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 Curriculum Vita STEVEN LIVINGSTON The George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs 805 21st Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20052 Telephone: (202) 994-­5888 FAX: (202) 9945806 [email protected] Revised January 29, 2016 Steven Livingston is Professor of Media and Public Affairs and International Affairs with
appointments in the School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA) and the Elliott School of
International Affairs (ESIA) at The George Washington University.
His research and teaching focus on information and communication technology, human security,
development and governance. Among other publications, Livingston has written The Terrorism
Spectacle (Westview Press, 1994); When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media
from Iraq to Katrina (with W. Lance Bennett and Regina Lawrence) (University of Chicago Press,
2007); Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood
(with Gregor Walter-Drop) (Oxford University Press, 2014). Two major studies of information
technology and individual and collective security were funded by the Africa Center for Strategic
Studies: Africa’s Evolving Infosystems: A Pathway to Security and Stability (NDU Press, 2011) and
Africa’s Information Revolution: Implications for Crime, Policing, and Citizen Security (NDU Press,
2013). At present he is writing Digital Activists Without Borders (working title), a study of the use
of digital technologies by human rights organizations.
Livingston received a Bachelors degree in political science from the University of S. Florida (1982)
and a Masters (1984) and Ph.D. (1990) in political science from the University of Washington. He
joined the faculty of The George Washington University in 1991. He served as the director of the
Political Communication Program, a degree-granting department within SMPA (1996-2002; 20042006) and as acting director of the School of Media and Public Affairs, from 2004 - 2006. He is
also the founder of the Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication at GWU in 2000
and served as the chairman of the Board of Directors until 2008.
In the 1992-93, Livingston was a Social Science Research Council Senior Research Fellow in
Foreign Policy Studies (funded by the Ford Foundation). In 1995, he received funding from the
Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation to investigate the role of the military and the media in
humanitarian crises. In 1996, he was a Research Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Press,
Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Livingston also
received a Goldsmith Award while at Harvard. In April 2004, he was awarded a Fulbright
Scholarship (declined to assume SMPA directorship). In 2015 he was awarded an Erskine
Canterbury Fellowship at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Later in
2015, he was appointed as senior research fellow at the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700
"Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood" at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Livingston has lectured at the National Defense University, the Army War College, the Strategic
Studies Group at the Naval War College, the Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, the U.S. Institute for Peace, European Institute of Diplomacy, Vienna, the
Foreign Service Institute, the U.S. Department of State, and at universities and think tanks in
Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He has appeared on CNN, CNNI, ABC, CBC, BBC, NPR,
VICE News, al Jazeera, al Jazeera English and many other news organizations. He has also been
quoted in The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The Economist, and many other
newspapers around the world. He has also written for Newsday, USA Today, and La Stampa in
Rome.
His research has led to extended stays in Northern Ireland, Russia, Europe, South America, the
Middle East, South Asia and East and Africa. At the invitation of the US Embassy in Baghdad, he
was in Iraq twice in 2008 and again in 2009. At the invitation of the Canadian government and
NATO, he was in Afghanistan in 2009 and again in 2010. He has advised a wide range of
governments, the U.N. and NGOs, and the World Bank on matters relating to international affairs,
media, and technology.
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Steven Livingston School of Media and Public Affairs;; Elliott School of International Affairs The George Washington University Washington, DC 20052 EDUCATION Ph.D., Political Science, University of Washington, 1990 M.A., Political Science, University of Washington, 1984 B.A., Political Science, (Magna Cum Laude), University of S. Florida, 1981 ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD • Professor of Media and Public Affairs and International Affairs, The George Washington University, 2007-­present. • Interim Director, School of Media and Public Affairs, The George Washington University, 2004 -­ 2006. • Director, Political Communication Program, The George Washington University, 1996 -­ 2002;; 2004 -­ 2006. Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs, The George Washington University, 1996 -­ 2007. • Associate Professor of International Affairs, The Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, 1996 -­ 2007. • • Assistant Professor of International Affairs, The Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, 1992 -­ 1993. Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Utah, 1990 -­ 1991. • Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Washington, summer 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, & 2004. • OTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD • Chairman, Board of Directors, Public Diplomacy Institute, The George Washington University, 2000-­2008. 1/29/16
