University of Illinois at Chicago

Faculty Member, Communication

Professor and Head

About

Dr. Zizi Papacharissi is Professor and Head of the Communication Department at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Prior to moving to Chicago, she was Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Research and Faculty at the School of Communications and Theater, Temple University. Her work focuses on the social and political consequences of new media technologies. Her book,  A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age (Polity Press, 2010),  discusses how we practice politics in a digital age. She also recently edited a volume on  
online social networks,  titled A Networked Self: Identity,  
Community,  and Culture on Social Network Sites (Routledge, 2010). She is author of three books,  and over 40 journal articles,  book chapters or reviews and has studied blogs, online journalism, social network sites, privacy, civility, self presentation in digital environments, and sociability online. She has also researched how terrorism is portrayed in international news, and the uses and consequences of reality TV. She teaches courses on the Information Society, Digital Democracy, Media Studies, Communication Research Methods and Communication Theory, among other special topics.

Zizi Papacharissi was born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece. She holds a PhD in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin (2000), a Master of Arts in Communication Studies from Kent State University (1997), a BA in Economics and Media Studies from Mount Holyoke College (1995), and is a graduate of Anatolia College High School in Thessaloniki.

Read more about what Zizi researches, writes and talks about on ziziweb: www.uic.edu/~zizi

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