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Laura Robinson
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Sociology
500 El Camino Real
EDUCATION
2006
Ph.D. Sociology
Dissertation: “Negotiating 9/11: Cultural Repertoires and Discourses in
Brazilian, French, and American Online Fora.”
Award: 2007 Outstanding Dissertation of the Year
NCA: International and Intercultural Communication Division
2000
M.A. Sociology
1996
M.A. European Studies: Specialization in Media
Euromasters Consortium and l'Université
de Paris III: la Sorbonne Nouvelle
1995
Certificat d'Etudes Supérieures: Mention Bien
l'Université de Paris III: la Sorbonne Nouvelle
1994
B.A. French, English, and Interdisciplinary Studies: Phi Beta Kappa
AREAS
OF SPECIALIZATION
9/11
Political Discourse
Global
New Media
Sociology
of Communication
Sociology
of Culture
APPOINTMENTS
Assistant
Professor of Sociology 2008-present
Department
of Sociology
Postdoctoral
Fellow 2006-2008
University
of Southern California & UC Berkeley
Lecturer
Summer 2006
UCLA
Dept. of Sociology
UCLA
Dept. of Communication
BOOKS
Negotiating
9/11. Under contract with
PEER-REVIEWED
JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Digital
Inequalities Among American Youth: Access, Attitudes, and Information Seeking.”
Forthcoming
June
2009 in the Second Annual Special Issue of the Communication and
Information Technologies Section
of
the American Sociological Association
“New
Avenues for Sociological Inquiry: Evolving Forms of Ethnographic
Practice” (with Jeremy Schulz).
Forthcoming
in Sociology.
“The
Moral Accounting of Terrorism: Competing Interpretations of September 11,
2001.” 2008.
Qualitative
Sociology, Volume 31: 3.
“The
Cyberself: Symbolic Interaction in the Digital
Age.” 2007. New Media & Society, Volume 9: 1.
Award 2007
Outstanding Paper
ASA:
Computer and Information Technology Section
“Online
Art Auctions à la française and
à l’américaine: eBay
The
Social Science Computer Review.
Volume 24: 4.
“Debating
the Events of September 11th: Discursive and Interactional
Dynamics in Three Online Fora.” 2005.
The
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Volume 10: 4.
Awards 2005
Best Graduate Student Paper
ASA:
Computer and Information Technology Section
2005
Student Paper Award
Association
of Internet Researchers
Robinson,
Laura and David Halle. 2002. “Digitization, the Internet, and the Arts:
eBay, SAG, e-Books, and Napster.”
Qualitative
Sociology. Volume 25: 3.
BOOK
CHAPTERS
“Creating
Social Categories of Art: the Sociology of Art in Context.” forthcoming
in
Les
Actes de l’Art &
@rt: l’Université de Paris VII.
“Black
Friday and Feedback Bombing: An Examination of Trust and Online Community in
eBay’s Early History.” 2006.
Everyday
eBay Culture, Collecting, and Desire. Ken
Hillis, Michael Petit and Nathan Epley
(Eds.), Routledge.
“Cultural
Constructions of Trust and Risk in Virtual Auction Houses: eBay
Les
Actes de l’Art &
@rt: l’Université de Paris VII.
WORKING
PAPERS
“Nationalism
and Transnationalism: Brazilian, French, and American
Online Communities Respond to 9/11.” 2005.
The
World Society Foundation Focus Paper Series.
BOOK
REVIEWS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Book
Review: “Doing Visual Ethnography” 2008. Library and Information
Science Research, Volume 30: 4.
“Virtual
Structure vs. Digital Agency: Revolution, Mediation, or Replication?”
2007 (August).
Re-public
Re-Imagining Democracy.
Book
Review: “Critical Cyber-Culture Studies.” 2007. The Journal of
Communication, Volume 57: 4.
