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Monday, 20 September 2010 |
 This academic year I will be a faculty associate at the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society at Harvard. I won’t be in residence—I’m teaching courses at GWU this fall and spring—but I will be coming through Boston on a regular basis. I’m mostly working on my next book project, which is on the political economy of the online public sphere. Look for much, much more to come on that front. |
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Moving to George Washington University |
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 |
 It’s now official: I have moved to Washington, DC, to take a faculty position at The George Washington University.
I am excited about the move, though I will miss many things about Arizona—especially my colleagues at ASU. I was blessed to have such smart and supportive fellow faculty, and it was personal rather than professional issues that inspired me to consider leaving.
But if it is bittersweet to leave Arizona, I am grateful to have landed at GWU, which is a fantastic place be a scholar of political communication. Very few institutions have such an impressive constellation of scholars whose interests overlap with my own.
One of the best things about DC is that lots of people come through town. If that includes you, drop me a note. |
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Myth of Digital Democracy Wins Donald McGannon Award |
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Monday, 24 May 2010 |
I’m tremendously pleased to report that The Myth of Digital Democracy has won the 2009 Donald McGannon Award. The award is given out by the Donald McGannon Center for Communication Research at Fordham University to the year’s best book on the social and ethical dimensions of communication policy.
As with the Goldsmith Award, the greatest part of this honor is just to be spoken of in the same breath as previous winners. |
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Myth of Digital Democracy Wins Harvard's Goldsmith Prize |
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Written by Matt
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Tuesday, 02 February 2010 |
I'm thrilled to learn that The Myth of Digital Democracy has won the 2010 Goldsmith Book Prize. Awarded by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Goldsmith Prize seeks to recognize the year’s best book on the intersection of the press, politics, and public policy.
It is a great honor to be listed alongside the previous winners—a group that includes many scholars I have long looked up to. I will count myself lucky if my book has half the influence that previous winning titles have enjoyed.
This project benefited in countless ways from the ideas and work of others, and this is a good moment to thank, again, everyone who contribued to the book’s success. Thanks are also due to Chuck Myers and the entire staff at Princeton University Press, who where terrific to work with at every step along the way. |
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Saturday, 10 October 2009 |
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Score one for old media. In the wake of the book being featured on last week's On The Media, it is sold out on Amazon, at least for the next week or two. Those eager to read it should know that there are still plenty of copies available: click here to order the book directly from Pirnceton University Press. |
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The Myth of Digital Democracy Featured on NPR's On The Media |
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Written by Matt
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009 |
 About a year ago, driving home from Tucson, I heard one of my grad school professors on NPR talking about his latest book. Boy, I thought, wouldn't it be great if I could go on NPR to talk about my book once it comes out?
Be careful what you wish for. A couple weeks ago I got a call from James Hawver, a producer for On the Media, NPR’s weekend media affairs program. He had read Ben Carlson's piece in the Atlantic, and so he ordered a copy of the book. Long story short, this Monday I went down to KJZZ for a half-hour interview with Brooke Gladstone.
In part, the interview was a lesson in humility. Brooke is very good at what she does. Naturally enough, the hosts of OTM often adopt a skeptical tone and press their guests hard on points of disagreement. And I have very little experience in front of a microphone or a video camera.
This made for a couple of awkward moments. Early on in the interview, after I talked about online news readership being more concentrated than print readership, Brooke said that she doubted that this was the appropriate comparison. Shouldn’t we compare Internet consumption to television broadcast audiences instead? I've heard this question before, and I think the answer is no: Newspaper readership and newspaper economics have been hugely impacted by the Internet, while changes in television viewership have been far more modest. But instead of saying that, I got nervous and mumbled something incoherent.
Which is not to say that all of the interview went badly. Much of it went well. Parts of it were even fun. But it is with trepidation that I am waiting to hear the final broadcast. Mercifully, On the Media interviews are highly edited for broadcast. Of the 30 minute conversation, only about 5 minutes will end up on the air. Whether I come off well, or come off like a idiot, depends largely on which 5 minutes get chosen.
But no matter what, it was a privilege to be invited on the program. Thanks to James, Brooke, and the folks at KJZZ for making this happen. |
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