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AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION State-­media theory, information/communication technology and foreign policy processes, collective action, human security, and global politics. GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS (partial listing) • Canterbury Fellowship, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, July – August 2015. • Senior Research Fellow In-­residence, SFB 700 -­ Governance in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit (Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood), Freie Universitat-­Berlin, September -­ December 2015. • Staub Faculty Excellence Award for 2015, School of Media and Public Affairs, The George Washington University. • Research grant, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Research paper No. 5, 2013. • Research Fellow In-­residence, SFB 700 -­ Governance in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit (Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood), Freie Universitat-­Berlin, December 2011. • Research grant, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Research paper No. 2, 2011. • Best Paper Award, Broadcast Education Association Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2004. • Fulbright Scholarship to Beirut, Lebanon, 2004-­05 (declined). • Senior Research Fellow, Center for American Politics and Public Policy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2002 –2003. • Research Grant, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, 1999. Goldsmith Research Grant, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1996 • Research Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1996 • Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation, grant to organize a conference concerning humanitarian crises news coverage and military operations. • Junior Faculty Incentive Award, The George Washington University, 1994. • 1/29/16
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• Faculty Research Grant, The George Washington University (travel grant), 1992. • Social Science Research Council Senior Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, (funded by the Ford Foundation), 1992-­93. • University of Utah Faculty Research Grant, 1991 (Declined to accept position at GW). PUBLICATIONS Book and Monographs Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014). Gregor Walter-­Drop, co-­editor. • Africa’s Evolving Infosystem: A Pathway to Security and Stability, (Washington, DC: NDU Press 2011). • Africa’s Information Revolution: Implications for Crime, Policing, and Citizen Security, (Washington, DC: NDU Press, 2013). • • When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2007). W. Lance Bennett and Regina Lawrence, co-­authors. • Beyond the CNN Effect: An Examination of Media Effects According to Type of Intervention (Cambridge, MA.: The Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1996). • Humanitarian Crises: Meeting the Challenges (Chicago, Illinois: The Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation, 1995). • The Terrorism Spectacle: The Politics of Terrorism and the News Media, (Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1994). Refereed Journal Articles • Catie Snow Bailard and Steven Livingston, “Crowdsourcing Accountability in a Nigerian Election,” Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 11:4, 2014, pp 349-­367. • • Steven Livingston, “From Regimes to Ecologies: Globalizing Bruce Bimber’s Model of Information and Politics,” Revista Internacional de Sociologia, Vol 69, No. 3, September – December 2011. Steven Livingston, The CNN Effect Reconsidered (again): Problematizing ICT and Global Governance in the CNN Effect Research Agenda,” Media, War & Conflict, April 2011 vol. 4 no. 1 20-­36. 1/29/16
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• • Steven Livingston and Gregory Asmolov, “Networks and the Future of Foreign Affairs Reporting,” Journalism Studies (2010), Volume: 11, Issue: 5, Pages: 745-­760. Sean Aday and Steven Livingston, “NGOs as Intelligence Agencies: The Empowerment of Transnational Advocacy Networks and the Media by Commercial Remote Sensing in the Case of Iranian the Nuclear Program,” Geoforum, 40 (2009) 514-­522. • Steven Livingston and Sean Aday, "Taking the State Out of State-­
Media Relations Theory: How Transnational Advocacy Networks are Rewriting (Some) of the Rules about What We Think We Know about News and Politics." Media, War, and Conflict. Volume 1, Number 1, April 2008, pp. 99-­107. • Robert M. Entman, Steven Livingston and Jennie Kim, “Doomed to Repeat: Iraq News, 2002-­2007,” American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 52, No. 5, 689-­708 (2009). • W. Lance Bennett, Regina Lawrence, Steven Livingston, “None Dare Call It Torture: Indexing and the Limits of Press Independence in the Abu Ghraib Scandal,” Journal of Communication, vol. 56, 2006. pp. 467-­485. • W. Lance Bennett, Regina Lawrence, Steven Livingston, “Evitar a palavra tortura. Os media norte-­americanos e o enquadramento politico de Abu Ghraib,” Media & Jornalismo, (Portugal) Semestral, No 7, September 2005, pp. 7-­37. • Sean Aday, John Cluverius, Steven Livingston. “As Goes the Statue, So Goes the War: The Emergence of the Victory Frame in Television Coverage of the Iraq War.” Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Vol 49, No. 3, pp. 314-­331. • Sean Aday, Steven Livingston, and Hebert, Maeve (2005). “Embedding the Truth: A Cross-­Cultural Analysis of Objectivity and Television Coverage of the Iraq War.” Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Volume 10 no. 1, pp. 3-­21. • Steven Livingston and Douglas Van Belle, “The Effects of New Satellite Newsgathering Technology on Newsgathering from Remote Locations,” Political Communication, Volume 22, No 1, January – March 2005, pp. 45-­62. • Steven Livingston and W. Lance Bennett, “Gatekeeping, Indexing and Live-­Event News: Is Technology Altering the Construction of News?,” Political Communication, Volume 20, No 4, October-­December 2003, pp. 363-­380. 1/29/16