GRANTS,
FELLOWSHIPS, AND HONORS
2009-2010
Presidential Research Grant
2009
Provost’s Research Grant
2006-2008
Postdoctoral Fellow 2006-2008
University
of Southern California & UC Berkeley
2007
Outstanding Dissertation of the Year
National Communication Association
International and Intercultural Communication Division
2007
Outstanding Paper
American Sociological Association
Computer and Information Technology Section
2005-2006
Research Grant
World Society Foundation Program
2005-2006
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship: Advanced Brazilian Portuguese
2005
Best Graduate Student Paper
American Sociological Association
Computer and Information Technology Section
2005
Student Paper Award
Association of Internet Researchers
2004
& 2005 Bourse d’Accueil,
Research Privileges in
Ecole Normale Supérieure
2004
Collegium of Teaching Fellows Award
UCLA Department of Sociology and Office of Instructional Development
2000-2003
Mellon Fellowship
Latin American Studies: Fieldwork in
2001
Predissertation Fellowship for Fieldwork in
UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies
2001
Predissertation Fellowship for Fieldwork in
2001
WebShop Conference on Internet Research
National Science Foundation Funded Two-Week Seminar at
2000
Tinker Foundation Grant
Latin American Studies: Fieldwork in
2000
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship: Brazilian Portuguese
2000
Research Summer Mentorship Grant
UCLA Graduate Division
1999-2000
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship: Brazilian Portuguese
1995-1996
Fellowship at la Sorbonne Nouvelle in
l'Université de Paris III: Euromasters
Programme
1989-1994
Trustee Scholarship for Academic Excellence
Study at
1993
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa
1991
Honorable Mention
Business Today Int’l. Competition: “The Global Economic Community
in 2091”
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL
MEETINGS
“Orientations
Towards New Media: Economic Disadvantage and Conditions of Access.”
American
Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2009 (August).
“Information
Seeking and Evaluation Among Economically Disadvantaged Youth: Examining the
Effects of Digital Inequality”
(with
Jeremy Schulz). Southern Sociological Society 2009 Annual Conference in New
Orleans (April).
“The
Moral Accounting of September 11, 2001: Competing Understandings of Political
Violence.”
National
Communication Association Annual Convention, San Diego, 2008.
“Training
the Sociological Eye on Digital Inequality.”
American
Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, 2008.
“Nationalism
and Transnationalism in Online Communities: Processes
of Negotiation Using New Media.”
International
Communication Association Conference, Montreal, 2008.
“National
and Transnational Identities as Meaning-Making Tools.”
National
Communication Association Annual Convention, Chicago, 2007.
“Online
Spaces and Ethnographic Inquiry: New Media Communication and Cyberethnographic Practice.”
National
Communication Association Annual Convention, Chicago, 2007.
“Information
the Wiki Way: Cognitive Processes of Information
Evaluation in Collaborative Online Venues.”
International
Communication Association Conference, San Francisco, 2007.
“Nationalism
and Transnationalism in Online Communities: Processes
of Negotiation Using New Media.”
International
Communication Association Conference, San Francisco, 2007.
“National
and Transnational Perceptions of the U.S.:
Negotiating 9/11 in Brazilian, French, and American Virtual Fora.”
Global
Information Infrastructure Symposium, Washington, DC. 2007.
“National
and Transnational Identities: Determining Spheres of Moral Concern.”
Annual
Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, 2007.
“Symbolic
Boundaries, National and Cosmopolitan Identities: Brazilian Framings of
9/11.”
Symposium
on Portuguese Traditions, UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 2006.
“A
Cyberethnographic Account of 9/11: Analyzing Forum
Communities in Brazil, France, and the United States.”
Association
of Internet Researchers Conference, Chicago, 2005.
“Online
Art Auctions à la française and
à l’américaine: Comparing eBay
France and eBay USA.”
Annual
Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, 2004.
“The
Internet: the Next Key Component of Visual Sociology.”
Annual
Meeting of the International Visual Sociology Association, San Francisco, 2004.
“Vive
la différence: Framing Art and Community in
Two Online Venues.”
Annual
Meeting of the International Visual Sociology Association, San Francisco, 2004.
“Framing
and Reframing Museums: Art in Online Contexts.”
Art
& @rt: l’Université
de Paris VII, 2004.
“Virtual
Auction Houses as Culturally Constructed Venues.”
Art
& @rt: l’Université
de Paris VII, 2003.
“The
Cyberself: The Self-ing
Project Goes Online” (with Jeremy Schulz).
Annual
Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, 2002.
“Cyberethnography and the Future of Qualitative Digital
Research.”
Annual
Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, 2002.
