Brian Ekdale
@bekdale
Assoc Prof & Grad Director @UIOWA_SJMC. I study digital cultures, production studies & global media. I make lots of typos and dad jokes. @[email protected]
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“More Than A Moment.”
This season, I worked with many other students The Daily Iowan & UIowa SJMC on a photo book about the growth of women’s athletics through the lens of Iowa Women's Basketball.
Buy the photo book to see more moments like these (and so much more) at dailyiowan.com/book/
🚨Calling all creative workers, including social media content creators, based in York, England! I’m co-organising a workshop focused on “Creator Spaces” on May 15 in collaboration with University of Stirling University of York Guild of Media Arts. Free tickets and more info ⬇️ eventbrite.com/e/creator-spac…
Ph. D. student Javie Ssozi successfully defended his dissertation proposal, “Platform politics, public visions: How platform governance discourses shape governance relationships and imaginaries.” Congratulations Javie!
✨ New journal officially launched! Welcome to Platforms & Society! Read our inaugural editorial and submit your article - or even a multimedia piece! The editors (we are an editorial collective!) are me, Niels van Doorn, Cheryll Soriano, andrea pollio & Julie Yujie Chen journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS
Beyond proud and excited to announce the publication of 'Embodied Political Influencers: How U.S. Anti-Abortion Actors Co-Opt Narratives of Marginalization' in Social Media+Society with Gabrielle Beacken, Inga Kristina Trauthig, and Sam Woolley.
Richly deserved! I was so fortunate to join Iowa when Jane Singer was on the faculty, and that she was willing to collaborate with (i.e., mentor) me!
Check out this title on public scholarship. sue robinson Elaine Almeida and I have a chapter on reforming journalism studies so it cultivates care and accountability with communities that sustain all our academic works.
📢 New Book coming out Sept. 3 with The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Pre-Launch book talks agenda taking shape :) Stay tuned for more.
🚨New Pub in Journalism Studies🚨
My latest paper on the Undocuqueer Movement explores how Spanish-language media drew from solidarity (Dr. Anita Varma) & the legacy of the ethnic press to represent the experiences of undocumented LGBTQ people. Read & Share!! shorturl.at/yDEMS
We'd like to congratulate Ph. D. student, Frankline Matanji on receiving the John F. Murray Outstanding Doctoral Student Research Award! This award recognizes significant research achievement activities. We are honored to have Frankline as a TA and Ph. D. student!
Does ginger cure COVID? We surveyed the public in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda to evaluate misinformation literacy surrounding COVID-19 information seen in the media. Check out what we learned. Meghan Sobel Cohen Brian Semujju Kioko Ireri, PhD Emmanuel Munyarukumbuzi tandfonline.com/eprint/EH4R7PF…
Hybrid event at Oxford Internet Institute with me and Jonas Valente . Critical Data Studies with Latin America: Theorizing Beyond Data Colonialismo, based on the article we published in Big Data & Society . May 8. Join us! oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/ev…