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• W. Lance Bennett and Steven Livingston, “Editors Introduction: A Semi-­Independent Press: Government Control and Journalistic Autonomy in the Political Construction of News,” Political Communication, Volume 20, No 4, October-­December 2003, pp. 359-­
362. • Steven Livingston, “Diplomacy in the New Information Environment,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs,” Volume 4, No 2, Summer/Fall 2003, pp. 111-­116. • Steven Livingston and Lucas Robinson, “Mapping Fears: The Use of Commercial High-­Resolution,” AstroPolitics, Volume 1, no. 2, Autumn 2003, pp. 3-­25. Steven Livingston and Todd Eachus, “Indexing News After the Cold War: Reporting U.S. Ties to Latin American Paramilitary Organizations,” Political Communication, Volume 13, No. 4, October-­December 1996, pp. 423-­436. • Steven Livingston and Todd Eachus, "Humanitarian Crises and U.S. Foreign Policy: Somalia and the CNN Effect Reconsidered,” Political Communication, Volume 12, No. 4, October-­December 1995-­96, pp. 413-­
429. • Book Chapters • Steven Livingston, The Indexing Model of State-­Press Relations,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, (New York: Oxford University Press, in press). • Steven Livingston, “Theorizing State-­media Relations During War and Crisis,” in Routlege Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security, Piers Robinson, Philip M. Seib, and Romy Fröhlich (London and New York, 2016). • • Steven Livingston and David Karpf, “Leveraged Affordances and the Specter of Structural Violence” in State Power 2.0: Authoritarian Entrenchment and Political Engagement Worldwide, Muzammil M. Hussain and Philip N. Howard (eds.) (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2013). Robert Entman, Steven Livingston, Sean Aday, and Jennie Kim, “Condemned to Repeat: Media and the Accountability Gap in Iraq War Policy,” in Public Policy and Mass Media: The Interplay of Mass Communication and Political Decision Making, Sigrid Koch-­Baumgarten and Katrin Voltmer, (eds.) (London and New York: Routledge, 2010), pp. 194-­214. • 1/29/16
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• Steven Livingston, “Reaping an Uncertain Result: American Media and the Iraq War” in Iraq Uncensored, James M. Ludes (Ed), Washington, DC: American Security Project, 2009. • Steven Livingston, “The Nokia Effect: The Reemergence of Amateur Journalism What it Means for International Affairs,” From Pigeons to News Portals: Foreign Reporting and the Challenge of New Technology, David Perlmutter and John Maxwell Hamilton (eds.) LSU Press, 2007. • Steven Livingston, “American Media and Genocide in Rwanda,” The Media and the Rwanda Genocide, Allan Thompson (ed.) Pluto Press & Fountain Press in Uganda, 2007. • Steven Livingston and Lucas Robinson, “Strange Bedfellows: The Emergence of the Al Qaeda – Baathist News Frame Prior to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq,” Leading to the 2003 Iraq War: The Global Media Debate. Alexander G. Nikolaev and Ernest A. Hakanen (eds.) Palgrave, 2006, pp. 23-­37. • Steven Livingston, W. Lance Bennett, and W. Lucas Robinson, “International News and Advanced Information Technology: Changing the Institutional Domination Paradigm?” in Media and Conflict in the 21st Century, Phil Seib (ed), Palgrave, 2005, pp. 33-­55. • Steven Livingston, “The New Information Environment and Diplomacy,” Cyber-­diplomacy in the 21st Century, Evan Potter (ed.), McGill University Press, 2002, pp.110-­127. • Steven Livingston, “Remote Sensing Technology and the News Media,” Commercial Observation Satellites: At the Leading Edge of Global Transparency, John Baker, Kevin O’Connell, and Ray Williamson (eds.) Rand Corporation and the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2001, pp. 485-­502. • Steven Livingston, “Media Coverage of the War: An Empirical Assessment,” Kosovo and the Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention, Albrecht Schnabel and Ramesh Thakur (eds.) Tokyo, Japan: United Nations University Press, 2001, pp. 360-­384. • Steven Livingston, “Transparency and the News Media,” Power and Conflict in the Age of Transparency, Bernard Finel and Kristin Lord (eds.) St. Martins Press, 2000. Paperback edition published 2002, pp. 257-­285. • Steven Livingston and Todd Eachus, “Rwanda: U.S. Policy and Television Coverage,” The Path of a Genocide: The Rwandan Crisis from Uganda to Zaire, Howard Adelman and Astri Suhrke (eds.), (Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1999), pp. 209-­228. 1/29/16
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Steven Livingston, “Mass Media and the Military: Technology One Factor Determining Coverage of the Military," in History of the Mass Media in the United States: An Encyclopedia, Margaret A. Blanchard, (ed.) (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998). • Steven Livingston and David Stephen, “American Network Coverage of Genocide in Rwanda in the Context of General Trends in International News,” Early Warning and Early Response, Susanne Schmeidl and Howard Adelman (eds.), (New York: CIAO, 1998), pp. 1-­18. • Steven Livingston, "Beyond the CNN Effect: The Media-­Foreign Policy Dynamic," Politics and the Press: The News Media and Their Influences. Pippa Norris (ed.), Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997. (This is a modified version of a monograph noted above). • Steven Livingston, "Sustaining Press Attention A Comparison of the Cases of Somalia and the Sudan” in From Massacres to Genocide: The Media, Humanitarian Crisis, and Policy Making, Robert Rotberg and Thomas Weiss (eds.), Brookings Institution Press, 1996), pp. 68-­89. • Steven