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- E-Mail:
- vpickard@uiuc.edu
- Website:
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- Interests:
- Communication rights, Community/municipal broadband, Social Movements and Sectors, Media Reform Movement
- Discipline(s)
- Communications
- Role(s):
- Graduate Student
Current Institutional Affiliation(s) (Past Affiliations)
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Department of Media, Culture & Communication
Steinhardt School of EducationNew York UniversityNew York, NY, United StatesAssistant Professor
Biography
Dr. Victor Pickard recently defended his dissertation on 1940s media policy and media reform to finish his Ph.D. at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois. Currently he is working on telecommunications policy in Washington, D.C. as a Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, a public policy think tank. His research and teaching explore the intersections of U.S. and global media activism and politics, media history, democratic theory, and communications policy. His work has been published in a number of scholarly journals, including the Journal of Communication; Global Media and Communication; Media, Culture & Society; New Media and Society; Journal of Communication Inquiry; International Journal of Communication Law and Policy; and Critical Studies in Media Communication.
Publications and Resources
Journal Articles
- Victor W Pickard. United yet Autonomous: Indymedia and the Struggle to Sustain a Radical Democratic Network. Media, Culture & Society. 2006.
- Victor W Pickard. Assessing the Radical Democracy of Indymedia: Discursive, Technical, and Institutional Constructions. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 2006.