PATRICIA AUFDERHEIDE - American



PATRICIA AUFDERHEIDE

Professor and Director, Center for Social Media

School of Communication, American University

Washington, DC 20016-8017

(202) 885-2069/(301) 942-1082

paufder@american.edu



EDUCATION

Ph.D., 1976, University of Minnesota, history

M.A., 1973, University of Minnesota, history

B.A. summa cum laude, 1969, University of Minnesota, history

HONORS AND AWARDS

Career Achievement Award, International Digital Media and Arts Association, 2008

Career Achievement Award in Scholarship, International Documentary Association, 2006

Annual Spry Lecturer on Public Broadcasting, Vancouver and Montreal, Canada, November 14-16, 2006

Scholar-Teacher of the Year, American University, 2004-2005

Finalist and prizewinner, Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Policy Research, McGannon Center, Fordham University, July, 2000

Fulbright Research Fellowship, 1995

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1994

University Award for Outstanding Scholarship, American University, 1994

National Endowment for the Humanities study grant, 1993

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Teaching Standards Committee award, Free Expression Contest, 1991

Utne Reader Alternative Press Awards, Best Cultural Coverage for In These Times (shared award), May 1990

Chicago Newspaper Guild Stick-o-Type award, nondaily criticism, for "Good Morning, Vietnam" and "The War in El Cedro," In These Times, 1989

Alternative Press Award for general excellence in investigative reporting, given to In These Times by Utne Reader, 1989

World Hunger Media Project, award for environmental writing, for "Environmental Reform and the Multilateral Banks: The Greening of Development Lending," co-authored with Bruce Rich, World Policy Journal, V:2, Spring 1988

Folio Direct Mail awards 1982 (joint author, subscription renewal)

Project Censored Investigative Journalism Award 1979 (articles on public television, In These Times)

American Historical Association Latin American History Prize Committee, 1974 (for "True Confessions: The Inquisition and social attitudes in Brazil at the turn of the XVII century," Luso-Brazilian Review X:2,1973

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2001-present Director and Founder, Center for Social Media, American University

1998-present Professor, School of Communication, American University

1994-1998 Associate Professor, School of Communication, American University

1995-1996 Visiting Research Professor, University of Brasília

1989-1994 Assistant Professor, School of Communication, American University

1985-1987 Visiting Professor, Center for International Studies, Duke University

1978-present Cultural/senior editor, In These Times newspaper

1986-1987 Policy analyst, United Church of Christ, Office of Communication

1982-1983 Senior editor, American Film magazine

1980 Visiting Professor, History, University of Illinois Chicago Circle

1976-1978 Assistant Professor, History, University of Minnesota

PUBLICATIONS

Recent Books/ Monographs

Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Council on Foundations Film Festival Catalog, annually 1997-2006. Washington, D.C., Council on Foundations, March 2000. (Www.)

The Daily Planet: A Critic on the Capitalist Culture Beat. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

Communications Policy and the Public Interest: The Telecommunications Act of 1996. New York: Guilford Press, Jan. 1999. (Www.)

Beyond PC: Toward a Politics of Understanding (editor). Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf, 1992

Center for Social Media Reports

Co-executive producer, with Peter Jaszi and Renee Hobbs, Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education, November 2008

Co-executive producer, with Peter Jaszi, Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video, Center for Social Media, July 2008

With Peter Jaszi, Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video, Center for Social Media, January 2008, 17

With Peter Jaszi, The Good, the Bad and the Confusing: User-generated video creators on copyright, April 2007, 20 “Unauthorized: The copyright conundrum in participatory video,” Center for Social Media, April 2007, 8 The New Deal 1.5, Center for Social Media, June 2007, 15 Introduction, Public Radio’s Social Media Experiments, July 2007, 13 MONO

With Peter Jaszi and Renee Hobbs, The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy, Center for Social Media, September 2007, 28

Author, The New Deal 1.5, Center for Social Media, 2007

Author, Rapporteur’s Report, Repurposing and Rights: A Non-Profit Summit, 2006

Author, The New Deal: How Digital Changes Rights Negotiations between Independents and Public Television, Center for Social Media, 2006

Executive producer with Peter Jaszi, Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use, Center for Social Media, 2005

Co-author with Peter Jaszi, Untold Stories: Creative Consequences of the Rights Clearance Culture for Documentary Filmmakers, Center for Social Media/Project on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest report, 35 , released Nov. 8, 2004 at Washington College of Law

Author, In the Battle for Reality: Social Documentaries in the U.S., Center for Social Media report, 93 , at battle/index.htm, December 2003

Author, What Keeps Social Documentaries from Audiences—and How to Fix It, 16 , Center for Social Media, January 2004

Co-writer and co-project director, Digital Futures: A Need-to-Know Primer for Filmmakers on Policy for a Digital Age, co-published by Independent Television Service and Center for Social Media, 40 Feb. 2004

Recent Book Chapters

"Judith Helfand: Secret Stories, Video Diaries and Toxic Comedy," in Exile Cinema: Filmmakers At Work Beyond Hollywood , ed. Michael Atkinson, State University of New York Press, 2008, 117-122

with Katja Wittke, “Mapping Publics and Issues of The War Tapes: Claims and Connections online,” in Participation and media production: Critical reflections on content creation, Cambridge Scholars Press, 129-146

“Filtering the media smog: researching the public’s interest in the media environment,” Media Ownership: Research and regulation, ed. Ronald Rice, Hampton Press, 2007

US Public TV, in Douglas Gomery and Luke Hockley, eds., Television Industries, BFI Publishing, British Film Institute: London, 2006, p. 48.