Livingston, “Political Structures and Media Ethics: The Authoritarian, Libertarian, and Social Responsibility Theories of the Press” in Broadcasting and Multiparty Democracy in Africa, Charles Okigbo, (ed.) (Nairobi, Kenya: African Council for Communication Education, 1995). • William Dorman and Steven Livingston, “Historical Content in the News: Policy Consequences for the 1990-­91 Persian Gulf Crisis” in Taken By Storm: The Media, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Pony in the Gulf War, W. Lance Bennett and David L. Paletz, (eds.), (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), pp. 63-­81. • Other Publications (Partial listing) • Steven Livingston and Gregor Walter-­Drop, “Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood,” SFB 700: Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood, SFB-­Governance Working Paper Series • No. 38 • September 2012. http://www.sfb-­
governance.de/publikationen/sfbgov_wp/wp38_en/WP38.pdf?134789160
3 • Steven Livingston, “Commercial Remote Sensing Satellites and the Regulation of Violence in Areas of Limited Statehood,” Center for Global Communication Studies, University of Pennsylvania, January 2015. http://www.global.asc.upenn.edu/publications/commercial-­remote-­
sensing-­satellites-­and-­the-­regulation-­of-­violence-­in-­areas-­of-­limited-­
statehood/ • Catie Bailard, Rob Baker, Matt Hindman, Steven Livingston and Patrick Meier, Mapping the Maps: A Meta-­Level Analysis of Crowdsourced Data, A Report of the Internews Center for Innovation & Learning
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• Steven Livingston, “La dieta base della TV: il Dramma,” Reset, Maggio – Giugno 2008 – Numero 107, pp. 72-­74. (An Italian intellectual periodical based in Rome) • War and Media, a conference organized by the Danish Institute for Military Studies, a program of the Danish Ministry of Defense, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 13, 2007. • "When the Press Fails," From a New Book by Lance Bennett, Regina Lawrence, and Steven Livingston,” Pressthink: Ghost of Democracy in the Media Machine, (with W. Lance Bennett and Regina G. Lawrence), June 4, 2007. http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/ • Steven Livingston, Diplomacy in the New Information Environment, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Summer.Fall 2003, pp. 111-­
117. • “Diplomacy and Remote Sensing Technology: Changing the Nature of Debate,” Diplomacy in the Information Age, iMP Magazine [Published by the Center for Information Strategy and Policy (CISP) of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)], 2001. • Steven Livingston, “Diplomacy and Remote-­Sensing Technology: Changing the Nature of Debate,” Net Diplomacy: 2015 and Beyond, Virtual Diplomacy Series Number 16, US Institute of Peace, August 2002, pp. 1-­7 • “The Battle for Information: Can We Know What’s True?” Newsday, October 14, 2001, pp.B4, B15. • “Are Media Professionals Ready for High-­Resolution Imagery?” Imaging Notes, May/June 2000, Vol. 15 mo.3. "Mines a Deadly Legacy in Bosnia," USA Today, August 19, 1997. Written as special assignment reporter in Bosnia. • "International News Coverage of the Conflict in Southern Sudan: An Assessment With Suggestions for Improvement," (Copyright UNICEP, United Nations, 1994). • • "Historical Content and the Persian Gulf War, Deadline, Summer 94. Co-­
authored with William Dorman. Book Reviews • Disruptive Power: The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age, by Taylor Owen. International Journal of Press/Politics, forthcoming • Making Democratic Governance Work: How Regimes Shape Prosperity, Welfare, and Peace, by Pippa Norris and Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, by Daron Acemoglu and James 1/29/16
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Robinson. Political Communication, Vol. 30, No. 4, October-­December 2013, pp. 654658. • Communication Power, by Manuel Castells. Political Communication, Volume 27, 2010, pp. 471-­483. • On Bullshit, by Harry G. Frankfurt, Political Communication, Volume 24, Issue 4, 2007. • On Truth, Harry G. Frankfurt, Political Communication. Volume 24, Issue 4, 2007 • The CNN Effect: The Myth of News, Foreign Policy and Intervention, by Piers Robinson. Political Communication, Volume 22, No 1, January – March 2005, pp. 113-­115. • Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television, David Thelen. Public Opinion Quarterly, Fall, 1998 Volume 62, pp. 429-­430. • Questioning the Media: A Critical Introduction, John Downing, Ali Mohammadi, Annabelle Sreberny-­Mohammadi (eds.). Journal of Communication, Volume 41, No. 1, Winter 1991, pp. 147-­150. • Attack Politics, Michael Pfau and Henry Kenski. American Political Science Review, Winter 1991. SCHOLARLY PAPERS PRESENTED (partial listing) • Steven Livingston, “Commercial Remote Sensing Satellites and the Regulation of Violence in Areas of Limited Statehood,” International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, February 18 – 21, 2015 Steven Livingston and Gregor Walter-­Drop, “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood and Electronically Enabled Organizations: A New Form of Governance?,” International Studies Association, San Diego, CA, April 1-­4, 2012. • Steven Livingston, “Mobile Security and Grassroots Organization: How ICTs Influence Policing in African Communities,” International Studies Association, San Diego, CA, April 1-­4, 2012. • Steven Livingston, “On the Edge of Governance: Exploring the Use of Cellular Telephony by NGOs in Governance Capacity Building,” International Studies Association, March 16-­19, 2011, Montreal, Canada. • • Steven Livingston and Sean Aday, “NGOs as Intelligence Agencies: The Empowerment of Civil Society by Commercial Remote Sensing,” Prepared for delivery at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, CA., April 17-­21, 2007. 1/29/16
