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RESEARCH

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INTERESTS
Digital Media
Youth Studies
Feminist Media Studies
Foster Care 
Media Literacy
Ethnography
Participatory Research Methods
Education

Ph.D. Media Studies 

University of Texas at Austin

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M.A. Media Studies

University of Texas at Austin

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B.A. Communication

University of Oklahoma

CURRENT PROJECTS
Researching Gen Z Media: Generational Discourses & Identity Formation 

Playful and Memetic Social Media Practices ​of Youth

Digital Storytelling and Media Education (NEA Funded Project)

Foster Care & College Readiness 
Associations 

Association of Internet Researchers 

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Society for Cinema and Media Studies 

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National Association of Media Literacy Education 

BOOKS
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Worried About the Wrong Things: Youth, Risk, & Opportunity in the Digital World
2017, The MIT Press
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Mediating Misogyny: Gender, Technology, and Harassment
J.R. Vickery and T. Everbach (Eds.)
2018, Palgrave
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The Digital Edge: How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality
S.Craig Watkins, Andres Lombana-Bermudez, Alexander Cho, Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Vivian Shaw, & Lauren Weinzimmer
2018, NYU Press 
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PUBLICATIONS

Are We Centering the Adult in Youth Media Education?: Decolonizing the Reception of Youth-Produced Media Texts.

 

Journal of Media Literacy Education. Pre-Prints.

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“I don’t have anything to hide, but…”: The challenges and negotiations of social and mobile media privacy for non-dominant youth.

 

Information, Communication, & Society, 18(3), 281-294

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Talk Whenever, Wherever: How the U.S. mobile phone industry commodifies talk, genders youth mobile practices, and domesticates surveillance

 

Journal of Children and Media, 8(4), 387-403

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The Curious Case of Confession Bear: Reappropriating online macro image memes

 

Information, Communication, and Society, 17(3), 301-325

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The Role of After-School Clubs in Closing Participation Gaps and Expanding Social Networks

 

Equity & Excellence in Education, Special Issue Participation Gaps and Digital Literacies, 47(1), 78-95

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Youth Teaching Youth: Learning to code as an example of interest-driven learning 

 

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. 57(5), 361-365

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 “i HATE HATE HATE being single’ and ‘why is getting a bf so hard for me?’: Reproducing heteronormative femininity on gURL.com”

 

Girlhood Studies Journal, 2(1), 40-53

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Media discourses of girls at risk and domestication of mobile phone surveillance 

 

Surveillance, Childhood and Youth - by Emmeline Taylor and Tonya Rooney (Eds.) 

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Blogrings as Online Communities for Adolescent Girls 

 

 

Girl Wide Web 2.0: Revisiting Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity by Sharon Mazzarella (Ed.)

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