The Deep Structures of Democracy: The Nexus of Communications Policy and Public Culture, in Media cultures, eds. William Urricchio and Susanne Kinnebrock, Universitatsverlag: Heidelberg, Germany,Winter 2006, 15-22

The informal sector of media during the war on Iraq, for Reporting War, eds. Stuart Allan and Barbie Zelizer, Routledge, 2004

Why cultural journalism is more important than ever, in Craig Aaron, ed., Appeal to Reason, New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002, 326-334

Abbas Kiarostami: Real Life Is More Important than Cinema, The Cineaste Interviews 2, Chicago: Lake View Press, 2002, 170-177

Recent Articles Published in Refereed Journals

Review of Neil Netanel, Copyright’s Paradox, in Journal of Communication, forthcoming

“’You See the World of the Other and You Look at Your Own’: The Evolution of the Video in the Villages Project,” Journal of Film and Video, 2008

“Iraq in Fragments: Review,” Visual Anthropology, 21:91-93, 2008.

With Peter Jaszi and Renee Hobbs, “Media literacy educators need clarity about copyright and fair use,” The Journal of Media Literacy, 54:2-3, Winter 2007 (appeared April 2008), 41-44.

“How Documentary Filmmakers Overcame their Fear of Quoting and Learned to Employ Fair Use: a Tale of Scholarship in Action,” in International Journal of Communication, Winter 2007

“Your Country, My Country: How Films about the Iraq War Construct Publics,” Framework, 48:2, 2007

With Peter Jaszi, Untold Stories: Collaborative Research on Documentary Filmmakers’ Free Speech and Fair Use, Cinema Journal, Winter 2007

“The 1996 Telecommunications Act: Ten Years Later” Federal Communications Law Journal, 58:3, June, 2006

From A to Z: a conversation on women’s filmmaking, with Debra Zimmerman, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 30:1, Autumn 2004, 1455-1473.

Competition and Commons: The Public Interest, in and after the AOLTW Merger, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media 46:4, 2002, 515-531

Recent Commissioned Studies

Co-author with Barbara Abrash, The Ford Foundation’s investment in documentary film, 2006, for Ford Foundation

Rapporteur’s report: Digital Media Forum meeting, May 29-30, 2001, for Ford Foundation

The impact of new media on the effectiveness of public service announcements, for Kaiser Family Foundation, September 2000

Research agenda for public interest issues in broadband,Digital Media Forum, March, 2000

Recent Reference Work

“Television, public service broadcasting, public interest mandates—US,” in Douglas Gomery and Luke Hockley, eds., Television Industries, BFI Publishing, British Film Institute: London, 2006, pp. 45-47

“US Public TV,” in Douglas Gomery and Luke Hockley, eds., Television Industries, BFI Publishing, British Film Institute: London, 2006, p. 48

Recent Media Productions

Executive producer, Fair Use and Free Speech; Untold Stories; and Fair Use Toolkit (three DVDs related to the Center for Social Media’s Untold Stories project)

Curator, Council on Foundations Film Festival, 1997-2006

Programming Committee, Filmfest DC 1999-2001, 2003

Editorial producer (later, senior advisor), "Signal to Noise," three-part, three-hour, public TV series about TV, 1992-1996 (seen on 277 of 360 public TV stations in the U.S. since 1996)

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Kartemquin Films, board of directors, 2007-

Independent Television Service, member of the board of directors, 2000-2007

WYBE-TV (Philadelphia), public TV station, Advisory Board member, 2006-

Contributing editor, International Documentary

Editorial board, Journal of Broadcasting & electronic Media, 2000-2004

Editorial board, Communication Law and Policy, 2001-present

Editorial advisory board member, Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Theory, book series, general editor, Andrew Calabrese, Rowan & Littlefield, Publishers, 2000-present

Film Advisory Committee member, National Gallery of Art, 1987-present

DEVELOPMENT

Grant funds raised to date to support the Center for Social Media:

Ford Foundation, 2005-2010, The Future of Public Media, $2.5 million

Rockefeller Foundation, 2001-2006, Fair Use and Free Speech, $320,000

MacArthur Foundation, 2003 and 2005-6, Independent documentary distribution; fair use, $160,000

Haas Family Trusts, 2002-2006, operating support, $275,000

Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2003-2005, Making Your Documentary Matter conference, $70,000

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