Theresa M. Senft, Ph.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies Program • 726 Broadway, Room 615 • New York, NY • 10003 [email protected] • website: http://www.terrisenft.net

Education

2004 Ph.D., New York University, Performance Studies. 1997 M.A., New York University, Performance Studies. 1990 B.A. State University of New York at Albany, Political Science.

Publications

Books: Single Author Camgirls: Celebrity & Community in the Age of Social Networks. Revised dissertation. New York: Peter Lang Publishers: 2008.

Books: Co-Written

History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843-Present. New York: ABC-Clio Publications. Received American Library Association Award, Research Division. 1999.

Edited Collections

“Global Selfie Culture.” Special Section (19 articles) for International Journal of Communication, Vol.9. Co-edited with Nancy Baym. Spring 2015.

Routledge Handbook of Social Media. Co-edited with Jeremy Hunsinger. New York: Routledge: 2013.

“Sexuality and Cyberspace: Performing the Digital Body.” Special Issue of Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. Winter 1996.

Book Chapters

“The Skin of the Selfie.”Ego Update: The Future of Digital Identity. Alain Bieber, ed. Dusseldorf: NRW Forum Publications 2015.

“From Media Abstinence to Media Production: Sexting, Young People and Education.” Coauthor with Kath Albury and Amy Hassinoff. Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education. Palgrave 2016.

The Selfie Course: More than a MOOC.” Massive Open Online Courses and Higher Education: Where to Next? Rebecca Bennet and Mike Kemp, eds. Ashgate 2016. Race, YouTube, and Sh*t People Say.” Co-author with Safiya Noble. In Routledge Handbook of Social Media. Routledge 2013.

“Microcelebrity and the Branded Self.” In Blackwell Companion to New Media Dynamics. Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns, Eds. Blackwell, 2012.

“Sex, spectatorship, and the “Neda” video: a Biopsy.’” In New Visualities, New Technologies: The New Ecstasy of Communication, Hille Koskela and J. Macgregor Wise, Eds. Blackwell, 2012.

"Four Rooms." In VOICE: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Art and Media. Norie Neumark and Ross Gisbson, Eds. MIT Press, 2011.

"Shockingly Tech-splicit: Orlan and the Politics of Shock in a Digital Age." In Reload: Rethinking Women and Technology. Mary Flannagan, Ed. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.

"Baud Girls and Cargo Cults" In World Wide Web and Contemporary Theory. Thomas Swiss and Andrew Herman, Eds. New York: Routledge, 2000.

"Spare Parts." In The Ends of Performance. Peggy Phelan and Jill Lane, Eds. New York: New York University Press, 1997.

Articles

“What Does the Selfie Say? Studying a Global Phenomenon.” With Nancy Baym in International Journal of Communication, Vol. 9., Spring 2015.

“Sexuality and Cyberspace: A Ghost Story.” In Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 17, Spring 1997.

"Modem Butterfly." With Kaley Davis in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 17, Spring 1997.

"Gayatri Spivak and the Dark Continent of French Feminism." In Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 14, Spring 1995.

"What's Love Got to Do With It? Reading Linda/Les and Annie Through Lacan." In Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 11, Spring 1993.

Commissioned Essays

“Hating Habermas: On Exhibitionism, Shame & the Life on the Actually Existing Internet.” Either/And: New Theories of Exhibitionism & Display. British Media Museum. 2014. “From Personal Property to Speaking Citizen: Youth, Microcelebrity, and Credit in an Attention Economy." Berkman Center, Harvard University. Publius Series: Spring 2010.

Encyclopedia Entries

Encyclopedia of New Media (Steve Jones, ed., New York: Sage, 2003.) Contributed twenty articles to this project, including entries on:

• Obscenity • Broadband • Cyborg Manifesto • Gender • Minitel • Cathedral and the Bazaar • Internet relay chat (IRC) • Bulletin board system (BBS) • Donna Haraway • Sherry Turkle

Honors and Awards

2016 NYU travel grant for Teaching Global Liberal Studies Conference, NYU London, July (internal award) NYU Liberal Studies Summer Grant Workshop Award (internal award) 2015 NYU President’s Service Award for Advisor Global Media & Creative Production Club (university award) NYU travel grant, Faculty Resource Conference in Athens, Greece, January (university award) 2014 NYU travel grant for Teaching Global Liberal Studies conference, NYU Paris, July (internal award) 2013 NYU Dean’s Global Initiative Grant for travel to Shanghai, Paris & London for the Hey Girl Global Project (internal award) 2010 University of East London “pump priming” award (2,700 BPS~ $4,00 USD) for preparing Economic Research Council grant for Future Sex conference (university award) 2003 Paulette Goddard Fellowship ($4,600 USD) for promising dissertation research (university award) 1999 American Library Association Award, Research Division, for History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843-Present (industry award) 1992 NYU President's Service Award, for outstanding service to New York University as Chief Archivist, Performance Studies (university award) 1991 Merit-Based five-year scholarship and graduate assistantship, New York University. Invited Talks and Conferences 2016 Microsoft Research Social Media Symposium. New York. Invited guest for closed-door research summit limited to fifty participants. January.

