C. W.

ANDERSON
CURRICULUM VITAE

Department of Media Culture

College of Staten Island (CUNY)
2800 Victory Boulevard
Staten Island, New York 10314
Christopher.Anderson@csi.cuny.edyu
(347)-247-4223

EDUCATION
2009 Columbia University, Ph. D. Communications
2006 Columbia University, M.Phil. Communications
1999 Indiana University, B.A. Political Science with Honors, Phi Beta Kappa

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2009- College of Staten Island (CUNY), Assistant Professor of Communications
2009 City College of New York (CUNY), Adjunct Lecturer of Media and
Communication Arts
2006-2008 Columbia University, Adjunct Lecturer, Department of the Core Curriculum

AFFILIATED SCHOLARLY POSITIONS

2010 Knight Media Policy Fellow, New America Foundation
2009- Yale Law School Information and Society Project, visiting post-doctoral fellow
2009 Harvard University Nieman Journalism Lab, staff blogger
2009 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, lead researcher for report
“The Reconstruction of American Journalism.,” by Michael Schudson and Len
Downie

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Pending “Journalistic Expertise, Journalistic Assemblage, Journalistic Aggregation.”
PSC-CUNY Research Award
2008 Columbia University, Presidential Graduate Student Teaching Award (finalist)
2007 Columbia University, Core Curriculum Award for Teaching Excellence
2004-2005 Russell Sage Foundation, Research Fellow assisting Dr. Francesca Polletta
2001 Corporation for National Service, National All-Americorps Award (highest
yearly honor for Americorps-VISTA volunteers)

JOURNAL ARTICLES
In press C.W. Anderson. “Journalistic Networks and the Diffusion of Local News: The
Brief, Happy News Life of the “Francisville Four” forthcoming in Political
Communication.

2009 Francesca Polletta, Bobby Pang Ching Chen, and C.W. Anderson. “Is
Information Good for Deliberation? Link-Posting in an Online Forum," Journal
of Public Deliberation 5(1)
BOOK CHAPTERS
2010 C.W. Anderson. “Grassroots Journalism on the Web: An Overview.” Making
Our Media. Clemencia Rodriguez and Dorothy Kidd, eds. (Hampton Press)

2008 C.W. Anderson and Michael Schudson. “News Production and Organizations:
Professionalism, Objectivity, and Truth Seeking,” Handbook of Journalism
Studies. Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Thomas Hanitzsch, eds. (Lawrence
Erlbaum, ICA Handbook Series)

2008 C.W. Anderson. “Journalism: Expertise, Authority, and Power in Democratic

Life.” The Media and Social Theory. David Hesmondhalgh and Jason
Toynbee, eds. (Routledge)

2008 C.W. Anderson “Professionalization of Journalism.”. The International

Encyclopedia of Communication. Wolfgang Donsbach, ed. (Blackwell)

WORK IN PROGRESS AND UNDER REVIEW

C.W. Anderson. Manuscript revision of “Breaking Journalism Down: Work, Authority, and
Networking Local News, 1997-2009,” Columbia University doctoral dissertation.

C.W. Anderson. “Web Production, News Judgment, and Emerging Categories of Online
Newswork in Metropolitan Journalism,” revise and resubmit from Journalism: Theory, Pratice,
Criticism

C.W. Anderson. “Framing, Fields, and Attachment: What the Media ‘Does,’ and Why It
Matters,” article in progress. A “state of the field” article analyzing the implications of science
and technology studies (STS) and actor-network theory approaches to the study of journalism
and communications.

C.W. Anderson and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen. A quantitative analysis of both newspaper and
“citizen” journalism coverage of the 2009 New York City Mayor’s race, with the goal of
identifying both which facts get reported and where those facts originate.

PEER REVIWED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2010 “Principles of Journalistic Symmetry: Building News Networks Before and After
the “Publication” of News.” Paper Presented at the International Symposium on
Online Journalism, Austin, TX, April 23-24 2010

2009 “Framing, Fields, and Attachment: What the Media ‘Does,’ and Why It Matters,”
Paper presented at Media Sociology Forum, New York University, September
25 2009.

