Rob Jewitt's profile
Robert Jewitt
Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies
Programme Leader for BA (Hons) Television Studies, BA (Hons) Mass Communications, Centre Leader for Kuala Lumpur
Email: robert.jewitt@sunderland.ac.uk
Telephone: (0191) 515 3431
Teaches:
- Cybercultures
- New Media, the Internet and Society
- News
- Media Ethics for Journalism
- Popular Music: History, Genre, Theory
Research Interests:
- Journalism
- Intellectual property
- Piracy
- Social media
- Mobile media technologies
- Web Studies
Key Research Output:
- Publications
2009 'The trouble with twittering: integrating social media into mainstream news', International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 5(3)
2008 'Recycling "Culture" and the Culture of Recycling: The Cultural and Environmental Impact of Mobile Devices in Europe', in Sara Martin (ed) Recycling Culture/s, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press
2005 'Mobile Networks - Globalisation, networks and the mobile phone' in C. Cornut-Gentille (ed), Culture and Power: Culture and Society In The Age of Globalisation, Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, Spain - Conference Papers
2011 'Policing Piracy: Assessing the Impacts of National Strategies to Combat Illegal File Sharing', European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop On Consuming the Illegal, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
2010 'Politics, Policy, Piracy & Participation: Assessing the impact of the Digital Economy Bill', research seminar, Centre for Research in Media & Cultural Studies.
2009 'Panic in the streets of Mumbai: Twitter, mobile phones and participatory action', invited paper, Centre for Research in Media & Cultural Studies, Postgraduate research conference, University of Sunderland, UK
2005 'Recycling Culture: The Mobile Phone, Mass Consumption and Sustainable Design', presented at the 11th Culture and Power Conference, University of Barcelona, Spain.
2004 'Mobility and the Mobile Phone' presented at the 10th Culture and Power Conference, University of Burgos, Spain.
- Reviews
2009: Review of Tarleton Gillespie, Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 15(2) at http://con.sagepub.com/content/vol15/issue2/
2006: Review of Elaine Lally, At Home With Computers (Oxford: Berg), Particip@tions 3(1) at http://www.participations.org/volume%203/issue%201/3_01_jewitt_review.htm