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RESEARCH INTERESTS

• social, artistic, pedagogical, and activist theories of new media;
• internet history;
• liveness and authenticity in media;
• surveillance culture,
• shifting perceptions of private and public;
• the Web’s effect on the global reception of public intellectuals;
• the influence of the historical avant-garde on media and performance;
• theories of mediated performance in everyday life;
• theories of mediated risk, trust, reputation, social capital and ethics;
• media celebrity and micro-celebrity practices; cyborg theory and practice;
• reconciling feminist theory with contemporary girl culture;
• media and globalization;
• postcolonial theory and new media practice;
• mediated sex work and tourism as global feminist labor issues.

I also have a budding interest in micro-credit and technology initiatives in developing countries. Last year, I spent a small amount of time in Ghana working with the amazing people at WISE and BusyInternet, and I'm really eager to return there, as it's a fascinating place with regard to women and technologies. If you have any experience in these matters, I'd love to talk more with you.

COLLABORATION

I'm interested in collaborating with others on a number of research projects. Some of these are things I've done preliminary interviews for. Others I'm just starting to think about. All the topics below have interested partners, but to protect their privacy, I've left them off this site. If you're interested in any of these, or just think I ought to know about your work, please do drop me some email at terri.senft@nyu.edu.

• Tele-ethicality: theory and practice.
• Who’s public? What’s an intellectual? The Web’s effect on global pundrity and large-scale pedagogy.
• Life off the screen: the social meanings of an African tele-center. Initial fieldwork at BusyInternet Café in Accra, Ghana. (www.busyinternet.com)
• Burden of proof: media use in an African gender violence prevention group. Initial fieldwork begun at WISE, Accra, Ghana. (www.wise-up.org)
• Postcolonial theory meets new media practice: teaching college-level communications in the Anglophone Carribean. Fieldwork to be conducted in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
• Kawaii! The rise of the Japanese “net idol.” Preliminary English-language interviews conducted 2004.
• Sex for sale, networked and mobile: telecommunications and the global sex trade.
• Child sexuality and contemporary media.
• Arab women, blogging. Fieldwork to be conducted, Dubai, U.A.E.