Curriculum Vita

Susan J. Robinson

Associate Professor

School of Journalism and Mass Communication

The University of Wisconsin-Madison

5148 Vilas Hall

Madison, WI 53706-1497

Twitter:suerobinsonUW

Email: robinson4@wisc.edu

 

Curriculum Vitae (EXCERPTED)

Education

Ph.D.            Temple University, Mass Media & Communication (4.0)            2007

M.A.             Northeastern University, Journalism (3.85)            2000

B.A.             University of New Hampshire, Journalism/English (Summa cum laude)            1994

Semester Abroad, Aix-en-Provence, France            Fall 1992

 

Professorial appointments

 

Associate Professor, The University of Wisconsin at Madison (January 2007 – present)

• Research and publish in academic journals
• Coordinate the MA professional-track journalism program
• Teach undergraduate and graduate-level journalism (skills and theory) courses
• Spearheaded the restructuring of M.A. professional-track journalism program

Research

Research interests

Online Journalism

Media Technology

Civic Engagement

Information Authority

Press theory (narrative journalism; press as an institution, journalistic authority)

Citizen Media

Collective Memory and the Press

Major Publications

Refereed Monographs

• Robinson, S. (2011) “Journalism as Process: The Labor Implications of Participatory Content in News Organization” Journalism & Communication Monographs 3(13).

Refereed Journal Articles

• Robinson, S. and Mendelson, A. (2012). “Experimental Qualitative Approach: Studying Mediated Meaning Construction Using a Hybrid Approach.” Journal of Mixed Methods Research.

• Robinson, S. and DeShano, C. (2011). “Anyone can know:” Citizen journalism and the interpretive community of the mainstream press.” Journalism: Theory, Practice, Criticism.

• Robinson, S. (2011). “Convergence Crises: News Work and News Space in the Digitally Transforming Newsroom.” Journal of Communication.

• Robinson, S. and DeShano, C. (2011) “Citizen Journalism as Third Places? What makes people contribute information online (or not).” Journalism Studies 12(5), 1-16.

• Robinson, S. (2010). “Traditionalists vs. Convergers: Textual privilege, boundary work, and the journalist-audience relationship in the commenting policies of online news sites.” Convergence 16(1): 125-143.

• Robinson, S. (2009). “The Cyber-Newsroom: A case study of the journalistic paradigm in a news narrative’s journey from a newspaper to cyberspace.” Mass Communication & Society, 12(4):1-20.

• Robinson, S. (2009). “ ‘We were all there:’ Remembering America in the anniversary coverage of Hurricane Katrina.” Memory Studies 2(2): 235-253. ***

• Robinson, S. (2009). “ ‘If you had been with us’: Mainstream press and citizen journalists jockey for authority over the collective memory of Hurricane Katrina.” New Media & Society 11(4): 795–814.

• Robinson, S. (2009). “A Chronicle of Chaos: Tracking the news story of Hurricane Katrina from The Times-Picayune to its Web site.” Journalism: Theory, Practice, Criticism 10(4): 431-450.

• Robinson, S. (2007). “Someone’s Gotta be in Control Here: The Institutionalization of online news and the creation of a shared journalistic authority.” Journalism Practice, 1(3), 305-321. ***

• Robinson, S. (2006). “Blogging the story: Recapturing a journalistic frame online.”

Journalism: Theory, Practice, Criticism, 7 (1, February), 65-83.

• Robinson, S. (2007). “Vietnam and Iraq: Memory vs. History in the 2004 Presidential Campaign Coverage.” Journalism Studies, 7(5), 729-744.

*** These two articles have been selected for inclusion in an edited volume due out in 2011 by Berkowitz, Dan (Cultural Meanings of News: A Text-Reader. London: Sage). The book includes 23 articles from the field’s leading journals and focuses on cultural approaches to understanding the nature of news. It is a follow-up to Berkowitz’s earlier, seminal work, Social Meanings of News, also published by Sage.