Keynote Speaker: Jornada Internacional Geminis Journey. Sao Paulo, Brazil. May.

Keynote Speaker: Launch of Digital Humanities Platform, University of Pretoria, South Africa. June.

2015 Women in the World Summit, London, England. Tina Brown World Media. Invited panelist, October.

Affect Theory Conference. Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Invited Guest Speaker for PhD workshop entitled, “From Clickbait to Triggers: Theorizing the Grab.” October.

Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Arizona. Invited speaker for panel devoted to developing a Social Justice Caucus. October.

2014 Digital Labor Conference, New School University, NYC Invited speaker. Talk title: Digital Labor and Sex Work: Let’s Set Some Research Agendas.”

Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Daegu, Korea. October 6-10. Organizer of three interlocked panels on “Selfie Culture.”

Re-Materializing Feminisms. London, U.K. June 5-8. Institute of Contemporary Art, The Showroom, & Arcadia Missa Gallery. Keynote speaker. Talk title: “Selfie Lucida.”

International Communication Association, Seattle, WA. Preconference on GLTB Issues. Talk title: “Epistemology of the Second Selfie.”

Rutgers Symposium on Social Media & Psycho-Social Wellbeing.” Rutgers University, New Jersey. Plenary speaker. Talk title, “When I Hear the word ‘Empower,’ I Reach for my Revolver.” 2013 Studying Social Media Activism: Special Workshop. Manchester University, U.K. Keynote speaker. Talk title: “My Belongs to Me? Femen and the Trouble with Socially Mediated Shock Politics.”

2012 Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Salford, UK., October 2012. Plenary Speaker Talk title: “Hating Habermas: On Exhibitionism, Shame & the Life on the Actually Existing Internet.”

Digcult 13 Conference, Salford University, UK. June 2012. Keynote speaker. Talk title: “Everything I Know about Internet Research Methods, I Learned from the Camgirls.”

Research Digital Media Conference, University of Manchester, UK. April 2012. Keynote speaker.

2011 Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Seattle, WA. October 2011. Affective Labor and Teen Sexual Display on Fubar. Installation organizer: “Internet Kissing Booth.”

South by Southwest Interactive Conference, Austin, TX. April 2011. Panel presentation entitled, “F*cking the Old Spice Guy: Race, Gender and Micro-celebrity on Twitter.”

Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green Ohio. May 2011. Invited speaker for conference entitled “Race, Labor and Affect on the Internet.”

2010 TED Salon Event. London, U.K. November 2010. Invited speaker. Talk entitled, “Fame to Fifteen: Reframing Celebrity.”

Association of Internet Researchers, Sweden. October 2010. Organized panel entitled “Brand Me Online: Sustaining Personal Identity through Strategies of the Corporate.”

2009 Berkman Center, Harvard University Law School. Autumn 2009. Invited speaker for Youth and Media Policy Working Group initiative. Topic: “What can we learn from youth engagement with celebrity?”

Oxford Internet Institute. Autumn 2009. Invited speaker for OII Forum on Relationships and the Internet. Subject of talk: “From intimate strangers to strange intimacies: theorizing encounters with the other online.”

University of Copenhagen. Autumn 2009. Invited speaker for conference on 'Mediatization of Intimate Experiences.’ Subject of talk: “New Media Romance in the time of Snuff: Thinking through the Media Martyrdom of Neda.” Association of Internet Researchers, Vancouver, CA, Autumn 2009. Roundtable presentation entitled, “Being Difficult? Imagining the Futures of Internet Studies.

2007 Telic Gallery, Los Angeles, Fall 2007. Invited speaker for “Showing,” an exhibition curated by Jordan Crandall. Speech topic: “Tele-ethicality in the age of social networks.”

University of Ottawa Law School, Ottawa, CA, Fall 2007. Invited panel speaker. Talk title: “YouTube Booty Dancing: A Meditation.”

2006 Jewish Funders Network. Boulder, Colorado, Spring 2006. Keynote speaker for Annual Conference. Talk title: “Youth, Judaism, and LiveJournal’s ‘WeirdJews’ Conference: an Informal Ethnography.”