2009 “Journalistic Networks and the Diffusion of Local News: The Brief, Happy News
Life of the ‘Francisville Four.’” Paper Presented at the International
Communications Association Conference, Chicago, IL, May 21-25 2009

2009 “Web Production, News Judgment, and Emerging Categories of Online

Newswork in Metropolitan Journalism.” Paper Presented at the International
Symposium on Online Journalism, Austin, TX, April 16-18 2009
 2008 "Like a Bird in Lime Twigs: On the Strange Tangle of Power and Authority in
Mediia Research.” Paper Presented at the International Communications
Association Conference, Montreal, Quebec, May 22-26 2008.

2007 “The Complex Core: Perspectives on Journalistic Knowledge and Higher

Education,” Paper Presented at Higher Education and Social Change at the
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Beginning of the 21 Century, European Science Foundation, Vadstena,
Sweden, September 15-19, 2007.

2007 “Journalistic Professionalism, Knowledge, and Cultural Authority,” Paper

Presented at the International Communications Association Conference, San
Francisco, CA, May 24-28 2007.

2006 “Anarchism and Civil society: Fragmentation and the Public Sphere in an Age
of Online Media,” Paper Presented at the Conscientious Objections:
Communicating Dissent, Conference of the New York State
Communications Association.

2006 “Journalism: Authority, Power and Democracy,” Paper presented at the Media
Change and Social Theory conference, ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-
Cultural Change, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, September 7-9, 2006

2005 “Participatory Journalism on the Internet: A Content Analysis of Three

Websites.” Union For Democratic Communications Conference, Florida Atlantic
University, Boca Raton, FL, 3-6 November 2005

BOOK REVIEWS AND ESSAYS

2008 C.W. Anderson. Book review of “In Pursuit of Public Journalism: Theory,
Practice, and Criticism,” by Taani Hass. Journalism Studies.

2004 C.W. Anderson. “The Indypendent Hits Fifty.” The New York City Indypendent
(June 1-15, 2004)

2004 C.W. Anderson. “Books on Bush.” Left Turn (July-August 2004)

2004 C.W. Anderson “Book Review of “Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship
and the Quarrel That Ended It,” by Ronald Aronson. The New York City
Indypendent (May 15-30, 2004)

SMALL GRANTS AND AWARDS

2008 Travel Grant and Scholarship, Media Re:Public Conference, Annenberg School
for Communication and the Berkman Center at Harvard University, Los
Angeles, CA, 27-29 March 2008

2007 Travel Grant and Scholarship, European Science Foundation Conference,

Vadstena, Sweden, 15-19 September 2007.

2006 Academic Scholarship, Conference at the University of Ohio Institute For

Applied Ethics, Athens, OH, 6-9 April 2006
 1999 Robert G. Chollar Memorial Scholarship, The Kettering Foundation, Dayton,
OH, May 1999

1999 Wendell Wilkie Senior Scholarship (Highest departmental honor), Indiana

University Department of Political Science, Bloomington, IN, May 1999

OTHER CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS

2010 Stanford

2010 “Getting Inside (And Outside) The Exploding Newsroom.” Invited Talk at
Northwestern University Media, Technology, and Society Graduate
Methodology Seminar. February 26, 2010. Evanston, IL.

2009 “The Future of Journalism Education.” Invited speaker at the Gelf Magazine
forum on the future of journalism school. July 1, 2009. Brooklyn, NY

2008 “Precarity, Fragility, and Network Stabilization in the New Metropolitan

Journalism.” Paper presented at the Rutgers University School of
Communication and Information. New Brunswick, NJ, December 16, 2008.

2008 “Rebooting the News: Reconsidering An Agenda for 21st Century Civic
Education,” Workshop Participant, Oct. 23-25, 2008. Philadelphia, PA

2008 “Stabilizing the News Network: Precariousness, Autonomy, and the Rationality
Crisis in the New Metropolitan Journalism.” Paper presented at the Yale
Information Society Project, New Haven, CT, October 14 2008.

