fields in contemporary Hollywood. Hill's current research investigates the development sector, where projects are scripted, financed and planned. She continues freelance development work for Summit Entertainment, a division of Lionsgate.
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- Associate Professor
- Director of Graduate Studies
Research Interests: theoretically-driven, actor-centered accounts of power and processes of territorial transformation fusing geography, history, and political economy while maintaining a commitment to a scholarship of activism and critical engagement with the world.
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- Dissertation Research Fellowship - UCLA Center for the Study of Women, 2010
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- Dean of the Social Sciences
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- and Director, Science Studies Program, Director of Graduate Studies
- Director of Graduate Studies / Director, Science Studies Program
Research Interests: Critical analysis of digital media technologies, the politics and social implications of computerization and the automation of surveillance in the United States from the mid-twentieth century to the present.
Kelly Gates. "COVID-19 and the Care of the Financialized Self."
Kelly Gates. "The Work of Wearing Cameras: Police Media Work and the Police Media Economy." In Routledge Companion to Labor and Media, ed. Richard Maxwell. Routledge, 2015.
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- Assistant Teaching Professor in Communication and Global Health Program ( Joint Appointment )
Research Interests: Production and movement of global health knowledges, postcolonial science and technology studies, health professions training and migration, qualitative research methods
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- Associate Professor
- Science
L. Irani. 2004. Understanding gender and confidence in CS course culture in Proceedings of ACM SIG Computer Science Education 2004. (28% acceptance rate)
Irani, L., & Silberman, M. 2014. From critical design to critical infrastructure: lessons from turkopticon. interactions, 21(4), 32-35. [non-commercial use PDF]
Research Interests: Science and Technology Studies, Human-Computer Interaction, and South Asia studies, how technical practices are shaped by hierarchies of value, gender, race, and the cultural and economic project called ‘modernity.'
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- Professor
- Professor Joint Appointment ( Affiliated ), Visual Arts, Communication and Science Studies Affiliated Faculty, Critical Gender Studies Director, Catalyst Lab
"Radiography, Cinematography, and the Decline of the Lens, 1920-1970," co-author Lisa Cartwright,
Marco Werman, host of the international news program "The World" from GBH and PRX, is serving as the University's First Journalist in Residence. He hosts the public radio show from the new broadcast studio located in the Department of Communication and built as part of the Democracy Lab initiative.
Martindale, Michelle. "Review of Hill, Erin, Never Done: A History of Women's Work in Media Production." Jhistory, H-Net Reviews. (October, 2017), https://networks.h-net.org/node/14542/reviews/564657/martindale-hill-never-done-history-womens-work-media-production.
Research Interests: Political ecology, ethnography, social and urban anthropology, critical geography, development and tourism studies, space, capitalism, Southern Mexico.
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- Undergraduate Student Advising
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- Professor
- Professor Emeritus, Professor of Journalism at the Columbia University School of Journalism
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- Professor, Science Studies
Research Interests: Ethnomethodology, interaction with technology, gesture, multimodality, and the senses.
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- Professor in Communication and Science Studies
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- Director of La Clase Mágica, Faculty Affiliate
- Director, La Clase Mágica
Humphries, T., P. Kushalnagar, G. Mathur, D. J. Napoli, C. Padden, C. Rathman, & S. Smith. "Language acquisition for deaf children: reducing the harms of zero tolerance to the use of alternative approaches". Harm Reduction Journal, 9:16. 2012.
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- Department Chair
- Department Chair, Professor / Department of Ethnic Studies
- Professor in the Departments
- Professor, Joint Appointment, Department of Ethnic Studies
Patrick Anderson is a Professor in the departments of Communication, Ethnic Studies, and Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author of Autobiography of a Disease (Routledge, 2017) and So Much Wasted (Duke University Press, 2010) and the co-editor, with Jisha Menon, of Violence Performed (Palgrave, 2009). With Nicholas Ridout, he co-edits the "Performance Works" book series at Northwestern University Press. He has served as Director of the Critical Gender Studies program and founding facilitator for the Social Justice Practicum at UC San Diego; as Vice President of the American Society for Theatre Research; and as Editorial Board member for the University of California Press. In 2018, he was appointed by the Mayor and City Council of San Diego to the Community Review Board on Police Practices (later the Commission on Police Practices), which represents the community in reviewing complaints against the police, officer-involved shootings, and in-custody deaths. He served for two full terms. A former Fulbright Scholar and Berkeley Fellow, Anderson holds a PhD in Performance Studies (Designated Emphasis: Women, Gender, and Sexuality) from the University of California, Berkeley; an MA in Communication and Cultural Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and a BS in Performance Studies and Anthropology from Northwestern University. In 2020, he completed his Death Doula certification at the University of Vermont.