“The
Impact of New Technologies on the Arts.”
Annual
Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Anaheim, 2001.
“Reputation
and Trust on eBay: Black Friday: 08/20/99.”
Annual
Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Anaheim, 2001.
“The
Digitization of the Arts: Three Case Studies.”
LeRoy
Neiman Center’s Annual Conference on the Sociology of Culture, Los
Angeles, 2001.
INVITED TALKS
“Developing
a Taste for the Necessary: A Bourdieuian Approach to
Digital Inequality Among American High School Students.”
UC
Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology, Berkeley, 2009.
“Parallel
Systems and Cultural Difference in Art Auctions: French and American use of
eBay.”
USC
Annenberg Center, Los Angeles, 2007.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant
Professor: Santa Clara University 2008-present
Undergraduate
courses Computers, Internet, and Society,
Business, Technology, and Society, and Principles of Sociology
Lecturer:
UCLA Department of Communication Summer 2006
Undergraduate
course Communicating Culture and Identity Through International Cinema
Lecturer:
UCLA Department of Sociology Summer 2006
Undergraduate
course Introduction to Sociology: Film and Society
Teaching
Fellow: UCLA Department of Sociology 2005
Undergraduate
course Research Methods: At the Movies
Teaching
Fellow: University of California Paris Center 2005
Undergraduate
courses French Language and Culture
Co-Instructor:
UCLA Department of Sociology and OID 2004 & 2005
Graduate
course Supervised Teaching of Sociology
Teaching
Fellow: UCLA Department of Sociology and OID 1998-2005
Graduate
and undergraduate courses Sociology and New Technologies
Teaching
Fellow: UCLA Collegium of Teaching Fellows 2004
Undergraduate
course Sociology of Online Worlds: Redefining the Real
Grant
for Instructional Improvement: Office of Instructional Development
Adjunct
Faculty: Sociology, Santa Monica College Department of Social Sciences 2002
Undergraduate
courses Introduction to Sociology: Film and Society
Lecturer:
California Lutheran University Department of French 1997-1998
Undergraduate
courses French Language and Culture 101, 102, and 202
TEACHING ASSISTANT EXPERIENCE
Teaching
Assistant: UCLA Department of Sociology 1999-2000
Sections
of undergraduate course Ethnographic Research Methods
RESEARCH AND UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE
Director:
UC Paris Center for French and European Studies Language Practicum Spring 2005
Developed
and directed language practicum on French language and culture in Paris
Executive
Director: UCLA LeRoy Neiman Center 2000-2003
Conducted
research; implemented grants, coordinated annual conferences and lecture series
Graduate
Student Researcher: UCLA Department of Sociology 1999-2000
Conducted
research on virtual art for David Halle
Graduate
Student Researcher: UCLA Department of Sociology 1999
Conducted
research on eBay for Peter Kollock
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Stagiaire: Citibank Paris, France 1996
Conducted
cross-cultural research as member of bilingual project team
Intern:
U.S. House of Representatives, Washington D.C. 1993
Conducted
research at the Library of Congress to examine current events and policies
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Science
Technology and Society Steering Committee Member: Santa Clara University
2008-2009
Computer
Committee Member: UCLA Dept. of Sociology 2005-2006
Coordinator
for Trust and Networks Working Group: UCLA Dept. of Sociology 2001-2002
Rep.
to the Graduate Curriculum and Advisement Committee: UCLA Dept. of Sociology
2000-2001
Computer
Committee Member: UCLA Dept. of Sociology 1999-2000
Member
of the Provost’s Committee on Inclusiveness: University of Southern
California 1992-1993
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Communication
and Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association
Council Member 2008-2010
Student Paper Award Committee Member 2008
Session
Organizer:
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco 2008
International Communication Association Conference, San Francisco, 2007.
Journal
Reviewer:
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
New
Media & Society
American Sociological Review
American Journal of Sociology
Organization Science
Information
Technologies & International Development
Electronic Journal of Sociology
Time & Society
Conference
Reviewer: International Communication Association Conference
National Communication Association Annual Convention
European Conference on Information Systems
Int'l.
Community on Information Systems for Crisis Response & Management
Academic
Editor: The
Social Issues Collection, Routledge
LANGUAGES
French
Brazilian
Portuguese