Book Chapters

• Robinson, S. (2011). “Experiencing Journalism.” In Eugenia Siapera and Andreas Veglis (eds) Online Journalism: Global Perspectives, Local Practices. Wiley-Blackwell.

• Robinson, S. (2011). “ ‘Beaming up’ Traditional Journalists: The Transition of an American Newspaper into Cyberspace.” In David Domingo and Chris Patterson (eds) Making Online News: The Ethnography of New Media Production (Second Edition). Peter Lang Publishing.

• Robinson, S., DeShano, C., Nakho, K. & Friedland, L. (2010). “Madison Commons: Experimenting with a citizen-journalism model.” In Jack Rosenberry and Burton St. John III. (Eds) Public Journalism 2.0: The Promise and Reality of a Citizen-Engaged Press, an edited volume published by Routledge.

• Robinson, S. (2009). “ ‘Searching for my own unique place in the story:’ A comparison of journalistic and citizen produced coverage of Hurricane Katrina’s anniversary.” In University of Texas’s Journalism and Citizens: New Agendas, an edited volume published by Erlbaum.

Minor Publications (Book Reviews, Non-refereed Essays, etc.)

• “Things people older/younger than me do not understand about the Internet.” (2009) (An essay based off a panel speech at AEJMC, Chicago, August 2008). Journalism Studies 10(2): 268-280.

• Book Review: Making Online News by Chris Paterson and David Domingo (2009). New Media & Society 11: 887-889.

• Book Review: Pursuit of Journalism by Tanni Haas (2008). Journalism: Theory, Practice, Criticism 9(6): 775-784.

• Book Review: When the Press Fails by Lance Bennett et al. (2008, January). Journal of Communication Inquiry, 32, 90-94.

• Online News Books Essay (2006) New Media & Society, 8(5)

• “Technology and Katrina: How Gatekeepers are Becoming Gateways” (2005, October 6) Convergence Newsletter, Vol. III No. 4.

Teaching

Teaching Areas

Journalism (newswriting, news editing, literary journalism, press theory, editing, journalism history, press law, multimedia storytelling)

Media Institutions

Mass Media & Society

New Media Theory

Qualitative Methods

Teaching experience

University of Wisconsin @ Madison

Madison, Wisconsin

 

Classes

Journalism in Theory

Integrated Media Storytelling

Research Methods (Qualitative)

Advanced Media Practices

In-depth Reporting

Temple UniversityPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania

Writing for Journalism

Journalism & Society

Saint Michael’s College

Colchester, Vermont

Writing for Media I

Writing for Media II

Northeastern University

Boston, Massachusetts

Journalism I

ServiceAcademic Service at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

School of Journalism & Mass Communication

• Organized and conducted a video training session for the Society for Environmental Journalists, Fall 2009
• Organized multimedia training session for faculty, Spring 2009

Master’s Professional Track Program

Graduate Committee

• Served on the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication Graduate Committee (2007-present)

Society of Professional Journalists

• Served as the faculty advisor for the SPJ chapter at the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication (2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010)

UW Faculty Senate

• Served as an alternate (2008-2009)
  

Professional Service outside of University of Wisconsin-Madison

Service to Trade Organizations

• AEJMC:
  • Served as Teaching Chair of Communication Technology, 2009-2010
  • Served as Membership Chair of Communication Technology, 2008-2009
  • Served as Head of the Graduate Education Interest Group, 2006-2007
  • Served as Vice-Head and Co-Program Chair, 2005-2006
  • Published the GEIG newsletter as the group’s Secretary during 2004-2005

Book Manuscript Development

• Chapman, Jane. (2009) Journalism Past and Present: Issues and Challenges. Blackwell Publishing.