2005 SITE Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Fall 2005. Invited speaker in conjunction with digital artist Kiki Soror.

Franklin University, Lugano, Switzerland. Spring 2005. Caribbean Unbound Conference, Presentation title: “ Braiding as Identity Performance on St. Thomas.”

2004 Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Chicago, Ill. Participant, Pre-Conference Workshop. Organized by Michele Chang, Elizabeth Goodman and danah boyd. Topic: Identity and Community

2002 National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, Fall 2002. Poster panel on “Mardi Gras and Communication.” Paper title: Throw me something, Mister: Webcammed sexual display and theories of carnival.”

Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels Belgium, Spring 2000. Invited speaker for Junctions-Ver., multi-media conference sponsored by Constant VZW. Speech topic: "Women Webcammers."

1998 Modern Language Association, San Francisco, Winter 1998. Paper title: "Four Rooms."

Duke University Dept. of English, Fall 1998. Keynote speaker for conference entitled, “Discipline and Deviance: Technology and Gender for the Future.” Paper topic: "Orlan and the Trouble with Cyborgs."

Freedom Forum, New York, NY. Invited speaker. Topic: "Cyber-rights in the Digital Age." Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, Fall 1998. Invited speaker, “World Wide Web: Metaphor, Myth, Magic” conference. Paper topic: "Baud Girls and Cargo Cults: Waiting for the New Media Money Gods."

Press

1999- Regularly interviewed regarding Internet studies and online culture Present for The New York Times, Wired, The Huffington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Sydney Morning Herald, and others. See links to press citations at www.terrisenft.net/wordpress

2015 Featured on New York Times Live. “Women in the World Summit: Selfies Panel.” Online at http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2015/10/07/selfies- the-high-cost-of-low-confidence/women-in-the-world-london- summit-55/

Featured in New York Times profile, “The Scholarship in Selfies.” Online at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/education/edlife/ the-scholarship-in-selfies.html? r=0

Featured on National Public Radio, “Selfies in 2015: A Woman Thing?” Online at http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/12/31/46130 8933 /selfies-in-2015-a-woman-thing

Featured on MacArthur Foundation’s DML Central : Selfie Pedagogy. http://dmlcentral.net/selfie-pedagogy-iii-networked- spaces-slut-shaming-and-putting-selfies-in-dialogue-with-theory/

2008 Featured on “Spark” CBC Radio program devoted to micro- celebrity. Airdate 13 April 2008.

2005 Featured in and consulted for documentary film, Camgirls (Aerlyn Weismann, director.) W Network, airdate February 2005.

2003 Featured in 21C television broadcast, “Watch Me Generation.” CTV Network, airdate 3 January 2003.

2001 Featured in Lingua Franca Magazine, February 2001. See Scott McLemee's article, "I am a Camera." Available online: http://www.mclemee.com/id36.html

2000 Guest speaker, National Public Radio's Diane Rehm Show, October 2000. Topic: Webcams and Surveillance Culture. Service NYU

2016-2017 CCCP Concentration Chair, Global Liberal Studies, NYU 2014- 2015 Faculty Hire Search Committee, Liberal Studies, NYU

2014-present Faculty Advisor, Global Media Club, Liberal Studies, NYU Networked Technology Committee, Liberal Studies Faculty Advisor, Pop Culture Wing, NYU Dormitories 2005-2006 Faculty Advisor, Communication Club, and First Annual Student Issues Conference, University of the Virgin Islands.

1991-1992 NYU President’s Service Award. For role as Chief Archivist, Performance Studies, New York University.

Research Networks 2016 Hey Girl Global Network: Founder and principle investigator for this multi-lingual academic research network devoted to the intersection of girls culture, urban culture, and media culture. Currently over 350 members in over fifteen countries. Deliverables to date include panels and min-conferences, and online magazine assembled by university students around the world.www.heygirlglobal.com

2014 Selfies Research Network: Founder and principle investigator for this multi-lingual academic research network with 3000 members in over twenty countries. Deliverables included a six-week open access and internationally networked online course, panels and mini-conferences, edited academic journal issue, and anthologies on the politics of selfie culture, worldwide. Press coverage: New York Times, MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning Initiative Site. www.selfieresearchers.com

Consulting & Curating Experience

2016 Brain Reserve. Consulted on women, media and self-esteem for this media think tank begun by Faith Popcorn. March.

2015 Microsoft Research, Boston, MA. Invited scholar in February and July; worked with Nancy Baym on “grab” and “selfie” project, including academic network.

