Larson, Christine M

Research

research overview

Larson studies media and public discourse, seeking ways to advance democratic representation of voices contributing to the cultural conversation. She does this by analyzing the impact of digital technologies and business models on media businesses and cultural and creative labor. She is interested in how production logics and media economics favor particular workers or types of content, and how these forces shape the public's understanding of the world. Recently, she has examined the book industry in the digital era.

keywords

media industries, media production, social network analysis, media equality, feminism, inequality, business models, digital technologies

Publications

selected publications

book
- Love in the Time of Self-Publishing How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success 2024
chapter
- The Color of Romance: Gatekeeping in the Age of Digital Media (Christine Larson) 2019
journal article
- Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing. New Media and Society. 2659-2678. 2024
- Love is love: Reverse isomorphism and the rise of LGBTQ plus romance publishing. New Media and Society. 2023
- Streaming books: confluencers, Kindle Unlimited and the platform imaginary. Communication, Culture and Critique. 520-530. 2022
- Open networks, open books: gender, precarity and solidarity in digital publishing. Information, Communication and Society. 2020
- Live publishing: the onstage redeployment of journalistic authority. Media Culture and Society. 440-459. 2015

Teaching

courses taught

APRD 7002 - Research Design
Primary Instructor - Fall 2022
Adopts a holistic and creative approach to bridging theory with method for the purpose of research design. Students learn how to bridge theory and method, exploring research designs that effectively address research questions and hypotheses through elaboration of theoretical and operational linkages. Same as JRNL 7002.
APRD 7051 - Qualitative Methods in Mass Communication
Primary Instructor - Spring 2021
Provides a survey of various qualitative modes of inquiry, attending to the philosophical, conceptual, and practical foundations of qualitative research in media, communication, and information. The course is designed to support students in developing a critical understanding of the different considerations in and stages of qualitative research, including the development of research questions, theoretical and conceptual frameworks, methodological approaches, data collection, data analysis, and assessment of reliability and validity of qualitative data. Previously offered as a special topics course. Same as JRNL 7051.
JRNL 1000 - Principles of Journalism and Networked Communication
Primary Instructor - Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023
Surveys the history, practices and responsibilities of journalism in a democracy. Examines ethics, best practices in institutional and network settings, reporting and writing, international news systems, personal branding, and strategies for creating and distributing content across media platforms. Promotes the highest professional values and encourages students to be leaders who recognize the possibilities of journalism in a democratic society.
JRNL 2000 - Writing for the Media
Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
Introduces students to writing news for a range of news media platforms, including print / online, broadcast, social media and more, and teaches them how to use the appropriate grammar and style conventions for those media types. Also introduces students to various types of stories, from breaking news to features to profiles, and to basic reporting skills. Students encouraged to take concurrently with JRNL 2001.
JRNL 2001 - Fundamentals of Reporting Technologies
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018
Develops news-gathering skills for work in news enterprises. Students learn skills for working with technologies used in news reporting and in storytelling for various media formats. Students are introduced to a range of technologies for recording, editing and producing. Students encouraged to take concurrently with JRNL 2000.

JRNL 4002 - Intermediate Reporting
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018
Builds on basic reporting, writing, and multimedia skills to produce text-story-centered packages on a variety of topics. Students develop beat reporting and enterprise skills, developing sources and progressive stories over the course of a semester.

JRNL 4311 - Literary Journalism
Primary Instructor - Spring 2021 / Spring 2024
Explores the telling of nonfiction stories through the techniques of fiction, through study of American literary journalists, from the New Journalism of the 1960s through current longform narrative multimedia. Students will read and analyze narrative nonfiction from several periods of American history in order to expand their own storytelling repertoire. The class will emphasize in-depth reporting for narrative, character and scene development, narrative arc and structure and the use of dialogue. They will also explore the particular ethical dilemmas faced by writers of creative nonfiction. Same as JRNL 5311.

JRNL 4802 - Feature Writing
Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Spring 2019
Provides practice in writing freelance articles. Considers types, sources, methods, titles, illustrations, and freelance markets. Students submit work for publication. Same as JRNL 5802.

JRNL 4920 - Seminar in Honors Writing & Research
Primary Instructor - Fall 2024
This course supports seniors accepted into departmental Honors Programs in developing the research foundation for their projects, whether they are scholarly, creative, or hybrid. Course topics include topic development, primary and secondary source research, and the writing of a scholarly literature review. Project and time management, planning for creative and scholarly field research, and peer support and editing are also emphasized. Formerly offered as a special topics course.

JRNL 4931 - Internship
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Summer 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Summer 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Summer 2024
Internship

JRNL 5311 - Literary Journalism
Primary Instructor - Spring 2021 / Spring 2024
Studies the contributions of American literary journalists from Sara Davidson, Joan Didion, Normal Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe; to established writers of nonfiction, including Annie Dillard, Jon Krakauer, Jane Kramer, Adrian Nichole LeBlanc and Terry Tempest Williams; to the newest wave of long-form journalists. Explores the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction and the literary techniques that distinguish creative nonfiction and literary journalism from other reportorial and storytelling forms. Formerly JRNL 6321. Same as JRNL 4311.

JRNL 5802 - Feature Writing
Primary Instructor - Fall 2018
Provides practice in writing freelance articles. Considers types, sources, methods, titles, illustrations, and freelance markets. Students submit work for publication. Same as JRNL 4802.

JRNL 5851 - Graduate Professional Project
Primary Instructor - Fall 2022

JRNL 7002 - Research Design
Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Fall 2022
Adopts a holistic and creative approach to bridging theory with method for the purpose of research design. Students learn how to bridge theory and method, exploring research designs that effectively address research questions and hypotheses through elaboration of theoretical and operational linkages. Same as APRD 7002.

JRNL 7051 - Qualitative Methods in Mass Communication
Primary Instructor - Spring 2021
Provides a survey of various qualitative modes of inquiry, attending to the philosophical, conceptual, and practical foundations of qualitative research in media, communication, and information. The course is designed to support students in developing a critical understanding of the different considerations in and stages of qualitative research, including the development of research questions, theoretical and conceptual frameworks, methodological approaches, data collection, data analysis, and assessment of reliability and validity of qualitative data. Previously offered as a special topics course. Same as APRD 7051.

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Background

education and training

awards and honors

ACLS Fellows (ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships and ACLS/New York Public Library Fellowships), conferred by American Council of Learned Societies, 2021

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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4171-809X

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