Short Bio

Alice Marwick is a postdoctoral researcher in social media at Microsoft Research New England and a Visiting Researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. Her work looks at online identity and consumer culture through lenses of privacy, surveillance, consumption, and celebrity. Alice has a PhD from the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, a MA from the University of Washington and a BA from Wellesley College. She has published in New Media and Society, Convergence, First Monday, Critical Studies in Media Communication and Information, Communication & Society. Marwick is a frequent presenter at academic and industry conferences and has appeared on NPR and in the New York Times, the LA Times, the American Prospect, the Guardian, BusinessWeek and Wired Magazine, among others. Her dissertation, "Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity and Self-Branding in Web 2.0" is available at her website, http://www.tiara.org/. Her first book, about social status in Web 2.0, is under contract with Yale Press.

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