2014 Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising. Led writing and creative workshops devoted to trends in social media and branding campaigns

1996 Digital Art Guest Curator, P.S. 122, New York, N.Y. Curated four performance pieces entitled, "Sexuality & Cyberspace” for Virtual Culture series, co-sponsored by Echo Communications and the Whitney Museum of Art, October 1999

Service National & International

2013-present Ethics Committee: Association of Internet Researchers Editorial Board, Social Media & Society Editorial Board, Journal of Persona Studies

2005-present Manuscript reviewer for Yale University Press, MIT Press, Stanford University Press, Wiley Press, New Media & Society, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Journal of Television and New Media, and Continuum Cultural Studies. 1997-1998 Editor in Chief, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory Responsibilities included soliciting writers, editing copy, and implementing grant-writing and advertising campaign to offset costs, and designing print layout now adopted by Women & Performance.

Professional Affiliations

Association of Internet Researchers International Communications Association Modern Language Association Consulting & Curating Experience Teaching

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References Provided upon request.

Teaching Experience

2011- Clinical Assistant Professor Liberal Studies, New York University. present

Led the following classes at Global Liberal Studies, an undergraduate interdisciplinary program that mixes a “Great Books” curriculum with contemporary inquiry and global scope.

Class Description

GLS Senior In this two-semester Senior year seminar, Global Liberal Thesis Studies undergraduates propose, research, and execute a Colloquium final thesis project. The project is expected to cast a (AY 2013, comparative, cross-cultural focus on some issue in cultural 2014, 2015, or media studies. The ‘traditional’ thesis is text-only; the 2016) ‘creative’ thesis features a mix of text and photography, video or other media forms. Syllabus and assignments are available at seniorthesissenft.weebly.com

GLS This online Junior year seminar is designed for our Independent Global Liberal Studies students in their mandatory year Research away at one of our NYU sites abroad. In addition to Seminar keeping contact with faculty in NYC, students are shown JIRS how to undertake projects in the Contemporary Culture (Spring and Creative Production “major” that foreground issues 2016) of global studies; how to design and conduct fieldwork in their current cities of residence; and how to draft a full research prospectus which they will engage with in their Senior year. Syllabus and assignments are available at jirssenft.weebly.com

GLS This Sophomore seminar is designed to show Sophomore undergraduates in the Contemporary Culture and Research Creative Production “major” how to conceptualize self- Approaches Seminar directed research projects, engage in close reading practices, choose appropriate theoretical paradigms for (Spring 2014, their inquiries in the field of cultural and media studies, 2015, 2016) and conduct basic fieldwork in anticipation of students’ Junior year abroad. Syllabus and assignments are available at cccpapproaches.weebly.com

Global This First-year seminar for Global Liberal Studies is Writing designed as a combination of Writing 1 (Expository) and Seminar: Writing 2 (Research Writing) class. Students are introduced Global Cities to the foundations of cultural studies research writing, (Fall, 2015, taught to access themselves digital holdings at NYU, 2016) exposed to a range of readings regarding global cities. Syllabus and assignments are available at globalwritingseminar.weebly.com 1 Sublime This Sophomore undergraduate seminar is the final Revolutions: installment of the “Cultural Foundations” series. It The Modern covers developments in art, music, theatre, and its advertising, fashion, photography, and cinema Discontents occurring from 1776 to the present. Focusing on the (aka CFIII, appearance of an aesthetic known as “the sublime” Fall 2011, during this period, we track how political and social Spring 2012, revolutions have correlated with aesthetics that Fall 2012, emphasize shock, overwhelm and awe. Drawing on Spring 2013) their own interests in either the sublime or revolution (broadly construed), students write papers that make genealogical links between historical material and contemporary aesthetic concerns. Papers, including formal proposals, are drafted and re-drafted, enabling students to learn how to support their lines of argument, display dialectical movement in their thinking, and develop pith and craft as writers. 25 students. Syllabus and assignments available at www.terrisenft.net

This Year 1, Semester 2 undergraduate writing Researching workshop draws on publications in digital media and Writing culture to teach skills needed for university-level Digital research paper writing. Drawing on their own Media interests, students brainstorm, develop manageable Cultures research questions, utilize journal databases, draft (WRI II, proposals that detail methodological and ethical Spring 2012, considerations, engage in limited primary research Spring 2013) (interviews, questionnaires, semiotic, textual, musicological analysis, or auto-ethnographic study), draft a literature review, write an abstract, and complete a 15 page research paper of their own. Papers are drafted and redrafted, enabling students to learn how to support their lines of argument, display dialectical movement in their thinking, and develop pith and craft as writers. 14 students