Blind Reviewing for Conferences and Journals

• Journal of Magazine & New Media Research, 2010
• The American Behavioral Scientist, 2010
• Communication Theory, 2009
• Convergence, 2009
• Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2008, 2009
• Mass Communication & Society, 2008, 2009
• Journalism Studies, 2007, 2008
• International Communication Association, Journalism Studies Division, 2008
• Communication Technology for the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2009, 2010
• The Graduate Education Interest Group for the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
• The Promising Professors Award for the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2007, 2009, 2010

Invitations, Appearances in Mainstream Press and News Organizations

• Newspaper Consultant: The Isthmus, an alternative weekly in Madison, WI (April 2007)

• Expert for Capital Times transition from print to online: The Seattle Times, the Associated Press, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jay Rosen’s PressThink (a highly regarded media blog); The Isthmus, Dane101 (2008-2009)

Speaking Engagements (Invitation)

• Capital Times (April 2008)

Professional activities

Professional Experience

Business Reporter/Special Projects, The Courier-Post, Cherry Hill, NJ (Sept. 2003-Nov. 2005)

• Wrote regular business and metro enterprise stories, including a narrative entrepreneur series that ran every other month
• Critiqued the business section at the request of the editors
• Served on a committee to form a new youth publication, called Impulse

Business Reporter, The Burlington Free Press, Burlington, VT (April 2000-Aug. 2003)

• Wrote three sections of a six-part, award-winning series entitled “Saving Our Farms” (2001)
• Followed IBM (VT’s largest employer), agriculture, technology, recession, energy issues

Reporter, The Gloucester Daily Times, Gloucester, MA (March 1996-July 1998)

• Covered fishing, waterfront, and business issues, and wrote columns (1997-1998)
• Wrote two articles a day covering the town of Rockport (1996)

Reporter, The Derry News, Derry, NH (Dec. 1994-March 1996)

• Covered the 1995-1996 U.S. presidential primary race
• Wrote 10-12 articles a week about the town of Londonderry

Contributing Writer, Seafood Business and GoFish.com (Jan. 2000-April 2001); The Associated Press (1999-2000); The Boston Business Journal, The Boston Globe (1998-2000); National Fisherman, The New England Press Association Bulletin (1996-2000); North Shore Magazine (1996-1998); Rockingham County News (Summer 1993)

Honors and Awards

New Media Theory: How far have we traveled? Top Paper, 2010

AEJMC Promising Professor, 3^rd Place Assistant Professor, 2009

International Communication Association, Graduate Student Teaching award, 2006

AEJMC Promising Professor, Graduate Student, 2006

International Symposium on Online Journalism, Top Paper, 2006

Temple Graduate Student Forum, Top Paper, 2^nd place, 2006

Graduate Assistantship, Temple, 2003-2004; 2004-2005, 2005-2006

AEJMC Guido H. Stempel III Research Paper Competition, 2^nd Place, 2005

Philadelphia Press Association award for daily business story, 2004

Vermont Press Association, Top State Reporter, 2003

Vermont Press Association, Top Local Story, 2003

Vermont Farm Bureau Media Person of the Year award, 2002

Society of American Business Editors and Writers award for breaking news, IBM (team*), 2001

New England Associated Press award for Sept. 11 special team follow-up coverage, 2001

Best of Gannett awards for series and breaking news (team*), 2001, 2002

James M. Ragsdale Memorial Award for commitment to First Amendment issues, 2000

Graduate Assistantship, Northeastern, 1998-2000

New England Associated Press award for enterprise reporting, 1998

New England Associated Press award for enterprise reporting, 1997

New England Press Association award for education reporting, 1996

Dean’s List (Highest Honors), 1990-1994

Governor’s Success Grant (full academic scholarship), 1990-1994

UNH Academic Achievement Award, 1992-1994

*For these stories, I was lead reporter on a team

Professional Memberships

Online Newspaper Association

AEJMC (Newspaper Division, Communication Technology,  Graduate Education Interest Group)

Society of Professional Journalists

International Communication Association (Journalism Division)

Phi Beta Kappa

Phi Kappa Phi

Golden Key National Honor Society