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• Steven Livingston, News Media Emphasis and the Reality of War,” Media, War and Conflict Conference, Marquette University, April 19-­20, 2007. • Robert Entman and Steven Livingston, "From Failure to Fiasco: Media and Misrepresentation in Iraq,” a panel sponsored by The Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning and the new Arabic Media Center at Emory University at the International Communication Association meetings, San Francisco, CA., May 26, 2007. • W. Lance Bennett, Regina G. Lawrence, and Steven Livingston, “None Dare Call it Torture: Indexing and the Limits of Press Independence in the Abu Ghraib Scandal.” Prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX, November 18, 2006. • Robert M. Entman and Steven Livingston, “When Policy Fails: War and Accountability in Iraq and Beyond.” Prepared for delivery at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 31-­September 3, 2006. • “Event-­driven News and Counterframing: The Role of Technology in the Emergence of Counterframes in the Iraq War,” W. Lance Bennett and Regina Lawrence co-­authors. International Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 1-­5, 2005. • “As Goes the Statue, So Goes the War: The Evolution and Effects of the Victory Frame in Television Coverage of the Iraq War,” Sean Aday, John Cluverius co-­authors. Broadcast Education Association meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 16-­18, 2004. (Best Paper Award) • “Comparative Media: News, Reporting Technology, and the 2003 War in Iraq,” International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, March 17 – 21, 2004. • “Indexing and Live-­Event News: Is Technology Altering the Construction of News?,” W. Lance Bennett co-­author. American Political Science Association meeting, Boston, August 26 – September 1, 2002. • “Mapping Fears: The Use of Commercial High-­Resolution Satellite Imagery in International Affairs,” Lucas Robinson co-­author. International Studies Association, March 24-­ 27, 2002, New Orleans, LA. • “The Effects of New Satellite Newsgathering Technology on Newsgathering from Remote Locations,” Douglas Van Belle co-­author. Hong Kong, August 29 – September 2, 2001. • “Transparency or Opacity? Technology and Deception Operations,” International Studies Association meeting, Chicago, February 21-­25, 2001. 1/29/16
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• “The Changing Nature of CNN ’Live Events’ Coverage and the Consequences for International Affairs,” International Studies Association meeting, Chicago, February 21-­25, 2001. Co-­authored with Kurtis Cooper. • “Private Remote Sensing & News Media: What are the Policy Implications of Private Spy Satellites?,” International Studies Association meeting, Los Angeles, March 15 – 19, 2000. • “Television Pictures in Multilateral Policy Decision-­making: An Examination of the Decision to Intervene in Eastern Zaire in 1996,” British International Studies Association meeting, Manchester, United Kingdom, December 20, 1999. Co-­authored with John Riley. • “New Information Technology and Global Transparency: Consequences for Military Operations,” Inter-­University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 23, 1999. • “The New Information Environment and Diplomacy,” International Studies Association meeting, Washington, D.C. February 16-­20, 1999. “U.S. Foreign Policy and Media in the Zaire Crisis,” International Studies Association meeting, Washington, D.C. February 16-­20, 1999. Co-­
authored with David Stephen. "A Preliminary Inquiry Into Post-­Cold War Cognitive Schemata: A Comparative Analysis of Russian and American Interpretation of the Balkans Conflict," Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Washington, D.C., July 68, 1995. Co-­authored with Eric Shiryaev. "Reporting U.S. Ties to Latin American Paramilitary Organizations: Evolving Post-­Cold War News Norms?” Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May l995. "Media, Enemy Formation, and Historical Memory: the 199091 Persian Gulf Crisis," (Revised) Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, Miami, FL., May 1992. Co-­authored with William Dorman. Media, Enemy Formation, and Historical Memory: the 199091 Persian Gulf Crisis," Animal Meeting of the Speech Communication Association, Atlanta, GA., September 1991. Co-­authored with William Dorman. 'Cued' Stories and 'Marginalized' News: News as Hegemonic Socialization," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, September 1990. "’Cued’ Terrorism and 'Marginalized' Violence: Reconsidering the Relationship Between Terrorism and the News Media. Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, Dublin, Ireland, June 1990. • • • • • • • 1/29/16
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• "Political Violence Coverage and the Mass Media: Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy." Annual Meeting of the International Studies AssociationWestern Annual Meeting, Provo, Utah, November 1989. • "'Marginalizing the Death Squad Story" (A revision of the PNPSA paper). Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, CA., May l989. • "My Enemies are Allies: the Soviet Union, Iran and the Cognitive Connection," Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Meadowlands, New Jersey, July, 1988. Co-­authored with Matt Hirshberg. • "Defining the Undefined: Terrorism as reported in The New York Times and the CBS Evening News," Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, New Orleans, LA., May 1988. • "The News Paradigm Revisited: Reporting Links Between the United States and Salvadoran Death Squads. Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, Spokane, WA., October 1987. OTHER PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES • Digital Media, Development and Social Change: Research from Africa, the Americas, Europe, China and India, Roundtable participant, American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 28 – 31, 2014. • Theme Plenary Roundtable: Internet Politics in Authoritarian Contexts, Roundtable participant, American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 28 – 31, 2014. • C-­Chair with David Karpf, Political Communication Division of the American Political Communication Association Pre-­conference, Washington, DC August 27, 2014. • Getting Glocal: Reaching Beyond the CNN Effect to Study New Media and Conflict, Roundtable participant, International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, February 18 – 21, 2015. • “Remote Sensing and GIS in Areas of Limited Statehood,” Challenging the Assumptions about Media and Conflict, discussant, International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, February 18 – 21, 2015. • The International Communication Division of ISA Honors the Work of Monroe Price, International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, February 18 – 21, 2015 • Co-­chair with Diana Owen, Georgetown University, Special Conference of the Political Communication Section of the American Political Science Association, “Conflict and International Communication,” August 31, 2005, Washington, DC. 1/29/16
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• Co-­chair with Lucas Robinson. Global Media and the 2003 Iraq War, International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, April 17 – 21, 2004. • Discussant, “Media, Communications and Constructivism,” International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, April 17 – 21, 2004. • Co-­chair with W. Lance Bennett. Organized and chaired panel: “Constructing News in a Changed Environment: Indexing and Event-­
driven News,” American Political Science Association meeting, Boston, August 26 – September 1, 2002. • Co-­chair with LTC. Peter Hays, Advance Air Power School, Maxwell AFB, Panel on Military Operations and Deception in the Age of Transparency, International Studies Association meeting, Chicago, February 21-­25, 2001. Roundtable Participant, Implications of the War in Kosovo, International Studies Association meeting, Los Angeles, March 15 – 19, 2000. • Discussant, Panel on the Internet and Politics, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA., August 31 – Sept 4, 1999. • Chair, Panel on Evolving News Norms, Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 1995. • Chair, Panel on News and Foreign Policy, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York, New York, September 1994. • Chair, Panel on Mass Media, Gulf War, and the Public Mind, Annual Meeting of the International Communications Association, Miami, FL, May 1992. • Chair, Panel on Press and Politics, International Communication Association, Dublin, Ireland, June 1990. • Co-­chair, Panel on News Media and Foreign Policy, Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, Spokane, WA., October 1987. • CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS • American Political Science Association • International Studies Association 1/29/16
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Editorial Boards • Political Communication, a journal co-­sponsored by the International Communication Association and the American Political Science Association, 2000 – 2015. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, a journal of the American Political Science Association • Media, War and Conflict, a Sage journal publication • Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication • PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES • Executive Committee, International Communication Division of the International Studies Association, March 2014 – present. • Secretary/Treasurer, Political Communication Division, American Political Science Association (re-­elected in 2001 for a two-­year term). • Secretary/Treasurer, Political Communication Division, American Political Science Association (elected in 1999 for a two-­year term). Program Committee Chair, Political Communication Division, 1999 American Political Science Association meeting. • Organizing Committee Member, Panel on Communication in the 1992 Presidential Campaign, Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, Washington, D.C., May 1993. • • Chair, Search Committee for Secretary of the Political Communication Division, International Communication Association, June -­ August 1993. • Member, Working Group on 'the Media and U.S. Foreign Policy," Social Science Research Council, 1990-­1993. INVITED SYMPOSIA (partial list) • • Participant, “Breaking Digital NGO Debate,” The Maxwell School of Syracuse University and hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC. April 2, 2015. Fellows Mentor, Bellagio/PopTech Fellows Program, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Bellagio, Italy, August 2014. • Participant, World Development Report 2016 Berlin, Germany meetin. Internet and Development and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, June 9 – 10, 2014. • Keynote Address, "Beyond the Ivory Tower: Communication Science in Practice," University of Amsterdam, June 12, 2014. 1/29/16