This Year 1, Semester 1 undergraduate writing Writing NYC workshop uses ’s streets, shops, and restaurants, photos, buildings, movies and tourist the World venues to teach students how to conduct scholarly (WRI I, inquiry in the areas of humanities and social sciences. Fall 2011, Students are exposed to best practices in semiotic 2012, 2013, critique, textual and discourse analysis, performance 2014, 2015) and film analysis, historiographical analysis, ideology critique, interview technique, and ethnographic investigation. Short essays and assignments are drafted and re-drafted, enabling students to learn how to support their lines of argument, display dialectical movement in their thinking. 15 students. pith and craft as writers.

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2006- Senior Lecturer, Media Studies. University of East London, U.K. 2010 Led the following graduate and undergraduate modules at this Grade 5 (research) “new” university with cultural studies focus:

Title Description

Research Issues Master’s level seminar designed to introduce students to and Methods for major methods employed by researchers in media and Postgraduate cultural studies: discourse analysis; ideological frame Study critique; visual methods; performance analysis; (Spring 2009) interviewing techniques; ethnographic approaches and practice as research. 15 students.

Digital Media Year 3 undergraduate seminar devoted to issues in Cultures new media: the ‘Web 2.0’ debate; the wane of aura in (Spring 2008, a digital age; the legalities of remix culture; hyper- 2007) reality and the ethics of game culture; the Internet as new public/counter-public sphere, and the role of self-branding in social networking online. 35 students

Preparing New Media Year 2 lecture/seminar designed for undergraduate Dissertations & students in Interactive and Games Design Projects departments to develop research projects. Exercises (Spring 2008, included brainstorming objects for research, 2007) designing measurable research questions, and locating appropriate theoretical lenses for analysis. 60 students. Media, Culture & Identity Year 2 lecture/seminar focused on issues of (Fall 2009, representation of self and other. Authors read 2008, and included Goffman, Lacan, Foucault, Hall, Mulvey, 2007) Said, Baudrillard, Haraway, and Turkle. Managed two graduate assistants responsible for post-lecture seminars. 100 students.

Year 1 seminar designed to introduce theoretical Identity, Race issues in race and postcolonial studies. Writers read & Difference included Hall, Mercer, Said, Shohat, Bhaba, Spivak, (Spring 2006) and Dyer. Managed one graduate student responsible for seminars. 60 students

3 Class for Year 1 students in Media Studies, Interactive Critical Studies, and Computer Games Design. Developed 100 Thinking and page workbook, focused on close reading, outlining, Study Skills for précis writing, basics of quantitative analysis, abstract Media Students writing, drafting academic essays, assessing scholarly (Fall 2006, Spring 2007, sources, online research techniques, grammar usage, Fall 2008) and the editing process. Supervised three visiting tutors who led seminars. 200 students.

Media Year 1 undergraduate lecture/seminar designed to Meanings introduce students to theoretical arguments in the (Spring 2009, media. Lectures cover semiotics, ideology and 2008, 2007, discourse, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, 2006) postmodern and postcolonial critiques of media. Managed three graduate assistants responsible for running post-lecture seminars. 200 students

2004- Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication, University of the Virgin 2006 Islands, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.

Title Description Public Speaking Year 2 undergraduate seminar in which students research, outline and deliver academic lectures and persuasive speeches. Updated this course to include code-switching exercises for West Indian accents. 25 students.

Team Year 2 undergraduate seminar in which students Communication researched, designed, publicized and ran a half- and Conference day conference devoted to student concerns at the Techniques University of the Virgin Islands. 6 students.

Journalism 2: Year 2 undergraduate seminar in which students Think Pieces searched and wrote print and radio pieces about the Caribbean. 10 students.

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2000- Adjunct Instructor: New York University 2003 Title Description

Subcultures in Self-designed seminar for ten graduate students at Cyberspace New York University’s Interactive (Fall 2003) Telecommunications Program. (ITP)

Acting, Technology Self-designed seminar for twenty-five students in and Reality (Fall Undergraduate Drama Program, Tisch School of the 2000) Arts, New York University.

1999- Adjunct Instructor: Pratt Art Institute, Brooklyn, NY 2000 Title Description

Autobiography in Co-produced syllabus and team-taught studio class of Art fifteen students in Pratt’s Program of Art and Design (Spring 1999) Education. 15 students.

Internship Ran weekly ‘check-in’ class for students, supervised Seminar construction of portfolios/journals, ran workshops on (Fall 2000) career planning, goal setting and time management for college students.

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