Mike Ananny

Mike Ananny

Bio:

Mike Ananny is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and an Affiliated Faculty with USC’s Science, Technology and Society research cluster. He studies the public significance of networked news infrastructures – how they reflect and challenge journalistic and technological values. He has held fellowships and scholarships with Harvard’s Berkman-Klein Center on Internet and Society, Stanford’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, LEGO Corporation, and Interval Research. He was a founding member of Media Lab Europe’s research staff, a postdoc with Microsoft Research’s Social Media Collective, and has worked or consulted for LEGO, Mattel, and Nortel Networks. His PhD is from Stanford University (Communication), SM from the MIT Media Lab (Media Arts & Sciences), and BSc from the University of Toronto (Human Biology & Computer Science). He has published in a variety of academic and popular venues including Science, Technology, and Human ValuesCritical Studies in Media CommunicationInternational Journal of CommunicationJournal of Computer Mediated CommunicationAmerican Behavioral ScientistDigital JournalismThe AtlanticThe Globe & Mail; and Nieman Journalism Lab. His book on networked press freedom will be published by MIT Press in 2018.