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• Working Group on Media and Governance, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, December 4, 2009. Joined Leonard “Len” Downie, Jr. was the Executive Editor of the Washington Post, Roderick P. Hart is Dean of the School of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin;; Tom Rosenstiel is the Director of Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. • Steven Livingston, “New Media in a New International System: How Technology Transforms the Role of ‘Publics’ in War,” Keynote Address at the Danish Institute for Military Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 29, 2007. http://www.difms.dk/files/upload/Livingston_Copenhagen_speech.pdf • Global Media between Dialogue & War: When Enemies Boost the Ratings, International Conference, Doha – Qatar, Weill Cornell Lecture Hall, February 26, 2008. • New Media and War, US Marine Corps Command and Staff College, March 6, 2008, Quantico, VA • Worldwide Public Affairs Symposium, Army Public Affairs, April 1, 2008, Tyson’s Corner, Virginia. • President’s Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, U.S. Department of State, February 21, 2008. I organized presentations to the Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, a advisory body nominated by the President and confirmed by the US Senate. (See appendix B) • “Truth and the Iraq War,” The Paley Center, November 27, 2007, New York, New York. I joined former CBS anchor Dan Rather and New York Times columnist Frank Rich, and ABC Producer Tom Yellin for a discussion of the war in Iraq. • “The Marshall Plan and 21st Century Diplomacy,” U.S. Department of State, November 2, 2007. Speaker at event commemorating anniversary of the Marshall Plan. U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC. • “The Role of the News Media in Governance Reform,” Harvard University-­World Bank Workshop, Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, May 29 – 31, 2008. Participant. • Keynote Speaker at Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Quantico, VA. Spoke to 200 Marines and a smaller number of officers from other U.S. Armed Services about advanced information technology, May 29, 2007. 1/29/16
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• Presenter to Media Working Group, Center of Innovation, Media and Conflict, U.S. Institute of Peace, United States Institute of Peace, May 4, 2007. • Presentation on Remote-­Sensing Satellites and the news media at the National Defense University, "International Perspectives on Space-­
power Theory," a study group commissioned by the Office of the Secretary of Defense. December 4-­5, 2006. • The National Bureau of Asian Research, Securing the Future – A Strategic Form, Washington, DC, April 5, 2006. This invitation-­only symposium included former defense secretary William Perry, Ashton Carter of Harvard and Zbigniew Brzezinski. • Presentation to US Department of State Task Force on Internet Freedom, US Department of State, Washington, DC, March 24, 2006. One of four experts called to discuss the creation of a diplomatic initiative to promote Internet freedom in Asia. • “Public Diplomacy: Key Challenges & Priorities,” chaired panel: “Looking to the Future” and offer closing remarks. Wilton Park, Wiston House, Steyning, West Sussex, United Kingdom, March 10-­12, 2005. • “We Hold These Truths?: How New Technology is Changing Foreign Affairs Reporting,” symposium and book project sponsored by the Manship School at Louisiana State University and the LSU Press. November 11, 2005. • State Department sponsored talks in Helsinki and Tampre, Finland, September 27 – October 2, 2004. In several public lectures and newspaper and television interviews, I commented on the US presidential elections. • “Media’s Impact on International Affairs,” Frank Church Symposium on International Affairs, Idaho State University, March 3-­5, 2004. • “The Technology Revolution: Implications for Diplomacy,” eDiplomacy, a US Department of State conference on diplomacy and advanced information technology, March 10, 2004. • “International Media Coverage of Rwanda,” presented at a conference organized by Carleton University in Ottawa and sponsored by the Canadian Foreign Ministry. March 12-­14, 2004. • “The Suffering of Strangers: Global Humanitarian Intervention in a Turbulent World.” A debate with Los Angeles Times reporter Ann Maria Simmons regarding the role of media in humanitarian crises. The symposium is organized by the international affairs program at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon. April 6, 2004. 1/29/16
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• “Tools Of The New Media” The keynote speaker at the Lebanese National University, Faculty of Information and Documentation, May 17, 2002. Beirut, Lebanon. • “Journalism and New Information and Communication Technology,” Lebanese American University, Institute for Professional Journalists, May 18, 2002, Beirut, Lebanon. • “The New Eyes of Journalism: Commercial Remote Sensing Satellites,” paper co-­authored with Lucas Robinson, Media, War and Terrorism, Mount Scopus Campus, The Hebrew University, May 20, 2002, Jerusalem. • Lecture to faculty and students of the Faculty of Mass Communications, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, May 23, 2002. • “Covering Crises: Journalism Access and Use of New Technologies,” Ambassador Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy, Dipolmatische Akademie, Vienna, Austria, October 14 – 17, 2002. • “CNN Effect: Evaluating the Influence of the Media on Foreign Policy Decisions,” Ambassador Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy, Dipolmatische Akademie, Vienna, Austria, October 14 – 17, 2002. • “Crisis and the Press: Balancing Civil Liberty, Press Freedom, and Security,” Commission on Radio and Television Policy: Central, East and Southeastern Europe, Vienna, Austria, October 18 –19, 2002. • “Live-­event News: Is Technology Altering the Construction of News?,” Presentation of research findings of a project with W. Lance Bennett. Communications, Technology, and the International System in the Twenty-­first Century, CISS Millenium Series Workshop, November 9-­