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- Associate Teaching Professor
Research Interests: Asian/Asian American studies, contemporary Korean and Korean American political economic and cultural history, postcolonial and feminist theory, cultural theories of global media and hallyu (the Korean Wave), digital storytelling and transmedia activism
Patty Ahn earned their Ph.D. in Critical Studies from the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, where they developed a research and teaching interest in Asian/Asian American studies; contemporary Korean and Korean American political economic and cultural history; postcolonial and feminist theory; cultural theories of global media with an emphasis on hallyu (the Korean Wave); and digital storytelling and transmedia activism. Drawing from their background as a community organizer and commercial producer, their work integrates interdisciplinary media research, critical media practice and community-based models of teaching.
Dr. Ahn's current project engages in an interdisciplinary study of the political economy and visual politics of South Korea's pop music export industry, or K-Pop. They focus on how the global marketing of Korean idol and and idol groups, through music videos and other promotional content released by Korean record labels and governmental agencies, is reshaping cultural imaginaries about Korea in the post-millennium, especially in the U.S. Attending to a marked growth in interest in K-Pop as an object of study among undergraduate and graduate students, They are designing a multimodal online teaching companion in addition to producing a traditional scholarly manuscript.
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- Director Emeritus of Laboratory for Comparative Human Cognition
- Professor Emeritus
- Qualitative Research, © 2010 Elsevier Ltd
A translation of A Talk Presented to the Cognitive in Romanian.
Cross-cultural and Historical Perspectives on the Consequences of Education: Implications for the Future (November 1, 2002)
Michael Cole.
Designing implementing, sustaining, and evaluating idiocultures for learning and development: The case study of the Fifth Dimension. pg. 331
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- UCSD Chancellor and Retired President of the University of California
Richard Atkinson, former UCSD Chancellor and retired president of the University of California.
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- Professor Emeritus, Professor of Graduate Division
Research Interests: democracy, the state, communication, and political reform.
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- Associate Professor
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Five Lessons for New Media from the History of Comics Culture." International Journal of Learning and Media. 3.4 ( November 2012 )
Research Interests: Media industries, broadcast and cable history, streaming content and digital distribution, copyright law, media audiences, and contemporary issues related to pop culture and society.
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- Historian
- Professor
- Professor Emeritus
Stefan Tanaka is a historian who has worked on modern Japan. His earlier work focused on the ways that history, pasts, and time were configured to define Japan's world and itself. Recently that inquiry has shifted to history as a technology of communication. This shift to history as media opens an inquiry into different ways that historical knowledge, categories, and practices are both tied to particular literary systems and might change in the digital age. This interest has led to work in scholarly communication and the Digital Humanities. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled, History without Chronology.
Education
Ph.D. in Japanese History, University of Chicago (1986)
Research Interests: modern Japanese history, ways that history, pasts, and time were configured to define Japan's world and itself, history as a technology of communication, the Digital Humanities
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- Assistant Professor, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute ( Joint Appointment )
Research Interests: Social, cultural, and political aspects of data science, automation, and AI; governance and moderation of online platforms and communities; knowledge infrastructures; science and technology studies; ethnography in online and distributed contexts; computational and mixed methods
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- Research Prize for Literary Journalism Studies, International Association for Literary Journalism Studies, 2020
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- Chief Administrative Officer
- Management Services Officer
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- Associate Professor in Critical Journalism Studies
Lawrence, Regina, Damian Radcliffe, and Thomas R. Schmidt, "Practicing Engagement: Participatory Journalism in the Web 2.0 Era." Journalism Practice 12, vol. 10 (2018): 1220-1240. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2017.1391712
Research Interests: Journalism Studies, Political Communication
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- Associate Professor
- Professor Emeritus
Humphries, T. "Schooling in American Sign Language: A paradigm shift from a deficit model to a bilingual model in deaf education". Berkeley Review of Education.
Humphries, T. "Scientific explanation and other performance acts in the re-organization of DEAF" in Signs and Voices, Donna Jo Napoli, ed.. Gallaudet University Press. 2008..
Humphries, T. and MacDougall, F. "'Chaining' and other links: making connections between American Sign Language and English in two types of school settings" in Visual Anthropology Review, 15:2, Fall/Winter 1999/2000.
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- Professor Emerita
- Professor Emerita and Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
Finally, Professor Hartouni has been pursuing a more literary project on practices of dying. Specifically, she has been interested in exploring some of the ways in which modern death is both staged and enacted as a particular kind of performance, structured according to certain plot devices that render it most one's own and most not. On material related to this aspect of Hartouni's work see Bringing the Dead Back to Life