Zizi Papacharissi
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Zizi Papacharissi is a Greek-American writer and communications researcher. She is professor and head of the department of communication at the
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and editor of the journals ''
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media The ''Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering media studies, with a specific focus on broadcasting and electronic media. It was established in 1957 as the ''Journal of Broadcasting'', obt ...
'' and ''Social Media and Society.''


Biography

Papacharissi was born and raised in
Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...
and graduated from Anatolia College in 1991. She earned a double BA in Economics and Media Studies from
Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite historically women's colleges in the Northeastern United States. ...
in 1995, an MA in Communication Studies from to
Kent State University Kent State University (KSU) is a public research university in Kent, Ohio. The university also includes seven regional campuses in Northeast Ohio and additional facilities in the region and internationally. Regional campuses are located in As ...
in 1997, and a Ph.D. in New Media and Political Communication from the
University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...
in 2000.


Research

Papacharissi's work focuses on the social and political consequences of new media technologies. She has published four books and over 50 articles. In ''A Private Sphere'' (Polity 2010), she argued that digital technologies are changing the site of civic engagement to the private realm. She further develops this thesis in her book ''Affective Publics: Sentiment, Technology and Politics'' (Oxford University 2014), arguing that social movements sustained by digital media should not be defined by their political efficacy but rather by their affective intensities or how they help publics "feel their way into" an event or issue. ''Affective Publics'' won Best Book award for the Human Communication and Technology Division of the National Communication Association in 2015 and was praised by critics. Lilie Chouliaraki wrote that ''Affective Publics'' is "a significant statement in its own right about the ontology of digital communication...introduced in the field by this groundbreaking work." She has also edited Routledge collections, ''A Networked Self and Birth, Life, Death'': Routledge (2019), ''A Networked Self and Platforms, Stories, Connections'': Routledge (2018), ''Identity, Community and Culture on Social Network Sites'' and ''Journalism and Citizenship: New Agendas'' (Routledge, 2009). Papacharissi was a consultant for Apple, Microsoft, and the Obama 2012 election campaign. She sits on the Committee on the Health and Well-Being of Young Adults, funded by the National Academies of Science, the National Research Council, and the Institute of Medicine.


Select publications

* Papacharissi, Z. (2015). Affective Publics and Structure of Storytelling: Sentiment, Events and Mediality. Information, Communication and Society, 19 (3), 307-324. * Papacharissi, Z. (2014). Toward New Journalism(s): Affective News, Hybridity, and Liminal Spaces. Journalism Studies, published online March 2014. * Papacharissi, Z. (2015). The unbearable lightness of information and the impossible gravitas of knowledge: Big Data and the makings of a Digital Orality. 'Debating Big Data' in Media, Culture and Society, 37 (7). * Papacharissi, Z., Streeter, T., Gillespie, T. (2013). Culture Digitally: Habitus of the New. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 57 (4), 596-607.


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