Program Director,
Media and Democracy
- Literature, Film, the Arts;
- Media & Communications;
- Renewing the Public;
- Science & Technology
Topics:
- E-mail: karaganis@ssrc.org
- Phone: (718) 517-3673
Bio
Joe Karaganis directs SSRC projects on media, technology, and culture, including the 'Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere' Program and the 'Culture, Creativity, and Information Technology' Program. His research focuses on the relationship between digital convergence and cultural production, and has recently included work on media piracy, broadband adoption, and data policy. He is editor of Structures of Participation in Digital Culture (2007) and of the forthcoming Toward Detente in Media Piracy (2010). He has also worked as a consultant for the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations.
Programs and Projects
- Media, Technology, and Culture
- (Program Director)
Publications
- Book(s)
- Media Piracy in Emerging Economies, ed. Joe Karaganis (March 2011), http://piracy.ssrc.org.
- Structures of Participation in Digital Culture, ed. Joe Karaganis (2007).
- Report
- Dharma Dailey, Amelia Bryne, Alison Powell, Joe Karaganis and Jaewon Chung, Broadband Adoption in Low-Income Communities (2010).
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