10, 2002, Heidelberg, Germany. State Department Sponsored Lectures and Briefings in Israel, May 13 and May 17, 2001. • • Briefing at the Naval War College: “New Information Technology and Operations Other Than War,” Strategic Studies Group on Information Other Than War, November 20, 2001, Newport, RI. • Panelists at the Carnegie Endowment: “Winning Hearts and Minds: Propaganda and Public Diplomacy in the Information Age,” The Project on the Information Revolution and World Politics, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,” November 27, 2001. • Panelists at the Brookings Institution: “The CNN Effect”: How 24-­Hour News Coverage Affects Government Decisions and Public Opinion,” a Brookings/Harvard Forum: Press Coverage and the War on Terrorism, January 23, 2002. The other panelists were former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and CNN anchor Judy Woodruff. 1/29/16
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• Panelist at a Duke University Conference: “Crisis and the Press: Balancing Civil Liberty, Press Freedom, and Security,” sponsored by the Commission on Radio and Television Policy, DeWitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, March 19-­20, 2002. • Presented a paper entitled “US and European Public Opinion and NATO’s Kosovo Bombing Campaign,” at the 17th Colloquium on Communication and Culture, European Institute for Communication and Culture, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences. The conference was sponsored by the Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Science and Technology, Piran, Slovenia, October 12-­15, 2000. • United States Institute of Peace symposium “Partners or Partisans?: NATO and the Media in Kosovo.” Washington, D.C. April 4, 2000. • Presenter and book chapter contributor, “Kosovo and the International Community: Selective Indignation, Collective Intervention, and the Changing Contours of World Politics,” a project funded by a grant from the United Nations University. Conference in Budapest, Hungary, September 19-­21, 1999. • Speaker, “No More Secrets?: Policy Implications of Commercial Remote Sensing Satellites,” Transparency and Civil Society, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, May 26, 1999. • Moderator, “Allies or Adversaries?: The Role of Press Spokespersons and Media During Peace Negotiations,” United States Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C., May 13, 1999. • Speaker and Panelist, “Space and International Relations: Challenges for the Twenty-­First Century,” Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., March 25, 1999. • Participant, “The Implications of Commercial Satellite Imagery for Arms Control,” February 4 & 5, 1999, an Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Conference prepared by the Center for Global Security and Cooperation of Science Applications International Corporation, Contract # AC 961C1001, Task Order 98-­12. • Panel Chair and Speaker, “Commercial Observation Satellites and International Security;; Trends, Applications, and U.S. Policy Issues,” Space Policy Institute, GWU, Washington, D.C., May 7 & 8, 1998. • Speaker, “Secrets No More: The Security Implications of Global Transparency,” Space Policy Institute and the National Air and Space Museum, May 21 & 22, 1998. • Speaker, “The Impact of the Global Information Revolution on International Relations: A Revolution in Culture?,” Wilton Park 1/29/16
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Conference, Wiston House, West Sussex, United Kingdom, September 14-­18, 1998. • Speaker, "Impact of Humanitarian Assistance and the Mass Media on the Evolution of Conflict Situations," International Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo, Italy, September 3, 1997. • Conference Moderator, "MediaMilitary Relationship: Preparing for the Next Century," The Cantigny Foundation Conference Series, Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation, August 2022, 1997, Wheaton, Illinois. • Speaker, "The CNN Effect," Inter-­University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, Ft. Meyer’s Officer’s Club, Washington, D.C., May 1, 1997. • Speaker, Symposium on Humanitarian Reporting. Sponsored by the International Center for Humanitarian Reporting, Geneva, Switzerland. Symposium held in Boston, MA., April 6 & 7, 1997. Delivered paper, "Synergy in Early Warning." Sponsored by the Prevention/Early Warning Unit of the Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada, March 15 -­ 18, 1997. • • Speaker and Panelist, "White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security International Conference on Aviation Safety and Security in the 21st Century." Sponsored by the White House. Washington, D.C., January 13 -­ 15, 1997. • Delivered Paper, "Humanitarian Action and the News Media. Sponsored by the Humanitarianism and War Project. Thomas J. Watson institute for International Studies, Brown University, at the National War College, Ft. McNair, October 1996. • Speaker, “The National Strategy Forum Conference on Media and the Military,” Cantigny Foundation, Wheaton, August l995. • Delivered Paper, "Sustaining Media Attention: a Comparison of the Cases of Somalia and the Sudan,” World Peace Foundation Conference on Humanitarian Crisis, Policy Making, and the Media, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 1994. • Delivered Paper, "Ethics and Broadcast News," Conference on the Broadcast Media and MultiParty Democracy, African Council for Communication Education (a PanAfrica Academic Organization), Nairobi, Kenya, May 1994. • Participant, National Foreign Policy Conference for Teachers in Higher Education, United States Department of State, Washington, D.C., April 1994. 1/29/16
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• Speaker, "Post-­Cold War International News and Public Opinion in the United States," Presentation to the faculty and students of the Department of Political Science, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Moscow, Russia, October 1992. • In addition to the engagements noted above, I have lectured on multiple occasions at the National Defense University, National War College, Army War College, the Naval War College, and the Foreign Service Institute. 1/29/16
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