2008 “Borderlines and Boundary Zones: Professional Rhetoric and the Drafting of a
Journalistic ‘Shield Law,” Paper accepted for presentation at Politics 2.0: An
International Conference, University of London, UK, April 17-18, 2008.

2007 “Inside the Exploding Newsroom: Towards The New Newsroom Ethnography,”
Paper presented at Media Sociology Forum, New York University, November 2
2007.

2007 “Journalism and Education,” Panel organizer and moderator, Conversations an

Communications: A Conference in Memory of James Carey, Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism, 5 October 2007.

2007 Journalism that Matters: The DC Sessions, Workshop Participant, July 2007.

2007 “Dead Tress: Small Magazines and Newspapers in the Digital Age,”
Presentation and panel organizer, Grassroots Media Conference, The New
School, New York, NY, 24 February, 2007

2006 “Sketches of a Sociological Inquiry into Blogging Ethics,” Paper presented at

the Blogging and Online Journalism: New Media, New Challenges, New Ethics
conference, University of Ohio Institute For Applied Ethics, Athens, OH, 6-9
April, 2006
 2006 “Blogging and College Newspapers,” Workshop participant, College Media
Advisors 2006 National Conference, New York, NY, 16 March 2006

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2006 NORGS: Rethinking the Future of Local News in the 21 Century, Workshop
participant, Annenberg School for Communication, Philadelphia, PA, March 9,
2006

2005 “Legal and Political Challenges to Grassroots Journalism,” Presentation and

panel organizer, Grassroots Media Conference, The New School, New York,
NY, 15 April 2005

2005 “Guerilla Journalism Ethics? A Path Towards Understanding.” Presentation and

panel discussion, Conference on Independent Media, University of Texas at
Austin, Department of Radio, Television and Film, 18 February 2005.

2004 “Blogging Truth to Power? Weblogs, Disinformation, and the Mainstream News
Media.” Paper presentation, Halifax International Symposium on Media and
Disinformation, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1-4 July 2004

2004 “Indymedia and the Open Source Movement.” Presentation and panel
discussion, Spectropolis: Mobile Media, Art and the City, PACE University,
New York City, 27 September 2004

2004 “Radical Media at the 2004 Republican National Convention.” Presentation and
panel discussion, Independent Media at the Republican National Convention
and Beyond, New York University September 10, 2004

2004 “Brad Will and the Independent Reporting Movement: Lessons and Victories
Presentation at The Left Forum, Cooper Union, New York, NY, 10 March 2004

2004 “Alternative Media in New York City: The 1940’s.” Presentation and panel
discussion, Grassroots Media Conference, The New School, New York, NY,
28-29 February 2004

CLASSES TAUGHT
Entrepreneurial Journalism
Introduction to the Media
Introduction to Online Journalism
Media Audiences
Theory and Practice of Broadcast Journalism
Introduction to Journalism
Contemporary Civilization: Key Themes in Western Philosophy

SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE

2010 Proposal reviewer, Routledge Communication Studies

2009- 2010 Contributor, International Collaborative Dictionary of Communications

 2009 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Organizing Committee,
The Changing Dynamics of Public Controversies. 7 February, 2009
2007- Article Referee, Current Sociology

2008 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Organizing Committee,

Conversations and Communications: A Conference in Memory of James
Carey. 5 October 2007.

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY

2009-2010 Undertook department-wide curricular review and rewrite for College of Staten
Island-CUNY Journalism major.
2009 Member, Verrazano Faculty Advisory Committee. College of Staten Island-
CUNY.
2006-2007 Selection Committee for “Shenton Undergraduate Essay Prize” for
Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University, 2006-2007
2004-2006 Graduate School Advisory Council (GSAC) Representative, Communications
PhD Program
2004-2006 Student Committee on University Expansion, Columbia University, New York,
NY.

SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY

2004-2008 Organizing Committee, Grassroots Media Conference, New York, NY
2001-2008 Editorial Board, New York City Indypendent,
1999-2000 Americorps-VISTA Volunteer, Communities in Schools, Houston, TX.